The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-08
Th Wessenger.
EO6TTiUMS AND NANTES FOR
THE SOUTH

-A~N-&Ar nAIc"o ClC . tAbAA al NAI~
northern newspapers combined, is made
Mighty probable by what he writes and
publishes, and what through the years
past the newspapers nave published.
To study conditions and understand
negro character and habits you must
either be reared among among them
or have lived long in contact and OBJ
with them. The Messenger
has referred to Booker W~ashington's
recent letter to The New York indie
pendent, the surviving, old, able abo-
shicn organ. The New York Evening
Post is edited by an able, scholarly
esnghshman. 1t is evidently impressed
by what the president of the negro
zchooI at Tuskegee, Alabama, says of
mis- race I'm the south. We copy a
paragraph:
Prof. Booker t. Washington, the
head of the Colored Industrial College
at Tuskegee, Ala, has just contrib
uted a most interesting and significant
article to The Independent, and it is
worthy Of note that he does not find
Sire negro improved after more than
thirty years Of freedom. On the con-
erary, he finds the race, taking it as a
whole, less respectable and less efficient
Rhan it was under slavery. There are
cases lin which c0IOred men have ac-
quired a Snowy and more or less useful
education, but the masses of the col
ored people have not advanced in any
important respect"
The north has been bothering the
country with its disturbing views of the
negro question ever since it very fool
EshIy ard maliciOusIy ave the ballot to
She freed negroes, as it worried and
disturbed the country prior to the war
by its intermeddling, it's fanatical pol
icy. IFS war upon the south because of
slavery, and tina in the face Of the
fact that the negroes were introduced
into our country by yankee slavers, and
afterwards sold to the southern people,
when it was found that the frigid New
England climate was unfavOrable to
She African, and his labor was not
profitable.
Now the north-New England-is
worried over the cotton manufacturing
problem. A few years ago it ridiculed
and spurned the idea of southern COM
petition. and Edward Atkinson and
NHG OLneT economic WlSeacreS up
there proved most conclusively (to
eheir own satisfaction hat the south
was nO-man's-land, and that such a
d-forsaken country could never
rival or ever threaten remotely the
supremacy of the saints" in that well
favored and long blessed section where
tihe Almighty Dollar" was worshipped
EIII UVO6re fortunes were AZ common
as leaves.
But, behold! a change has been
wrought, and wonderful things have
been accomplished in southland, and
all the cool-headed men of affairs are
uow-wowing over the outlook, and all
ann of suggestions and theories are
offered as to causes and remedies.
They are multitudinous. A little while
ago they said in chorus that protection
was the thing. But, 10 with very
much of this robber system the milling
business languishes and there are
sroans as well as much suffering
among the 100, 900 idle or cut-Wages
1t was said next that the
dong hours did the work for the south
and gave it advantage. The cry was
let congress compel the south to con-
form TO the New England hours for
Xxi Then the knowing New Eng
lander rejoiced that the operatives IN
Eoa1thern mills were incompetent and
could not compete with New England
w~orkingnen. Some how they have
learned that the south's operatives do
good work and a great deal of 1t.
The last dodge we nave seen. af-
ter s1rrendering many theories and
plans. is to compel the south by law
TO work on ines that prevail IN the
east-in gracious, benignant and gem
erous New England. The mercy OF
some people is more affective some
Zines thar the seventies of others. Inc
south prays to be delivered from the
Gender mercies of the New England
manufacturing philanthrop.st. Selah!
We see The following, taken from a
qualifications, we suppose in New Eng
land. called The Gunton Institute
Bulletin" 1t is discussing protection
and the Cotton Industry We suppose
the aim is to force the south to take
4.protection'-a high war tariff-as
New England has sought it and oo-
taired 1t. Here is h policy for tine
south as given in that precious 'Bui-
ye4in" of Yankedoodledom: All we can
de ia TO direct our protective policy to-
wards the opportunities Tor the srO"uh
OF this social condition. At least We
ought to insist and must insist Una
che opportunities that can be reached
10y legislation in the south SHAH be m
Eire with the east"
That is the very refinement or cruel
Nv 1t so commends to the lips or the
x,aIthful south the bitter ingredients
chat have poisoned the fountains OF
MEOW ENGLAND prosperity and taken the
-.a1+L Prn7o, thn nnpra tiVpS.