Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-24
oHlo,s CoLoRED BRETHREN.

OHlO,s COLORED BRETHREN.
 Now it is the colored brethren of Ohio who are making kick against the re- publican disposition to ignore them when it is matter of distributing the state and federal offices. They have ''fit nobly," To these many years, living on the wind pudding of promise and look ing vainly for the dawn of the hopes that have been fed to them so literally. Now, however. they propose to mix some of the porridge for themselves. It is announced that convention of the colored voters of the state has been called to meet at Xenia to canvass the situation and to formulate an ultimatum to be submitted to the republican man. agers, and if this is disregarded the col ored voters of Ohio will be organized against the party in power and the value of their support allowed will be deter mined by the result of the state election in November. The republican party cannot succeed without the solid SUD- port of the colored element. and it is for this reason they have demanded recog- l milton in the distribution of local and fed | eral offices, but in no instance have their demands been complied with. Whether the Xenia conference will be effective to force recognition of their rights remains to be seen. Meanwhile the republican l organs continue to shout for the rights 1 of the black man south of Mason and Dixon's line. And yet it is here the ! negro gets the larger share of his per as we are told by correspondent of the Boston Evening Transcript, the black man is shut out from learning any of the trades that the white man has the privilege of learning. In the large northern cities the colored brick mason or carpenter or painter is rarity. The only occupations open to him are barber ing, hotel waiting and backing boots, and he is now almost obliterated by the foreign element in the latter occupation. But in the south, though he is always relegated on railroads to the malodorous "Jim Crow" car, he has the opportunity of learning any trade he has mind to-. There are more negro mechanics in any one city in the south than are to be found in any two large northern cities. A colored clergyman of Boston is authority for the statement that in the city of Boston there are not three colored boys learning trades. The Pilot has been looking into the matter and has found that the intelligent colored boys who graduate from the schools, and Ieven those from the high schools, are Icompelled to begin as office boys and end as hotel walters. This condition of things the Pilot regards as dangerous as legal slavery, since without skill of hands or professional knowledge the col ored race can never progress in our con- plex industrial age, but is doomed to ser vile labor. And the Pilot volunteers to do it's share toward efecting remedy by taking colored boy into it's office to learn the printing trade.
 This race problem we have, indeed, Ialways with us, and it does not appear that the republican party is doing any thing effective to it's solution. While the negro IS kept in a state of indus trial and political slavery, while white republicans of the north refuse to mi1 with the black men personally or recog- nize their service to the party by occa- sional official honors, it is not possible to credit the party with any other designs or desires for the colored man than are found in the securing of their votes
 This continual prating about negro
 wrongs in the south, while the negro is
 kept in political slavery at the north, is growing irksome and it is encouraging Ito find, as is the case in Ohio, that ever
 the negroes themselves are tumbling tc it. A few more conferences like that
 proposed to be held at Xenia will be
 useful in that they will set the republi' lean party to thinking.
 The colored brethren of Ohio will have
 the sympathy of democrats in their de-
 mand for their rights.
 ! THE New York Press thinks Governor Hill intends to run the democratic
 caucus this fall on whiskey. If he
 should there would be very few repub
 licans left
 FOUND STARVING.
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