The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-11-02
As TO RACE PREJUDICE.
GEORGIA PAPERS STRONG AR
rrCLg ON THE SUBJECT.
,ro-.h bv the Address of Booker t.
warrington, and Has Been Widely
Commented Upon

rg,sbjugtOn, anu mas N'- '@
Commented Upon
o,.., following editorial from the Ma
r.Iegraph.is, perhaps, the strongest
con ON, mat mas appeared on the subject
ar C'>,r,ia it has caused much favor
/, .omment throughout the south.
ao ..Spanl,er +. Washington, prooab ~
DtIest and most advanced negro IN
lAe ;,o made notable address in Chi
A'lo e Snndav night. He had many dis
eaHo She'd men in his audience, among
t ln.,- president Mckinley. He made an
enrn n, aud an able plea fol the abat'-
mem, of cial prejudices. he ala not
n ak however, for social equality;
"'~ "Among those who think lightly on
.bts snbiect-those who have had little
olnt1cr with other than their own Can-
oosi,n race-the appeal OF this strong
Nan will have some effect.
ma" "pnt as much as we wish the negro
,.o,1 As much as we wish to see him grow
ond nrosper and advance in morals, intel
%Io and prosperity; as much as we
an~ We and appreciate the efforts OF
g9PoFoker Washington in his behalf, we
mot shut our eyes to the fact that ma
t"re cave the negro black skin and the
"a1c9sian a white skin. Nature set up
no larrier. 1t cannot be broken down.
hike bepets like. AS nature made
tho ,n,nlds, so natures work repeats ua-
t-lTo,s work. With the black skin there
is hrsd in the warp and wool certain
rscfal characteristics. With the white
lin The same. There is little mixing
If the light of monday and darkness OF
yndniohI at twilight. But the noon
time and the night Will remain apart.
"In the chance of nature Booker
Washington was dropped at the twi-
light. He stands with his face lifted to
The nooD. but he is bound to the night.
God made it so. Booker Washington
will be of service to both extremes-to
both races-in preserving an external
relation Of cordiality SO long as they
must live in the same country and un-
der the same flag. We respect him, and
understand and appreciate his ambition.
He longs for the unattainable. He seeks
the impossible.
$50 long as the sun shines at noon.
and so long as the stars peep out at
night so long will the grand divisions
crraJed IN The beginning stand apart
i0s as God made them-the white, the
black. the red the yellow and the brown,
And lust that long will each have lis
own characteristics, which n cans lis
own preiudices for its own color and
kind, and an ingram antipathy tor the
Others.
There is something in the germ
from which the crow springs which
makes us feathers black. 1t cannot be
Inst = ,a tot
duce the swan, and the heron, and the
peacock contain something that gives
with great preciseness the same color
and tent and gloss 10 the succeeding
generations of their kind. The iris on
the neck of dove cannot by chance, or
Other wise, BE- tran sferred to the neck of
the hawk. Each bird focks with his
own feather. And this fact is simply an
external evidence or manifestation of an
external difference.
A"Just so the white mans skin and
the negrO's skin are outward tokens or
signs of their inward general states.
The one is white and the other is bla,k
Tar removed one from the other. In
TACT oppOsites. Therefore the whites
ana the blacks represent the extremes
vi humanity. Their natures are far
apart, not to say opposites, and there
tore antagonist If brought in too close
contact. Call it race prejudice if you
VIII. 1t is there, and there to stay un~
I'll the Ethiopian changes his skin and
tne leopard his spots. The negro can
MOI help 1t, nei her can the white man.
Neither is to blame. God made them
so.
1T IS mistaken notion to suppose
ina the ra3e prejudice exists alone in
We uLh, and ON account of slavery.
mere IS more of it manifest in the
so''h than elsewhere it is because there
Is greater contact here. The binds of
u'ieFtni feather are thrown together.
ana the wiser, The greater, the whittier,
10 "ore tolerant Of an unnatural contact
s1', he weaker, smaller, blacker.
1t may be possible in the
use OF generations to bring them (the
u75so) up to fair standard of morals
q plu Intelligence and industrial progress,
GUY ,hey cannot be made one n impulse,
Vle ID common, with the Caucasian race !.
0ue might a. well attempt 10 stud the
0Vo-Cay sun about with stars
me OF our northern brethren who
, ,'oN al lhlS thug afar off need to learn
ue lesson contained ia the facts we
nave cited.