Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-07-31
LABOR ORGANIZATION.

northern states, notably Illinois, In
diana and Delaware, by the carloads,
it is now reported that an oragniza-
ion has been formed with the main
headquarters in New York and with
millions to back it, for the purpose
of inducing laborers in the south to
take up their beds and 60 to the
northern states and Canada 1t is
stated that the company will have
branches located in nearly all the
prominent western cities, such places
rs Chicago. St. Louis and other large
cities, for the purpose of distribut-
ing the negroes over that section of
the country.
1t is also stated that the company
will have headquarters for local
agents in all the prominent cities in
the south, especially in communities
thickly settled by negroes, such as
Birmingham, New Orleans, Shreve-
port and Vicksburg and other points,
and that these agents will gather up
all the negroes they can and send
them direct to some of the main dis
trlbuting points Nh9re they viii
afterwards be handled by men en-
pioyed for that purpose.
This is great scheme and it is
also great fraud. 1t has been tried
often, but it has failed every time,
and the fact that the negroes who
emigrated to Illinois and other north
ern states several years ago are re-
turning almost in body, is proof
enough that the scheme will not
work. OF course it is q money max
ing scheme, and the negroes will be
lotted out like SO many Texas cattle
to the highest bidder. The bidders
will be on the grounds by the hun
dreds, for just at present the northern
and western states are very much in
need of labor, but the negro is of
southern birth, of southern raiseing,
his whole SOUL body and blood are
acclimated TO the southern climate
and the southern sunshine and the
southern meat and bread and pot
Ticker, the persimmons, 'possums,
potatoes and the southern watermelon
and there is no other portion of the
world where he would fare so we'll
and there is no other portion where
he will live for any great length of
time. If he goes to the north he will
return at the first opportunity and
this gigantic organization is well
aware of this fact if it understands
the nature of negro. But what dc
these labor agents care. They will
work their part of the scheme, will
pocket their part of the money they
make out of it and they will not
guarantee that the negro will remain
in the north, nor do they care.
But there is antoher side to the
question. While the negro does not
belong to the southern white man il
will be seen that he is not pulled
away without vigorous kick
Without the negro labor what would
the rich plantations of Mississippi be
worth? Then the people in that Sec
tion are not going to sit still and
lave all their labor taken from them.
The negro and mule and black
gum tree know more about raising
cotton in one minute than foreign
labor could learn in year. And
besides this it is the negro's main
dependence. He knows nothing
about mining; he knows absolutely
nothing about harvesting grain by
machinery, and he could not drive a
COW on one of the big cow ranches
three hundred yards before the COW
would run over him and kill him.
The rays of the sun in the north and
in Candana, covered with ice and
snow, would freeze him the first
winter. The negro is of cold ma.
ture. He cannot stand the cold like
the white man, but the hotter the
sun the better he enjoys it. It is
stated that a right jet black mule is
the only thing that can stand more
hot weather than negro. Therefore
the cold climate of the north is SO