Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-12-29

the Hthte OF New lofkf 4enf N0 &iso
No. Onsf No Intrcdnce into one OF
our Northern hotels q group Of cciored ser
wants and how many Of the other servants
would remain7 Not one.
NI were black man with family 10
support and was determined to be indus
trieus and sober. would 60 South: The
climate is more lenient, the feeling OF wnlte
people toward the colered is more kindly
and Christian than with us. Knowing well
the feeling toward colored people IN TINS
section and in that | am persuaded that
that race will
Get Justice Done Thorn
sooner at the South than at the North. We
csn not teach the South how better to treat
the black man until We treat him better
ourselves. Imagine scene; State house
Boston, within FIVE minutes of Fanneil hall
and within one minute of the historical
Commons. The Legislature assemblies and
white members take their places. A coloeed
man has been accidentally elected. lie
comes in to take the oath Of office. AS he
passes down to his seat what do / hear his
co-legislators say2 "Put that gentleman oi
color near meg Welcome to the balls
of legislation "Down-uodden race got
Justice at last?' Image of God cut IN
ebonyT mol They all snuff the breeze
and the hair on the back part of the head
rises in wrath till il covers the bald spot on
the top and one and all they cry: "NiggerF
As for myself, ! am so peculiarly con-
structed that have not particle OF race
prejudice in my composition and i declare,
that should feel perfectly contented seated
in church with colored man before me
and one behind me and one on the right
hand of me and one on left OF me, and Q
black minister in the pulpit, and black
choir to lead the music. Bot we are not all
alike constitutionslly, / find . merry
Christmas thought in this consideration re-
sultant from my recent observations that
Thorough Christian Feeling
| is TO be established between the black and
white races, within few years. This scene
occurred in the State house at Atlanta, GA:
A colored clergyman standing in that build
ing said be was thirsty and was looking
around for o drink. A white gentleman
standing by said: II will get you drink. "
The gentleman departed from the room and
after awhile appeared with a glass of water.
| Someone said to the colored man: do
YOU know who that is who is getting you q
glass of water?" "No," said the black
man. "who is itP' The answer was Gov
ernor Colouitt." When the black minister
received the water he said, Thank You,
| Governor, but cannot drink it.
He poured it upon the floor
saving: Il pour this as a
\ ~ Il IL. of M r;,t;an faaI;nc r, ha
tween the white aud black races" On the
prospect of better feeling all natiRs, |
say: merry Christmasp
Come now! / make prophecy. The
land is full prophets, and / have as much
right as any of them to propbesy. We are
not far of from the grandest prosperity this
country has ever seen. Mechanics will get
larger wages, capitalists will receive larger
dividends, and the factories that ara now
closed will have to run day and night to
meet the demand, and your storehouses will
be uncomfortable with jostling customers
tired of waiting for their turn to come, and,
amid the Misunderstanding of bargain.
makers, the attorneys viii all be needed to
interpret the legalities, and the overworked
business men will need more medical at
tendance and the orders of God will be
thronged with men and women anxious to
consecrate their gains to Christian pur-
poses. You prophesy midnight. i pro
phesy midnoon. You pitch your tent }
ward general bankruptcy. Ipltch mine to-
ward national opulence. Do you want
My Reason for this Prophecy
Gods evident determination to shower this
land with prosperity, five years of unexam-
pied harvest and Of unprecedented health,
and of unheard of amity. Northern Pacific
Railroad apocalypse in one direction; New
| Orleans exhibition in the other direction.
When j saw week before last at the opening
of the Worlds Exhibition at New Orleans
darkskinned Mexican flutist throw fif-
teen thousand people into ecstasy and
transport, j said to myself, he is only play
ing in front of the advancing hosts of
Southern republics and empires which are
to reinforce us in march of commercial
prosperity, such as most optimistic capital
lists never got a glimpse of in most excited
mid-summer's night dream. While we SYM
rathize with the present hardship, we proph-
ecy the coming rescue.
While these holidays find so many out of
employment, there is not land where 50
many have work. While many have their
wages cut down, at the reduced figures these
wages are higher than the ordinary rates in
other lands. In some parts Of Ireland
Eight Cents n Day..
In England dollar day is good wages.
In other lands so cents day and rs cents
a day, clear on down TO starvation and
squalor. An editor of prosperous paper
in England told me that his salary was $3.50
year Look at the great populations
coming out Of the factories Of England and
accompany them to their homes and see
what priyation the hard-working classes on
the other side of the sea suffer. The laboring
classes here are 10 per cent better of than
in any country under the sun, 20 per cent,
40 per cent, so per cent, IS per cent. The
stone masons and carpenters and plumbers
and mechanics Of all styles in America have
finer residences than the majority of pro-
fessional men in England. You enter the
laboress residence on this side the sea and
you find upholstery and pictures and instru-
ments 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 workmen know that while their
wages may not be 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 Snd four years in the nation We
clean house After the vehement exFes-
sion Of sentimens at the ballot box in the
Autsnnal election the people sit down SAT
isied. An Englishman said to me in an
English rail train. "How do you stand it TO
have revolution every four yearsf It Is
better to have q Queen for life and al
things settled" But my friend, England
changes geyernmeas just as certainly as we
do. At some adverse vote in Parliament
out goes Disraeli and in comes Gladstone,
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