The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-29
Supreme IN COUNCILS
OF THE WORLD TO-DAY HE is
DETERMINED TO REMAIN so.
NORTH CAROLINA IS NO EXCEPTION
The Negro is Better Treated in the South Than
s szzz in the North, as Shown by Northern
Witnesses. Negroes Friends
and Enemies.

Commenting on recent utterance of
the Chicago Interior which was as fol-
lows:
Here in the city of Chicago q man with
a dark skin is not allowed to earn his
living at any skilled employment. We
have a colored friend who is an electri-
clan, thoroughly competent to do electri-
cal work of any kind. He is not permit
ted to pursue his calling. He may black
shoes. curry horses, do scullion work.
but he can not enter a white man
trade" His children can not go to tie
public school,"
The North Carolina Presbyterian says
in part:
eve call attention to this candid con-
fession of facts to make two points. The
first is that the negro is much more con
siderately treated in the South 1..an in
the North. There is no city in the South
where a negro is now allowed to earn his
where a negro is not now allowed to earn
his living at skilled employment. From
the diatribes of some Nortnera papers
one would think that It would Et inn
possible for a negro ID join Il prcsbste
rian church composed of Southern white
single church in connection with our
Assembly that would refuse admission
to any worthy colored man. Yet the In
terror Chicago. says "He cannot be
member of a white mans church" The
South has spent millions of dollars upon
public schools for the negroes. tho white
people paying the taxes. and only in
sisting ON separate schools for the two
races.
"But this separation is wrong in
principle, says the philanthropic Norther-
ner. We must have no separation in the
to the Interior, that the Negroes children
cannot go to the public schools.
.'There is city in North Carolina
where colored undertaken. by reason OF
his skill and tact, retains the patronage
of the white people, in spite of competl-
ton by white men, We asked a clergy
man from Boston once if that state OF
affairs could exist in any New England
town. and he said without hesitation. No.
There is a city in Illinois where a bloody
riot has been in progress for the last
few days and number of lives have
been lost because of the importation
of negro miners from Alabama, and
Sldte lIUOlpS tlit iahthS VI shS
negroes, by command of the Governor,
whether in the interests of order or as
popular measure makes no difference
with the argument. The Southern Pres
byterian church has been severely criti-
cised for its policy of a separate Colored
Synod. Yet in the Northern Presbyte-
rian church Presbyterial and Synodical
lines are run to effect that which IS
theoretically condemned.
sAnd this leads to the second point.
Nowhere in the world to-day, in Carolina
or i'm Massachusetts, in India of China or
Africa or the Philippines will the Anglo
Saxon submit to the rule of another race,
be that race white or yellow or brown or
red or black. Whatever the future may
reveal. just at this hour in the worlds
history the Anglo-Saxon is supreme.
Here in the Southern States is Anglo
Saxon blood, purer, more unmixed than
in any other section of the country. Here
is also a race which through all the ages
of history has been known as the inferior
race. The same Anglo-Saxons that have
denied the ballot to the Chinaman and
put the Indian under conditions of tute-
lage, gave freedom to the slaves, then
bestowed upon them that which they
cOu1u HcAeE HAVE Non lDI ihcuiStl}Co,
the suffrage, then. in reconstruction days,
put them in positions of power over de-
feated and impoverished people.
"A generation has passed away and
what has been the result? The negro
has advanced in all the arts of civiliza-
ton more rapidly than he has ever done
in all the millenniums of his history
as race. Yet his possession of the
suffrage has only given more representa-
ton in national councils TO his Anglo
Saxon neighbor.
1.-THE South is not exceptional there
fore in the possession of the Anglo-Saxon
race instinct, determination to rule. In
politics, which is war; this determination
is asserted in the election of white men
to office. In society and religion where
peace must prevail the separation of the
races is the only solution of the question.
1.-THE negro has never had any better
friend than the Southern white man.
Nor has he any worse enemy than the
man who would destroy the old friendl-
ness between the two by raising for the
negro ambitions that can never be real
lied, or using the power of the civil
government to give the negro superiority
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