The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-29

many OF In6 Obler servants WOulu TeiudluG NOb
If l were black man. with family to sup
port, and was determined to be industrious and
sober, l would go South The climate is more
| lenient, the feeling of white people toward the
colored is more kindly and Christian than with
us. Knowing well the feeling toward colored
| people in this section, | am persuaded that
| that race will get justice done them sooner
at the South than at the North. We cannot
teach the South how better to treat the black
man until we treat him better ourselves. Imag-
inc scene: State-house, Boston, within five
minutes of Fanueil Hall, and within one minute
OF the historical Common. The Legislature as
sembles and white members take their places.
A colored man has been accidentally elected lie
comes in to take oath of office. As he passes
down to take his seat what do L hear his
co-legislators sayl Put that gentleman of color
near mel' Welcome to the halls of legislationF
| ''Down-trodden race got justice at last" Image
| of God cut in ebonyP No! they all snuff the
breeze, and the hair on the back part of the head
rises in wrath till it covers the BALD spot on the
top ard one and they all cry: 'Nigger"
| AS for myself, am so peculiarly constructed
| that have not particle of prejudice in
| my composition, and | declare that should feel
perfectly contented seated in church with
| colored man before me, and one behind me, ana
one on the right hand of me- and one on the left
hand of me, and black minister in the pulpit,
and black choir to lead the music. But we are
not all alike constituted. find merry Christ
mas thought in this consideration, resultant
from my recent observations, that thorough
| Christian feeling is to be esta hEs.,-,s oetwaAn
| the black and white races Within a few years
thls scene occurred in the Statehouse at Allan
- ga. colored clergyman, standing IN that
| building said he was thirsty, and was looking
around for a drink. A white gentleman staLd
ing by said 81 will get you drink" The
| gentleman departed from the room, and after
while appeared with glass of water. Some one
| said to the black man: DO you know who that
is who is getting you a glass of wateri' mo,
| said the black man; who is ltE' The answer
was Governor Colquitt." When the black
| minister received the water, he said: THANK
| you, Governors but I cannot drink it." He
poured it upon the floor saying: 81 pour this as
a libation on the altar of Christian feeling be-
tween the white and black races" On the pros
pect of better feeling among all nations, say:
Merry Christmasm
AN OPTIMISTIC NEW.
Come now! make a prophecy. The land
is full of prophets, and I have as much right as
any of them to prophesy, We are not far off
from the grandest prosperity this country has
ever seen. Mechanics will get larger wages,
capitalists will receiver larger dividends and the
factories that are now closed will have to run
day and night to meet the demand, aud your
storehouses will be uncomfortable with iostling
customers tired ofwaiting for their turn to come,
and amid the misunderstanding of bargain
makers the attorneys will all be needed to in
terpret the LOCALITIES and the overworked bust
ness men will need more medical attendance,
and the orders of God will be thronged with men
and women anxious to conSecrate their gains to
| Christian purposes. You prophesy midnight;
l prophesy a midroon. You pitch your tent
toward general bankruptcy; pitch mine toward
national opulence. Do you want my reason for
this prophecy Gods evident determination to
shower this land with prosperity, five years of
uneXampled harvest and of unprecedented
health, and of unheard-of amity. Northern Pa
cifc railroad apocalypse is one di-
ocalypse in the other direction. When 1 saw
week before last at the opening of the worlds
exhibition New Orleans dark skinned Mex
lean hutist throw fifteen thousand people into
ecstasy and transport, l said to myself, he
is only playing in front Of the advancing
hosts Of Southern republics and empires which
are to reinforce us in a march Of commercial
prosperity, such as the most optimistic capitalist
never got glimpse of in most excited mid sum
mer nights dream. While we sympathize with
the present hardship, we prophesy the coming
rescue.
While these holidays find so many out of en-
ploy, there is not land where so many have
work. While many have their wages cut down,
at the reduced figure these wages are higher
than the ordinary rates in other lands, In some
parts of Ireland eight cents day, In England
dollar day good wages. In other lands fifty
cents day, and twenty-five cents a day, clear on
down to starvation and squalor. An editor of
a prosperous paper in England told me that his
salary was $3.50 year Look at the great pop
ulationS coming out of the factories of England,
and accompany them to their home and see what
privation the hard working classes on the other
side the sea suffer. The laborng classes here
are 10 per cent better off than in any country
under the sun, 20 per cent, 40 per cent, so per
cent, 10 per cent The stone masons, and car
penters, and plumbers, and mechanics of all
styles in America have finer residences than the
majority Of professional men in England. You
enter the laborer's residence on this side the sea
nd 1rO find uTlbn LET md TNip and in
struments of music. His children are educated
at the best schools, His life is insured, so that
in case of his sudden decease the family should
not be flung homeless, Let all American work
as high as they would like to have them,
America is the paradise of industry.
We are in better political condition than in
any other land. Every two years in the State
and four years in the Nation we clean house
After the vehement expression of sentiment at
the ballot-box in the autumnal election the
people sit down satisfied. An Englishman said
to me in On English rail train How do you
stand it to have a revolution every four yearsl
1t is better to have Queen for life and all
things settled" But my friends, England
changes government just certainly as we do
At some adverse vote in Parliament out goes
Dsraeli and in comes Gladstone, and after a
while there will be another admonitory
vote in Parliament and out will go
Gladstone, and in will come somebody else.
Administrations change there, but not ad-
vantageously as here, for there the change may
come almost any day. while here a party in
power continues four years III power.
1t is said that in this country we nave more
political stealing than in other lands The diff
ference is that in this country almost every Of
fetal has chance to steal, while in other lands
a few people absorb so much that the others
have no chance at appropriation. The govern
| ments of Europe are so expensive that after the
salaries of the royal families are paid there is
not so much left to misappropriate The EN-
peror of Russia mas an annual salary of SIS 2l0
COO the Emperor of Austria s. 600 900 Victoria
palaceis worth $40 OOO, OOO The Queen hairdress-
er gets $4,000 a year There is a host of at
PENDANTS, all on salaries, some of them five and
six thousand dollars master of buckhounds
$S,oO0. grand falconer OOO and so on and so
| on ad infnitum, ad nauseam, until it is said