The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-21

employing these cOlOreO 1mm1-
grants from the south are engaged in
an educational work, and are endur-
ing all the pains of the teacher while
paying the green pupil for unintelli-
gent service, too often Il find them
selves abandoned upon the invitation
OF another housekeeper to assume the
double relation of instructor and wage
payer at a higher rate"
We are persuaded that the Tins Is
well informed and looks through I'm
bleared eyes straight at SamDo and
.Dinah. 1t sees the high price of unre-
liable and unframed labor, the neces-
|sity Of giving much time to the work
of instruction and the complete indif-
ference Of the servants TO a sense OF
and responsibility They
depart in the rich north upon their
own volition without hint of purpose.
las they do down here. and the inspirer
is increased pay. They leave some
times here in quite an informal way to
Igo to a big religious meeting, attend a
funeral Of some one dead for a year or
two. or to go on an excursion. They
are also ~dreadfully addicted Ito festi-
|bules."
The Times calls on Booker Washing
ton and his fellow helpers to help the
north by sending trained hands. Ii
appeals to them "to prepare the ne
igroes for domestic seivIce." 1t says,
for instance, eff such men will but
teach the negro men to clean stables
care for horses, feed and harness and
drive them, run lawn mowers. make
and keep gardens, and also to keep en-
|gagements they will deserve onu
ments and the gratitude Of two races
If the colored women will but learn q
few things before they come to us te
demand salary, when they should pay
our wives tuition, they will be more
welcome, and wives will be at greater
liberty to devote their educational eff
forts to US and to orr children"
How they are catching it, and 81
early, too. Who would have though
it? And how this true ccou 81
clearly given, shows thai the report!
heretofore circulating as to the hes
labor in the south" gong north are no
we'll based. Doubtless some efficien
labor has gone, out the emigrants mt
the north have not averaged any bet
ter than those they have left behind
The upshot of the whole story is tina
the negro labor now is faithless, disor
| Oo ni0n1 ,nIiroiD1i~ol ;o;o.t on
valueless to a great degree. Said al
Intelligent New Jersey farmer to thi
writer, lone white man in my stat,
does the work of two North CAROLYN;
negroes, and we would not have hin
for a day" But We notice the negroes
are going into that state also. VIVA
will be done with them? They canno
compete with white labor and they
ought not to be paid as we'll! Sou,
year OF two ago a Nova Scotian cap
tain seeing negroes here loading bargel
said four white man in his land d.
easily what eight negroes here do. Blu
the north is an apt scholar at last ant
is learning things hitherto no
dreamt of in it's philosophy"
If the people of New York state be.
lieved that bumptious George White
the sable and solitary representative
in the United States house, would sue
coed in carrying his 50.09J negroes t.
that state, they would meet him and
crowd with hospitable hands tc
bloody graves" Giving an account Of
a negro parade in New Yrok city the
correspondent of the Charlotte Obser-
yer tells this and it is interesting:
The other night the EIberon Club
paraded. For the size Of the club, OF
rather for the number Of paraders, il
had the biggest escort OF police even
seen in this town. The paraders
amounted to eleven colored men an6
there were eleven other coiored mer
in the drum and fife corps-total, 2:
~'coons.' Their escort consisted of ter
policemen in front, fou.Teen behind
and more than four hundred, includiIs
detectives, along the sidawalks."
You see that Sambo Josh ar,
fully al home in New York and hugely
enjoy the "hospitalities."