The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-24
Ex-GOv. NORTHEN's ADDRESS.

EX-GOV. NORTHEN's ADDRESS.
In his address before the Congregational
Club in Boston on Monday night. ex-Gov.
Northen gave the Boston people something
on the race problem to think about. He
discussed the problem from about every
point of view, and showed beyond ques-
ton that 1t is national one and not one
for the South alone.
Two things which Gov. Northen pointed
out, nlne-tenths of the Boston people new
er think about when they meet in their
mass meetings and denounce the South
| ern people for the occasional lynchings
which occur in the Southern states. one
is that Massachusetts, owing to the greed
| Of her people for gold, contributed more
TO the introduction of the negro into this
country than the South, and the other is
that they have now a greater prejudice
against the negro than the Southern peo-
pie have, and would lynch negroes for the
crime for which Sam Hose was lynched
just as quickly as the people OF the South
lynch them. Gov. Northen pointed OUT
some of their sins, and let the inference
be drawn that they are not in a position
TO pour out their wrath on the Southern
people whenever a lynching occurs in the
South.
A paragraph in the address. which will
afford the Massachusetts people food for
thought. and which shows that the race
question is "a nationa1 one rather than
one for the South alone, is as follows:
IAN history shows that two races, APP
preaching in any degree equality in num-
bers, cannot live together unless inter-
marriage takes place or the one is de-
pendent and in some sense subject on the
other"
This is the position which the Morning
News has taken for years, and is the only
one which the whole country VIII have
to take, because it is the only one which
will admit of settlement of the race
question. The North undertook to do
something which all history shows cannot
be done-that is, TO make a superior and
an inferior race live together on terms
of political and civil equality. The i'm
possibility OF doing this is not realized in
the North, because the two races do not
approach in any degree equality in num-
bers-the negroes do not crowd the whites
there-but the impossibility is realized In
the South, and it is time the national
government admitted that what II is try
ing TO do cannot be done. The Hogans-
vile, Ga, postoffice matter. and the Lake
City, S. c., tragedy and dozens of other
such affairs show that it cannot be done.
The white man will not submit to the
domination of the inferior race in any
degree. He will not submit to 1t in Mass
achusetts or Ohio any more than he will
in Georgia or South Carolina If the
Republican party thinks he will let il
appoint negro postmasters and collectors
of customs in those states. The Repub-
lican administration doesn't dare to make
such appointments, and it wouldn't make
such appointments in the South if 1t were
not for the purpose of controlling the
negro delegates in the Republican nation
al convention.
Gov. Northen's address Is an exceeding
ly interesting one and it cannot be 9TH
erwise than that it will have a beneficial
effect in the North. 1t will serve to show
the Northern people that they are max
ing great cutlery about something of
which they know very little, and to which
they haven't given the consideration
which so important a matter deserves.