The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-11-03

CGlly everything, ploughs the ground, runs
the burrows, plants the corn, and throws
the earth over il, while the mar sits uT-
der a red umbrella and holds two SPIRITED
horses, to keep them from working them
selves to death: this he compared with
the colored man OF the South, ploughing
a cornfeld with a blind mule that would
travel. perhaps. a half mile an hour. Tie
old darkey would now and then with =
long pole that he had with him, belabor
the poor mule, whenever he stopped.
which he did frequently to rest. Then
every little while the harness, winch was
made of rag and leather, would require
mending. And ever and anon the olQ
darkey would pause to repair a break III
| lis one gallus. Once in a while, too,
he would have to stop and pick up a
rock with which TO hammer the old plow
together.
That was hs idea of a ~one-gallus man.
| Now what the colored people must do IS
to educate their young men 50 that they
can sit on machines under red umbrellas
| when they plant corn.
When a white man, said he, gets a job
| that used to be held by a black man, he
changes the name of it. The black maE
used TO be a barber, but the white man
hccomes a tonsorial artist. He has come
over from Europe with his brains and
skill and transformed the business. But
f! the trouble is that SO many OF our black
men are not satisfied with this sort Of
Ithing. He wants to talk about the moon,
and Jupiter, and things like that, rather
| than learn how TO be a good barber. But
he must learn to be a tonsorial artist,
too, or he would be driven entirely out
OF his old barber business.
The old darkey, Uncle Sam, used to get
all the jobs he wanted at withdrawing.
Now this is all done a great deal better,
IN new ways, by the house decorator, and
Uncle Sam can't get anything to do.
Until you in North Carolina learn to co
| these things as we'll as the white man
you cannot expect to accomplish anything.
The question is not what a man knows,
but what he can do. In this connection
lie told of visiting a certain town ana
seeing Il colored man and asking his hack
driver who he was. Hes the leadsl'
cclored man here" said he. But what
does he do, what's his occupatlon?' Now
you'se too much for me, boss" rs he u
carpenter, a brickmason? Maybe he is a
contractor, or something Of that kind.
oh, no. BOSS. he ain nothin' like dat.
He's just a leadin' colored man There
are too many leading colored men that
/ SpGuu III lutI lIhS giving doN4SN "
others. The world is getting very tired
of that kind of leading colored men.
Speaking of the large numbers of idle
negroes IN most towns, he said that the
white people were largely responsible tor
this state of affairs, for these idle darkies
derived their support for the most part
through the back doors of our kitchens.
Let the white people watch their back
doors more closely, and they will break
up this army Of idlers by stopping their
%ratIons.
On the question of economy, he said tie
trouble was very largely that the hus-
bands did not take their wives into their
confidence with relation to their business
affairs. They should tell their wives just
what their wages We're, and how they
sIent them. Do this, and they would be-
gin to save a little money. AS it was,
very few saved anything. He told d
story of 4 white man who had no money
and begged an old colored ferryman to
lend him three cents to get over the river.
The old darkey said: 1T pears TO me,
boss, dat q man widout no money is jus
as we'll off on one side of de ribber as de
| ODER And that was true of a race as
well as as an Individual. 1--WE are sup
porting those idle fellows. They don't
starve. You never saw a starving colorcn
man. We hear of starving Russians,
starving Jews, starving Armenlans. but
who ever heard of a starving negro?"
Another story he told was of an old
colored man who had a dream and IN MS
dream went TO the bad place. When lie
came back to earth he was asked what
he had seen there. There We're lots o.
black men there, and lots of white men
too. Asked what the white men Were
doing, the old man said that every white
man had a niger holding him between
him and the fire.
The negro, said Washington, had beer
Of great service TO the white man in the
past, and he was destined to be IN TIE
future, and perhaps even in the world tC
come. The only thing he feared was
that the supply of black men might give
out. This was to illustrate the point tha'
the white man of the South needed the
negro in the course of his industrial
progress and development.
Referring to the subject Of schools ant
ta he said:
There is no more suicidal policy thar
that of dividing the school fund between
the races in proportion to the taxes paid
L is true that we do not pay a very
large proportion of the taxes but W,
make it mighty convenient for someone
else to pay those taxes"
The only reference to lynching was the
following:
IF mob violence exists in the country
the black man will 60 to the cities, anG
any other race would do the same under
like circumstances"
THE MEETING.
President j. B. Dudley, of the A. and
NJ. College at Greensboro, and Secretary
of the North Carolina Industrial Associa.
ton, called the big meeting to order, ant
briefly stated its objects. The associa.
tion, he said, recognizing the great vaiu;
OF education, had set aside this day a.
. Educational Day, in charge of the Nortl
Carolina Teachers ton. with Prot
S. g.. Atkins, OF Winston, as director
He then introduced Prof. Atkins, VIII,
commenced by saying that the objects O.
: the North Carolina Teachers Associatitr
were III harmony with those of the Nortl
Carolina Industrial Association.
! Prof. Atkins said this occasion was tt.
\ effort of the colored people of the Stat.