Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-12-28
EMIGRaNTS FOR THE SOUTH.

South Carolina, made recently, ID Inc
beginning Of a great era. Unless the
powers that be become alarmed and
force an opposite policy it is the begin
ming of the end of negro labor In the
South
1t is we'll known that all the emil
grsnts heretofore have been settled
in tie North and the West. This was
o bvious when the agents sent to Eu-
rope blackened all that portion of the
map where negro labor abounds. The
Immigrant was warned on bis life not
to go there because he was told the
negro is dangerous He would muir
der and burn, the females were never
safe, and children might expect to be
devoured by cannibals in those States.
Immigrants therefore could not be
induced to 60 South for love or mon
ey. They would abont as soon have
rlsked themselves in Darkest Africa. !
Then too our immigrant laws were
against any movement Of the kind now
beginning, because of the construction
placed on them by those in power. The
great tide flowed into New York with
out effort, but being warned out OF
the South there was no turning OF
them that way. The States OF the
South therefore found themselves COM
PEELED to take steps. South Carolina
did this. Virginia has sent her officers
abroad, and when success seemed as
sured the United States stepped In and
said mo" The negro has grown al
most worthless in the South. Apart from
bis vicious nature, his laziness, aud
lack of thrift. coupled with constant
increase In criminality have caused the
masses to refuse regular employment
and disdain regular work. II they
work and are paid off at the end of the
week, not 25 per cent. of them show
up for work ON the folio wing Monday
morning.
Our Northern friends do not seem
to know that nobody down here ever
enters into a written contract with a
negro to work for q certain time. at
certain price. Why? Because no ne
gro ever lives up to it, and no one
ever thinks of compelling or trying to
compel him to- They have no sense
of such an obligation-in fact they
seem to have no sense of any obliga-
ton. They drop spade or shovel,
they walk out of a kitchen just when
they please. and offer no apology. The
cooks generally feed from one to five
persons out of the back door of the
white mans house for whom they
work, and they no more regard that as
breach of good faith than they do
that it is in any sense criminal, in
deed 1.-THE preachers" are said to en-
courage them In such conduct. We
know that these preachers often tell
their fiocks not to work too long In any
house. TOO much like goin back
into slavery" they say. The tendency
to commit outrages on white women
by negroes is so great that If contin-
| ued must drive them out, but of course
some one must take their places. They
would long ago have been driven out
had there been other labor. No peO-
pie on earth would have stood the hor-
rors of the Reconstruction period the
more modern indignities of negro SER
wants. the dangers of negro criminals
as the people of the South have done,
had there been anything better to fly
to. But they submitted to 1t all be
| cause they could In way handle
them. They are the only people who
understand their natures and can con.
troll them. 1t required heroic means
at times, but whenever 1t became es-
sentiaI they have never faItered. At
lanta taught lesson recently and 1t
has been Statutory. No Outrages on
white women have occurred since. So
will lessons be taught whenever and
wherever it becomes absolutely neces
sary. This order of Secretary Straus
opens the ports of the South to white
emigrants. When they once start they
will come rapidly. They are hungry
to get here, and the people here are
hungry for them. They cannot be
worse than the labor we now have.
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The Pocahontas, w. Va, Times ad-
vocates working Jail birds" on the
public roads-not because it Is profit
BILE, for it may not be, but as a deter
rent to persons committing such
crimes as are punished by jail senten-
ces. Now the Jail il q snap. They
dance. sing, play the fiddle, play cards
and have a nice time. A ball and
chain, and a shovel or pick in hand,
would change this sunshine to cloudy
weather, and do much, the Times
thinks, toward lessening the number
reposing in the dungeon vile" which
by the way is full to OVERLOOKING. The
chain gang in StauntOn has kept many
n offender outside the corporate linn
its, and consequently outside the Jail
lust at this Time
Man wants but little here above
| Our whirling planets core.
But woman wants the contents of
A whole department store.
| 500 Reward 800
The readers of this paper will be pleas
ed to learn that there is at least one