The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-29
COMPLAINT FROM CONNECTICUT

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 In another place The Advertiser prints an. editorial from The Hartford tConn.) Times. which is well worth reading, both for what 1t says and for the legitimate inferences 10 be drawn from 1t. It reveals a condition of affairs which Is almost unknown in the South, as yet. but which may come in future. In Hart ford 1t seems that the colored people, both male and female. either refuse to do any hard work, or do 1t with reluctance. They want easy places. and turn up their noses at real labor.
 Such a state of affairs will not exist in the South as long as the old time negroes are with us, or as long as their influence prevails. True, we have many idle negroes here in Montgomery. and Montgomery may be taken as a fair sample of most Southern towns. But while there are many more idle negroes here than should be it is fair to the face to say that greater part of the rough work in all departments of labor is per formed by colored people. They are car penters and masons. teamsters and dray- men, hostlers and hackmen, street labor CTS and railroad hands--in short they do a large part of all the physical labor that Is done. and the women as cooks, washerwomen, nurses and all other manual labor. do their fair share.
 Evidently 1t is different in Hartford and other Northern communities, and we can give The Times two reasons why 1t is so, and we must remind 1t that the people of its own section have themselves to blame for the conditions of which they complain. There has been so much said by certain Northern writers and speakers about the equality of the races. the brotherhood of man, the equal rights of citizens and all such misleading rot that the negroes in the South who read this kind of literature become filled with the Idea that they can go North and live lives of easy enjoyment and on terms of per feet equality with the whites. Then. as natural result of that false teaching, those members of the race who are un-
 
 beside the white man in all things. with out any hard labor-that is the class of negroes who emigrate from the South in search of land of ease and enjoyment.
 That these defuded people experience a rude awakening Is not a matter of surprise. They find that they are neither wanted nor welcomed. They find the door of hope" closed in their faces as 1t is never done in the South. They not only fail to find easy places and affec- donate treatment, but they find in too many cases that they are not wanted at all, either as companions or as laborers, The Times knows that in many parts of the North negroes are not wanted, and that they are not fairly treated. It knows that they are refused work and in some cases are driven out because they are willing to work. In short the working people of the North do not want and will not tolerate colored competition
 The Times knows that we speak the truth and that we are giving 1t the reasons for the conditions of which if It is much less intelligent than we give it credit for being if 1t can not sec the reasons as well as the remedy for Its troubles, even though 1t may not be willing to openly admit that we are right.