The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-30
THE RACE QUESTION.

| LIE hEASE QOGC1lO%'s
A patron and friend of The HERALD yes
terday handed in the following clipping
from distant newspaper, which he thought
was of sufficient vitality and Importance
to justify its being reproduced and COM
mented upon in these columns The gentle
man may rest assured that this paper is al
ways on hand to discuss anything pertain
ing to the public welfare, and it is all the
more gratifying to it to be able to dissem-
mate good logic and common sense, such as
is contained in the dispatch referred to, as
| follows:
| NASHVILLE, Tenn, Oct. 15.-The negro Demo
cratic state committee to-day adopted a set of
resolutions setting forth that the Republican
leaders OF the north are misrepresentng the two
races OF the south by incendlary speeches
wholly uncalled for;' that the committee states
TO the colored people OF the country, thing that
will do the negroes of the south more good than
anything else is the division of the negro vote;
that the educated negroes are doing better IN the
south than in the north, and that the best thing
| the southern negro can do is to cease his war
policy upon his white neighbor.
The substance, if not the text of this, has
appeared before but it will bear frequent
repetition. 1t is certainly a matter of no
little import that the black people of the
south are awakening to the Importance Of
the situation and actually beginning to re-
alize their position. The race problem has
been the bette nOir of the southern states
ever since they were permitted to re-enter
the union and have a voice in its affairs;
and the fact that the whites would not per
nit the blacks to dominate them, no matter
whether enfranchised or DISTINGUISHED, has
been the real foundation for all the dis
order.
Urged on by their northern allies, the
greater part of the negroes have been led to
believe that freedom meant all that that
word in its broadest sense implies-freedom
from work, from the restraints of
society and the injunctions of law, freedom
from anything that binds; and thus encour
aged, thus instructed, the blacks have
done things which they would not under
other circumstances have done, have gone
to extremes, and made it necessary for that
portion Of our white population which as
ISOLATED and associates with them by rea-
son of birth and constant contact to also do
some things which, under strict construc
ton of the law as it stands, might not nave
been entirely authorized. Ii was simply a
case of the survival of the fittest for long
time-a question of the natural right of any
race or condition among the animal king
dom to preserve itself intact even at the
expense of sacrificing its inferior surround
ings.
There should be no quarrel and certainly
no irreconcilable conflicts between the
white people of the south and the negroes.
The former are inherently, instinctively,
physically and mentally the latter's super
iors and will fight and fight and keep on
fighting rather than reco ynize any other
condition of things But the negroes are
not so destitute of some sound Judgment
that they cannot recognize this eventually,
if indeed not at once. If they hold out
against their better judgment it is because
of influences received from across the
border, from men who hope to profit
politically by reason of such diver
gence, and rot because of any real
desire on their own part to have
such condition prevail. 1t IS easy to
remember how the same class made use of
contraband slaves as shields for the white
soldiers by putting them in the fore front
of the fight-they cared and care nothing
for them only so far as their selfish pur-
poses can be subserved by making the
blacks think so.
1t will be a great day for the whites and
the blacks in the south when they can fully
understand each other and respect each
others rights. The negroes can do no
where so well as in the southern states
where they or most of them were born and
bred, and the whites can find no servitors
so capable of rendering good and efficient
service 1t would therefore seem as
though being constantly at logger
heads was a mischieyous if not a
criminal condition, condition which we
are sure would not prevail were the dusky
citizens left to their own circumstances
and conclusions without interference from
the north.
1t is very easy for the people OF the latter
region to prescribe conditions for their
brethren in Dixie which they would not
have thrust upon themselves for moment,
and equally as easy to overload the south
erners with reproaches when they will not
submit to African domination. No white
people will do it, north or south, more par
ticularly those of the south, where the col
ored race is best known and understood
They will fight again first, and it IS hardly
to be supposed that the people of the north
would again push their southern brethren
into adeadly struggle because of matter
regarding which nne-tenths of the north
erners are actually in sympathy with the
others. Now, whether the supposition pre-
vail in the north that the negroes are or
are not being permitted to vote their full
in the south, there will hardly be
a war or any serious clashing over it, for
the reason, if there were no other, that the
are of themselves learning some
things which all who are not STEPPED in
bigotry will admit are greatly to their
credit and their advantage. If the carpet |
baggers will only refrain, the white and
black races south of Mason and Dixon's
line will get along together very well
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THE NetcS announces that on Tuesday next
New York state will choose a governor
This is not correct; the highest official to
be chosen in that state on that dayis secre-