The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-29
NEW YORK TRIBUNE ATTACKS THE
SOUTH.

The INDIANAPOLIS chambermaid who
refused to AXE care of the hote! room
occupied by that educated refined.
g~entlemanIy and eminent citizen or
Alabama. Booker T. Washington, Is re-
ceiving tribute from the sort OF people
whom We should expect to admire that
6ind of "~SeIf-reSpect.' In the list of
subscribers for her benefit we should
OOk To- find the name of Senator F. Nj.
Simmons. who at the North Carolina
society dinner on Wednesday night eX-
planned that the whole duty of n ne
gro was to be '~harneSSed to the mule
1t has beer supposed for years that
part of the duty of the negro when the
white man went off fighting to keep
the negro in slavery was to stay on
the plantation and protect The White
women and children. and we Eever
heard of a single negro who was false
to that trust-New York Tribune.
Yes the negroes did stay IN the plan
tatiOns and protect the white women
and children While their masters were
u the army. They did their work well.
They deserved great credit for their
faithfu1ness during those awful times
and the white people of the south have
always given it to them n fulI meas
AISs IL a ILOL d4IN4A liz - PONDSo
ger from the north and the southern
scalawag began their crusade Of devil
try among them along political lines
that the negroes changed in their feel
ings and sentiments toward the south
ern whites. But for these two classes
of pests which inflicted their presence
upon the sOuth in reconstruction days
and for such vile language il the
northern press as that above quoted
from The Tribune, there never would
have been any breach between the ne
groes n the white people and the
have continued to exist and the many
d~eplorable race conflicts which we're
forced upon US would never have oc-
CURED.
The Tribune. after slurring at this
white girl. who. While employed N a
hotel for white guests. refuses to take
care of the room occupied by 4 negro.
and those who commend her course.
goes on IL say that nobody asks social
equality for the negro. What is that
paper in this same editorial doing but
approving OF social equality I'VE
the races and vilifying those who Will
not put-up with it?
1t is hardly necessary to say shat
Senator Simmons in his address refer
red 10 made no such declaration as that
attributed TO him by The Tribune. Mr..
Simmons in speaking Of the new V
ment for industrial education mons
h negroes asked:
When the negro mind shall have be
come infamed with the idea that he
can best work put his destiny in The
shop and in the mill and the factory.
and tens OF thousands of negroes shall
have become skilled Iaborers where,
I ask. Will they find work TO do?
Will the captains OF industry at the
north throw upen the doors Of h
great establishments TO them III col
Elaboration with their white employees
or in some instances to their exclu-
sion7'
These questions The Tribune does not
attempt to answer. 1t knows Well
that the comparatively few skilled ne
gro workmen now at the north find
gr-at difficulty in securing employment
that in many places they are barred
out entirely. There was much for Sc
rlous thought in Senator Simmons