Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-05-04

The prohibition forces are getting busy down
in Valdosta and the preachers making de-
termned fight to carry the city and county. In
this they are aided by prominent prohibition
speakers from other places.-Waycross Journal
When the prohbtionist have set things in
order in Vadosta, they will probably move on to
Albany which has already begun to take on new
life in anticipation of the day when the 80 odd
grog shops will be closed or rather opened to
other and more legitimate business.
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From The Atlanta Georgian.
A recent copy of the News and Courier voices
the proposition that there are many things which
the South could and should teach to the people of
the North. Our Charleston contemporary resents
the suggestion of Northern philanthropfss that
the South is missionary ground for eduC"u0n in
morals and in manners, and Ietorts witt "ntmess
and vigor that the North especially needs the
Americans of the South to teach it Amercanism
The South Carolina journal declares that the North
is suffering for want of instructors III the art OF as
simating it's heterogeneous and discordant popu-
lation. 1t is universally admitted that the Amer
can negroes owe whatever civilization they have
to contact with the Southern whites, their former
owners but their great numbers and the separa-
ton forced by the abolition of slavery have stop
ped their progress in at least so far it accel
Grated by this means.
And here the News and Courier pointedly sug-
gests that as the problem before those philanthropy
lists so sincerely concerned in the negroes uplifting
is to bring them within the sphere of the white
mans influence that the best plan by which to do
this is to mass them in the Northern states where
the leaders of thought speaking thrO the press and
from the pulpit are comparatively free from race
prejudice
condition precedent to the distribution of
some millions of negroes i'll the North is the break
ing down of barriers raised by the prejudice of
Northern white working men. In other words,
the Northern states must be opened to negro i'm
migration from the South. ''Let us imagine, for
example, says the News and Courier, 'that all
the people of Rochester, N. Y. be educated to the
point that they will welcome the negro artisans as
citizens, pay them wages equal to the wages paid
white men provide them with homes on easy terms
and allow them to work in the Rochester mills
side by side with white operatives. When the
negroes of the South are convinced that they
may go to Rochester and enjoy life under such con-
ditions, will they not go in tlocks! Leo us then
suppose that scores of our Northern cities follow
Rochester's enlightened example, will they not al
so fill up with negro emigrants"
Continuing along this line of delicate satire,
The News and Courier says:
In Illinois and Indiana a ''hlred man on a
farm receives wage of at least $50 month"; lOdg-
ing and board. The negro hired man in the South
must be content with about $40 month and with
food and lodging not exactly sumptuous Surely
if the Illinois and Indiana farmers knew that it
was their duty not to discriminate against these
door blacks many of the latter would go to those
states.
Ii seems that the South cannot avoid the duty
of teaching the North that its industrial boycott
of the Southern negro is cruel almost to the point
of barbartv If the North would but relax it's
stern attitude toward the poor negroes, some hun
dreds of them could be uplifted far more rapid
w in every Northern township than they ever
be in the South.
If five hundred Southern educators and phil
anthropiStS would meet every year in a Northern
city and point out to the Northern people the
weak spots in their civilization, impress upon
them their bounden obligation to establish negro
industrious negroes in their workshops, stores,
banks and on their farms, the North might awak-
en- to the heartlesSness of its treatment of the
blacks and extend to them the right hand OF com
radeship in all lines of labor.
At present the greatest handicap under which
the negroes toll is that the rich North. with its
learning with its enrolling moral atmosphere its
elevating social environment and its exalted ethi-
cal Standards is forever in an iron monotone cry
ing 'sBack to the South! Back to the cotton