Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-08-19

OhH HAA W. soy mAs AN~
Apologist, that they should be
more conservative. You want to
induce capital and additional eitii
zenship to the state Of Mississippi,
that our natural advantages may
be developed. or course it signi
aes naught that you in another
breath insist that to elect a radical
means that all the labor will be run
out Of the state.
Well, the two propositions will
not blend. II industrial advance
ment is TO come, it FAUST bring
with it skilled white labor and
that means that the ignorant ne
gro must he pushed into sections
not aferted by industrial enter
prises aud herded to till the soil
along. He cannot work in the
same factories with skilled white
labor. He is not so doing today
in any portion of the nation.
Now, really isn't there more po-
litical claptrap in all your preten-
tiOns than thought or sound sensei
Listen, just a moment: You
will never induce a single citizen
from any other portion Of the
United States to locate in Mississ-
ippi whose citizenship you would
welcome, by any step toward
equality between the races, social
and political. The negro is
known now throughout the coun-
try. They are killing them in In
diana, Ohio, New York, Missouri,
Washington, Kansas and Michigan
for the same offenses that Mississ-
ippians kill them. They are even
more cruel than any Gississippisn,
In that when they are aroused by
some black fend, they III not sat
isfed by killing the culprit, but
proceed to drive from their homes
even the peaceful negroes that
happen to reside in their midst.
This is foOlhardy; and yet it is no
more than may be expected since
the President Of the United States
in his official attitude, offers to
the negro an absolutely unattain'
able boon, and is seconded in his
silly course by public officials and
aspirants for such in Mississippi,
Sometimes we are persuaded
that, while the Southern people
undoubtedly understand the negro
better than can the people of any
other section of the country, and
treat him better in the rightiu.
position he should occupy, they
do not grasp as fully as they
should the real race question, th'
final solution Of which must b
made by them, il the negro is Il
be given justice and fair treatment
Perhaps this is due to the fac
that the people of the South hav,
always had the negro with them
and have grown careless.
We would not be unfair with tn,
negro. The better enlightened
members OF the race who have
come in closest touch with as un
derstand this fact. We believ.
T they should be protected in ever.
legitimate persuit Of q livelyhOO'
and the fruits Of their toll. w
will venture the assurtiOn nov
that nine-tenths Of the Processes
friends OF the negro in the presen
campaign In this state, have dis
. honestly, in days gone by, figures
; the negroes with whom they hav
had business relations, out Q
more than their present asset
wonld invoice. We believe tina
the best thing possible for th
5 negro, as a race, is the most rad
ical position that he shall renal
in the place God intended him {
occupy, with the philanthropy
: white man as his protector an
. guardian, but not, by any means
0 as his robber and his destroyer
. But there is one thing the negr
0 never entirely RECEIVERS from as
mass, for the scheming blathel
q akitaa amonC than will not Del