The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-12
RACIAL DISTINCTIONS.
Prof. councill Says Best Element Of Colored People Fight Social
 Eoualitv Idea.

Nashville Special to N Y. Times.
 Responding to a request by local pa- per for an expression or his views re- garding the Roosevelt-Washingt uih, ner and the educated negro ana socldl aoualitv. Prof. w. H. Councill, President of the Horticultural and Mechanical Col Iege for Negroes at Normal, Ala. today cent a reply Professor Councill declines to discuss the dinner question, saying "It seems to me that ordinary wisdom suggests a dismissal of the recent w Whlte House dinner affair, and common charlty demands the view that neither party to that accident had the remotest desire to lear down the social barriers between the races in this country. l deslre 'o 'aNe this view"
 Professor Councill says the educated ne gro does not seek social equality' iie fights against 1t. He says he sees "rlt- ten everywhere that the Anglo-Saxoh mas a determination to resist soclal ln.er- course with races in an inferior conuluon' This antipathy to racial intercourse ID stronger in the Anglo-Saxon than In any other people on the globe. He further says that where the blood of the Anglo Saxon is purest there the antipathy IS IS greatest. Therefore, for two reasons N ia stronger in the South than Tn the North.
 First, the only pure Anglo Saxon blood Amerlca we do not meet the heterogeneous white nonuIation which has settled in the North | Second in the case of the negro, It Is unreasonable to expect his former mas ter or his former masters descenoantS ] for many generations to come, to take 1 the negro as a social equal or even to permit a hint looking toward obllteratlng the social lines. It is folly to irritate the South on this question. It has thorough h mind crystallized it in its laws. It Is instllled into every white child from the cradle to the grave AS I have said, he contln- ues "the white South has decided this question for itself. Any contrary op!n- ion from the outside Is not only met with unanimous opposition, but arouses ana embitters Southern sentiment against the negro, although the negro may De an ln- nocent party in the discussion. It requires no great acuteness of wisdom to see clearly that the white South has deter mined two things which it will sup port with it's life blood. It will resist all attempts at social admixture or the races whether by legal enactment or so- cial sufferance. and it will rule in all po- litical affairs with the ballot or the bul- let.
 'The South Is never stinted in it's con- tribution to negro industry. education, and religion. No people meet the appeals of charity for the negro with warmer and more liberal hearts. It aids in all right and proper ways in the elevation Of the negro"
 Speaking of education, Professor Coun- cill says The negro educator is giant. Now for the negro to step from the schoolroom into politics is a step from strength to weakness. For a negro to step over the social lines is step from life to death."
 Speaking of the future of the race, Pro- lessor Councill says: Tt is also plain to every thinking mind that the very saliva ton of the negro race depends upon a rigid observance and enforcement of the social distinctions in the south There may come a time when the good of the races will admit the obliteration of these -honored customs, but l cannot see 1t now
 This caste. founded on color. is met everywhere in the United States, and in- deed wherever the Anglo Saxon is found Why not recognize 1t as we do other stubborn things in nature? Right, truth, and justice among all men and to- ward all men can obtain without it."