The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-04-05
THE RAcEs AT TIE SOUTH.

THE RACRS AT TIE SOUTH.
In a recent number of Century Nj.
Geo. ". Cable, the author and lecturer
who has lately come into notoriety'
had an article in relation to the race
problem in the south. For one who has
grown up in the south <his boyhood's If
not his present home was New Orleans)
Mr.. Gable expresses remarkable views.
It Is rare indeed that southern man
has overcome the repugnance to the
negro race that generations of the rela-
ton of slave and master, OF the superior
and the inferior, have cultivated and
developed. Should there be a case
where the mental, moral, intellectual
and physical superiority were with the
enslaved race, and this were to continue
for even two generations, the inferior
but master race would be unable at
once to overcome its feeling OF
superiority and accept the ex-
enAa4ed az social and politi-
cal equals without sentiment of
repugnance. In the case of the whites
and blacks at the south the condi-
ton is not like the one suggested.
There is well-known and generally adj
nittsd superiority on the part of the
whites. hence there is less likelihood
that the two can meet on the same
plane in any of the walks of life without
the whites experiencing feeling that
they are below their level, and the
blacks knowing that thsy are above
theirs. Mr.. Cable, however, seems to
have largely overcome the race anti
pathy, and taking broad view of the
question of the association OF the races
believes that the white and black are
fast approaching each other. and that
ere long it Will not be matter OF pride
on the part of the white that he is
white nor a thing of reproach on the
part of the black that he is black. lie
does not say SO in so many words, but
the tenor of his article is in that direc
ton. In the April number o.
Century, Mr.. Grady, one of the editor:
of the Atlanta Constitution, replies t.
Gable, and clearly demonstrates tina
it is impossible to force the races tt
mingle socially, though they may b.
compelled to work together politically
He is much better authority on tn
subject than Mr.. Cable can possibly be
not only as southern man and kee
observer, but his position as editor c
"A leading journal in the south ha
brought him in close contact with a
classes of people and made him fan
liar with the peculiarities, the prejJ
dices and sentiments of the races;
has lived and does live in the thick {
Inc fight, not as disinterested specti
tor, but as one who must neeessaril
understand both sides. Mr.. Grady d
elares that trace instinct" q peculia
yet expressive and easily comprehend
term, makes the social commingling
the races repugnant, not to the whit
alone, but to the blacks as well. Or
doesn't have to go south to find TIL
race instinct" for tits seen everywher
In the north, as matter of course, it
better developed and more apparen
There il shows itself in desire in bot
races to have the schools separate.
have social gatherings distinct, to ha'
whites and blacks worship in separa
churches, and so on through all Il
social walks of life. Mr.. Gradt
says: +,
The negroes meet white people in g
the avenues of business. They wol
side by side with the white bricklay
or carpenter in perfect accord al
friendlness. When the trowei or har
mer is laid aside the laborers part, eat
going his own way. Any attempt
carry the comYadeship of the day In
private life would be sterniy resisted
both parties in interest.
This states it as ii is. as it should
xad as 1t viii be- There can be no ra
equality socially, while the blacks al
whites retain their characteristic
and their respective natures rems
unchanged. 1t may be doubt
81 the eommingiing viii ever be. 3,
closer than it. is to-day; there is
mutual understanding that there 'sh;
-be equal accommodations, but the
shall be separate and distinct; that t
negro children still have school facl
ties equal to those enjoyed
che white children, but the
shall be black and viii
teachers respectively, because each "
prefe. it; there shall be cars of equal q
commodation for blacks and whites, b
one race win not be welcomed into Z
cars of the other; colored preachers W
teach, exhort and instruct the color
people and white ministers will stal
before white congregations,