The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-08-09
CHICAGO SOCIAL EQUALITY.
mn ore ton DEB ATED AT THE
WORLDS FAIR,

Especially by the southern Visitors--The
,I.tter Discussed by Intelligent People.
Correspondence Atlanta Journal.
The negro question is much talked
obont by visitors to the worlds fair
low Chicago has become the sable
brotber's Mecca will probably interest
The Journals readers That euffey is in
Lis most colgenial element here is easy
10 see. His liberties are unquestioned
and the bride has been thrown over the
,,n1e's neck while he rides literally with
ant reins. How much better is a negro
+ban white man rests with the negro
b,roself: but that he is better is evil
3o,ced in many ways There is no place
IN Chicago, so far as l know, where he is
nat at home, and he is fond of disporting
himself with insolent initiation to the in
finite disgust of southern visitors.
SOCIAL EQAULITY EXISTS.
The leading hotels entertain. negroes
os +Ae cream Of desirable guests, and it
is nothing unusual to see them strutting
oronnd the offices of the Auditorium or
Palmer house with that amount of gusto
and swagger which lypifies the monarch
dnde, Let it be understood, however,
that it is not your everyday darkey that
makes these caravansaries his place of
rendezvous. Oh, 70! it is the eolored
"5entemen," the educated negro, who
usorps the rights of the 18th amendment
and claims The earfn as all his own. The
nrov,rbial humbleness of the negro is
LOST in the elevation he has taken on in
Chicago. and whileiu many of his original
characteristics he is still a negro, there
is something lacking, or something adj
ded, which causes him to be avery differ
ent sort Of fellow.
can find no word in my limited vo-
cabulary which SO clearly defines the
pegros behavior here as arrogance. Re
pu.s to blush every semblance ofmod-
estv. and is never feeling quite so much
in his element as when pluming his
feathers. so to speak, before white peo-
pie. and while that l have sand may be
misunderstood as harsh criticism, it is
offered solely upon what he does and the
way he does it, As a waiter or servant
in any capacity he is here as he is in the
sourA-probably as faithful in many
ways, and just as desirable in these ca
pacilies. 1t is when in public that he
changes and becomes somebody else.
Possibly he realizes that in the state of
Abraham Lincoln he can afford to pose
as the Nations Ward" and he does it
to that degree of perfection which makes
criticism upon his success quite unneces-
saIy There is nobody who can talk
louder, take up more room on the cable
cars, or attract more general attention
than The negro. He does it with that
ali of proprietorship which seems to say,
"If you don't like my style, get out OF
the car" If he be alone and can talk,
he invariably draws his neighbor out
and springs a conversation on the unsus-
pecdng public in spite of all protests. l
have had any number of negroes to prod
me on the cars, and while they get moth
T. ing but courteous reply, it is next to
impossible to shake them off.
have asked numbers of people to ex-
plain the negro's position in Chicago
but itcannot be explained. One is told
that he is simply here in the exercise of
his American citizenship, but that does
not cover it. Perhaps policeman idea
Tells better than anything else.
| talked on Twenty. second street to
one Of the city's guardians not long ago
on the negro question. Said he: well,
they give us more trouble on the force
'Aan any other class of people. The
cause Of it? don't know, unless it is
Que TO the fact that some OF the whites
nave spoiled them by making pets out of
Aem' The minute white man begins
I" amljate with negro he places the lat
"E not only on the same plane, but on
even higher one. The negro never fails
lake advantage of attention, and
sOon falls into taking liberties which
'mSAer minded people would not at
''np'' Look out there at those boys
paying in the street," added the officer.
que OF them is a colored boy, and you
WI notice that he is made the leader IN
'ne sport. Now those white boys are
',uaIIy afraid of that negro, and are
'''ning him for future trouble. TheyS
70 school here together, and negro
r'iu'en are invariably turned into pets.
y" this spoils them we on the force