The Washington bee., 1893-07-01
BETHESDA PARK.


itself tS death last week and hi .
called on the leaders of the color
cd people to do likewise, because
! he management OF Bethesda
Park Issued an order prohibiting
certain colored people from enter
NJ certain sections of the grounds
designated for white people.
The american ought to know
that the age OF sen .imentlallty
Las long ago passed and that peo
pie are not to be favored On ae
count OF their color nor are they
to have any special consid GRAFTON
because they are colored, how the
american rails:
1t is eveidently trying to trade upon the
prejudices of the Southern whites. In order
10 coin cash, it is panderlng the meauest sen
ument in ouI sOcity. 1t recognizes none Oh
the standards that determine character
and position in all civilized countries of the
eartn. 1t boluly ignores what The race has
accomplished along the higher lines OF hu-
man Development. 1t refuses to recOgnIze
Ous
mad wealth l. e colored peOple of w asnington
can satisfy the most + stldious fancy. 1t sets
the same standard for men like Frederick
John r. Lynch. John F. Cook, John
IL, Francis c. Il. Purv1s, anu.
NJ. NJ Holland that it does for the meanest
white criminal. The color of skin is The test
of admission TO Bethesda Park, and not
the moral or intellectual Or social Character
of the individual Any white tough from the
darhes5 slulns OF the city, and who has never
tfaI,
shuts in the ace of cultured gentleman
like Rev, Francis Gri1nae. What Transparent
nonSen e!
Thi, plrk belongs to the white
people, so do the ell c;rlc cars
that convey the people to this park
and there We're certain colored peo
pie that trequen:ed this park and
behaved in redlculous aud lnde
cent ma lner so much So until al
order was issued rest ricting their
privileges. The AmericDn now
calls upon Messrs. Bruce, Holland
Lynch, Cook and others to do
something to breake down this
discrimination.
OF course these gentlemen must
not make fools of them
selves by going to the manage
ment OF Bethesda park and de
mand that the recent order be
reclnded and this same noisey
and disturbing element be admit
ted to this park again.
These cultured gentlemen to
whom the american calls attention
have no business at Bethesda
park. They have money enough
10 have a park of their own. This
remit dis the DEE of an orgapiza
ton started to compel white mer
chants to hire colored clerks. all
this foolish talk by newspapers:
edited by negroes and organization
will do the race more hacm than
good.
The editors of the american have
a pubic office suppose crowd
of white toughs should enter their
office and make a disturbance and
were put out aud 81 IN was put up
as follows:
WHITE ToUGHS NOT ALLOWED
would not the white people have
the same right to object and
would the american editors per
mits such a crowd to enter their
office again.
Again suppose all the white editors of
this country Disseminated and refused to
to publish the doings Of the colored peo-
pie and have heading like this:
''Ths Colored American
A National Negro Newspaper:
and publish nothing but race news as the
AMERICAN does, what would become of
the colored people?
Sentiment is one thing, hypocricy
another and demogoguey another.
When colored people learn how to be-
have themselves and act decently, when
they get where civilized people are, they
can eXspect to be treated as American
Citizens. The BEE is making no defense
for the management of Bethesda park
nor is it the advocate of any race of peo-
pie who are in the wrong. If the colored
people would depend upon each other
more and support their own institutions
they would have no occasion to be al
ways asking that some law be passed to
Droh ibit discrimination.
''Get thou behind me satin,
you make me tired"