Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-12

| any more than IN the North-not so much
but l am Just speaking of facts as they
are"
How about recognition or personal con-
| tact in travel?"
JIM CROW CARS
An, when it comes to that they will not
let the negro occupy frst-class car in Ala
bama, Georgia and some other places. No
matter what his position, nor however neat
! and clean, he must take his place in the
Jim Crow car, provided for colored people,
and with Indifferent accommodations.
There one may have to associate with
| criminals in transport and with the dirty
| and offensive. Now, admit the right of a
company to say that man out of the ditch.
with his clothing filthy from labor in the
sewer or canal or the foul and drunken or
noisy and insulting shall not be permitted
to offend by sitting in a car with orderly
and ordinarily clearly people. But that is
| not the rule in the parts of the South re-
ferred to it. 1t is the color of the skin"
g But. suppose a negro is with a white
as his body servant -
| Oh, then, it is all right If he or she is
a mental, a servant, nurse. and with his
employer, he or she remains in the first
class, and the whites are not at all Offend
ed, though a more genteel and cIeanlv
| colored man and woman, no matter how
cultured, who happens to be unaccompa-
MED by white person, must perforce move
on into the Jim Crow car
No EXCUSE.
How do Southern people excuse this
| marvellous Inconsistency ?r
They don't pretend to excuse it al all.
! With such people negroes have no social
rights. This feeling can only be removed
by raising the standard of intelligence
| no 7 II
OF an editorial expression in the RECORD
UNION the other day.
MATTER OF COLOR AND CONDITION.
" 1t said, treating of the Chinese agita-
ton, that this people do not oppose the
Chinaman because of his color or
| his nativity, but because of the
relation of his color and nativity to
a certain condition. Now in the South the
whites have not prejudice to color. to the
black skin, but to color as related to a past
| condition"
" How are the educational processes, YOU
are laboring to advance, progressing?
+" Only slowly. That is, so far as the
State is concerned. What Is being done is
by churches and by means Of individual
gifts for the maintenance of schools. Now
the States say they are so impoverished
that they cannot provide adequate school
systems. If it had not been for the
MUNIFICENCE OF THE NORTH
Education among the blacks in the South
| would have been III a much more hopeless
condition than to-day. You can see the
need for educational effort in the fact that
in Georgia fifty per cent. of the people over
| 10 years of age cannot read, in North
| Carolina As $40 and in other States South
81, IS, and so on
Z" Is it true that the blacks are more rig
| orGUsiy punished for criminal offenses than
the whites ?"
Yes, sir. If there was no black man in
the South there would be no farming out
of prisoners. Every colored man sent to
State Prison is disqualified for life, and so
il is a means of decreasing the political
| strength of the negro. He is sent to State
/ Prison for offenses recognized with you of
California as only light crimes For in
stance, what would be petit larceny with
your people is grand larceny in the South
Thus the prisoner becomes an outcast for
such an otfense as taking pig or chicken,
or a bushel of corn, etc. With you grand
larceny is measured by the value of $50 in
the article stolen; with us it is from 81 up
| wards
RELIGIOUS CONDITION.
"What is the state of religion among the
colored people of the South ?"
" Religious growth has greatly advanced
since the slavery days, not only in the gen.
eral acceptance of the truth, but in the
forms and methods of worship, and in the
extension of the fields of religious worship,
as also in the increased number of churches
The structures are far better than in the old
| days, and some of them are very fine build
ings. The capacity of the clergy has also
improved greatly. The people attending
service now are thoughtful, deliberative
AID examine more deeply. There is less of
physical enthusiasm in worship-less of
shouting and more of profound thinking
and solicitous inquiry"
What denomination is numerically the
strongest among blacks in the South 20
| " Probably the BaptisiS. They and the
Methodists are the strongest among the
| churches"
| THE NEW STOCK.
Are the young people of the colored
race at the South who have had school
| privileges, as much cowed as are their
elders ,"
mo. sir In proportion as they become
| intelligent and are instructed in things
| taught in schools, they become more indie
pendent, without being insolent. They
are more respected by the whites accordif 2
as they manifest intellectual capacity, and
in degree, too, not possible for the ignor-
| ant TO command"
Then, to come back to the starting
point the way to get the black man out of
the
JIM CROW CARS
Is to educate him"
Precisely and it is for that reason that
| am here seeking to interest your people
in our work. With an improved intel
lectuality our men and women will be more
| careful in their personal attire Their
| IN will opl fba,,
must disappear much of the prejudice that
now reiegates them to the Jim Crow
cars. We want technical schools in the
| South, that not only the head may be de-
veloped, but The hand also that it may be
| taught cunning of skill, and that our
young people may approach the avenues of
| industry, prepared to enter them with some
| idea of what they demand of those who
| walk therein. Yes, sir; the jim Crow
car is at the bottom OF our trouble-that is,
| it is chief agency for trouble-for it is
| representative of the spirit of the South and
| the condition of the negro in the South. In
| some States our people are not compelled
| to take to these vehicles, and there is where
! they have the broadcast need of freedom in
all directions. But in Others the intolerance
goes TO this extent that we cannot warm
ourselves at the same fire. As
AN INSTANCE.
Il can cite my own case. | was COM
PEELED, with other travellers, one cold night,
to leave train at a small depot and await
the arrival of a connecting train The
white passengers all entered the waiting
| room provided for them. 1t was a comfort
able apartment, with chairs and settees and
a cracking fire to mitigate the nipping
| chilliness of the sharp air of night We
had to remain at this point all night-that
is, until daylight, some six hours off-and
there was no help for it. l, with some
| other colored people-cleanly, decent, and
| well -behaved-entered the waiting-room
to warm at the fire. We were told to re-
tire. Going out, we asked the authority
who excluded us where we were expected