The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-15

: THE RACE QUESTION IN THE
. NORTH
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The south has its troubles-the negro
question, white supremacy, yellow
fever scare, immense river Overflows,
etc- The north is by no exempt
from It's own share Of sorrow and
troubles. Look at the recent awful
bufchery Of 1aborers in Pennsylvania
look at the dreadful hanging in Indi-
ana, and not for raping either. There are
~misfortunes, calamities. etc, that con-
afantly overtake the great rich north.
One of the great SORROWS of New Eng
land is the promise Of greater growth
In the south in cotton milling. it's great
advantages and the prospect Of being
still a more formidable rival of the
east. But a later calamity, amounting
to a problem needing. demanding solu-
fion, is Sambo in the public schools
From time to time in different states
the racial question bursts out in a great
flame. It has recently appeared in
Illinois at Alton, a small city. The
whites cup there" do not desire mixed
schools for both races. They have
therefore, provided special schools for
both as Is the case in Wilmington. But
Sambo is rebellious, is defiant. He
says he will not be ruled out in this
way, HI he means to go with the
white boys and girls, and will not at
tend the equally good schools provided
for him and his race, and there is
trouble There were 500 whites ac-
cording to the census Of 1890, and 681
negroes. The latter propose to dictate,
to defy TO have their own sweet way
and will. The accommodations for
blacks are just as good every way as
those for the whites, but the parents of
the negro children swear that their
kinkey beaded darlings shall go with
the white faces and straight hair or
there shall be "a rucus." They have
been striving for five or six weeks to
compass their disturbing end, but when
last heard from had not succeeded. 1t
is reported that the "negrOe threaten
10 use force, and dispatches from Alton
relate that the city is intensely wrought
up and distressing condition of affairs
i a " thC PCopAS oiA ~
send their children to the schools for
fear there will be trouble, and some Of
the teachers have been inundated by
the rougher clement of the negroes un-
til thy are afraid to go to - school
to teach. Meanwhile the negroes
maintain their stand, while the police
are guarding the white schools from
the intrusion Of the blacks"
The trouble is augmented by a state
Ynent that the Illinois law is on the
side Of the negroes. The best way is to
close the white schools until the legis-
5ature changes the law and gives the
white people some rights and privileges
III that state-the right to send their
children to schoo only open to their
own race. The New Orleans Picayune
reviewing the situation in the north
makes this apt comment:
1.-THE white people of the northern
states expended an immense amount OF
blood and money to force negro equal
ity upon the southern whites, but they
did not Scam to understand that they
were creating a monster that would In
time turn upon them and rend them.
VNOW- llGN L NAN
fact. and they will realize it more and
more"
The New Orleans paper thinks this
xonlv the beginning of The
mining and manufacturing firms Will
have more trouble. They have already
imported cheap and dangerous foreign
labor thus displacing native white Ia
bor. Tt thinks that perhaps cheap ne
gro labor from the south will supple
ment in time the Poles and
ans. It says this result will he hasten
ed by the rapidly growing competition
of the south. 1t will result it thinks in
crowding the north with cheap negro
1aborers where they will get the n
eft of the laws forcing them into social
equality with the whites. 1t Will not
NE surprising if, in the end. the great
body Of the negro population OF this
cuntry should be sent to and estab-
Iished in the northern states. The
greatest desire of the negroes is social
equality and relations with the whites,
and they will in all probability make a
desperate effort to attain it in the
northern states" E~nfranchising the
negro and interfering so much with
the south may come back upon the Of
tenders. 1.-The chickens may come
home to roost."
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turn gray, the scalp needs doctoring,
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