Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-06-29
NEWYCRK CIVIL RIGHTS BILL
Ex-Governor Bullock of Georgia
Points Out Its Dangers,
Under the Law Recently sighed 10y Gov
crnor Morton the Colored Man
Has Rights Not Asked by
Ills White iirotiier.

Ills White iirotiier.
New York. June 22.-Ex-Governoi
Rufus Il. Bullock OF Georgia is at the
Fifth Avenue hotel. He is very mlcl
interested in the civil rights bin signed
by Governor Morton and had a GOOD
deal to say about the probable opera
tions of the law. The ex-governor is
inclined to think that the negro vii
abuse his new privileges. "The provert
that chickens come home to roost,' IN
said. lis to be found somewhere in the
bible, | believe, and 1t APPLY illustrates
the situation in New York under this
civil rights measure.
ut is a dose of medicine that will moi
be appreciated, now that it has to be
taken at home. For twenty-five years
the northern people have been trying
To regulate the negro question in the
south and a~gitating the subject in D
way calculated to do more harm thar
good. We have settled the negro ques.
ton i'm the south i'm the best way pos.
sible by just letting things alone. The
matter has more or less regulated IT.
self"
The rover chucklcd and con.
tinued:
Il see by the bill Governor Morton
has signed the negro I'm this state mas
really the advantage of the white race
Any negro can go into a restaurant,
hotel or theater, and If he Is put out OF
II not served he has n case for damages.
But "A white man who does not lookTe
spectacle can be put out and nothing
will be done. Verify, the chickens
have come home to roost. 1t seems t.
me a drastic and unnecessary law. IN
advantage is given the negro when,
perhaps. he does not wish, and which
may cause trouble. A white man VINO
looks like a bum ana Is not well clad
is not permitted to seat himself IN o
swell restaurant and dine. lie Il
courteously and, If necessary, torcipiy
shown the way out. The ~taura
keeper knows the presence OF n as
reputable looking white man would DC
Objectionable TO his patrons. AS IN
terpret this law passed at Albany any
negro. no matter how badly clad he may
be. can not be refused nor put out
This looks like class legislation.
Mr.. Bullock became philosophic and
explained how foolish such a law Is 10y
relating the way the problem had beer
solved in the south.
."rhe negro in the south is well treated
and has all he desires. Some discrimi
nation is made in the south in certain
things. but not To any great extent. II
negro has all of his rights n ne mas
advanced materially and CducatiOnallN
In Georgia the negro is moi permitted
to ride IN the same car with the whites
but the law stipulatos that his car ac'
c~ommodations shall be equally as good
as those used by whites.
"In our thcators q special part OF ths
auditorium is set apart for the negroes
and they do not object in the least. In
some southern states the negroes can
ride i'm any Of the railroad ears. No dis
elimination Is made in Atlanta, where
1 live, in street cars. You can see ne
grocs and whites seated side by side in
them. In the public parks in the city
the negroes have the same privilege. IN
some suburban parks signs are placed
SAYING Negroes not admitted in tho
grounds, EXCEPT as nurses n attend
ants But his is lone merely to pre-
vent the negroes from having picnics on
the grounds"
Then the race problem is solved prac-
tically in the SOUTH
Eyes; partially, and II has been solved
merely by the let alone policy. The
negro has the same right there before
the law as the white man, and he knows
how TO sue and invoke the aid of tho
law. For a generation we have been
facing the question, and we ave not
lacked advice from our northern breth-
rem. In fact. we have been hampered,
If anything, by too much advice. We
have become inductive philosophers, ali
Of us In the south, and have followed
out Herbert Spencer's theory of laissez
faire, which in cold English Is TO let
matters alone and not get into tangles
by legislation for people. The evolution
Of things is inevitable, and when laws
are passed disturbing the social order
OF affairs, that makes a new problem to
face"
What. in your judgment, will be the
result of this law in New York;"
"Ah, / do not propose to criticise New
York; law. / can only tell of results
I'm the south. New York will now have
to work out its WI salvation. Think
of the struggle we have had in the
South and the medicine we ave had to-
take. The mills of the gods grind
slowly, and, as / said, the chickens have
come home to roost."
The hotel men In this city have not
decided whether they will fight the
equal rights law, or simply wait and
vote for legislators who will repeal 1t.
Proprietor Meriwether of the Continent
tai hotel, president of the Hotel Mems
association, said that no special meet
ing of the association had beer called.
He thought ii would be best to wait a
little longer before taking any action.
All the hotel men say it opens the door
for an immense deal of blackmail. Sew
eral lawyers have pronounced the law
constitutional because a similar law is
part OF the constitution Of the United
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