The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-08-19

honest, industrious young men who
are ambitious to better their financial
condition., than TIE Alaskan gold
fields. \ late d spa'ch says:
The town IS mad. The people here
have just what it will cost TO go TO
kIondyke and stay year all down on
PAPER. No one figures on coming
back III less than IL months. Susie
nance and transportation will amount
to 1900 at lea~t, and likely $4,000.
10 really be comfortable, a person
should have $4,000.
The men are 50 excited that they
are trying to stowaway on the steamers
bound north That means that they
would arrive at Juneau without cent
and would have to be cared for 10y
others. They expect there will be a
chance for them to work their way
across the country by offering to pull
the sledge or to carry packs. But, as
they must eat, extra food must be car
RED for them, which means extra
packing and more enCumbrance.
The town is being depopulated Of
its male inhabitants, and in the exo-
dus are many prominent and lnflu-
entail men-lawyers, doctors, clerks,
bankers, leading politicians and others.
Their going away creates vacancies
and their places must be filed. The
dispatch further says:
Many of these fellows would be
better off if they would stay here in
Seattle and take the places that have
been left vacant by the hundreds of
clerks and officials that have gone
north. The vacant places these men
have left behind will be hard TO fill.
1t IS good time now tor young men
from the East to come out to find
things easy for them. Last January
there was a vacancy in the Seattle
post office, salary 500 a month, and
there were 755 applications for the
place "a hours after 1t was known.
To-day you couldn't get yellow dog
to look at 500, SO, $50 and even
$500 a month are laughed at. Salaries
| are booming and now is the time to
strike and resist the temptation to
freeze and broil on the klondike.
BEGINNING AT THE WRONG END.
Every good citizen must be oppos-
ed to lynching, but all the resolutions
that could be written against it from
now until doom's day will not put a
stop TO it. Yet it is easy enough to
stop it. Let the crime for which
lynching is resorted to stop and lynch
ing will stop of itself. And until this
| is done we may expect to hear Of mobs
taking the law in their own hands and
visiting swift and summary justice
upon hendish bru,es who commit rapes
on helpless women and children.
And negroes who pass resolutions
and preach sermons against lynching,
with never a word in condemnation OF
the awful and atrocious crime which
provokes lynching, begin at the wrong
end Of the question. Let them try
the other plan and see if it does not
show better results What the better
class of the colored people need to do
! is to create a healthy public sentiment
among their race against these heinous
crimes, not to show sympathy for the
| criminal as is often the case.
Writing along this line the Able
vile IS. c. Press amt Banner says:
y large meeting of colored people
in Columbia recently passed a long
string Of resolutions asking the Gov
ernor's Intervention to save members OF
their race from lynching. But there
was not word of condemnation Of
the cause that leads to lynching. The
| trend of the resolutions seemed to be
in excuse or palliation of the crime
of assaultng helpless women. The
authors Of the resolutions want the
criminals to have a chance 10 escape
in the courts. TO stop the lynching
of negroes is just as easy as falling off
log. In the negroes themselves
and in them alone, lies the power of
arrestlng the work of those who mete
out justice TO the criminals who assault
women. If they refrain from violence
all lynChngs would cease. The Gov
ernor is powerless to stop the lynching
of negro men who lay violent hands
on white women. No one has yet
| committed that crime and lived, and
we presume that no future offender
Will be more lucky than his predeces-
sors. If the negro leaders would use
proper effort, it is not unlikely that
| they could induce their young men to
refrain from violence. The resolutions
of the Columbia negroes may embold-
| en- evil hearts. If SO, the crime will
surely be punished.
The Elizabeth City Economist of
last week notes the death at his home
in that place of Hon. Chas. &. Pool.
He was an eN-judge of the Superior
Court and was an able and estimab,e
gentleman. Deceased was IS years
old.
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