Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-19
SUNDAY. ...... JANUARY 10. 1890. |
Racn Anfinathias.

II Is both instructive and amusing TO
learn that tho Afro-Americans. or negroes,
who assembled in convention in Chicago
last week found that although they were
40 far north that they could go no farther
in that direction without getting into or
upon lake Michigan. they had not got
near enough to the North Pole to he out OF
tho reach OF race antipathies. This fact
was made known TO them in a practical
manner. A telegram from that city SAYS:
"Tho color line was drawn pretty sharp
iy yesterday in the Palmer House BARRIERS
shop. saws a dispatch from Chicago. One
of the colored delegates TO the Afro-Ame-
rican Congress had gone in TO get shaved.
The seats were all occupied when he en-
tered. and when one of the BARRIERS shout
ed Next he arose and took his seat IN
the vacant chair. But he did not get his
shave. The barber walked away quietly
and did not reappear. The colored dele
gate noticed the action, but SAID nothing
and waited for another chance When
that came, he sat in barber No. 2s vacant
chair. No2 like the first man, quietly
walked away. and did not reGppear.
This performance was repeated third
and fourth time. Undauntcd the colored
nau made up his mind to test the question
OF his equal rights in the shop. But one
after another each Of the twenty and more
BARRIERS employed by Mr.. Eden left their
places as fast "a the colored delegate
reached them. To avoid responsibility
Mr.. Eden's foreman, whose name IA NC
Graw. likewise left the room after three
or four BARRIERS had explained the situation
20 him and had declared that they would
prefer 10 get their time then and there
rather than 10 shave the delegate"
1t is to be presumed that these twenty
odd BARRIERS are white men, but if they are
negroes the case is altered only so far az to
emphasize the fact that the negro in vain
seeks friends oven amongst negroes in
city which has several hundred thousand
men in it who came 10 this country from
Europe, and which claims 70 be the most
cosmopolitan of all American cities-a city
where most Of the BARRIERS are white for
cigners. and therefore ought TO be destitute
of prejudice against the negro if the silly
talk Of the negrophillsts about the preju-
dices of southern people were not both false
and nonsensical-ac city which Is the chosen
home of Socialists Anarchists, and the riff
raft of two continents. In such city the
negro is the only man to whom the barber
shops are closed!
Will this lesson be lost upon Messrs.
BLAZE and HoAR, who few days ago spoke
IN the United States Senate rs if in this
matter Of race prejudice the southerners
were sinners above all other menu Mr.
HoAH went so far rs to eulogize the negro
congressman who used to misrepresent
the South when reconstruction rascality
was running riot in this section, and the
glitter of Federal bavonets was still TO be
seen at least in imagination at every voting
place in the reconstructed States. The
Massachusetts, Senator mistoOk the negro's
initiative powers for signs Of gentihty.
Chicago seeks to be the site of the
Worlds Fair of 1892. If in a southern city
seeking that honor the incident above re-
lated bad occurred the whole Republican
press OF the North would ere now have been
preaching sermons on the narrow-minded-
ness Of the southern people and the per-
sistence of their obstinacy. Shall Chicago
not be called to account for her offence
against the negrophilists? Is the Worlds
Fair Of 1892 to be held in a city which
IN the opinion of the BLARs and
the HoAns has disgraced herself by
refusing to shave off the little beard
of which SAMDo can boast? Why was
there not a JOSHUA GDDNos. or q JOHN
p. HAZE, or CHARLES SUMNER. to be found
In tho national House of Representatives
ON Thursday and Friday of last week to
denounce tho sin of Chicago in thus mis-
treating the pet of the malignants and Sec
tionalists2 Has she not proved that she Is
not entitled to the honor of being the site
pf tho Worlds Fair?