The broad ax., 1898-10-01
SOUTHERN SENTIMENTAL.

prejudice on the Declined Hap )
peaings that are infresting 10
the Public at Lazge-7Rct jim
cr0W Car Lac.
To be quite serious, il race pre-
jndice on the decline In the south?
/ say ain the SOUTH because,
according to the ex-southern
negro's story, who now resides in
the North. the race lines have
about entirely disappeared IN that
genial section of this common
wealth.
Paradoxical as it may appear,
there is no race prejudice in the
North, and yet there is an increas-
ing necessity for exclusive negro
churches in every northern state,
including Yankeedom, in the New
England states and even In Canada,
but ! leave that problem for'our
northern brother to solve, consider
ing it too complex for an inhabit-
ant of Dixie. 1t is said by some,
sub rosa, that there should be no
longer need of negro college ike
Wilberforce University in the state
of Ohio. But the truth is Wilber-
force is ENJOYING "boom" today
such as she never experienced be-
fore. Ten years from today that
college viii be Aourishing as q
green bay tree. 1t viii not be as
the result of the disappearance of
race lines in America either. : A
racial or national prejudice is the
legitimate fruit of popular sent-
ment.
There are thousands of good
men and women IWhite) in the
south who are actuated by public
sentiment to pursue q course in
life entirely contrary to their high
est sensibilities of right. Macaulay
well describes this class when he
said: Though often misled by
prejudice and passion, he was en-
phatically an honest man."
Prejudice is an unreasonable
prediction for or against anything,
1t is foolish notion or opinion
contrary to anything or individual
formed without proper grounds.
1t is one of the strangest thing:
conceivable that the Anglo-Saxon
races, the acknowledged masters
of the world, can conquer any.
thing and everything but theil
own silly prejudices. The light
ming is manacled and made the
servant of this great race. Sound
is harnessed and q man may sit il
his Office chair and converse witt
his partner hundreds of miles away
Mountains disappear and river
dissolve into rivulets before tn,
giant mind and overpowering
touch Of this wonderful people. HI
takes breakfast in New York, sit
down in a rolling palace and eat
supper In Chicago. He shakes Of
British rule as it were = filthy gar
ment; hewhips his own rebel hord'
back into the Union, and q few
years later makes him burn up hi
old gray duds and put on the. ma
tional colors; he goes out to sea II
meet the most Warlike people oil
earth and crushes their navy as
woman does so many egg shells.
With all this power and inAu
ence, 60 today to any white churcl
in Dixie q say church because tn
church should be the criterion) ant
apply for admission and the min
ister, If he does not flaily refus'
Sou, win at once set your bound
and you dare not pass them Hi
excuse Is ''the sentiment of tn
people here viii not allow sucl
things"
Strange to say the white minis
ter OF the gospel IN the south IL, o
all professional men, the mos
selfish and impolite apparently
Not that their ''hearts are no
right, /" but they, more than an,
other public men are controlled b,
public sentiment. They are il
every sense of the word servants o
the people, the willing tool in tn
hands of the most hypocritica
maudlins on the face of the earth
They ought to be the moulders O
public sentiment, but they ar
moulded by public sentiment
They ought to be the leaders of tn
people, but they are led BY thu
people.
Even Sam Jones the greai
Georgia evangelist, and the great
est crowd drawer IN the country,
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