Show ia t gp A g t s s js 7 8 t MEN cy WS W S M yiew va ati c rt if race S eaf 0 y ft A saraa Sp raa 0 8 deaine happs 1 1444 a we are interesting to of at large aldr that jim 1 crow fly taj X t i 4 r T tae 6 1 e quite serious i is tace brace pre i iby nai auw on the decline in the donth sonth bothi I 1 say maum in i the south 11 because according to the ex s bouthern heerot he grot story atory who no now resides in the worth north the race lines have t about entirely disappeared in m that genial section of this commonwealth Ps paradoxical as it may appear there is no race prejudice in the woh north and yet there is an increasing necessity for exclusive negro churches in every northern state including in the new england states and even in canada but I 1 leave that problem for our northern brother to solve considering it too complex for an inhabitant of dixie it is is said b by r some sub rosa that there should be no longer need of a negro college like wilberforce university in in the state of ohio but the truth is is wilberforce is enjoying a boom today such as she nver never experienced before ten years from today that college will be flourishing as a green bay tree it will not be as the result of the disappearance of race atee lines in america either A racial or national prejudice is the legitimate fruit of popular sentiment there we ure thousands of good men and women cwhite white in the south who are actuated by public sentiment to pursue a course in iia life entirely contrary to their highest sensibilities of right macaulay well describes this class clams when he said though often misled by prejudice and passion he was emphatically an honest man Jre prejudice judice is an unreasonable predilection for or against anything it is a foell foolish sh notion or opinion contrary to anything or individual formed without proper grounds it is one of the strangest things conceivable that the anglo saxon races the acknowledged masters of the world can conquer anything and ana everything but their own silly prejudices the lightning is is manacled mana cled and made the servant of this great race sound is harnessed and a man may sit in his office chair and converse with his partner hundreds of miles away mountains disappear and rivers dissolve into rivulets before the giant mind and overpowering touch of this wonderful people he takes breakfast iu in new york sits down in a rolling palace and eats supper in chicago he shakes off british rule as it were a filthy garment he whips his own rebel horde back into the union and a few years later makes him burn bum up hi his old gray duds and put on the national colors he goes out to sea to meet the most warlike people on earth and crushes their navy as a woman does so many egg shells with all this thi power and influence go today to any white church in dixie 1 I say church because the church should be the criterion and apply for admission and the min minister if he does not flatly refuse you will at once set your bounds and you dare not pass them his excuse is the sentiment of the people here will n not ot allow such things 1119 strange to say the white minister of the gospel in the south is i of all professional men the most selfish and impolite apparently not that their hearts are not y right aright hut but they more mor than ethan any other public men are controlled by A public sentiment they are in every sense of the word servants of the people the willing tool in the r hands hanai of the most hypocritical af pf maudling maud lins lims on the he t face of the earth I 1 to be the of public lie but hey are by public bublie sentiment ent i aney hey ought to bei be the leaders of the laepple lp ippe epple but they bare are led by tie d y vi e sam jones the t he ax great eat G ast and the great drawer jm aln I 1 the country I 1 J wit li alkhis him dare 41 1 A arrangement corns e ii luco hicL ex 1 i P ta ar S r i s affy t 4 A T i 74 1 4 d AAY an daught i X K 1 i P J M 1 eisma t Lienti avi ones hi s 4 st s T s ys f jr name aw if M z M om S kl UM ammo 6 za M R L A P 41 vy assy i 4 43 3 baz x 7 11 av 1 x irwy 6 hiss hun OIL ame h tia ti 2 at n 1 ife t aw f fd ys f v i rift 0 7 aai audience swallows t the he pill the bon tons tolis arl grit it their teeth grin and bear it al alland and when the meeting closes some hypocrite atti guilty as the devil will in invite e him home to dine aine and the whole community gives him a standing and g invitation to come again but if sam jones should get up in the midst of some great holy ghost meeting while the very breath of god was upon the audience and say brethren god has crested created us all equal please let those colored people take seats wherever they can find them the holy ghost would immediately take wings and ily fly off to a clime where only the pure in heart shall ever enter and sam jones would i be barrun run out of town on the next train daubed all over with decaying hen fruit the average so called evangelist seems to be a very bold and daring individual but one of two things Z is evident he is either a great coward or his heart is not right and all his talk is simply for effect it is merely professional john the baptist lost his head but he 1 dept dp t his heart he poured grape and canni cannister sier into the cattle of sin he was bold and pure hearted too he went to his god with the consciousness that he had done his duty the truth is is the heart of dixie is is not right much is is said about southern senti sentiment sentiments mentY southern sentiment reminds me of a great big overgrown spoilt baby it must be nursed but it cannot be controlled let us look fur a moment on n two or three illustrations a an n a agent ent white called at my house the other day to induce me to purchase his wares while there he asked for a drink of water he was i drinking out of the same glass that my my family and fr friends ends use daily he a as 8 grateful aud and so expressed himself I 1 met the same man up town in in a short time afterwards at a soda fountain in a drug store he would have gone into hysterics if I 1 had been permitted to buy giuy and drink a glass of soda by his side b thousands of pe people opie gathered at chickamauga park on the to witness the military review the day dav aaili was hot there was plenty of liean mean water but only the thoughtful came provided with vessels to drink from I 1 was provided with a tin dipper the property of one of my parishioners ners who saw me panting ing for the liquid As soon as I 1 drank d r ank I 1 was besieged by a famishing horde of white ladies and men eager to grasp my dipper being of a merciful temperament I 1 con sentell sen tedi they used the old tin dipper with a vengeance I 1 only secured it again again 0 with the greatest difficulty tv they knew it was a knigge in igge dipper 2 11 they had stood by with tongues hanging out looking at the colored contingent even the pick anin nies use that dipper yet vet they were glad to get a chance nt at it I 1 come baek back to the city and meet that same crowd at a dago f ruit fruit stand they are taking takina m a milk shake I 1 call for one too and it i is offered me in a different glass altogether the women throw up their hands in horror and the men matter out some un on sunday school words and all walk off swearing vengeance against that dago c either for the sake of guarding against the social equality scare or for fear of being outraged by burly dinegro negro brutes the white ladies of the south are jealously enjoined against coming in touch with colored men and yet vet the white men of the south would no more mor trust another white man on tb their air premises m aises as they do i a negro negra than they would a bengal tiger negro ser some as handsome as can be others as ugly as sm sin some as fair as a white man others othen black as ink may be seen every day seated in in a on one e seat vehicle with the mistress both wrapped in the amela e probe and they go a distance of many miles alone nothing u is said or thought this thi association is A perfectly harmless harmles and not a single a 91 e instance has ever been reported where here such a servant has ha deported d himself to ward his charge demost em ost jp gantic 0 piece of tom an enlightened hie ri jim crow car laje groe of jaIT aae ta mar crowd info sars of 75 77 up g st th 6 with ft f 1 CA chii bi neam ewt car W tg jd sed ride race y J cases 62 little k h a yia y ia 0 4 1 lizia asa 1 ored alite j f fasi w tty t t y t F 1 ride anywhere in uncle sams domain unmolested there would appear to be a great prejudice against the blacks in in the south but 90 per cent of the whites will have no one to cook their meals and nurse their children but black women and girls preference is given too to the dark skinned ones for obvious reasons but I 1 close cloe now and continue in my next to discuss another phase of this subject J A west terrace street chattanooga tano oga tenn the freeman |