Show WOUNDED BIRDS WILL FLUTTER COT COL JR who is supposed to write the editorials for the salt lake herald was formerly editor of the argus and the bee and while serving as editor of those journals he resorted to every method known to the fraternity it to vilify abuse slander and ridicule all the negroes of this city without any aay justification and when we ve mildly protested against the treatment he was am according the members of our race he drew him 1 self up haughtily and declared nh it the e columns of the bee that he would pay no attention to the protestations or the utterances of a blue gum and from that time to the present col warrum lowered himself in the estimation of every self respect respecting ing negro throughout utah in time the colonel became editor of the herald much to the regret of the negro subscribers of that paper for they realized that i it would be utterly impossible for him to divest himself of his race pre prejudice judee and his course as editor of the herald has fully sustained the P position position which they assuaged in reference to that gentleman while criticising criticizing critic ising the colonel in the put past we were always dis inclined to refer to him in an manner but he would persist in slandering the negro and then we made up our mind to give him as 83 good as he sent but he flutters like a wounded bird and maintains that we are am unable to carry on a discussion on public questions without becoming insolent and resorting to personal abuse but bat the colonel is certainly in error we can and have discussed questions with white editors nf if other newspapers without resorting to ridicule or using harsh language but there are very few white editors who can carry on a discus sion ion with a negro without losing their self control and in spite of their efforts their hatred for all negroes will crop out th this is shows the weakness of those writers who belong to the white or the superior race and aad we have our sincere doubts whether the colonel could rise above his race prejudice and carry on a discussion with wi th professor booker T washington without ridiculing the ne negro gro or using the double gal g there them are however some few who can do this thin but bat they are areas as fir far above the colonel colon 61 as the elephant is above the ant in thia connection we m might italio also say aay that tUv writer is ia acquainted vt ath sev v r eral ex alanes w ak L north and west who have demon dem on ed their ability to set fo forth rth their views through the columns of the FU public alic press on the most important an and d vi vital W questions q nes eions wi without th 0 a t being designated ravishers ravi or black blackmailers mailen 11 the colonel is ia of the opinion that the negro is ia all right providing he keep himself in his proper place we might with propriety say the same thing about the white man for if he would have adhered to this advice the whites would never hove have been bothered with the presence cresenc i beof of the negro upon this continent Further more thero there are over two million illegitimate hom born negroes in this coun country try the result of the white air i not keeping himself in his Ls proper place |