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Show MUiiouK.iirs iv niDvoimi. IlKooltw, Iho city of the great Ilevchur, nl the abiding place uf so manyinurcbe, haa a vexed question otiltalisnK At prosont thu Issuu Is conlInil to the ranks nf the ilty police, andtheNayor in I Common Council are udjadlcatlng on It tu beat they can. ' 1 1 Is nit a imlltlcal problem , 1 1 does not touch on the .Molvlnley hill, the FarmersAlliance, the Italian titieutlon, thesoaluher, nor even on the .Vow-loundlaaJlolMcrfog .Vow-loundlaaJlolMcrfog Tho trouble orlglnntid lu a -.cry slmpla naner. A native American, n short Jlme ago. Joined the llrooklyn lllco fori. Ho ha pinwl to be u fuw ahadH darker than Ihu average rreuchnianor Itillau, In fact ho Is what ! jinned a ''nlggor," Hut he Is n man t( good mirals, mil of line physlqui, aud lu eury wuiiuallfled to wKIJ the locust of a iolUeman. This counls for nothing. The white clllsena of llrooklyn could not sleep soundly wth a colored ciialndlan on guard. They proli-slcd against Ihe Innovation. In-novation. I n the rank of the police, objection developed Into mutiny. The whllo men would not talk, nor walk, nor slan I at the aide of their colored brother. Theuufortunate colons! nun aa onlgnnl it lii the atatlon dormitory dor-mitory to elerp In. The other night when he entered lo analch a much needed real, all Ihe white men tlure got up and left. This wae the worst kind of tt boycott. The sou of Ham, however, retired and enjoyed Ids re loujasiuorvugniy aa ir nulling uu-usual uu-usual ha I occurred, Hevrral times alncolhlallltlo drama has bean related, relat-ed, but nothing ileDulle ha et been doueoDlcially In relation to It. Thla may seem a small alTalr,,ou not Heeling the calling f apeclal session of Congress, nor the Interference Interfer-ence of foreign nation-, and )et wheu looked at serluuely II la a most momentous momen-tous ,uetlon. Here we have the repre-enlallveof arac-sln the lull enjoyment en-joyment of American cltlenahlp, ills-quallfleil ills-quallfleil for one of Ihu emallrat duties of cltlMiishlp, t-ecauae of hi color. Ilia ihvalcal and mental rntiarltl la uniuistliiui-I There Is no Uw, common com-mon ur slntdtory, to prohibit hlui front holding oilier, ou the cottrary, tin re Is a constitutional rovlslou for the extension ex-tension of nil civil rlghU to the ncrrru, jet that law Is act at naught. How will the millions of colored a-raona In the United Htatta take thla Insult, It Is a simple affair, lilt it shows that llio ople of Ihe north are mora pronounced tn their cellmate uf tlio supremacy ol Hie future race, to the negro than are the ieople of thu Houth. |
