1969_12 The Daily Collegian December 1969

              2    THE DAILY COLLEGIAN    Tuesday. Deceemor 2. JH9
commentary
Lloyd Carton In dubious battle)
Masses behind Reagan
Two items la the local paper
(Roagnn has let it be known he
Idols reoearck should be limited
to the onlvorsltlos) and another
$1.6 million from the E.O.P.
program (which Is mootry for
minority students--he fools they
Should   go   to  Junior   college*)
To top that off $4.19 million
will be cut which would have provided for 5. 400 full -time student*
foreign students, out-of -state
students, transfer applicants still
eligible for junior college and
students not Involved In degree
program*).
In all the cut* will total $22
million, including many innovative project*.
So the decline In quality edu
cstlon has begun. In the name of
economy. Reagan and his henchmen have sst out to destroy the
famed higher educational system,
tn California.
It is s well-known fact that
Governor  Reagan has often ex«^.
One of the smartest things ymi
Cain do now is to talk to yjsur
College lite representative Let
him tell you about the KNE-
FACTOfl; the life insurance policy that is individually tailored tc<
your specific needs
You ite a preferred risk that
means your life insurance will
cost you less. You can benefit
from deferred deposits
College Life serves College Mm
exclusively. That's why you
should get in touch with the
College Life representative,
don't wait for him to call you
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BOB REESE
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Phone 224-3558
pressed the conviction that the
private schools (Stanford. USC.
etc.) should provide the beet
le also feels quality
i s privilege which
roeervod for the
wealthy. Tho masses ho tools,
should consider themselves lucky
to be high school graduates.
The funny thing Is the masses
are behind him all the way. So
okay, you've get the masses sad
in you do0 Ons, you look
Mlstenclee in their argu-
I found it la tho ascend section
of the paper. A small two-para-
Craph story noted the State Deportment of General Services has
awarded a $300,000 contract to a
local construction firm (o develop
utilities on this campus.
Tho article noted s spokesman
for the stole said the work in- .
clodes the construction of an
electrical switch-fear hones and
addition* to water, fa* and electrical utllitte.*. Also includedare
addition* to the fire alarm system
and area lighting.
Now. will any one of you
economy-minded Reagan supporters tell me how wo ran spend
$310,000 to develop fire alarm
and area lighting system* ai
this college and then turn away
qualified people because they
happen to he poor or from another
state or another country.
Now ran this state continue lo •
spend millions upon million* of
dollars for highway* every year
when the sky is filled with smor
and what we really need are less
cars   and   not   more   highway*.
Reagan I* a tool ot the *pec|aJ
interest croups in this state.
Construction companies *n big
business And that's what It's
all   about   gang:   big   business.
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Colonists created 'white slavery'
By Jenny Bailey
When wo take the patriotic
whiteness from our eyes and look
with clear vision on the shadows
of the American peat we find that
black men and women wore not the
first slaves In this country but the
third.
White and rod men were the
first to he chained In this 'land
of the .'ree* and the black man
inherited his chain* from them.
In America, for nearly two
hundred years, white men. women
and children ger>-bought and sold
like cattle and transported across
the »*u in slave ships to the
American planter* who reduced
them to temporary and lifetime
servitude.
White slavery laeted for more
than two centuries and involved
nearly all of the Immigrants to
the American colonies. It has
been estimated that two out of
three colonists worked as seml-
slave*
It hae been said thai white slavery was the foundation upon
which Mack slavery was founded;
it waa the proving ground lor
black slavery. The fugitive slave
law. the forced separation of par
ent and child, the sexual exploitation of servant women, the
whipping poets, the slave chains
and brand were first perfected
nn   the   white   men   and  women.
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cause of a desperste need for
Isbor in the colonies. Tho founding fathers needed labor and they
were willing to do anything to get
the labor They first enslaved the
Indians but when that supply bs-
cetie uncertain they resorted to
the poor whites ot Europe.
The colonists crested s system
of forced labor based loosely on
the old apprenticeship program.
In the new svstem called Indentured servitude, a person sold
himself or waa. sold for a period
of two to seven years or lifetime
servitude.
In the lieginning the system was
luued on a voluntary contract but
as tho year* wore on there waa no
difference between the indentured
servant and a alave. The only
difference between the Indentured
servant and a slave waa the lenght
of servitude.
The sa stem of white slavery
came to America with the first
immigrant*. Most of the pioneer
Virginia settlers wore slaves of
the Virginia Company, which banned private property and ruled by
artial law.
When the Puritans came, they
began their crusade tor freedom
h\ enslaving a large number of
white men.
A little while later the colony
of Massachusetts openly semen
ced men to slavery tor penal offense*. By 1642 six men were
sentenced to slsvery for various
offenses.
Bv the end of the 17th century,
tow Indiana wore reduced to slavery and the colonial, masters
were relying heavily on the poor
white* of Europe. Poor white
children wore oeetod op off the
streets of London and shipped to
the colonies. There were also
some shipments of maids.
In 1619 the first steps were
taken to make the irregular traffic of slaves into an organised
system   (M the first meeting of a
representative political body ta
America thooo stops weredscid-
ed upon. This moans that representative democracy and servitude wore born together la America.
The number of servants crossing the Atlantic Increased year
by year and they came from all
over Europe. They came cram-
■sag shoulder lo shoulder la the
holds of ships
The slave trade tor men was
big business and they profltted
Creatlv from It. They used var
loos methods to Indues slave* to
come to America. .Some travsled
the country side of Europe, dle-
tributing propaganda lesfloUfling the virtures of Indentured
servitude. When these methods
failed other forms of persuasion
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into slavery. It has been estimated that 90.000 convicts were
shipped to Virginia, to work In the
fields.
When the servants were sent
they were packed In the holds of
ships like fish (or the eight to 10
week trip to America. There was
no movement between docks and
the food was poor. Usually more
than half the servants died on the
way.
When tho ship arrived la port
the dead were thrown overboard
and the survivors were cleaned
up tor on-decfc sales. During the
husband* and wives wore eepar
atod and children were sold until
they reached their & birthdays.
The servants could be 1
sold, borrowed or won in s e
game. The master was <
to feed and clothe them, but some
masters didn't live up to this
obligation.
When the servants servitude
was up some masters would trick
them into signing another indentured servitude contract.
Although the shite slave played
an Important part in early American history, he has hewn left oat
of most history books: most would
like to forget their presence
their record burns on the Amor
lean soil and reminds us that
thla couatry waa conceived not
only tn liberty but in the I
labor of white men..