Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-09
misleading the negroes.

We are in receipt OF slip from the
News and Observer, published in Raleigh,
N. c., and of date March 31st. This
extract recites the fact that agents are
moving amongst the colored people OF
that State and telling them highly
colored stories about the rates of wages
in California in order to induce them to
emigrate. 1t is evident that the men
who are stirring up the negroes are rail
road agents, who are drumming up busi-
ness for their roads. Here is the article
A flaming blood-red circular is being
scattered among the negroes here and in
the eastern part of the State, headed
"Ho for California !" A man who states
that he has been from this State to Cali
fornia, where ne says that he has already
planted the "Colony of Independent
Farmers and Mechanics" from this State,
advertises for thousands of hands to 90
to the cities of California where, he says,
they are in demand and can make fabu-
lous wages. He addresses himself to
'the colored people of eastern
North Carolina who desire to emf
CRATE" He says he has been in San
Francisco, San Jose, Redding, An
derson, Los Angeles and ether points in
California, and asserts that %, 900 men
and women are wanted and can get en-
ployment. He says they can get twice
as much for their labor there as they can
here and says that the reason for the de-
mand is that the Chinese are being run
out of the country by the Californians,
and laborers are needed to take their
places. He says servants are in demand
at prices as follows: Male cooks, $75 per
month; female house servants, $25 !;
hotel walters, $75; farm hands, $25 per
month wood-choppers, 50 per cord car
penters, 50 per day; brickmasons,
$3.50.
The agent says he will begin tour in
May and will address the colored psople
at New Berne, Washington, Wilson.
Scotland Neck, Rocky Mount, Weldon,
Greenville, Elizabeth City and at ali
other points in the eastern part of the
State, and will leave once month every
month during the spring and summer to
carry parties to California. He winds up
with an advertisement for the Atchison.
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, and ad.
vises all emigrants to go by that route.
The circulars have been largely distrib-
uted over this and the eastern section of
the State and the negroes are becoming
highly excited over them.
Cheek, the exodus agent, who was ar
rested here week ago and bound over
to court for enticing away the hands OF
Mr.. A. T. Mial, returned yesterday from
Mississippi, where he took his crew of
negroes. He is making up another party
and says he is going to carry away sew
nrol h,1ndroA
agents also arrived yesterday and went
on through the eastern part of the State.
1t is very possible that these agents
are deceiving the negroes, and only take
them from one part of the South to
another. No large immigration of col
pred people from North Carolina has
been noticed here, and yet it seems
that these agents have been carrying on
sheir emigration schemes among the
for some time. The schedules
of wages which these agents tempt
ngly show to the negroes are
90 highly colored for the facts.
such cooks as the North Carolina negroes
would make, could not begin to get $75
/ month here. The field hands of the
south could not expect to find work they
.ould do outside of the ranches, and we
ioubt whether they could get steady
places on them at $25 per month. At
certain seasons of the year they could
doubtless get all the work they could do
It that figure; but not continuously all
he year round. Five dollars per day for
is far above the mark. The
chedule has been placed very high for
he purpose, doubtless, of getting up an
migration craze amongst the negroes,
md it seems to be succeeding.
ENooURAGNG reports are being re-