The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-03-23
ENTERED AT POSTOFFJCE As SECOND GLASS MATTE
SATURDAY, MARCH, 90, 1889.

The Louisville Courier-J ournal of the
18th inst, has long article under the
heading: "Negro Progress Under White
Rule" the trend of which is to show the
great advantages which have occurred
to the 10000 Colored inhabitants of the
island of Barbados, by being governed
by the 10000 white inhabitants. The
Courier-J Journal like q number of South
ern journals is very much alarmed over
the prospect of the Colored men who
are in the majority in several Southern
state voting themselves into power, and
endeavors to inculcate the idea that
Colored men will have their conditions
Bothered by being the subordinates of
whites, than by being their own masters.
In the article referred to, the Courier
Journal says: "When the Negroes of
Barbados were freed the local govern
ment of that island did not pass into the
hands of the Colored people, although
they formed nine-tenths of the popula-
ton. They were not taught that
they should be supreme simply be-
cause they were more numerous
There were no white demagogues
to instill dangerous principles into
their minds, and tell them that
they could leap at once from the ignor-
ance and superstition of slavery into
the civilization and enlightenment &C.
CURED by the Caucasian only after CEN
turtles devoted to the repression of the
animal and cultivation of the mental and
intellectual instincts. They seemed to
understand that their time to rule
would come when education had fitted
them for such important purposes, how
ever distant that day might be. X
Since 1884, the two classes of popula-
ton inhabiting the island of Barbados
have dwelled together in the greatest
harmony. When they were freed, the
Colored people went to work, following
those avocations for which they we're
best fitted. They were employed in
great numbers on the plantations, and
others went to the towns, and labored
in the warehouses and along the whar-
ves." The situation in the island of
Barbados and the "New South" are not
analogous. The majority of the poor
whites in the South are as ignorant as
the masses Of the Colored people; and
the Colored men who usually aspire to
office, are as we'll qualified to hold them
as their white opponents. We would
respectfully call the attention of the
Courior-Journal to the deplorable fact
that the avenues which are open to the
Colored man, whereby he may gain
fame and fortune, are very few. Trades
unions, and prejudice keep him from
learning trades and from being engaged
in thousands of different occupations
followed only by the whites, because no
Colored man need apply. The more in
telligent members of the race, who are
fitted for more exalted positions than
mere hewers of wood and drawers of
water, are, in consequence of having;all
other avenues closed to them, forced to
enter politics in the hope of earning
their bread and butter. Why there is
not one Colored bank, dry goods, drug
store, railroad or any other sort of mer-
camille clerk in Louisville, which con-
tains over 100000 inhabitants $4,000 of
which are Colored. There are not half
a dozen Colored boys learning trades
and only in departments of the national
government and the public schools are
Colored men thought fit to hold any but