The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-27

terest TO forsake Democracy and come over
to the grander and more comprehensive
system which the editor has been so long
trying to build up on the Pacific coast and
extend throughout the Countrywide
American party. He showed in
fervid and argumentative terms how
the people of the south stand
in their own light by not breaking
away from past and present affiliations and
coming into an organization whose object is
the upholding of the native white citizen
and the exclusion of all things and the
keeping in the background of all persons
arrayed against it. In other words, if the
southern democracy would go against tn e
northern democracy and help the American
party to down the ''Pope's Irish," that
party would help the folks down south to
maintain white supremacy. No doubt he
thought the bait was sufficiently entieing
to enable him to get nibble at least, but
so far as THE HERALD has been able to
learn at this writing, no such thing has
been recorded.
The gifted chief of good publication
asks for too much, great deal more, we
doubt not, than he expects ever to get. Being
unreasonable man, h ehardly expects people
to forego the unity which alone promises
them temporal salvation for the desperate
chance of something better which he
promises To go back on the northern
democracy would simply mean the indefi-
mite continuance of republican rule
throughout the land, north and south
alike, and PIxLEY must be well aware of
this. Still, we give him credit for being
honest in his proposition and speaking
from the fullness of his heart, not, as many
would be disposed to think and iustifably,
that he is secretly trying to help out his
old allies. His proposition can amount to
nothing more than a pet theory, and as
such he knows it will not be acted upon.
The people of the south are getting along
very well with their race problem. There
| is less trouble now than there was a year
or two ago, and but for the friction en-
gendered and kept up by the SHERMANs.
FoRAKEBs and others of that ilk, would
soon cease to be afactor in the political situa-
ton. 1t is impossible for two separate
and distinct races to 1--we together without
when one is the Caucasian and the other
the African-the former representing ell
lightenment, progress, refinement and
virtue, the latter barbarism, ingorance,
superstition, prejudice and sensuality. The
understanding is now all but reached. the
blacks tacitly consenting to the rule of their
superiors, which is, of course, as it should
be. The white Democracy of the south,
aided in small degree by the better part
of the negroes, will always control political
affairs so long as the issues remain as at
present, and to practically disband in order
that the "Pope's Irish'' or Bismarck's
Dutch or Victoria's English may be rele-
gated to the rear, is really quixotic and
chimerical proposition when you come to
examine it closely.
But the south is not having this ques-
ton altogether to itself. The gradual in
crease of the black element in the north is
causing it to assume the proportions of a
problem in some portions there. Here,
for example, we have the Detroit Tribune,
the chief Republican organ of Michigan,
terribly disturbed over u little question of
the kind referred to at its own home. 1t
has of late been awfully exercised over the
recent exhibition of race prejudice in At
lanta, Georgia, where some excitement
niger at a desk in the postoffice near
young lady 1t now has something else to
engage its attention. a colored person of
Detroit named FERGUSON, who is described
as respectable, thrifty snd intelligent
citizen" accompanied by another Sene-
gambian who likewise was respectable =
etc, went into prominent restaurant in
that city and ordered square
meal; they were refused service except
in the drinking saloon attached. the only
part of the place where the unbleached
American was permitted. The owner of
the place defended" his action, if that is
what doing exactly right is properly called,
on the ground that the colored citizen is
obnoxious to the white one, and as he
makes his living out of the latter class, and
they will not patronize his place if negroes
are permitted there, it would be poor policy
in him to do so-in fact it would amount to
closing his doors in a very short time, !
nothing more and nothing less. Now let
the Detroit Tribune and its New York |
namesake unleash their dogs of war and
turn loose upon society as it is in the north |
whenever the same treatment which they |
pray and vote to have maintained in the |
south is visited upon them.
Mr.. PIXLEY's medicine is needed nearer
home. And if he succeeds in capturing any
of his Republican friends in his raid |
against the Milesian Catholics, there will |
be no objections from any quarter. His
class of people represent the proscriptive
element in this country, while the Democ-
racy maintain what there Is of liberalism
and tolerance as relates to religion or any
thing else. Besides, IN arraylng his party
Or any considerable portion of it against
the negroes as well as the Catholics, he will
be relieving them Of some portion of the
hypocrisy which they exhibit every time
they hear of brutal blackamoor commit
ting an outrage on white woman in the
south and being deservedly lynched for it.
Try it, anyway, Brother FINLEY; TIE
best wishes for success will ac.
company you.
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