Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-03
By EUGENE WOOD
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life got what he was worth to her as an income
bringer. She could take in washing and live we'll
He just common workngman; but he must
have helped lot to add to the of things by
which existence is made possible.
Next to the courts a means of finding out what
the value of is, naturally turn to the time
when, and the section of the country where, there
used to be regular markets for buying and selling
human beings. l have heard that strong, healthy
young workingman with good teeth would bring
from one thousand to fifteen hundred dollars. We
might start that basis if it was not that fifty
pete change in the labor market that nothing
is like what it then The heaviest and clumsiest
and simplest machinery was not strong enough to
stand bought laborer's rough handling and what
was done then by the push and pull of muscle is done
now by the whirling of wheels SO much cheaper and
quicker that there is comparison Also, for all
sections of the country the skill of the workman has
been replaced by the certainty of the machine.
Then and in that market man who had trade
brought higher price Nowadays, more and more
the worker is preferred who knows only one little
bit of the business but turn out that little bit
with the swiftness and regularity of machinery
market no criterion for US by You have 1 heard
about the dignity of labor In those days this
doctrine SO strongly believed in that it wasn't
labor to any extent. The worker had to have very
dark complexion and have kinky hair. He was in
short, Negro That he, of all the races on earth,
should have been chosen to engage in productive
labor is just another instance of how mankind acts
on principle before it knows what the principle is.
Negro Farthest From Monkey
THE Negro was picked out as the to advance
civilization long before the ethnologists learned
that of all the Negro is TIE farthest removed
from the original monkey type: He got to be
long before Anglo-Saxons broke themselves of
dangling by their tails from the tree limbs
The Negro came to America from Africa, but not
willingly. 1t cost lot to chase him and catch him;
to drag him down to the coast; to assist his
immigration to this land, which is the refuge of the
oppressed of all nations and, to top it all Off Great
Britain had to put IN her oar, and interfere with
her war ships in the transaction of business in
which widows and orphans had invested their little
all, just the they do in railway stocks.
All along the line from Africa to America the
Negroes persisted in dying off so fast that they
commanded high price by the time they were
landed. And finally our country passed laws pro-
hbitng their importation.
What with the increasing demand for cotton, and
the fact that when he was worked for all he was
worth in the cotton field the Negro was supposed
to last for only about years. you see that
his price was artifcially away up. To-day we
do not discriminate against of all races engaging
in gainful employment, and immigration goes on at
the rate of million year do not know how long
the workingman of to-day lasts but will bet cooky
that Uncle Tom in his worst DAYS under Legree
didn't have it half so hard as some of these Huns
and Polacks in the iron mills Uncle Tom might be
whipped to death, but he was not burned up alive
in molten metal
Since the laborer whether he is Uncle Tom or a
white man, has to enough to pay his board
and keep before he begin to make money for the
man who gives him employment and thus keeps him
out OF the poorhouSe, it is good business to make
his board and keep inexpensive as possible. But
when healthy workingman cost from one thousand
to fifteen hundred dollars it didn't pay to cut it too
fine in the way of maintenance, or he might not
last out even seven years Nobody with sense
enough to come in out of the rain would grudge the
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