The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-08-28
THE NEGRO NORTH AND SOUTH

Ii is unfortunate that the spirit OF
sectional prejudice is so prevalent in t
he north as to require reputation con- &
inually from the press OF the south,
vet the misstatements aud slanders
which cmanute from that quarter must
he rcfuted in the dispassionatc and
direct manner adopted by the Atlanta {
Conshhtt;ou in answer to the Phlladel-
mia North american that "the cltl
zeps of Atlanta have registered their
protest against any assignment for the
negro not strictly menial."
The Constitution proceeds to ask
few very pertinent questions in this
wise
"If fifty negro carpenters were to go
to Philadelphia could they JOIN the
carpenters' union and work side by
side with white carpenters? They do
that in every city in the south.
Gould fifty negro BARRIERS be adj
m;tted to the white barber shops OF
Philadelphia? Why is it that OF all
the thousands of cab drivers IN the
north there are no negroes, when IN
the south white aud black drive to-
aethcr on the strcets9 Why are no
colored brick -masons permitted to
i work in the trade in New York: why
no colored type-settcrs? Why are there
n, colored blacksmiths in the cities Oh
the north!
"simply because tho Whites hold
these trades in which the negro could
find lucrative aud reasonable employ
, mcn,, aud they shut the negro ont. In
: the south. he is permitted to enter
+ them. aud on the building i'll which
: we write, white aud black men work e'
G side bv side at equal wages, from TIE
G foundation to the loof. Such thins
e would have been impossible in New
Y York or Philadelphia, and the Amer
IS can knows it. 1t is said that MI
is Carnegie and others are now organlz
J. inc large forces of negroes to take I
o the north, and with this cheap laho
e drive out or control their white work
S men. We shall watch with intere:
Il the working out of this experiment.
IS "The godly north can lecture til
t. south OH its treatment of the Negro
IN bu, it has never let conscience or rigl
G. stand in its way, when dealing with
Id colored race. Every tribe of lndla'
lie that stood before the Purstans-ti
ne Peouods, the hIphicans, the Del
e. wares-all fell beneath their terrlb
ve wrath, and not one retains even
ry tribal existence. The Greeks, Cher
fly KEGS. tue Seninoles, all the trlh
IS with which the cavalier dealt, we
,ct spared and dealt with by treaty, al
II are now living in the west on tht
in own lands. When the Chlnama
de with his cheap labor, began to int
sly fere with tho north, she broke treatl
rry abrogated national rights and clos
he her gates against the Chinaman.
bis she will do with the negro if he e>
lily gets numerous enough to make
%" appreciablo element of her populate
my Worse she has done with him, as
an Felicity, Ohio, where she drove h
DOT from the schools, which the law s.
' .re he had the right to enter.
Wy VIZ "Aud yet, with this record on
the Indian question, on tue Chinese, W
can the poor negro children Of Fel'c
lese Ohio, still barred ont: by the inh1
tial republicans from tue schools
lie which they have legal risht-with
negro mechanics shut out from c'
rap useful trade in the north, aud III
She
;n nI there, more than anywhere else,
;ura- mental und the siavc-her sclibes
I'm y pharasecs dcnounce the south 70!
DR.. Injustice to weak and inferior
Iarrc and with the unrehuked letter Of
10th Garfield still going the rounds OF
imp, press, stand up to rebuke MS Tor
par par Ing sectional prejudice and blttcFn
this
Gel Have Won ever tried how !
One Dollar will get you at ball
Wells!
The TEE Nov York San is anthorl'
II of tie statement that well-known
cted, who, last season, made at least 5
$500. 600 by his profession, has, III
lelay months time, lost it all in "hut
owed the tiger at the Central Gu
IN Of Broadway, The Sun says:
"rhe actor who suffered this ann
ton of his means had long enjoyed !;
;,s,o ,.ortot;nu for skili at cards, and III