| Show TIlE SHE NEGRO r rt rL t A L The Tho of the Supreme court of f r the United States State tate In n Ute the caso case of the cot col ao man who endeavored ende by manda f t mu m l to compel the registrar of ot his IC 4 county In Alabama to tD place his ble name oft ot 01 the list notwithstanding t the amend 11 I mont ment to the Constitution of ot that thu State 0 I which Ich barred him out Is 11 viewed with I much dissatisfaction by b many man colored 0 people and the tM th advocates a of ot their Q 0 cal privileges privilege There are arc two sides to the question however and In view vie cf ot oft j t 11 all oil tho thU circumstances attending the sit lit L uMon It Is le rather difficult for tor many ninny ii 11 to t determine d t the th right and ond nn the proper I po c to pursue I 1 The white while people of the South naturU U t the menace of ot negro domin dornin domination ollon In political affairs While 4 c tingas they the fortunes j 1 of war and as most roost of them do will wilt 1 to the emancipation of ot the color colored coloret ed et people they cannot brook the force torca I that pushes an Interior Inferior element Into ti l t attempted social untO and political equality with villi the culture and chivalry of ot Cau I i cailan blood I The means meana that have been employed e t to t evade de or circumvent the provisions 0 ol ot the Fifteenth Amendment to the ther J p r Constitution of ot the United States may f I appear unjust and arid revolutionary to peo pie plein In the North who bo have not been reared r In the atmosphere and surround d dr r j jogs Ings where slavery once prevailed and andI I 1 1 where hero It Is I held that thai the suppression I or ot the colored race Is absolutely nece 1 t wry nary to the safety aCety and progress of ot the thep States where there Its 1111 numbers are great greatt p I t l and ond Its Influence nce Is threatening But Dut l I the tto very ery best people cf ot the South have bae havel l I i Joined In the measures that have hae been beenE E p adopted and Io their position Is Ii to be con considered cons 0 s er d In a u fair view of ot tho the question Involved I 0 11 of ot the tho court of ot last re resort reo resort sort b the case referred to very ery prop I t erly upholds the true doctrine of ot States t C tight right We use the word WON true advis adI For while there has hili been much c eror attached to It and which has ought brought b great woe and sd the thet foundations t of ot our government are laid i u upon on n the th principle of at State sovereignty and popular rights right Each State Stale has Its I I t own and es eli all political PolitiCAl cal l power Tel within lt I Its own borders rs that I hits s not been n yielded to the Federal nu cu thor ty The rho Nation Is supreme In Its it It Its power extends to every ever foot I ot of HB nil domain But Dut that Is ii limited by bye byc bythe c e the national Constitution which se e ec c tres res to every etry State in the Union nfl all alli i t r and prerogatives that are not by that tat Instrument vested In the national n government The court recognizes that t principle aroil so 80 O the thO case goes back to 10 Alabama where It properly belongs Each Fach State regulates Its own on affairs and so provides for tor the exercise of ot the th thI I 4 elective cl i franchise subject of at course cours court to t he the provisions of ot the Constitution of ot our country The negro In Alabama io was VIlA not allowed to was not nt n t denied the privilege on account of ot race color or previous condition cf ot r but because he hr was as not bOt ot qualified Q under the laws Jaws of or the State made applicable to nil all of ot her citizens citizen white while and colored The design was U un undoubtedly to limit the negro vote ote and that Is claimed to be a necessity and Mother just or unjust to the ue colored I InI Appears P to be so 10 framed as to tos s ti the constitutional test In n view of ot the of ot the negro question q eltion which is 0 on of ot the problems lot f t before the zhe we quote anne sorro ro Pertinent remarks mark marka made mad by one of ot the captains of industry in the and cd 0 iI Y q New NeWYork York Sun Bun re orl In the tha John H If tIr o ot of Houston who Is h Of t the great rent Lumber company a n native of oC the South and thoroughly familiar with the situation there was Willi Interviewed toy by b a Sun cor car correspondent respondent It He lie touched rather upon th the tho social than the political aspirations of ot tho thu colored c ore people and said The Tho negro of ot anto days In t I the th hO negro who ho unfortunately Is becoming only a small part purt of ot the black skinned In the Taught by their masters the proper lessons of humility and courtesy taught a 0 recognition o otlie ot of the social barriers which will forever foreve bar bur the progress of ot the negro neno beyond the th environment which At nt present hedges his domain the old alave negro and his hia children Were ere well cared eared for tor suffered ro 11 o want were vere faithful Indus indUstrious and were vere n a most moat Important and component part rort of the South as us well as III Important and faithful factors In the In Individual white families of the South louth to whom Old Mammy and ond Uncle mete Pave Dave were sere a part of at the home life lite They en ell enJoyed Joyed the tho affection and trust of their superiors and returned un humble love lova and anI service which were practically un unequalled unequAlled equalled In the history of or all like condl I cannot say sa that I believe In the i doctrine that education ruins the no ne Bra gro for tor while white It may unfit unlit him In a sense for tor or being a hewer of ot wood and a drawer of ot water It should If It education means anything force him hUm to nn an Intel Intellectual condition wherein he should hould more realize his am and recognize the tho Inherent of his race in regard to the social condi conditions conditions of ot mankind There Is a II great deal of or useless ana ane harmful agitation In these theno discussions of ot the tho negro question particularly particular by hy bythe hythe bythe the papers po ers of the North and East Kast n t which reason by theory rather rot her than by argue argument ment meat based upon even an knowledge of the he subject The Iho negro Cf ci tho the North Is not the tho negro of ot the South Hla Ills material environment differs absolutely absOlutely absolutely for tor while the former Is em employed In occupations which keep him constantly ottO and closely In n touch with seith the dominant race In the tho South he lie la In labors bars bors in the field and tho the farmyard and andIn andIn In channels of t energy which while con controlled controlled trolled trailed by the white while man do not necessarily mean an association u In any tense ense other than that which exists between the employer and the employed em loyed Be De Because cause coue of ot the tho great arent preponderance tor ot of the negro race In tn the South the tho South should be b let Jet alone and altO permitted to determine the question by the ethics which govern goern the viewed from the Southerners Southerner standpoint In politics 1 the th negro has always been beena a n disturbing feature and Is used by all 1111 parties and In ht the main for tor vicious pur RUt purposes purposes poses The negro was wall never Intended to too test teat the right ot of ballot Ills His enfranchisement was ins M an on error of Judgment and und today practically disfranchised by legislative enactment In tn many of ot the states he hll Is content that such sueh be the rate case for tor br I believe the race has little de do tiro airo to 10 meddle Id iu questions the solution of or which bears but upon his hiL hi existence or upon his future His official or social recognition by persons or In high places lace affects alTed the negro more than It does doos doc the dominant race rate while temporarily In Inducing InducinG inducing a n condition much to be regretted and which can have but one solution Mr claims that In Texas the negro Is III dented denied none of ot his tile civil rights but nt at the same time he admits admit that In Texas as IU In other of ot the Southern State States the negro Is III required to attend his hili own school his hla own church to ride In separate coaches on the tho railroads to occupy separate waiting rooms In the railroad stations and collectively to I keep themselves separate and apart from their white friends who neither seek nor desire their society This will strike people In III the North ns pa l carrying exclusiveness to an on ex cx extreme extreme and drawing the line too sharply between the tM races ta e ending to foster that feeling of ot strife that sets If ts them one against the other oth r and occasions much of ol the trouble to be deplored Yet Y t we should 1 not shut our eyes to the fact tact that the Creator has hat made a distinction between white and colored human be beings betags tags ings that Indicates design as al to their status stat s and there ore are physiological as all aswell allwell aswell well as ae n religious reasons why their blood should not be Intermingled Thus thor there needs need I to 10 be some wise wile restrictions In society that each ellch race may occupy the position for far which It was designed de and Is la adapted oda Th The elevation of ot the colored race rRee along possible lines should be kept k Pt In I view by b the whites whiles and It If this la is J pur pursued pursued pursued sued In the spirit of ot kindness and Jus JUD Justice justice tice the thu negro will wll not figure long as a problem In these theBo United Untied States |
