The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-12-26
ousToN, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 90
10 PAGES TODAY.
RACE INSTINCT.

The Philadelphia Press edited by Charles Emory
Smith, lately the postmaster general of the United
States contains in a recent issue the following edo-
rial statement with regard to the
elected by the senior class the class day exercse
in 1902. Roscoe c. Bruce, who is a negro:
81" remains he whether Southern newspapers will
s , 9geF the so , and that all g
As there political Campaign proceeding and no one
has to be elected by firing the Southern heart
fs however to impress the Southern mind with the truth
that the antics perpetrated in the South
washington dinner made impression in the North The
backs President Roosevelt ignoring the color line
There is very great difference between negro
upon the commencement platform at Harvard univer-
sy and negro at the table of the president Of the
United States Harvard university is not public in.
stituton The president of the United States is the
president of the South as well as of the North He
owes duty to the people of the Southern States to do
no act which the best and ablest in this section
believe to be menace to civilization negro
as class orator does not, a negro at white mans
private dinner table undoubtedly does mark the begin
ming of the downward path to mscegenation The
danger OF mlscegenation is the unanswerable argu
ment that called for the condemnation of the pres
dents action.
The incident of the election of a negro class orator
at Harvard, the Press says will be allowed ia
unnoced in the South but of the absence
of political campaign (there was no campaign pend
ing when the Booker T. Washington dinner was de.
NOT
be chosen at Southern university the South comedies
that the North may do 1t pleases in matter such s
this which does not affect u.s. Nevertheless the edj-
torial in the Press calls for this twofod comment:
trs tnat the North is not sincere in its advocacy Of
negro social equality second that the tone of hostilI
~ to the South in the editorial regrettabo Tbese
two things. il closely examined are seen to he one
Where there is hatred to the South there Is crv for
negro equality and vice versa The first however
usually precedes the There is no more GEM,
Inc negro social equality in the North than in thu
South. Negro social equality means mscegenaton
northern men have as much horror of that as South
ern men IL is race instinct. The color line too IL
drawn in the North sharply as in the South yo,
md 1t in the hotels in the theaters in the bar rooms
In the restaurants, In all public places all over the
North Nor are negroes found as guests in Nortbern
private houses.
There is no prejudice in this separation OF the
races either in the North in the South II is race
instinct The only difference between the North and
the South is that the South obeys the race instinct
with deliberate and understanding judgment that II
is right being divinely ordained the North obevs II
100 without knowing why Therefore all evil speaking
Oh 'he south Tor It's treatment of the negroes which
no dnerent here from what is there is reprehen
sbie in Northern journals and In Northern men The
negro is given his political rights and all industrial
rights in the South. He may work at any work he can
DO and may engage in any business he can engage in
Just as white man. But for the protection of the
white race there must be- and there will be- no social
equality Whom God hath put asunder, let not man
join together
Thinking men at the North recognize this and ava
coming every day to recognize 1t more clearly With
the recognition comes sympathy with the South in her
problem. Trying to wipe out the indeble color line
God has drawn and abuse of the Southern people he
cause they recognize the handiwork the Almighty
is lnduged IN only by presumptuous people who have
not the fear of God before their eyes and who net
of being actuated by love for the negro are really
filled at heart with rancor for their white fellow coup
trymen