The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-21
WILMINGTON. n. C.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1898.
AN IMPORTANT MOVEMENT FOR
WILMINGTON

mere is a STEADY growing SenIIuueHL
in the south to give the white men a
chance. Heretofore they have been
Disseminated against. The Messenger
called attention TO the fact as 1t ap-
plies to Wilmington several weeks ago.
The worthy, Industrious white labOring
men have had good reason to complain
of the favoritism shown often to ne
gro labor. This was unfair and unjust
to the whites 1t is to be hoped that
the whites will not be found again
showing an unjust preference for Sam
bo while men of their own race stood
with folded arms out Of a job and un-
able to secure one. A man owes it to con
sistency and humanity as we'll as to
his race and best interests to be favor
able to the white men in business as
we'll as in elections Do not punish the
true white man and reward with your
favors the black man who has uni
formly sought to injure o and cripple
your interests at the polls That is
neither good philanthropy nor good
Judgment There is nothing in the
Scriptures to authorize the policy and
practice of rewarding those who an
tagonize and misuse you and to neg
lect and injure those whose interests
are identical with our own and who
vote as you vote and have the same
skin Do not act that way, for it is
the wrong way.
The other day the Messenger report
ed the proceedings of a meeting held
in this city concerning the Labor Bu-
reau question, one of really much i'm
portance and destined to increase n
magnify itself. 1t is n of the ques-
lions that will not down. 1t was stat
ed in our local columns that the meet
ing held was the most important &C
ton taken in the city for many years.
We so regard it, for upon it hangs
much of the true interests and we'll
being of a considerable portion of our
whites. The fact that the Labor Bu-
reau's action does not look to temper
airy life but to permanency gives signlfl-
cancy and force to the movement. The
probability is that the ultimate result
of the stand taken as to labor here
will be a complete change in the COM
munity and out of it will accrue bless
ings and benefits to a large number OF
whites. 1t will be found to affect our
town materially, for when the class
of labor is changed from an unsaving
to a saving class, and men begin to
prosper from their toll, then there Will
be more of general prosperity and the
building up of Wilmington will begin
in earnest.
When conditions have changed, and
it is known in the north that we have
a white mans government, honest and
faithful, and white laborers are favor
ed, and it is no crime to be a real white
man, then capital will come seeking
1uuiClOuS Investment, ;"
will spring into life, a great stimulant
will be given to old industries, business
will broaden and reach out, settlers OF
the right kind will come in and Will
mington will so grow and flourish that
in ten years it will seem a new town,
so renovated and enlarged will 1t be.
1t will read like a fable then when the
page tells of the time of negro bossing
and negro sauce and the perils that
attended it all. There will come then
to bad white traitors 10 more POSSIBLE
titles to convert the city into a great
habitation of negroes. Ladies leaving
for mountains and watering places
will not be asked there as this last
. summer-"So you are from Whining
ton. the place where the negroes rule,
\ ETC."
What a relief. What a change!
What a growth! What a marvellous
transformation! A city Of busy men
and m a great majority whites
Not then will you see hundreds of lazy
negroes lounging around and parading
the streets. 1t will be a white town, a
town of the Rulers of Races and not
a kind of Ashantee or Negrodom.
Here is a pointer. A large colony OF
whites had selected a body of land
near our city and were actually about
to come and settle among us, when they
sent a scout in advance, and when he
came and saw and wondered, finding
the ubiquitous Negro in charge, he a
once advised the settlers o to com
here. and they did not come.
Who can say that they did not act
wisely? They were white folks ant
they did not propose to become theil
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