The weekly examiner., 1901-08-31
WHAT'S TO BE DONE WITH
 THE NEGRO?

l WHAT'S TO BE DONE WI n
 THE NEGRO?
 Although there was terrible san- l guinary conflict in this country near
 ly forty years ago over the status of
 the negro, and at the end of which
 1t was thought the matter was settled
 for all time. yet the question is still
 very much alive and evidently baf1es
 the wisest statesmanship amongst us
 for solution.
 In the South where the negro was
 once a slave, then so-called free
 man, he is now being disfranchised. l He isn't wanted there any more, and
 he isn't wanted elsewhere-unless 1t
 be at times by some of the captains of industry" to aid in subduing his | white brother into industrial bond
 age.
 A Southern paper speaking On the
 subject refers to number of colored people betaking themselves from Ala
 bama to Illinois a little while ago.
 Their experience although not so
 painful as that of contingent who preceded them a few years, was nevertheless decisive. They weren't allowed to enter the village for which they were ticketed, but were zheld on the cars in mortal terror for some hours, ands then notified that they had better return hornes p9or crea- tues, what else could they do? and we are left in the dark asSto how they were enabled to do that Tn this connection one of our Western
 daily papers took occasion to dilate
 on the subject in this way:-
 There Is not much room for differ ence of opinion on the one point of, the non-desirability ofS@4imported negro labor. It is bad for the blacks,
 bad for the whites, and bad3 for the industries that resort to it. There,i is prejudice against them. at the
 North, and their life here is not a desirable one. * x They are objectionable because they introduce an alien element of a low grade of intelligence, skill and morality. Con flicts with the whites and among themselves become quite common; the peace of communities is disturbed and there are scenes of lawlessness, riots, and often of murder. The negro colonies set up about Pittsburg have been hotbeds of crime, dissipa tion and ,rioting, attended with numerous killings It Is much better for the negroes toremain at their old home or in the section of country where they are best understood,
 We sometimes hear of the enamel patton of -four million of bond people by the stfoke of pen of the im- mortal Abraham Lincoln. But in reality no such event ever transplred in the history of this country. They were freed in theory but not in prac- tice. In fact many of them have been far worse off in this theoretic freedom than were they in actual i bondage. In slavery they were cared l for by master who found 1t to his 1 interest to care for them at least as we'll as he would for his horse or l other animal of service or labor, whereas in theoretfc freedom they l were nobody's children, so to speak, and were left in no position to be able to take care of themselves.
 And SO long as our civilization is 1 based on eompetive industry, with l the land on which we live and from l which we live the prompted posses sion of a few to the exclusion of the many, there will be negro question to agitate and to settle; aye, and a l white mans question just as we'll 1 In this one is inseparable from the i other.
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