The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-09-28
NEGROES NORTHERN FRIEND.
Sympathy at a Distance and Treat
ment When the CoIored Tlan Comes
In Contact
Charlotte ObServer.)

Seven negroes who left their homes
in the South to earn a living by hon
est work in the mines at Carterviile,
Ill.,, were shot, Sunday. 1t appears
from the report that the negroes, all
being armed and feeling themselves
in the majority, started the row, but
that is characteristic of the negro
with which the South has long been
acquainted. In the depots and in
railroad cars, the negro, whenever he
finds himself in the majority is apt to
prove offensive by overbearing con-
duct. The Southern people are used
to this sort Of thing and have borne
it in patience day by day for years.
They know the negro's failing in this
respect and they have quietly sub
mitted to it.
The negro, however, makes a mis-
take when he tries it on the Northern
people, as experience has shown. He
has been welcomed in Pana with
Wlnchesters as more expeditions
implement of determination than the
rope, and at Carterville, he is shot
down in cold blood simply because he
tried to reduce the surplus of white
miners. This slaughter of negroes
"took place" we are told, Tin front
of Mayor Zimmerman's house, and in
full view of several ladies seated on
the porch" 1t must have been a
bigger show to the residents of this
Illinois town than a bull fight.
I'M OnSIU tho
corded the few negroes VINO have
invaded the North in search OF work,
should prove lesson to the race in
the South. 1t is certainly rebuke
to that portion of the Northern press
that is eternally harping on negro
outrages in the Southern States
The South swarms with negroes
The North has had but few of them
to experiment upon, but so far as it
has gone, it has done it's business
nobly. The negro exterminators of
the South have been put to shame by
the work in Illinois and Pennsylvania
III the past two years, and there is a
greater difference, too, in the cause.
In the South, with its teeming col
ored population, the negro is often
put to death by mob law, but for one
crime ohlv-a crime that would not
for 4 nome 1t he tolerated in any
Northern community; but let the
negro invade Northern State in
search of honest labor; let him come
into competition with the white labor
there, and he falls before the Win
chester. He is not strung up for the
crime of assault, for that crime could
not be common in the North until the
negro should be there in sufficient
numbers to embolden him to it's per-
petratlOn, but he is shot down for
the simple crime of seeking to make
living by digging in the coal mines.
This is the result of a few negroes
going North in an experimental way
What would happen to the colored
race should any considerable number
of them move North is easy to guess.
WE have read with painful interest
an article in the Charlotte Observer
by III. f. c. Bryant, which is mainly
collaboration of letters from per-
sons who have insane relatives, to
DIR. Murphy of the State Hospital for
the insane at Morganton. seeking to
get them into the hospital for treat
ment. There are on file applications
for fully 300 insane people, fully half
| of whom should be in the hospital.
but none OF whom are. simply be-
cause there is not room to accommo-
date them These letters are heart
rending-from husbands pleading for
treatment for their wives, parents
| for children and children for their
parents. All to no purpose. The
| hospital management cannot take
them simply because it has no where
to put them and the Legislature OF
| the State has failed to make any
| provisions for increasing the efficiency
| OF the institution. 1t is burning,
everlasting. shame that it has not
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