Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07

raining IN many cases as the Hottentots or
Zulus. One mother, who makes money IN
winter by her deft rubbing and manipu-
lating of invalids, said she had Is children,
but every one OF them was "ailin' all the
time in some way or another"
JUST LIKE THE NORTH.
We asked a fairly intelligent colored man
as to the fraudulent voting business, and he
said that the workers on large estates and in
the factories and other employments where
large numbers found work had to vote the
Democratic ticket or else they lost their
places Moreover, when discharged they
could not get work elsewhere, as 70 be en-
ployed they have to have ticket from the
last place they worked, showing the reasons
for their discharge and their claims for
places. This explanation reminded US Of
the establishments in the North where the
employees have to vote for their employers
interests or get "fred, and of the labor
cards without the possession of which man
Is "scab, and can get no work in union
establishment.
So it will be seen that the South is not so
far behind the North after all in methods of
coercion, and devices and designs for keep
ing the South politically solid. A man
must have living for himself and family,
and the glittering generality of voting as he
pleases, stands but small show as compared
with steady employment at assured wages,
and voting as his employer desires. The
eight box system is another device for max
ing null and void the votes of those in q
position to disregard "the bosses and vote
the Republican ticket, but like many plans
for evil, it works to ultimate good since it
furnishes an incentive for the independent
negro to learn to read and write as soon as
possible.
After all, however, it is to be said that the
whites and blacks here, having always been
accustomed to each other. and brought up
together are naturally disposed to dwell
together in amity and kindly relationship.
To stir up strife and promote race antagon-
isms cannot fail to do harm for both. They
should be left free to solve their own
problem.
A WASTE OF SYMPATHY.
It would be amusing, if it were not so
silly, to note the vast interest, the sympa-
thetic affection, the molly-coddling of the
darkies by Northern visitors. While they
show not an atom of interest in the well
being of the poor white schools, universi-
ties, money and missionaries without stint
are here for the blacks, but nothing for the
whites. A black skin appeals to the SYM
pathies and the purse of the Northern
brethren, while the 'poor white trash" are
as deeply despised by them as by the blacks.
This matter of color is queer. There are
thousands of good conscientious women toll
ing and working and begging for the cop
per-colored Indians, for the black Africans,
tor the yellow Asiatics, and yet the poor
whites in our midst, the white trash of the
South, the poor whites of the slums of all
great cities are almost, if not entirely,
neglected. Women work and beg for funds
to establish schools for foreigners, while the
poor benighted of their own race are given
the go-by or ignored.
A convention of the Southern Episcopal
brethren is to be held in Aiken some time
this month. The great question before the
house will be the proposed admission of col
ored preachers as delegates on terms of
equal rights and representation of the
blacks with the whites. Some of the wise
men have been trying to stave off this ques-
tion for few years longer. Their argument
is that only a few of the original, pro-
slavery, fre-eating Confederacy clergymen
are yet on top, and that the matter can be
held in abeyance until these rank rebels, as
we might call them, die of, then the union
OF the black and white brethren in one re-
ligious body can be established without
split or secession or hard feeling or any
thing unbecoming in the ministers of the
gospel of peace. But some hot heads are
anxious to precipitate and participate in
fight, and they want the dark brothers of
the cloth kept out at all hazards. A COM
mittee appointed to prepare a report and
minute upon this matter have agreed to
recommend the admission of the colored
brethren.
A FIRE-BRAND.
This, it is thought, will fire the soul, ,!of
some of the brethren and upset all the
smoothly-laid plans of the compromisers
and those who believe in making the best
of things and of submitting gracefully to
the inevitable Some of the colored minis
ters rather object to the union, because they
submit that the whites will rule, while
others favor it because their equal status
will then be defined, and their brains will
have an opportunity to display their power.
One by one the roses fall, saith the poet,
and one by one the barriers of prejudice