The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-07-04
COLORED LABOR IN THE sOUTH
New Orleans Picayune. ]

tAiScS To- tHcih, dE1uk WHISKY Win c
them and give them whiskey as their q
friends, while their best friends who =
tell them the truth and give them c
good advice they deem as foes lam /
going. to give the colored people a lit I
tie truth and sound advice, as | under |
stand it; and as / do not own store I
nor a sugar plantation and am not 4
candidate for Office, and have no ia /
vors to ask this race, it makes not ,
the least difference to me, whether
i,they accept or reject my advice, wheth-
er they consider me wise or unwise.
The greatest mistake the cclored
man now makes is spending so much
of his money for whiskey, and
wasting so much money in gambling.
One of these vices leads to another,
and both together lead to ruin. They
lead to idleness, and idleness destroys
wages and leads to other vices.
| The next great mistake which they
deem very sharp thing, is claiming
high wages from the planter, and at
| the same time giving him unreliable
labor and proving himselfto be an en-
envy to the planters best interests,
Ii the colored laborer could get. 50
i day he would spend most all Of it
for whiskey, gambling and dissi-
patton; he would not work more than
1.-Two days in week 1.-THE could get $40
Tor two days. He would soon be so
stepped in dissipation and crime that
the planter would be compelled TO
look elsewhere for another kind of la
borer, or abandon his plantation to
briars and saplings, and let his sugar
machinery be eaten up by rust, as
has been the case in the island of Ja-
maica. And the negro should inform
hlmseltabout.t fate OF St. Domingo
agriculture, when the white men
ceased to direct it.. oao,s 4
d Besides, the soil that can pay a
" demoralized man $25 to $40 month
" the year around, summer andiwinterr
will attract white labor just as sure al
IS the sun continues to rise and set.
y | It is attracting white men here now
n White farmers are coming t. THU
ofl State from Kansas, and Illinois ans
eel other Western States. A few year.
:. ago Western immigrant farmers ant
ir mechanics, poured into Texas from
it States north ofthe Ohio river, tens 0
" thousands Of Germans from acros
ey the water. Not long ago leadm
ch German Of New Orleans informed M
he that the Germans conclude tina
ed Louisiana is nearly ripe for imm
v, grants from their country, and tha
re when they do start they will pour i
on lby thousands as they did in Texas
EST Immigration feveris raging. AT on
lid time the Iowa fever was raging an
Iowa was soon full Of farmers. a
les another time it was Illinois, or Or
Ito gon, etc. Louisiana will have ht
lat turn next and then the colored peop
he will wonder where all these viii
Ice men came from; then they will on
d see that the white man has beendo
| ling that he never intended that WI
me should emancipate SO beautiful q lal
Sig as Louisiana to relapse into jungl
les and barbarism.
me 1t is to-day the opinion Of some f
Ing mers, lawyers, judges and buslne
I men that il would be the most fort
adv nate event for the sugar planters
had Louisiana if the colored laborers
rich the parishes would putitheir labor
he to at least So a day the year arou
and stick TO it as long as posslb
Of Then, at such wages, they would 1
ces. come such worthless race Of drul
nfer ards that they would be worthless
eht the farmers, while good white farm
Iperfectly reliable, could be broug
AVE here in tens of thousands to take
place Of played out negroes. tea
, de. Il White men are moving in this.
but rectiop now with the understand
Ierd, that lands in Louisiana pay Slad
mer, for labor, in some instances 81.
liliar when they know that no such wa
riain can beobtained on any farm or p
own. tatiori the year around iii any par
f the the globe. AS soon as it can
Eng known in Castle Garden, in Eur
TIE and the Western States, that the
|, the farm hands can get $3.50, a year
81 for their labor, theyawill prepar
rows come in this direction like buffa
what on the plains. The very fact
,at It these lands yield more profits, "
name we'll cultivated by skilled hands, I
any other lands on this continent,
and attract farmers hither to buy l.
every and sell sugar cane by the ton
u he to work BY the month, Or on the q
otten system, and On numerous plans
= ori- they find out which is the best
oned and, On the Darwin principle,
Fna- fttest will survive" the tramps
i say loafers and drunkards will be we
! few out and smoked out. Perhaps
IL TO grant law will be enacted requi
have yarabonds who have mo VI
,cated means Of support" to wake up
,agine make themselves useful. Inc
s.E,.a,, orad neonIe are crafty in getting