Show p I S THE HACKS AT TilE SOUTH 1 In a recent number of Century Hr i Goo W Cable the author and lecturer who naB lately come into notoriety had on article in relation to the race S problem in thesouth For one who haS ha-S grownup in the south < his boyhoods if S not his present home was New Orleans 1 I i JTr Cable expresses remarkable views I It is rare indeed that a southern man I has overcome the repugnance to the negro race that generations of the relation S rela-tion of slave and master ot the superior and the inferior have cultivated and I I developed Should there be a case where the mental moral intellectual S L and physical superiority were with the I enslaved race and this were to continue for even two generations the inferior I S ii but master race would be unable at I S of i its once to overcome feeling 1 I superiority and accept the ex I > enslaved as social and political S 5 politi-cal equals without a sentiment of S repugnance In the case of the whites iud i-ud blacks at the south the condi ivan i > 1 i I van is not like the one suggested S T2V1S wellknown and generally adS ad-S mit superiority on the part of the whites hence there is less likelihood S S that tlTh two can meet on the same i plane in Afly of the walks oflife without 1 S the whites L experiencing a feeling that 1 they are below their level and the blacks knowing that thy are above at theirs Mr Cable however seems to I S have largely overcome the rice antipathy 4 S anti-pathy and taking a broad view of the I I Sf1 question of the association of the races I believes that the white and black are J fast approaching each other and that V V1 M 4 ere long it will not be a matter of pride S j S ou the part of the white that he is it S white nor a thing of reproach on the i part of the black that he is black lie I 11 S S does not say so in so many words but the tenor of his article is in that direction S direc-tion In the April number of S I Century Mr Grady one of the editors 1 of the Atlanta Constitution replies to I Cable and clearly demonstrates that IfUI it is impossible to force the races to S 1 mingle socially though they may be S compelled to work together politically S 11 He is a much better authority on the nI subject than Mr Cable can possibly be 1 i 1 not only as a southern man and a keenS keen-S observer but his position as editor of JS 1 u leading journal in the south has UI brought him in close contact with all classes of people and made him familiar S < fam-iliar with the peculiarities the prejudices I preju-dices and sentiments of the races he r has lived and does live in the thick of Li the fight not as a disinterested spectator S specta-tor but as one who must necessarily I understand both sides Mr Grady deg de-g dares that race instinct a peculiar I S S yet expressive and easily comprehended E term makes the social commingling of I S 4 1 the races repugnant not to the whites l alone bnt to the blacks as well One F a doesnt have to go south to find thai C race instinct for it is seen every whereIn s t where-In the north as a matter of course it ia I better developed and more apparent i TI ieits fiows itself in a desire in both J races to have the schools separate to have social gatherings distinct to have f whites and blacks worship in separate churches and so on through all the S t octal walks of life Mr Gradbj J S says t I The negroes meet white people in all r rl the avenues of business They work r side by side with the white bricklayer d f or carpenter in perfect accord and I il I friendliness When the trowel or ham t a 1 juer ia laid aside the laborers parteach t i 0 going his own way Any attempt S q carry the comradeship of the day into ci private life would be sternly resisted by S IJ S both parties in interest v 14 This states it as itis as it should beE r be-E S i iid as itwill be There can be no raceS race-S j equality socially while the blacks andS and-S S Whites rctaiu their characteristic i S and their respective natures remain unchanged It may be doublet S K the t commingling jnll ever be anj I tI closer than it fa today there w a II mutual understanding that there slftl I l be qtial accommodation but these b shall be separate and distinct that the JS negro children still have school facilities facili-ties equal to those enjoyed by S the white children but there shall be blade and white 1 al teachers respectively because each will 1 I g prefer it there shall be cars of equal accommodation ac-commodation for blacks and whites but l cue rocs will not be welcomed into the I cars of the other colored preachers willS r t will-S teach exhort and instruct the colored I I people and white ministers will stand S 1 before white congregation j S i j I S |