The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-28
STAY SOUTH NEGRO
Here is a Word From One
of Your Leaders.
Giles Harrison Says There is Only
One Best Place for the Black Man
and That is South. Held In
terview With Governor.


the Negro Development and EXPOSE
ton Company, and who has charge of
the negro exhibit at the Jamestown
Exposition, visited Governor Glenn
yesterday. He discussed with the Gov
ernor the wonderful progress and
marvellous development of the negro
race in North Carolina, and its pres
ent condition.
Raleigh, to date, is the only city in
the State he has visited, and he has
organized the negroes here in thte
| Negro Development and Exposition
| Company. He will later visit Whining
ton, New Bern. Durham, Greensboro,
! High Point, Winston-Salem, Salisbury,
| Charlotte and Asheville, and effect
| branch organizations at those palces.
| Jackson was pleased with the sue
cess of the negroes III Raleigh, and
was delighted with the helpfulness he
| was sure the negro would receive from
| the Governor. He thinks Governor
| Glenn is q wonderful man, and said
| the colOred people of this state should
think highly of him, and believe in
| him. He ascertained that the Cover
nor would assist the negroes as much
as he could in their effort to provide
! for a creditable exhibit of their
achievements at the jamestown EX-
| position and would encourage them
all he could. He said that Governor
Glenn thought the cOlored people of
| this State were making satisfactory
| progress, but the tendency to Vagrancy
and idleness was among them, and
| he enjOined upon the representative
| leaders of the negro that they see
] to it that the negro improve and show
| his gratitude for what has been done
| for him by sticking to his work. The
| Governor told Jackson that the white
| people were heartily IN favor of Civ
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| younger negroes seem to per-
sist in idleness to such an extent, and
| refuse honorable employment to such
| a degree that the whites must take
| direct and immediate measures to
remedy the labor conditions and get
| men from elsewhere to substitute
| them, and if this comes to pass the
negro will gradually be pushed out
of all opportunities for earning live
| lihood.
| The people of North Carolina
are friends of the colored people the
Governor told Jackson, and wish them
we'll. The Governor has accepted sew
eral invitations to address the negroes
| on various occasions throughout the
state. and in all of these addresses he
! will give the negroes just such good,
| solid, hard but useful advice that will
| be beneficial to them. The Governor
| told Jackson that the representative
| leaders of the colored people could
| be of great assistance to him in bring
| ing about the right conditions.
Jackson is a colored lawyer of Rich
mOnd, and in seventeen years has ac
cumulated large fortune. He is we'll
| esteemed by the people of both races,
and is hard worker. While discuss
| ing the eternal race question yesterday
| he said there is only one place in
! America for the negro and that is the
| South. He paid a passing tribute, as
a grateful member of his race, to
North Carolina, and said that nowhere
| in the United States is a negro better
treated than mere. The negro is at
home in the South: in the North he
| is a stranger in a strange land, and
! all the use the people there have for
him is to get his money. Mechanical
pursuits in the North, he said, are de-
| MED the black man, and his burden
| is great. The ambition of a Northern
negro is to be a waiter in a restaurant,
| or get the position of a servant in
club. He cannot work as a bricklayer
or mason, mechanic of any kind, car
| pentCr nor as a common labOrcr eX-
| cept for a few months in certain parts.
| of the year, when they are slipped
out of the South, given temporary en-
| ployment, and then turned loose like
wandering children, without a home
VI IlOpC, 6Ht6pI III TIE oOulI, anu
many of them returning find that their
places have been filled, and through
their own foOlishness, are wanted no
more. It is different in the South.
He can lay brick, build q house, work
as a mechanic, and follow any trade,
calling or profession. No door of
opportunity for development and pro-
gresS is denied him.
IF the negro enjoys more privileges
in the North than he does in the
South" said Jackson lit is of such
worthless kind as going into the same
theatre with people VINO avoid them,
will not associate with them, or have
anything to do with them, their only
mutual transaction being, the negro
gives all his money to the Yankee.
His money is soon gone, and he has
nothing to do but to die or come back
South. But here he has scores of OPP
portunities for earning money that he
does not receive in the North. | am
inexpressibly happy to witness the
cheerful good feeling and peace pre-
vaiIing between the white people and
the negroes of North Carolina"