The daily gazette., 1883-05-08
MIR. WILSON AGAIN.

He Again Pays His Respects to Mr. Way
and the DisOrderIy Negroes of Middle
town.
To THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY GAZETTE
With your kind permission, for the use OF
the columns Of your excellent paper, we
feel it a duty yourselves and fellOw-citizens
to reply to the last episile Of the editor OF
the Transcript, because be therein accuses
us OF exaggeration, and not adhearing TO
facts. We believe, however, that alreaoy
the Peninsular press from their comments
upon the correspondence, are pretty well
satisfied as to where the truth of the
matter lies" II not we will hereafter sub
stantiate, iu another letter, what we have
written last week and this week in the
GAZETTE, by procuring the signatures OF
some of our most honorable tOwnsmen
to the letter before mentioned, as they have
already exp essed themselves entirely Ia
favor of the suggestions made In that letter.
We do not have any reference to partic-
ular Saturday night Of revelry aud disturb
ance of the peace, but let the editor OF the
Z. a,iscript take the record of these disturb
ances for the st Eve years, or since he has
edited the Middletown paper, and recapitu-
late, and see II there 10 not cause OF alarm
through tho press or some other medium to
bring 1t to the attention Of the town and
State authorities.
Middleton and its better class Of citizens
are in about the same nx as the Pacific coast
was several mouths since, before the heather
Chinee were In a measure prohibited from
entering our shores. We have few of the
old stock of laborers here, who are generally
well behaved, but the new comers are the
most difficult to manage and to educate to q
good state of morals, and the thing we are
endeavoring to do is to induce Mr.. Way of
the Transcript to help us to educate the un-
| ruly and lawless young negroes to better
condition OF behavior. But Mr.. Way is
also new conner and very "fresh" among
| us, and this may account for his inability 10
grasp the situation in which our community
is placed 1t is not our desire to exclude
the ebony laborers from our midst, but to
educate them to better state of morals,
aud we think we have succeeded in small
measure in instiling this thought into the
young mind of the Transcript editor, 80
fresh from the glad waters of lower Chesa-
peake, as in his columns he
calls the attention of the intelligent
Board of Town Commissioners to the fact of
the great need of better police force in the
following language:
"We hope the Town Commissioners will
not much longer delay the appointing of a
thoroughly competent policeman. They
should require him to be in uniform and to
give his entire time to patrolling the streets
from early morning until the close of bust
ness at night. The salutary '"infiuence" of
such an officer was felt when we had one,
| Though, a a rule, we have the best of order
| and few hilarious demonstrations even OF
Saturday nights when many negroes from
the country around are here to spend their
weeks earnir gs. Yet no town of the popu-
lation and trade of Middletown can afford
to be without COMPETENT and vigilant otfi-
~ A.E rhapa ta
is needed. We hope our excellent Board OF
Commissioners will not need a further hint
on this subject"
| And again in his local column he adds:
"Middletown is jumping right along. And
now that she is gaining In population at the
| rate of about 800 per year, and building a
new phosphate factory, and talking about
| building many other sorts Of factories, and
supplying European markets with canned
| goods, and making spirited efforts TO estab-
lish one more bank, and manufacturing ice
cream by steam, and feeling the need of a
uniformed police force, we begin to feel as
if we ought soon to start daily edition of
the Transcript" Aud yet in his reply ia
the GAZETTE correspondent in the same
paper he says we exaggerated, and did not
stick to facts. The reader will at once see
the truth of our position, and mark the in
consistency of the new founding editor of
the Transcript. If "hilarious demonstra
tions" are all of the offence
committed, why does he say WI
cannot afford to be without a competen
and vigilant police force. We probably un
derstard Mr.. Ways position. He may b.
between two fires. Whilst he would on on,
side have Middletown orderly and well gov
erned, yet he would not have the Peninsula
papers and people know anything about tht
bad conduct on our streets on Saturday
nights. Therefore we say of him, ne ii
an inhationist in every sense of the word, sc
far as the young Africans of the neighbor
hood In which his paper circulates is con.
cerned. And TO have au inflated opinion o1
| the aforementioned class of individual /,
about as bad us to have on hands an inflated
currency. When the editor has lived a
long in Delaware as some of us he will hav
learned that she reins of the government
have to be drawn sharply on this class @
individuals, else we Will have more frequen
occurrences of riot, outrage and murder
vi course we cannot expect to educate tn
offenders to a good state of morals in
week, or month, or even a course Il
Lincoln University. But we shall kee
steadily at it, and with the help of the Who'll,
some laws of the town and State and tn
: influence of the civilized of his own race
and other influences, we hope to improve h
q condition. We have him on our hands an
he seems necessary evil in the cultivatio
OF the rich agricultural districts of tt
Peninsula, and we will have to care for hin
t w. N. WILSON.
= MIDDLETowN, May Z, 1888.