Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-08
THE RACE PROBLEM.

In discussing the race problem of the south the Boston Herald takes issue to some extent with those journals that stand for the suprem- acy of the negro. It stoutly maintains that while the census shows a considerable excess of negro population we cannot hope that the whites will ac- cept negro rule as necessary condition. No form of government" says the Herald, ''can be maintained that is altogether objectionable to very con- siderable number of the governed, par ticularly if these represent the wealth and intelligence of the community" it probably had in mind. as confirmation of its assertion, the fact that the negro gets the cold shoulder even from the republican party when the latter is not temporarily in need of his vote.
 Certainly, under the conditions of in- equality that now prevail in the southern states in regard to intelligence, property and good or der, it were useless to expect that the white people will consent to live under even partial black government. There is very little utilization there on political lines when it is a question of local government, and the cohesion that unites the republicans of both races in national elections does not ordinarily ex- tend beyond the ballot box. There could be no more conclusive proof of this than the edict sent out by the man. agers of the Harrison inaugural parade that negroes should keep out of the crowd of even onlookers and their entire exclusion from the inaugural ball. The recent gathering of white republicans at Birmingham in Alabama was perme- ated through and through with the same feeling that the colored brother was always in the way of the white man un- less possibly at the polls, and this was simply an extension of the sentiment that prompted President Harrison to ignore the demand for a col ored man in the cabinet and that has moved him since to shut the negro out altogether in the distribution of spells. If the southern negro Is to share in the government even of the community in which he lives he must prepare himself for the privilege by larger intelligence, better moral living and more consid- crate regard of the rights of those who were once his masters but are now his fellow-citizens than he has yet shown since his emancipation and enfranchise- ment. Until he displays these qualities he is not likely to attain his full measure of rights even from the party that now profits from his strength at the polls.
 To those who finh cause to condemn the white people of the south for their indisposition to submit to negro rule the Herald points out that Eff the state of Massachusetts had colored population of 1 ,0OO, ,O0O instead of 10000, throwing the white population into the minority; or, if the state of Ohio had colored pop ulation of 2,OO0,000 instead of S0,000, throwing its white population into the minority, the conditions that now exist, so far as suppression of the suffrage is concerned, in South Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi would find their exact counterparts in these two northern states" Anyone who reflects on the eX- clusion of the negro from posts of hon. or in the north will readily admit this. The colored voter is even yet victim over whose mangled political hopes the republican politician drives his jugger- naut in ruthless derision while he cod dies and wheedles him for few weeks before election day. There is neither re- spect nor admiration for the negro in the heart of the average republican,; nothing but contempt for his ignorance, prejudice of his color and disgust for his ambitions. And there seems to be no indication of change as the days go by.
 The race problem was certainly not settled when the slaves were emanci- pated or when they received the right to vote, and if it's solution is to come at all it will hardly be while the negro is made football for the amusement and profit of republican politicians and tricksters. But the outlook is not en- couraging while the intelligent ones of the race are still hand in glove with re publican leaders to their own pecuniary profit and the continued degradation of their people.
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