Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-08


ss..ros 10 he growing worse. Colored men
Sould glad learn mechanical trades, and
wherever there have Deen openings for
them. the col0red people have shown
\ themselves the equals Of their white com
peiitors a. mechanic Only sefvils oceu-
nations are open 70 the colored men, ana
even 10 these rates OF pay are lower TO col
ored people than 10 white men IN the same
occupation. Under such circumstances,
hos can a rspii moral, mental and male
nal developmen: hsexPected Of the eolored
racsP They pat the little money they re-
ceive 10 better use than any other people l
know OF. But the msrgiu above the act
nal necessaries Of life is 20 very small thst
Z little show can he made OF II IN any d.
rection.
The forms this prejudice takes IN the
North are often more humiisting than the
political antsgonism the COlorsd people en-
countered from their masters IN the South.
There colored men work side by side with
their white colleagues in ali the mechanl-
cal trades, and no effort is made to prevent
them from learning any branch OF indus
trial employment they may choose. The
material and moral ard intellectual aspl-
fsrred with in the South, bat, on the con-
trary, are encouraged IN many ways oy
the white people, who learned before the
war to look 20 him for all the mechanical
work that was wanted For the eOlored
man was the mech ME Of the South before
the war. a. well "a the field and plantation
hand aud day laborer. When, Therefore,
the colored artisan comes North and tries
10 ind work at his trade, and is met by
refusal of white men 10 work alongside OF
him. he encounters a kind Of sntipsthy
aud prejudice thst are unknown in the
south. His development along the lines
Of morality and industry IL interterred
with and hsmpeled, and there is small
wonder If bis progress is slow and precari-
ous
To this testimony may be added that Of
Rev. II. A. MoNRoE, Of s., Marks Meth
odist Episcopal Church in New York City,
who also talked 90 o. reporter Of the Times
Il have contended against this prosCrip-
ton of my rsce upon every opportunity,
but 1t seems o. 10 the lines we're being
drawn closer ail the while; and when scch
representative Christian hocy 81 the
Young Meu's Christian Association close
its docrs to orr Young man, The pre- udices
OF other people are eclrcelY to be- wondered
at
"Whai excuse b given for refusing 90
admit colored vouths fo the Ioung Men r
/ Christian AasnrafianF Del Ea7 aaked.
'N1ne. thatl hav ever heard. And ne
have college andua'cs. hsyeu physi-
clans. and thsoloEctl .fultrtl amo1z our
applicants. men i1 every uaT worthy of
sfnal social cunsiferaf..n with The batter
0It.sss of shi'c mrn = have lived in the
Sonth. although. until Ie.l school. I had
n.vtr -atn oaiarrd nsr-rn except tte
mem her- cl mF ftlheIs family. Or d
er. huonehi u1 n che Etst, vent io The
pebble schrrI eith uhiic criIdren, ard bad
never heen rivtn fn understand ihai my
.cnoolmsfcs or ns'r1 ho-s esteemed them
,sivss superior to mr herause they were
white ali ] Fa Co.cred f1t m TIE
south there is uen. of th.s trade and ne'gt-
| brrrood o.trac.sm fhaf Ne .neet ir the North
IIn Chariasico 90 Wi'min. on - pinc, =
that ar considered the mot iidf-boudd
| ard storm lutlres-c.l of DfmCcrl'fC strong
| bolds-a colored man can have anything
I in the way OF "a residence that BE- b. able %
pay for he may bay or hs may rent IN
the most fashionable part OF DE city If be
D. willing and able to pay the price that
would he asked OF any white man.
All this is interesting ard suggestive.
Nevertheless. the professional politicians
and sectionalists Of the North will continue
to declare that the Southern people make
il a business 20 abuse and trample on the
negro. 1t is we'll enough to have the
Northern side OF the picture presented.
THE Finance Committee at last nights
meeting appropriated $4,000 for the
building of the Seventeenth street bridge,
the understanding Of the Committee being
that it is to be constructed in accordance
with the proposition of the Wheeling and
Harrisburg Railroad Company. BY this
arrangement the work is taken entirely OFF
the citys hands, and the suhiect eliminated
from the yexed loan ordinance question,
which, happily simplfies matters consider
ably. The rsilrOsd company is to build
the bridge, which insures prompt work, a
consideration also TO be taken into ac-
count The committees work seemed to
be generally satisfactory all around, and
and not the least pleasing feature of it is
that the contingent fund of the Board of
Public Works is lot touched, which is
quite an innovation in the financial ar
engagements of the city. The Finance Com
mittee, which is unanimous on the ques-
ton, is 10 he roundly congratulated on its
work
BISHOP PorTER's bold, vigorous centen-
-..r -.-.-.-t. IL, IL. - u Lhn rirnnrn Of