Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-09

and Knoxville. Tenn Mills, furnaces aud
lactur1es are rapidly dottinc the hillsioes
ana valleys Of the south and from the
buildings Of this character in process OF
erection Que may get a fair idea ot the
awakened Interest III manufacturing 10
The south
WHAT TIN coLuEEn PEoflr ARE DOING.
The coiUred people are chiefly en-.
gagged IN agriculture RiCh men. VINO
are above labor. hire negroes TO till the
land. The farm lahurCrs are mostly ne
Croes, but the hiaCks. as well as the
whites Of the south, are beng moved 20
The future importance Of manufactures,
and wherever possi ble engage in such
business, The tendency 10 leave the farm
and GO 10 the mines and furnaces Is clear,
and may bC traced TO the cuiured classes
as well "a 20 the white il may not, per.
hgps, be SO distinctly seen in the negro
but there l. plenty Of evidence Of It's yN-
lstenCe. Let me add right here that the
cOiured man Is not The mean and de-
graded creature he is generally believed
10 be by the white people. There are
some ldlers. l8gCurds and luafers among
the black people, but the majority are "
dillgent and industrious as most whites
Cotton is the staple product Of the south
Corn l. generally raised but wheat is
not much grown. Florida Is destined To
become the winter resort Tor the sick and
diseased oi America. There is Il tendency
to study the adaptability OF the waste
lands of the pine region in southern
Georgia and northern Florida. We are
not acquainted with the northern system
OF reUluming waste lands, but we arc be
ginning 10 experiment 10 what they are
best adapted TO rnise. Oranges and other
fruits and watgrmclons are being pro
duced ln the plne regions, while sugar,
sorghum and rice are CLEANED from the
swamps and marsh lands
TIE soCICI CONDITION or THE MICRO.
AS TO the social condition Of the
southern negro, j cannot say that there
can be marked any Improvement IN that.
In every other respect the culured man is
infinitely better of than before the war,
but there is now less social contact than
then. The relations Of the two races me
not as intimate 10y virtue OF the fact that
while before The war black and white
boys grew up in the. same yard, played
together and respected and sympathlzed
with each other, now they play apart,
One can rarely see in his walks white
and black boys al sport together. There
j. an alienation that did not formerly eX-
list. On the Central railroad the black
cars are placed between the engine and
the baggage car and are much inferior.
Senator Brown e road does not so dis
criminate, nor does the Richmond d Dan
vile
The negros are mostly republicans.
recently there has been a tendency
toward democracy which WIS given 81
strong impulse by President Cleveland's
generosity and fairness. The colored
people regard the president with remark
able admiration. They look upon him
with reverence akin to that they felt Tor
Lincoln. Fifteen months ago there were
thousands of colored men in the southern
democratic camp, but the tide Of desertion
from repubhcanism has received set
back from the conduct of the southern
democracy toward the president.
The future of the negro rs very
broad question. We have large schools
in every southern city and many colleges
and these are yearly turning out teach
ers for the lower classes. In this way
education is being very generally dis
seminated In no great tune the black
Will refuse longer to eoncede superiority
TO the white Both races must then
occupy the same social plane or one of
them must quit the country Ii the negro
is not granted social equality he will lurn
to Liberia and establish government OF
his own there He thus would ecome
the agent OF enlightenment Of the great
African continent and who knows but
that this was Gods design in enslaying
the black race