The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-05-02

: S00uS oTAV 40 olu WOTtu ana per-
suade and subsidize forei xners to
immigrate to this section 81 I the
country, West Virginia II trying 40
add to its Negro emigrants from the
: South. The coal fields OF that state
! need men to develope them and
those Negroes who have gone there
are proving to be such satisfactory
| laborers that the employers are anx-
, tous for others to come, Z, ..,. -
The advantages of the state over
those further South are being p0ifi-
| ted ont by those Interested. Among
| thtse they mention the following:
| Though the state has Negro popu-
lation Of less than 80. 900, three
schools are supported directly by ap-
preparations from the state; the pub
lie schools for both races have the
same curriculum. run for the same
period and the teachers receive the
same amount Of pay; no "jim crow"
cars, no dtsfranchisement: wages
range from 81 to So per day and
property for homes is cheap; pay day
every two weeks and the men are
paid IN cash, not being compelled to
| spend their money at the Company's
store; lodge halls and churches are
furnished by the mining companies:
men not wanted, as strike breakers,
but for permanent employment, and
| the o1er Is made to furnish trans
portation from any portion of the
country. ..,I.c
| Some OF the advantages, and we
haven't named them all, may be tho
e1aggerations of the. "labor agent !"
but be that as it may, the signifi-
| canoe OF the fact that other sections
OF the country are asking for the Ia
Dor Of that happy-go-lucky fellow
who SO often works at almost starva-
ton wages, and that they want him
as q permanent citizen, can not be
mimimtzed. Some day, we fear, the
South will awake to the fact that
while chasing the chimera of immi-
grafton and low wages and going
into spasms over the fear or social
equality. It has allowed the best la
Dor In. the world to drift from It's
confines. .. :
We hasten to corroborate the adj
vantages mentioned In the editorial
above. FIRST. because West Virginia
Is mentioned and, second, because
the advertisement which gave rise, to
1t appeared in the columns of this
paper. We wish to assure the edi-
tor Of the Globe, and all others inter-
ested that every word of that ad-
Vertisement is true. and that the pic
true Is not overdrawn.
For its, humane. Industrial and
educational institutions West Vir-
ginia contributed four years ago the
Following amounts for the West Vir-
ginia Colored Institute $53,82o.
Bluefeld Colored Institute $780,
90; Storer College 100000; for
colored deaf and blind pupils ST.
10000; West Virginia Orphans
Home and Industrial School $780,
90; Industrial Home for Girls $11.-
10000: a total of $136,OO0.O0. ;
TWO years ago the appropriations
amounted, to $11S,358.41, distribu-
ted as follows: West Virginia Col
ored Institute: $50. 608.4f:' Bfueflefd
Colored Institute $32,55O.OO; West
Virginia Orphans Home and Iw1us
trial school 100000; storer Col
| lege 100000; building at West
Virginia Asylum for colored patients
$4,000; for colored deaf land
blind pupils 100000; building for
girls at Girls Industrial School
$4,5O0.OO.
The legislature Of 1907 appropria-
ted for the West Virginia Colored
Institute $54, 150.OO; Bluefeld Col
ored Institute $17.90O.OO; West jVtr-
ginia Orphans Home 100000.
Storer College $3,0O0.O0; for colof
ed deaf and blind $2.0O0.00; tota,
Of $81, 100000. This was an appre-
cable falling off from the appropria-
| lions OF previous sessions due to the
fact that the institutions above-men-
Toned were then passing through the
! formative period and large sums were
needed for buildings.
Passing on to the district public
schools, our minimum Term is six
| months for white and colored
schools and the teachers salaries
are the same in both, forty, to fifty
dollars per month
Although we are all but surroun-
ded by Maryland with her "jim
crow cars, Virginia, rank with rail-
| road discrimination, and disfrancfi-
sement, and Kentucky, where the
cars are marked "for white," "for
colored," we have thus far escaped
these COMMUNICATIONS, and are dwell
ing In peace with our fellow men,
| with none to modest nor make us
| afraid.
| Can any other state from the Po-
tomac to the Gulf show better rec
| ord? Is there not in each and every
one OF them some statute which Is an
ever present reminder to the brother
! In black that his status is lower than