The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-09-18
TIE EDITORS LEISURE HOURS.
Points and Paragraphs Of Things
Past, Present and Future.

! 1t is gratifying to learn from farm
ers here and there that they arc plan.
olng to Sow wheat in this region more
extensively than formerly. 1t does
seem that almost every farmer could
sow a few acres OF lard in wheat and
realize good profit from it. A farmer
said to-day that his observation and
experience lead him to believe that
wheat is good crop for stock. Ho.~ ~es
do well on wheat and he said that With
the proper care an acre of land will
produce as much in wheat as In corn.
This is the season of the year for farm
ers to commence planning for a wheat
crop. 1t ought to be planted reason
ably early.
There seems to be deep laid plan in
tie Fifth district to defeat WV. .kltch-
III for Congress. At first it was sent
5ut through the papers that Mr.. l.. d.
say Patterson had declined to & capt
the nomination as an indepeno at
! candidate for Congress agains: Kitchln,
but it transp!res that later he accepted.
Hon. w. w. Kitchin bas been up IN
Maine doing some good work Tor De-
;nocracy. Hon. E. w. Puo has also
oeen campaigning In the "Pine Tree
State," and The News ard Observer
makes the following comments ON their
work
The vote of Names Republican
Governor is II, ,153 less that two years
ago. That's What Will KitcEin's and
Ed Pcu's speeches did fer the Radicals
in Maine. live could spare them to
Maine for whole campaign and the
people would go out to hear them,
Maine could be brought into the Dem
2cratic column"
The following which app cared il
The Biblical Recorder recently is we'll
worth reading.
cit was stated that 10000 negroes at.
tended the recent Race Congress in
Atlanta. We carefully examined the
reports Ct the speeches. It seems to
US that one might haye given worlds
to be thare and to speak compeliingly
one message to the co!ored people.
Their leaders seem never to know.
They talked about the status of the
race. They took stock of the public
advancement OF the race. They were
much concerned, every one Of them,
to he leaders. Every negro that wants
any thing appears to want to lead-to
be a great preacher or politician.
Their thoughts are all bent this way
And they talk to the race as if they
expected every one OF them to be
"leaders."
They overlook a great fact. It is
this: The average negro must serve.
Only few can lead, and they must
lead men who serve, and they must
lead them, if any progress shall be
achieyed, into better service, not out
OF it.
The negroes do not care to serve
each other. They aspire to lead each
other; they must serve the white
people. No NATTER about theories,
this is the truth. The negro must
serve the white race or die. This
is his mission in America, and will be
until all people now living shall be
dead and forgotten-yes, forgotten.
hhe negro must perform the lower
grades of service. Cook, washer
women, hcstler, janitor, hand. This
is true as truth can be. And in light
of it this great conference fooling
about relation to the white man, social
progress, religious standing and poll
tical condition, is most pathetic and
Iudicrous. The line of the negro's
advancement lies along progress in
cooking and other such work. What
did the Conference do to give the
world intelligent and onest and skill ]
fu! cooks, nurses, buffers and hands?
That is the big question. That Is
the real question. The negroes in con-
ference are preachers, teachers, politi-
clans, leaders. And they are preach
ing to and teac.i ing and leading only
themselves standing off and haying a
a big time while the negro race back
at home cooks miserab'y and the white
r.