Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05

white laborers in every line Of work at the
North will not permit the negro to work along
side Of them. This is shown in New York.
where. on September go 400 men were thrown
out of work because three cOlOred teamsters
were employed by Peck, Martin Co. The
strike was ordered by the BricklayeTy Union.
Nearly all our trouble at the South is caused
by educated negroes, who control the ignorant,
dissatisfied element and precipitate issues.
was not aware that there was any portion OF
the eastern shores of the South American con-
tinent available to the United States. on which
a colony could be established. II such an
arrangement can be effected it would be wise
IN our Government to facilitate the removal OF
large part OF the negroes; those who want 20
experiment IN a change. This would locate
the negroes in section most suitable TO them
and corresponding in soil and climate to
Africa, and at the same time near enough
to establish trade relations to the benehe
Oh the United States. The removal OF
one-thlrd OF the negroes from the South would
temporarily adjust matters. AS proof l refer
TO Kentucky, Tennessee. Missouri and West
virginia, where you never hear of race troubles,
and where at least there is little race antagon-
Ism OF sufhcient Importance to attract aTten-
t1on. The negroes who want to get 70 them
serves could be put readily, and with reason
able expense. in some South American locality,
and in section, too, where they alone can
stand the climate. / have for years believed
they would find final resting place near the
equator on the American continent. and the
tendency to move IN southwest direction is
last crystallizng into permanent movement.
This could be facilitated by Government aid
across and through the Gulf of Mexico.
PRESIDENT CRowELL.
The Rev. John F. Crowell, D. D., Presi-
dent of Trinity College, North Carolina,
says:
am not in favor of negro colonization as a
means of settling the conflicts centering around
the race problem In the South.
]. believe it to be economically impractical
BILE.
z 1t would be disastrous disregard of his
toricaI obligations to enforce colonization.
Governmental encouragement of voluntary
colonization would be very little better
Ihlrd-There are serious constitutional OBJ
4ectlons to either course. The negro is not an
Indian. His status Is vastly different and that
requires recognition if the nation means to
keep its faith with the negro.
Fourth-Nowhere will the negro be more
emclent than in the places where his own
economic advantages will lead him to. Some
Ining is to be gained by the negro's learning
Independence of the Governments apron
strings This Industrial depression of the negro
race, now going on rapidly will disintegrate the
political sOlidity which still keeps the white
south on the defensive for the sake of its civil
Institutions There are not the slightest
lements OF general race war in the South,
for which colonization is needed as remedy
or prevention. There is no social war. there is
only discomfort, which is the best sign of
progress toward better state. And that dis
content is largely industrial, only incidentally
political.
Fifrh-The negro has a superior endowment
OF physical energy. That has It's value in the
labor market of the South There is no substi-
tute to equal him in mining in railway build
ing, and in iron manufacturing except one
that is the Chinaman. This is the testimony of
several contractors whom l have personally
We would rather keep the negro
than to call in the Chinaman to do our work
than to call in the Old World to redress the
wrongs of the New.