The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-28

to inspire one with confidence in either
the present management or the future OF
the association.
THE WHITE MAN'S INTOLERANCE.
No lesson which may be read as the
result of the recent hangings and burn
iEgs of negroes throughout the Southern
country will avail much The incidents
I'm question represent a social phenom-
enon. They may be taken as merely rep
etitions of similar events, or they may
be looked upon as expressing an abnor-
mai condition of social feeling. However
they are to be regarded they are Of su
preme social Importance
Among the press dispatches which re-
ticed brief announcement of the ex
pressed purpose of the people of Okla
hema to exclude negroes from the life
of the territory. The movement has
spread from one town to another in the
territory. While the inception of the
movement was found in the unimportant
circumstance, that black man had
killed a white in quarrel, it's signifi-
canoe is much more far-reaching.
Ten years ago or more, after the anti
Chinese movement had virtually died out
in California and vicinity. certain young
communities in Montana and elsewhere
showed their determination to begin by
| excluding Chinese wholly from their cor
pCrate limits Public sentiment hostile
to the Mongolian found it's effective ex-
| door was kept effectively barred against
their appearance.
The movement in Oklahoma is the same
in principle. 1t is an expression of race
hostility. The Caucasian in America is
showing a disposition everywhere to in
siSt not only on his complete domina-
ton socially, but upon the exclusion of
all other racial factors from the situa-
ton. In Oklahoma the movement finds
sudden and violent expression. with ref
erence to the African. just as 1t found
expression on the Pacific coast against
the Asiatic. One may not be able to ex-
tend his approval to the movement in
either direction; but its existence one
cannot gainsay in the light of events.
This anti-biack crusade Is not alto
gether sectional. It is not that the
Southern white man likes his black
brother less than does any other white
man. The conditions in the South are
such as to arouse the hostility of the
Southern man more violently and unre-
servedly than it has succeeded in doing
elsewhere; but events have tended to
show that the feeling is shared in more
or less generally in all communities in
the United States, and indeed elsewhere
In Europe, say in England for instance,
they profess great regard for the man
of negro origin. But it is none the less
/ noticeable that he finds no place in the
social or Industrial life of England What
is true of England is true of every other
European country. The Englishman has
his niger in the native East Indian.
just as the Southern man has his In the
person of the descendant of the unfortu.-
nate slaves landed on the Southern coast
so many years ago.
For fifteen or twenty years the work
! of excluding the colored man from GER
tain occupations which involved personal
services to the white man has been stead
| lily but quietly in progress. Whereas,
there was time not so long ago when
the deserving co1ored man and woman
fittingly enough was the trusted house
hold servant, coachman, cook, butler,
nurse, chambermaid, barber waiter and
| porter in every Eastern community, to-
day he or she has been or is being surely
! displaced by their white brother or sister
Small political partisans may see in
this movement merely something which
expresses their own narrowness of
thought. There is much more than this
in it. The race problem has reached an
unexpected stage; and it is now a prob
lem which concerns the self-respectfng
colored American much more seriously
! than it affects the white man.