Show THE CASE OF MRS COX V I 1 THE EX PARTE PARTS STATE STATEment STATEment FROM V ment made by Secretary Cortel jou for the president on the case of or the colored postmistress at Indianola Miss we Vo are bound to reach the conclusion I that th t the order directing the closing of ot I the postoffice serves the people of ot In Indianola InC C exactly right The only ob objection objection obI I offered to Mrs Cox the in the case was that she was a ne gress gross V Reputable Rep Zens of Indianola tes testified t s tined that her het was above re reproach reproach V Those who have known her herfor herfor herfor for years say B ay Y that th t her deportment las always been baan as high as the standard sot set by her white sisters Yet Tet et the people objected obJect d to receiving mall mallat n n na at a her hani han s Southerners Southern rs view such mutters matters as this nom from a aV V Queer stand standpoint standpoInt standI i I point I They are perfectly willing to eat cat food cooked by negroes Indeed it is not uncommon to see a none Done of ot corn cornbread cornbread cornbread bread brought hot to the table with the I V print of oa a black band hane baked b ked In it The i cornmeal is good too With some yel yellow yellow el ellow low butter and gravy or some New N W I Orleans Orleans molasses or some preserves I It Jt t makes a dish fit It to set before any 1 ny iy I king onearth on earth Your i object to lh that Neither does he be object t to placing his child at the breast of a negro mam mammy mammy mammy my as hundreds and hundreds of them have done Perhaps some of ot the thery very ry people who think their letters are polluted by the of a dark hand owe their existence to the tender watchful devotion of or their black foster mothers And In justice to the south southerner southerner erner V It must be said that he loves love the theold theold theold old negro servants as dearly as they love ove him He remembers them in the holiday hollday season he knows even better than they when their birthday anni anal anniversaries anniversaries V come around he comforts them in sorrow and he relieves them in distress The negro in official life however is another proposition While really a postmaster is a servant of ot the community community ity it Is hard to get away awa from the theory that he has authority over that community Some citizens have the notion that that postmasters give or with withhold withhold withhold hold letters just as they Individually please that they se stamps and money orders on credit to favored cus customers customers customers and refuse credit to others Of Or course this is all a mistake but it is hard to root the Idea Ideo out of prejudiced prejudiced diced hearts The fact that a Q town has a negro postmaster make it i ine necessary ne for the prominent residents of or the town to throw their th lr doors open to the negro ne ro He is no more their equal socially after he becomes post postmaster postmaster postmaster master than he was before his exalta exaltation exaltation exaltation tion The Herald knows that the south southwill southwill will never be convinced that negro of officials offIcIals officials can give good service for the dark pall of or the negro domination of the reconstruction period still sun hangs as asa asa asa a spectre before their eyes That was an era of horror for the whites of swaggering domineering arrogance for forthe forthe forthe the blacks but both races are olde ow and let l t us hope better educated We Ve believe President Roosevelt Is right when he says the people of or I In Indianola i must do without a postoffice until they accept his colored appointee The Inconvenience to which they will willbe willbe be subjected is calculated to have a de decidedly decidedly I broadening influence |