The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-02-16

ison the race question seemed 10 nave
ome into prominence, and that north
I'm people were talking of it with con-
iderable interest.
BLACKS AND WHITES IN VIRGINIA.
"rrue," said the governor, "but the
discussion of the matter down mere
.ntedates the election. This question
If races has been earnestly canvassed
or wears, but more especially during
he last few months. And it's knotty
,oint. Its solution will tax the best
minds of the country. 1t can't be
Olved by federal power or authority,
hougb many colored people Imagine
General Harrison will be able to solve
t. We have all anomalous condition
IF things. There is no other country
n the world wherein two distinct races
races that can never asslnila'e, 'ha'
AN have but few interests in com
non-are made politically equal Oy
aw. If YOU look abroad-in Europe,
or instance-you will find that similar
peoples only come under one genera,
Germans are governed
~ Germans, French by Frenchnen,
;Dauiards by Spanish, and even Poles
~ Polanders, though under pressure
# Russian officials. Ireland may III
ZONE measure be cited as an exception:
out thoughBritish laws may be unJns'ly
enforced, there is not SO WIDE diner
,nce between the average Intelligence
Of the two peoples. Imagine Spain
AGAIN governed by the M0ors, ana 1t
Will not seem SO strange as absolute
of the south by the freed
men. TO talk of the majority being III
control in this respect Is TO accept
theory which cannot be put III Practice'
Look at the teeming millions oil oiacks
in India. Are they moi in majority
that is overwhelming? Yet they are
by laws made tor them IN
London, in which they have no partic'
ipation. There is no thought OF put
ting the Asiaiics on a par pollticai'y
with the whites. But here in this great
democracy, and the only place III the
universe, the national constitution ae
clares whites and blacks are politically
on equal terms"
WHERE THE DANGER Is.
"Suppose the colored people should
seek TO have this constitutional privi
lepe carried out to the fullest extent
governor, what would happen =
81 think they won't seek to do any
thing OF the kind if left to themselves
II they should, however, there mus
necessarily be trouble. Personally
am on good terms with colored people
A short time ago, on invitation, rod'
out to review a body of colored troop
at a military encampment, and final!
[ ended by making them htil'
speech. For this deputation waited
on me and declared that the coiore'
men OF the state had determined t
send me here for another term-'Gwal
Ter send you up agin, as they put IL
notwithstanding the stale constitution
makes me Ineligible Tor second term
T had pleased them aud they were de
sirous of showing their appreciation
INV slight service by re-electing me
generous impulse characteristic OF tn
race, perhaps, though to do 30 Woul
be in violation of the fundamental lay
of the state. They meyer once stoppe
to consider that
! PERPLExING PRoBLHM.
"But, governor" said, "tt
colored man is here to stay. He is
fact. How do you propose to tre'
him?"
"Ouestions easily asked, not easi
answered. AS he is now, laborir
and assisting in the development of Il
states, he is all right. Leave him aloi
and he will thrive proportionally wit
the rest of us. Upset him, fill
head with false and pernicious notio1
of assimilation aud social equalit
!, and YOU destroy his usefulness as {
ipteger. Colonizing schemes ha
been proposed. TO send him
, Liberia, to put him in the Iudi
Territory, to get him to pack up al
90 to the northern states.
, "As to Liberia, you know that
. United States representative sent the
declared that 10 put him back in Afri
, would again reduce him to savage
= and heatheuism. In short time, y
q know this representative said, Sam
would he reduced to bare skin raimel
with only the African culture clol
cultivatiug goats and sweiteri
> i'm filth in mud cabins. III
wouldn't do.
= "rhey could't all live in the Indi
Territory If it were made legal to Sc
them there. AS to sending them no.
well, try it. You couldn't DIR
them to emigrate, so here they are.
"A noted preacher called upon
> recently, and, talking this matter ov
he said d:-'Chr:stianize them; IN,
them better morally and they will
better citizens, and the gulf, politics
T and socially, separating them from J
"a will be lessened.' Possibly | 90
= 'and the sooner you begin the bette
But, you know, it is easier to talk u
d to act. | have not heard that
q. gentleman made any effort whate
Is to put his theory into effect. Nj
the freedman pious man and reaC
Ia as your laborers are in New Yo
m and YOU have made big step tow
in solving the race difficulty. How mi
IN colored men buy and read newspaI
d and healthful periodicals? Very f
at They don't rush from their worksh
M or labor to the newsstands and sec
k. papers and books with which
MS cultivate their minds. People '
IN have very imperfect ideas of the {
be ject talk flippsntly OF the compuls
m intercourse of the Caucasian
1g African races as if the intelligenc,
or both were equal"
Irt NEGROES DON'T PAY TAxRs.
ns lls care the colored men not
en- payers?"
81, Gu GAS rule no. The white pop
"a ton pays ninety per cent. of all
~ ~ ation-about that. No matter
np what purpose tax is wanted 1t CO
~ out of the white mans pocket. g
70 rn' the public schools and you will Ii
20 =" that eighty per cent. of the scholars
n3 colored-result Of race prejudice if
Nv like, but nevertheless fact. Scar
- dollar of negro money is contrib
~ -, to their support. The same apple
% reformatory and penal institute
ID Out of a thousand convicts, say,
~; III; find eight hundred blacks. Charit
H. institutions, again, furnish about nj
,"o no per cent of all their benefits to col
- people. Now take all these lh
,Ha fairly INTO consideration and then
a,a Yourself the question whether
ioS I white population, in addition to pa
W" wv all the bills for the negro's bel
70 will also permit him, because he
,W mJ the majority on his side, to Sc
~ absolute control of municipal
a,' n state government. In Mississippi
,r same general conditions prevail
80 we have here, bat with this parti,
,lfference that there are three nel