The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-09-08
HENRY WATTERSON ON
NORTHERN RACE RIOTS.
He Takes the S~ehtinef's View That
Human Nature is the Same
'5't~ l. Everywhere.

Henry Watterson, editor of the
Louisville Courier Journal, writes tho
following as his view OF the recent race
riots 10 northern cities:
Hard upon the negro riot in the
borough OF Manhattan comes the negro
riot in the village Of Akron. Ohio
beats responsive TO New York. The
heart OF the Western Reserve warns
to the culture OF the tenderloin. Spirit
OF Joshua G%iddings, rise, behold! Is
this the fruitage Of thy abolitionism?
Was it for this that thou didst labor
and give thy life?
by all the saints from Harriet
Beecher Stowe 10 James a. Garfield,
but the negro has fallen on evil times
in Gods country! He could scarcely
have Jared worse had be stayed at
home and nursed little Eva!
THE newspapers of New Orleans are
having lots Of fun with the newspapers
of New York. 1t will be observed that
although the cases we're alike to a IT.
the New Orleans negro distanced the
New York negro in the list Of his
killed and wourded, In the south,
when a negro goes a-nlggering, he gen.
orally does the thing at first hand, 10
an original, niggerly way, while the
northern negro tries to emulate the
northern tough and is merely an imi-
tator.
yet We are told 1t was a rare sight
TO see The Astorbilts and Van Waldorfs
and others of the old aristocracy Of
New York chasing the bad niggers Of
the Teuderloin down Fifth avenue and
driving Them into the dark waters Of
the bay, to the ringing Of the fire bells
and the booming of cannon from Gov
ernor's Island.
1.-The tall towers of the World and
Tribune must have shaken their sides
with glee as the surging, shrieking
mass OF blacks, pursued by the shooting
Four Hundred, in dress suits, swept
through Printing House Square, Mr..
Bartboldi's Statue of Liberty looking
on the while with grim surprise.
Il bitN tiidt Alls 81 "oo III
Chicago. Happily, however, the Sun
was there to shine and the Times tC
shed lis sad moenbeams upon the scene,
The Herald, however, had much the
best OF it., being situate up town in the
heart OF the Beau QUARTER, it was able
to get snap shots of the leaders of East
ern morality and fashion AS they dashed
out Of adjacent clubs and hotel, each
| A41lt.-. -. ...n 10 ono h.n Il md "a n ~
10 the other, and before the bloom unt
beauty had quite worn off the tableau,
~vivants by the long hot chase dowr
Broadway 10 the City Hall.
"Oue OF the most fashionable OF New
York's clergymen writes US that it wa
so light he could read his Greek Tesla
nent by the flashes of the pistol shots
and a great author from Harlem say
confdentially that his only regret i
that William Asdorf Vanderbilt wa
out of town.
ITO a gentleman up a a tree-that is
high enough up a tree 10 survey man
kind from Henuebunkport to tn
Brazos, from Moutauk Point to Cor
onado B~each-these outbreaks seen
curiously alike. There is Il deal o
human nature abroad in the land. III
race question Is IN goou truln eertou
question. IL involves IA problem tn
solution OF which the wisest have no
been able to compass, the end OF whicI
the most sagacious cannot see.
Those who know most about IT dis
card all theorizing and throw them
selves back upon Ii simple, childlik
faith in God, who can raise u as he ca
cast down, and who doeth all thing
well. Meanwhile a white man is
white mau and II negro is a negr
equally in Swampscot and Hell-loi
Sartin, in New Orleans, New York an
Akron.
But yesterday we mourned for Ne
Orleans. Then we mourned for Ne
York. Now we mourn for Akror
Whose turn next? And, harkee, 70
little boys up 10 the trees OF kalamazo
and Conk'ud, don't you ali speak I
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