The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-08-30
ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST So 1899

between the plow handles, shove the
plane or WELD the hammer from sunup
to sundOwn, in competition with negro
! labor, employed at from three to five
dollars month, Il peek of meal and
three pounds of bacon Il week. Some
OL these pdliiJis now JuinpinS OH the
''One gal1us, wo0l-hat crowd" arc and
have been for years living ON fat saln-
ries. enjoying the cream of the land, by
the grace of tho zone gallus, wool hat
crowd" Having reached the top, thcy
now sliicll down the ladder on which
they rose to wealth and power. Such
sudden conversion to the WAYS of law
and order make one tired.
repeat, have no excuse to offer for
white Gaping" OF any other form of
Outlawry, but sometimes justification,
II not excuse, may be dug up from the
depths of poverty and the hard lines to
many worthy, poor white men. And
whenever you arraign the accused and
denounced before white Jury to be
tried for their violent and lawless
effort to break down and drive out the
competition with cheap negro labor,
you will strike Il chord of sympathy
running through the hearts of every
member of the panel, for the accused
are of their own race. SO we will con-
tinue to go through with the farce and
expense of trying to convict white men
for making raids Oh negroes. Reverse
the situation and put negroes in the
Jury box to try negroes and you would
have the same result. God Almighty
has implanted in the heart OF each race
On ineradicablc hatred against the
other, and You can no more eXpel it by
trials and denunciations and lectures
than you can change the nature or
color of each by cyclone.
The government of the United States
ought to appropriate q hundred mil
lions OF dollars and duplicate as often
as may be necessary, to assist the ne
groes in settling q colony TO themselves,
or, what would be almost RS effective.
assist them in moving to the north or
northwest. The government did this
for the Indians because they could not
live in peace with their white neigh
bors. Why not adopt the same policy
for the colored race7 The stupid, un-
ing it penal offence for an emigrant
agent to induce. negroes to leave the
State ought to be repealed, and the
State ought to pay bonus of 80 much
head for every negro who can be in
duced to go. Cheap labor is the curse
of any country. 1t may enrich few,
but the great body of the citizenship
C}tuuOU ou1cIS0 1TOIu u SCIt0 or SEMI
peonage OF starvation wages.
The landowners would be better off
if the cheap labor would get out and
make way for. on intelligent, thrifty
class of white laborers who would in
telligently. Diversity agriculture, i'm
prove the lands and make plenty and
prosperity where starvation and degra-
datiOn now hold sway.
A temporary Inconvenience might
result If the negro should go away, but
the white men Of the south would meet
the emergency and solve it with cour-
age and intelligence. The terrors
which beset the females of their fami-
lies would give place to feeling of Sc
c9rity and composure; society would
adjust itself on lines of safety and en-
lightened progress. AS it. is.. young
men are leaving the farms, seeking en-.
ployment where they avoid competi-
tion with cheap labor. Whenever they
find themselves able, heads of families
are moving to towns and villages for
better security to their families, leay-
ing the fields to vicious, ruinous ten