The age-herald., 1897-11-14

1 land, very choice dn this most favored region, well timbered, we'll watered Is the tract, convenient, too, to land and water highways of commerce.. Mrs. Ray sees "terTtble consequences that have coms ito white and blacks by promiscuous fn- tereourse without any one @ to control. l"
 Thus, in full view of Tho one to con- trol" the good woman made known her discovery to the Englishman who had given the Princess of Wales $125s00O to buy a dinner for London children. those who had none the day before the queen's jubilee and have had none since that day.
 The London poor, however, are an Eng fish institution. Mir. Ldpton is deeply interested nthe negroes around Decatur. Gen. Joseph Wheeler gets a postoffice for the colony. WIT. Milton H. Smith gets depot and side track for it and Mrs. Ray will put in s1O,OOO as an industrial fund.
 To be abrupt the gratuitous assump- ton put forward dn this instance, that the negro race Is capable of better things than a1is environment here to1er- ates dn him, is direct if not malicious libel Forty years ago William Lloyd Garrison. sef-appointed high priest of negro advancement in the south. said if God omitted longer to take a direct hand in the emancipation movement then God is a scoundrel." Margaret Fuller, his co-laborer, expressed the sem timent that delay dn emancipation of southern slaves was due to the need of the times for "a new Christ"
 Since emancipation, all in the period Flf a cinp-lQ hes S,f negro has bean successively committed to the Freednan's bureau; to seven years military rule of the old slave states; to three socalled constitutional amand- ments; to the civil rights act of congress; to the division of the Alabama school fund, etc. All in vain, according to Mrs. Ray and the founders of Cedar Lake.
 Incidentally 1t may be mentioned, that or recent years the government has ex- pended several millions of dollars in the vicinity of Decatur on canal work. All the common labor employed there was negro labor gathered from the com munlty, as far as possible. At least 300 negro men had the opportunity pre- scented in their wage earnings to save a small fortune.
 Gen. Joseph Wheeler and family own many thousand of acres of agricultural lands, in the vicinity of Decatur, so dasir- able that an intelligent farmer would chose them almost above any others for dncome and home. Negro tenants on conditional and low rents, occupied these lands for many successive years with opportunity to pursue successful farm- dng far beyond the average farmer of the west CT Europe
 The late Austin Corbln, F. ". Dun ton and some other Wall street men, something over twenty years ago invest ed in some 20 900 acres of the most fam ous cotton land in the world, lying in Chlcot county, Ark. l was an eye-wit- ness to the experiment in practical oper- alton. Every tenant was a negro. No outlay convenient to a cotton farmer was withheld. The failure, after fifteen years support, was ignomnous.
 The Avondale cotton mill was built in the main by negroes, the timber cut at the saw mill and the brick made by ne- groes The steam laundries do not em- ploy negroes, there are no negro train conductors Jor engineers, because nature draws the line at the race limit. The race limit ifs God-fxed.
 Alabama must and will take the race question in hand. Fanatfclsm will be left out, but white men can and will give negroes good government. We are passed over and beyond the sentimental endurance of a conquered people.
 Cedar Lake has been allotted a part of the Alabama public school money. Booker T. Washington, as state super intendent of negro schools, with arbitrary control, almost and using negro tax money only will give great impetus to negro education and relieva the white schools of the disgraceful incubus of a divided white school fund.