The age-herald., 1898-12-07
New Jersey Wrought Up Over the
 Mixed School Question.
IMPORTATION OF coLoRED LABOR
Has Thrown Illinois Into Turmoil, While Pennsylvania and Iowa Are Object ing to the Negro Being Treat
 ed as Equal Socially.
BY ARCHIBALD W. BUTT

WaSn1nRIOn, DeCeuhDSI o.-\opSSiNA|
 There will be no serious effort made to en-
 act any law looking to enforcing of eiee-
 tions in the south. In fact, there is little
 chance that any attempt at all will be
 made. Certainly the leaders in the republi-
 can party will have nothing to do with
 such a measure, and without their support
 no bill would have the ghost of a chance of
 becoming a law
 I quoted a republican senator from tine
 south some time ago in these dispatches to the effect that no force bill would re- ceive the support from any republican from the south. Tine northern states are begin ming to have their own troubles with the negroes, moreover and it is of more seri- ous kind than happens to the south. Apart
 from the question of importing negro labor into the north and west, the colored man is
 becoming obtrusive socially to such an ex- tent In some of the northern communities as to make it a serious matter.
 Public School Question In New Jersey the question of allowing the negro in the public schools is forcing itself to the front. The other day the fact was noted from there that the white pa- rents were taking away their children from school on account of the evil associations
 with the colored children. Complaints are
 made there that the white children are growing up without proper respect of the
 color line on account of the intimate way the two races are thrown together in the public schools.
 The parents of the white children have cr6d lxa pod to ba nf this association, and not being able to debar the colored children they are being forced to the alterna tive of sending their own chil- dren to private schools.
 The question there is but in its infancy. It will be more serious as the eolored peo- pie emigrate to the northern states. The respect in which the colored man Is held in 1..inois has recently been illustrated in the action of the governor of that state. Rep resentatives from the state say that no matter what the papers may say to the contrary, that Governor Tanner has the sympathy of the people in what he did, and to pursue that line will add rather than de- tract from his popularity among the masses of the state. They do not pretend to in- dorse his conduct and in fact refuse to be quoted about it at all, but they admit the popularity or ms action.
 Trouble in PhiIadeiphL. Over in Philadelphia only few days ago | the students in one of the largest medical | colleges there protested against admitting | as a fellow student a light mulatto and l threatened to boycott the college if he was l allowed to matriculate. In Ohio and Iowa l the question has advanced much farther 1 than it has in the eastern states. Public | men from those states say that sooner ol later the matter has got to be taken ur l by the cities and legislatures and some thing done to separate the races. Such I conduct as was witnessed in Connections the other day in regard to q negro couple | who wanted to get married would have l shocked any southern community. The l church was filled with whites who were
 not invited to the wedding and the cere- mony was not allowed to continue until
 the brides clothing was torn almost off her | Even then the minister was not permitted l to proceed to the pulpit, but united the 1 frightened couple at the door of the l church.
 NoL Love for the Negro
 | More than this, the whites after such 1 outrageous treatment, proceeded to the |
 I home of the brides mother and carried of
 the repast which had been prepared. There
 seems to have been no reason for the con | .luct of the white assembly other than an l utter lack of recognition of the rights oi l the colored brother who had settled in the | New England town.
 Hundreds of such instances could be
 cited if remembered. The only advantage I of recalling them is to show to the negro | that his best friends are found in the south, where they are permitted to work l at all trades and have equal advantages
 Of education with the whites though sepa- rated in different buildings.
 l It is safe to say that there will be nc more force bills. The shoe is beginning to | pinch the ether foot somewhat Grant GiIIett in Chihauhau