The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-06-27
THE NEGR0lN THE NORTH.

THE NEGRO IN THE NORTH
The negro must begin to realize
that il he lives in peace and qule',
and fellows any business or ealing
for a living. the South istheplace LOT
him. Here he i among his real
friends and here he can labor unmo-
Tested and make an honest hveh-
hood. Those at the North VINO nave
been so profuse with theirProiess'onS
of friendship for the negro, VINO
have offered him a peaceful home
among them and who have SAID SO
many hard thing of the South as TO
it's treatment OF the negro, have not
protected him when he has lett his
home in the South and settled
among them. They have not only
failed to give him employment, but
they have failed to protect HIM at
his labor when employment has been
given him. This is clearly shown 10y
the treatment a cOlored man received
the other day ut Howells, Indiana,
which was told by special IN the
New York Sun from Indianapolis, as
follows:
When the interurban ear from Evans
Vile 10 Howells reached the latter place
last night and was found 10 be IN charge
Of a negro conductor named George Je-
rome a dozen armed men boarded the
car and gave him an unmercliul beating.
They ordered him not to attempt To-
run a car into the town again.
Jerome was not accused OF any oiisnse
bnt was glad TO give up his job. The
company SAYS il will not employ negro
conductors again.
The beating OF the negro created greai
excitement and men patrOiled the street
declaring war on the colored race. Near
midnight three other negroes were
fonpd hidden in the railroad yards and
they were set upon, and all OF them more
or less injured with stones and sticks ID
the hands of the whites.
The people seemed beside themselves
with rage. but no one could assign an!
reason, except that no negroes were
wanted in the town.
We have had no such treatment oil
the negro in the South as we have IN
the above account. II is true We
have had no negro conductors OF
cars. but if we did, the public would
not resort TO violence; their protest
would be shown only in declining to
ride on that particular car 50 long
as it was managed by colored con-
ductor. In the South the negro Is
employed, not only a. farm hand
but as school teachers OF their own
color, carpenter, brick-mason, black
smith. wheelwright, teamster,
house servants, cooks, buffers.
nurses. and for almost any kind OF
work the whites have to do, and
when they prove faithful and efficient
they are we'll paid and protected.
That is not the case in the instance
above cited. Jerome had done no
harm, yet he was numerically beat
en- because he had accepted the place
OF conductor.
The other three negroes were bru-
tally beaten for no other reason than
that they were colored. The colored
population of the town was given
notice to leave the town because no
negroes were wanted there. But
this is not the worst. The colOred
man must not only notice this treat
nent OF his race in a Northern State
with surprise, but he must witness
the lynching of members OF his race
in Indiana and Illinois by hanging
and shooting for slight offences. .
which in the most lawless part OF the
Soulful we have in lawless places
would be punished by the courts OF
the land. And added TO these hOr-
rors, Wilmington, Delaware, now .
startles the country with the intelli-
gence that a mob OF two thousand
men took the negro White from the
work-house, where he was lodged for
safe keeping, and burned him at the
stake, after which his body was rid
died with bullets.
Thus the colored man will see that
negros are shot, hung and burnt in
the North for offences, il committed
in the South where he was raised, he
would have courts to mete out justice
to him and able counsel to defend him.
He will also see that his race is de
MED the privilege of laboring in some
localities in the North, whereas in
the South he is as free to labor as
the white man and is protected in his
labor.