The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-20
A NOVEL POLICY INDEED.

The Philadelphia North American is indignant be
the Virginia constitutional convention is in
way to dsfranchise iterates after the precedent
established by several States which have recently re.
vsed their organic law. But the North American
doubts that thimbe-riggng schemes" to disfranchse
the black because of his color will stand the test
Of scrutiny by the supreme the United States
and hazards the opinion that possibly sympathy
would be shown for the negro in his grievance by
Northern republicans but for the policy which
the country converted Of ascrbng to the Anglo
Saxon rights and powers withheld from Latin races,
well from the mixed races of our colonies"
1t not to be expected that the North American
would state the issue correctly Possessed of a preju
dice in the premises that nothing soften it was to
be depended upon to aege attempted disfranchise
ment of the negro because Of his color, when in truth
his ignorance is alone to be set up bar to his
else Of the privilege of having voice in the selection
of public officials
The North American TO the contrary notwithstand-
ing there be wrong done in denying an il!itor
TO the polls in endeavor to improve the
quality of the popular verdict rendered election day
That the intended prescription will fall heaviest upon
the black Is his misfortune, but in many instances
his fault the Southern States which seeking to
eliminate the ignorant from among the factors con.
trhutng the formation of their administrative ma
chnery have made ample provision for his free com
mon and higher education. The means for rid
ding himself of the defect which renders him undesr
able as SuUraglSt are at MS command ana the as
REIMBURSEMENT of which his insncere Philadelphia
newspaper friend complains be but temporary at
most if he really desires TO rid himself thereof
Unfair is the North American in It's treatment Of
this subject it has nevertheless in this turned
amusing who else would have thought Of excusing
lack of sympathy" for the negro the part of the
Northern republicans to the novel policy of ascrbing
TO the AngloSaXon rights beyond the reach of the
Latin and races? Was it conversion to this pol
icy that was moving another Philadelphia paper at a
time identical with that Of the setting up of the North
Americans vail. to sound vigorous alarm because Of
the importation of Southern negro aborers by certain
Philadelphia contractors and express the fear that they
would not return home when their work was finished
is It this AugoSaXon rights policy that has forced
Chicago negroes TO organize BLACK Cross assoca-
ton to combat the White Boxers who persecut-
ing them in that section? We do not hear anything of
this socaed Anglo Saxon policy in the South. On the
contrary for the material advancement of the
black race are approaching fruitful maturity in every
direction. Leading negroes are holding meetings for
the discussion of more improved methods and machin-
cry of industrial education and plans for the develop
mont of negro enterprise and the betterment of the
races condition seriously laid Indeed the fear of
the policy OF ascrbine rights to the AngoSaXon to be
denied to the African to he peculiar to the sec
ton in which the North American hourshes