The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-18

Neither do the Southerners have to
wear as many or as heavy clothes.
When all this is considered, and the
humane treatment, there is but little
doubt that we of this part of the Union
are doing equally as well as. or better,
than our brethren of colder cline.
Some of the mill owners have sent
to the older factories for superintend-
ents and foremen and, while they are
paid no more than the natives here,
they come. That fact is sufficient to
show that they think they are doing
better. They are native Northerners,
and are good class of people for any
State to get into her borders.
The South wants men, men with en-
ergy, nerve and push, not to take the
place of any here but to assimilate
the work of building up the waste
places.
WELCOME TO ALL.
There is plenty of room and a COR
dial welcome; not that she should not
welcome capital also, but the main
want is more people, people who come
to make homes and to be citizens; not
enough to smother out our indjvidu-
ality and characteristics, but enough to
soften down and by bringing new
blood and with industry improve what
she already has. She does not need
missionaries, long haired or short
haired men, bloomer attired women,
nor single agitatOr or walking dele
gate They have to come as the neces-
sity for them occurs, but if the mill
owners are wise they will avoid the
mistakes and blunders of the more
thickly settled parts of the world.
The great bugaboo of lynching has
never been used on either mill man
or an operative, this class of people do
not need this kind Of medicine, and the
operative, if he honestly desires to
make n home and become loyal citI-
zen, cannot select a better part of the
world. There is as little sectional
feeling as exists anywhere. True,
there are fools here as well as every
where. but the section person comes
from, his religious opinion and politics,
will have less influence here than al
most anywhere. If person is search
ing for every spark of sectiona! feel-
ing and then devotes himself to the
task of adding fuel to it and tanning
it into flame, he of course will gen
orally succeed, but that single Incl
dent is due to the desire to prove
vicious prophecy and does not repre-
sent the true feeling. The second
bugaboo of the negro need not keep
any Woodworking man from casting
his lot with this people; they are not
worked III the factories, and they are
advancing and improving very rapid
ly, considering the long years of sla-
very, and their association with and
treatment of the whites is due TO the
way the whites treat them.
There is q great future for this sec
ton of the Union, but the magnifying
the idea of lawlessness and printing
and exaggerating every case, and leav-
ing the impression that there is a
great deal when the territory is not
considered, and a lynching in Texas
and one in Maryland are both spoken
of as in the South, as if the South was
not larger than England, is erroneous
and hurtful.
The South is rich in water power,
and in fact in all natural resources,
but especially in its men and more
especially in the class that earn their
bread by the sweat of their brow.
b. II. LACY, Com. Labor, ". c.,
In the Tradesman.