Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-10-10
ciai Equality Between the White
and Black Races.
10 he Editor OF he DiSDntCb :

10 Ut CuWU OI We DtSpulCt
In a short article in your issue Of the 9th
instant appears the following: "in word,
did Mr.. Powderly mean by what he said
last Monday IN introducing the negro Fer
rcll that he holds that our hotels ought to
put whites and blacks upon an equality 7
l. MIR. Powderly man Of that sort! ;"
How ii Is possible that you can entertain
the slightest doubt that Mr.. Powderly
fayors social equality OF the races Is mys-
terry TO me, for in the report OF his first adj
dress 20 the Convention now in session
here, and published In the Dispatch, he Is
quoted as saying: There had been parti-
cular mention made OF one instance where
a delegation numbering nearly seventy
members had only ono cOlored member
among them. lie was refused admission
TO the hotel where they intended to
go, and the delegation standing by
The principles Of NE order, which re-
oognile no distinctions Of creed, natioaalhH
or color, went With their colored brother"
That, he said, was why he made the selec-
ton OF that brother TO introduce him TO
them, SO that II might 90 forth that they
"prac,iced what they preached" In the
name OF reason, Is not thi, explicit
enough? "The delegation, standing by
the principles OF the order, went
with their colored BROTHER Left
where? and went wheIey Let hotel
Kept exclusively for the accommoda.
ton Of white people bec0use the proprie.
tor-Mr. Murphy refused 10 entertain a
negro delegate, and went to Harris's and
other places kept by colored people.
What stronger possible evidence could
be adduced to show that Assembly
1,I
trine Of social equality between the
black and white races. And Mr.. Pow
derly says that In doing all this they were
"standing by The principles OF the order,
and for this reason he made the selection
Of that brother [tbe negro] 10 introduce
him to them. so That II might 90 forth that
they practiced what they preached" IL
MIR. PowdeIly had used this language, 81
am IN favor OF social equality between the
white and colored races, and by the
appointment Of Ferfell TO introduce me 10
the Convention, under existing circum.
stances, am giving practical and conclu-
siye evidence OF the sincerity OF my con.
yictions," would 1t have made his position
more distinctly understoods Surely not.
Yet this Mr.. Powderly Is the Grand NJ ,ster
Workman OF the order OF knights o! La
DOT III tue tHtiSu states, duu IL ItStldcu
as the true exponent OF It's principles.
No one believes that the white Demo.
cratic Kni2b,s OF Labor in the South favor
the horrible doctrine of social equality be-
tween the whites and the blacks, and yet,
unwittingly am sure, they are giving aid
aud comfort 10 an order whose great leader
and many OF whose members In the North
unhesitatipgly proclaim their advocacy OF
y doctrine which Il repugnant and damna.
bic In the estimation OF every true white
msn OF southern birth.
To the white Knights OF Labor In the
South, and TO those OF Richmond pirticu-
larry, desire TO say be strictly on Jour
guard as to an Vganizrtion which In the
North contsins large element that would
II they could trample under foot and de-
III oy The most sacred and cherished prlnci-
pies and institutions Of the southern peo'
pie. CITIZEN.