St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-13

same equal chance is given. In the
busiest portion of this thOroughfare our
December violets, January roses and
middle-aged African. He has proudly
decorated his stand with framed letter
Of thanks from Mrs. Cleveland, who
sent it in return for tastefully ar
ranged wreath of her favOrite panSieS.
All lovers of fragrance and beauty are
tempted by the graceful show on the
old mans stand, Not war of races,
but war of roses is what he carries on
with white lady who spreads her
biushing wares a block further on. 1t
is contest in which the darker hue has
gained the decisive advantages, for the
negro has been appointed fiorist-in-chief
to the grand Ponce de Leon hotel in st.
Augustine, and prepares all the table
decorations for that elegant and fastld-
ious hosiery. A colored photographer
location ON the principal street, and
cares not which color comes up his
winding stair. A colored dentist last
week opened his dental parlOrS in
choice location. The first school houses
in the city are those built for the use of
the cOlored race. Their churches are
the finest edificeS, and are well filled
with not only well-dressed, but very
elegantly apparelled congregations.
Yet with all this 95 per cent of our
criminals are negroes. The cure for
this, you will say, is education. Let us
see. Of these criminals 80 per cent can
read, write, and have always voted the
Republican ticket. 1t is want of JUS
by juries, in which their own color is
often in the majority. Sometimes, as IN
Jacksonville, one of their own color pre-
sides as judge.
Within the last year a writer in the
Epoch summed up the twenty-tiv years
of experiments with the negro as citi-
zen as a failure. He quoted statistics
showing the thorOughnesS and sincerity
of the efforts to educate him, and
proved how completely it had all come
to naught. A Florida newcomer an
swered through the columns of our lead
ing daily, the Times Union, and pleaded
that the author of the article was too
easily discouraged, and looked too i'm
patiently for ripened fruit, He urged
that it had taken the AnglO-SaXOn cen
turtles to develop from the wild Morse
man to the polished resident of Nor
mandy, London or Boston. Let us grant
it. TO help the argument, another Illus
tration may be added. Less than thirty
five years ago the capacity of the horse
for speed began to receive attention. A
$40 gait was a marvel of trotting.
When Flora Temple lowered it to 2;1915
the world Stood in wonder. The educa-
ton of the horse, its development by
training. in-breeding, and care, was sys-
tematic and progressive, and the nag
ging pace OF Flora Temple has given
place to the 2:0S4 of Maud 5.
But we must remember the nature of
the material. The same time, training
and money spent on mule or a cow
could not have produced such result.
The Anglo-SaxonS were dignified, spir-
tied, valiant, truthful, fearless, ener-
getic. The negro has no dignity, is sly,
deceitful, imprOyident, wholly unrell-
able, simply initiative in small matters,
Self-sufficient and important.
All who have risen to any distinction
among them are nearly white. Fred
Douglass is a quadroon, and married a
white woman. James Sanderlin, the
wealthy negro of Colorado, is bright
mulatto.
The South, for her own sake and
safety, and with the eyes of the North
upon her, has tried conScientiOusly and
persistently to do thing never before
attempted by any nation or any people.
She has given the negro careful training
in equal schools with her white pOpula-
ton, and she mas given him equal OPP
portunitieS for using that education.
Not an occupation, trade, profession or
business of any kind is barred to him.
His success in any line is commended
and warmly encouraged by his white
colleagues in the same calling. Yet the
results are not encouraging.
In the words of that grand apostle of
peace and good will, Henry Grady,
s,This is problem in the solving of
which the South must stand alone. On
its outcome depends her very existence.
The problem is to carry within the body
polite two separate races nearly equal
In numbers. She must carry them in
peace, for discord means ruin. She
must carry them in equal justice, for to
this she is pledged in honor and in graft
itude. She must carry them unto the
end, for in human probability she will
never be quit of either. She must carry
them separately, for assimilation means
debaSement" And this is true. 1t
would mean a debaSement which would
degrade not the South alone, but which
would be blot on the nation and the
continent, and disgrace on the century
which saw it. This burden no other
people bears to-day; on no other has it
ever rested.
In the history of eighteen centuries
the situation is without parallel. En-
gland, which possibly by the prophetic
blessing of the aged patriarch is typiied
in the Ephraim who was to rule over all
races and peoples, and who was to be
the keeper of the gateways of the ma
lions, has never attempted assimilation
or equality with the Malay, the HindOo,
the Australian, the Indian or the Esqui-
mauX. The civilized world would have
revoIted at such efforts had she made
the attempt. She has conquered. she
has civilized, she has converted to Chris
tianity, but she has nowhere ceased to
dominate. Why? Because she is the
Anglo-Saxon race, the superior race. So
will the supremacy of the white race in
the South be maintained forever. be-
cause it is the white race, and the SUI
perior race.
1t is truth that carries its own con-
yiction through every heart that pulses
with Anglo-Saxun blood. 1t is simply
1t concerns the North only In less de-
gree than it does the South. The races
and tribes of the earth are of Divine
origin. AS Mr.. Price Friday night re-
marked, Paul standing on Mars hill |
and speaking to the naughty AthenianS
said: He hath made of one blood all
nations of men for to dwell on the face
of the EARTH" but, as Mr.. Price did not
say last night, Paul also added, 'And
God determined the bounds of their
habitation." While the Christian re-
Iigion acknowledges the brotherhood of
all men in Christ, and the South
to-day holds her white and her black
Christian by the same hand, Christi
anity has never, in any age or country,
attempted or professed to wipe out race
distinctions.
behind the laws of man, and the de-
crees of war, stands the law of God.
The Indian, the Malay, the negro, the
Caucasian, stand as workers of Gods |
will. Let no man tinker with the work |
of the Almighty. No race has risen or
will rise above its ordained plane. Here |