Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-11-13
NEGRO SEGREGATION.
Opposition to Segregation of Race
Because Negroes Are Necessary.
Newton Enterprise

(Newton Enterprise.) |
We are not surprised that the negro
segregation proposition Mr.. Clarence
Poe has been advancing in the Pro
<eressive Farmer and other puDllca-
tons is not making any headWay. IL
;s NOT as non-sensical as was the for
mer proposition of some superficial
theories for deporting the negroes 10
Africa or colonizing them on islands,
But it is nevertheless, impract1cable
and undesirable. The negro is a great
factor in the industrial life OF the
country, and is indispensable TO the
South. He raises a bulk OF the Dillon
dollar cotton crops and his labor In all
undertakings requiring muscle and
sweat and steady grinding is making
the South prosperous. We need all
the negroes we nave and more. And
we need them close at hand, and not
an segregated groups, in mmunltl
ito themselves, as Mr.. Poe advocates.
To have a negro man or a negro wo-
imam CLOSE DIT 1duu " a.
things that have to be done, is a gen.
zine comfort that few Southerners'
even those of us who cannot afford
tI.e luxury of their regular services,
would be unwilling to give up.
Catawba and most counties in this
part of North Carolina could use with
motif many more negroes than we
have. Every farmer feels the need OF
a negro family on his place, after MS
own boys and girls grow up and leave
him without help to work his lands.
1T is right and proper to plead with
sthe boys and girls to stay on the farm
and plead with parents to make the
sfarm-home so attractive that the boys
and girls will not wish to leave. But
lit is a law Of nature b a most y
do not take to the calling OF tnelr
fathers. They dc their part faithfully,
and so do the girls, in contributing by
their labor to the income of the fam
nv until they reach the time when II
becomes their right to begin worklne
for themselves. Then they generally
prefer to put their energies into some
other channel. This is just as surely
Etbe rule in every other business Of
profession as it is in farming. n
are exceptions, it is true. But all Tho
most important rules even in the text
books on languages and the sciences
wind I'D with a list of exceptions
We can only account for this on thu
theory that children necessarily be
come thoroughly familiar with tn
worries and perplexities and embar
easements and disappointments tina
the parents undergo, and resolve t
try something else. We know tina
few editors boys ever wish to see
case of type after they become men
and we don't blame them. Farmer
therefore, should not feel that thei
business is less attractive than other
TO the young people because thei
( children adopt some other calling an
{ leave them.
But it is after the children grow u
That the number of bales of cottoi
= on the place grow small and the in
comes fall down, as it is in other line
{ of endeavor. Then it is that the whit
/ farmer begins especially to feel tn
Inconvenience that it would be to hav
a negro tenant right on his place, an
the larger number of little pickan1u
mics the tenant may have for plowin
and hoeing and pickin gcotton he be
ter, and the nearer the man and tn
good old mammie is at hand to call O
to help at certain times about tn
house or the garden or woodward, tt
better.
Away with your segregation, M
Pee.
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