Show cio l S RA TX Df IN EUROPE Thera la In fo 0 Prejudice Pr Pl Against Him and to He Re IK Is Treated as an Equal Chicago Tribune Had not lIot Edward Issued Js aed a le Ie leto iv n e eto to the effect that widows of ot peers peens who ha Ita have contracted marriages with com can commoners oRen forfeited thereby their prerogatives as q peeress pe a of the realm there would have hae appeared apt among the latter at they the Abbey on the day of f the coronation a of tote the type arrayed ed in the ermine trimmed red tied velvet robes and aDd the g d Id coronet of her h rank as a aP countess For P th tM the dusky uk widow of elf the later into Earl df ot Stamford has bM since his hie hied death d th married a 3 Boer by the name a me of Plater Fi r Pleter e and aid here has made mad her ber berb hums b In South Africa R a since Itin her unsuccessful uns tc ct 3 fut attempt t to te prove the rights of her herlon r son to his father t rt s earldom rights lights n which wen dialed denied by hi the Ia committee eO of fI tte t house R of lords Jor The presence ol a negro n peeress at atthe atc the coronation c d while q It It would have haved ad d te to tb the kaleidoscopic Jar effect of or the gorgeous spectacle presented fey by the ceremony erem ny in ter A Abbey bey would i have hare excited a tt whatsoever i or o hf hg part of Ut th other peeresses re re es of I the be realm o the th s score o of or rotor color and andrace andI retie race T For In the rid Old world the social ln l te e aga a the tte o negro negro is to sue suean such sucil an n extent est fOnt ant that it needs a af ar ap I p f r run r ru s l I of n Toms faWn Cabin In and of works Orl of or the same NIne claw class by bynn people ate nn on yonder Hide aide of ot the tl i ocean in order er to enable them to understand the tb extraordinary outcry which hleb has haA b been en n raised in fn certain parts pam of this country against nit the action of President Preel ent Roos Roop vW IB tn Booker Washington to toh h table That t this Courtesy y should hould h he be extended tided by hy tin the clief magistrate of f S the thie united States to a man of the em eminence emInence tn of Booker Washington on in spite spit of nf W bia being an aft African Africa appears ap so natural and aad proper roper to Europeans who have bave not craned the tb Atlantic or vs IP jp the new Dew hemisphere that they would have condemned tbt president pr nt t had ad he h kept his doors dooM C t against Booker Washington 01 oft of Mi 11 color t 5 tI It 11 ft Is perfectly true that tha this absence of 01 prejudice tc In Europe against aga the col colored co 1 ored race do does not nor extend to on n apPI ap approval PI 1 of intermarriage It is limited to social lOOi l and nh be bet t bite tIe and ancl Africans are re U as u m eh ill m wil will in int inthe tHep t the p an there th r f Europeans with who In ID fat fact people are arc quite as u glad clad to wet wel welcome we I cone come t their t tir ie negroes of education I tot tion and of et manners such as for fore instance e eslos d bishops hl etc as they ae to tt invite In Indian tn rajahs Turkish I pastas paIs am anc Pi Pv hn in princes they would e e J H Y the same disinclination tion t o 0 allow their te l daughters daught u or His uis Hist tore t i become the wife of 4 f a member ft rl tf f h African race as u they would mould to hr ht Adding some great at Indian magne mag magn magIt n It ne if nt ancestry and roles colos a lt Lewis J Is g by no means the theo o blek n negro wh ha has s received i I a title from the British h crown and who wh o wears on his breast breut the Ute star attar of the I most mat distinguished order of St Michael l and aDd St George an honor Usually reserved re reserved I I served for the diplomatic envoys co lot ial governors and premier and for tor fo r generals generala and admirals but there are I others of or his race Quite as dusky in InI I e I hue who have been similarly distin distinguished distinguished I by the late queen whose wives es are officially addressed as my lady and aud at all official o and aDd social functions C Care are conceded the pas pas of or the untitled white women present no matter ho how bow he lineage e or illustrious the th e name an of ot the latter lamer Sir Samuel Lewis I besides be being a knight t of o the order orde r I of St Bt Michael and alldS St George is a 1 graduate nHIa re of the London Landon university a I member of the English Engl bar bat a 8 member r I of the tile legislative council of the colony colon y ry of f Sierra Leone and d the Ule first mayor of o f j I Freetown Fre Queen Victoria w when hen she ah e fe received a at Windsor Wi d r the bishop and an I clel delegates teil to io the great convention o of f j I the Episcopal church held in la f a 1 year or two t woo before her ber death accorded d I just juet the Ute same amount of distinguished d I consideration to the half halt a doxen daen bish blab bishops l I ops opa who belonged to the negro ro TaU race ra ce j I I a as to m their white English and American Americ m n fellow prelates and aM when a some Gme P 1 i years ago the queen heard baud of or the ar arrival arrival rival ival i London of an It old colored roam mam m I my any from f the free tree state Slate of ot Liberia who w bo I Iv had bad say s d up her money shilling b by br v I shilling for the purpose e of f going lOins t to I England le J to see her majesty she not no t j jo only o IT d aj aed her to visit her Hr at Windsor W r i eastle but hut even Invited her ber to take a seat Hat on the sofa beside her during th the e interview The late queen was tomed tamed to t keep even the tRe greatest states statesmen statesmen men and the grandest lashes lacile in III the th e land standing in herr her presence ence pre ant and ant a I foreign fore envoy who happened to bey vt t I Windsor or at the time of the old mam JIam mys visit remarked plaintively that tha t during all aU the years that he had represented I Rented his hit government at the court of o f St James he be had never received any I I thing like so 80 much consideration A A This attitude of Queen Victoria toward the negro ne rice race which hi m shared share d i by the present pre ent king kiD and anti bv by the people eOple poop k of ot the United Kingdom likewise pre prevails i vails vaila on the continent At Lisbon I re remember remember remember I member being present when the late eat e king solemnly and in to the presence of o f J I his whole court Invested three full run i blood negroes two of ot them from the tb e f west coast cout of Africa sad nd Dd one from the tb e east fa t coast with the dignity mf f knight t hood bood of ot the order of 01 Christ while s tm On me e I of the tM principal nJ tine one nf of n the most it ll in the tb e p kingdom day dart wa was e c can an aged who had been with wit t t I Queen Pia Pta ever her marring marriage e and who t ho was the chief of her majesty tys S i Attendants besides hem being her most moet ma ts trusted counselor and confidante tb the e I In her bar turn tum b her ber husband nd a I King Kin entirely tV under her th thumb and blindly su subs to t her ber will f I |