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

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 a month, Il peck of meal and
three pounds of bacon week. Some
of these patriots now jumping on the
-gallus, wool-hat crowd" are and
have been for years living on fat sala-
ries, enjoying the cream OF the land, by
the grace of the conc galluS, wool hat
crowd Having reached the top, they
now ellicl down the ladder on which
they rose to wealth and power. Such
sudden conversion to the ways Of law
and order make one tired.
Irepcat, I have no excuse to offer for
"white Gaping OF any other form of
0utlawry, but sometimes justification,
if not excuse, may be dug up from the
depths of poverty and the hard lines to
which cheap negro labor have plunged
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,
Won will strike 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 on negroes. Reverse
the situation and put negroes i'll the
Jury box to try negroes and you would
have the same result. God Almighty
has implanted in the heart OF each race
an ineradicable 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 hundred mil
lions of dollars and duplicate as often
as NAV be necessary, to assist the ne
groes in settling colony to themselves,
or, what would be almost as 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 race? The stupid, un-
tenable law on our statute books max
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State ought to be repealed, and the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 so much
q 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
cannot emerge from q state OF semi
peonage of starvation wages.
The landowners would be better of
if the cheap labor would get out and
make way for an 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-
dati0n 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,
curity 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 competl-
ton with cheap labor. Whenever they
find themselves able, heads Of families
are moving to towns and villages Tor
better security to their families, leay-
ing the fields to a vicious, rt1n0us ten