The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-27

play football.
 A contemporary speaks of 'the big guns of the anti-ratifers." Maybe they have such pieces. but they are all blow-guns.
 Wonder if Brer Watterson's boom is of the kind that will require frequent irri- gation?
 A BADLY INFORMED JOURNAL. The Leavenworth Times gets off this characteristic paragraph:
 The social equality of the negro is still the paramount question Tn the South among a certain class of her people. The more progressive people of the South have outgrowu the racial prejudices of thirty years ago and are taking up with the social conditions as they exist in the North.
 We speak of it as characteristic" be- cause The Times seems at all times ignor- ant about Southern people and Southern conditions, inexcusably so. it seems to us. The obvious meaning of the language quoted is that only the lowest and most degraded class of the Southern people ob- ject to race equality. and that ''the most | The Times to designate the intelligence and breeding of this section. have out grown their feeling of antagonism to- wards the social intermingling of the white and colored races.
 Just what The Times may intend to | convey by the expression-"the social conditions as they exist in the North" | obIo fa hut tha of the editorial from which the quotation is taken would lead to the inference that, in | the opinion of The Times, the whites and the blacks in the North mingle promiscu- ously in all the walks of life. We incline to the opinion that the people of that section will very decidedly repudiate such an insinuation, and we are moreover | conditions as they exist in that section, that there is practically as much race prejudice there as here.
 Just why The Times should claim that what is usually designated race preju- dice" has died out in the South, we are not able to say, except that the belief arises from ignorance of the conditions existing here. To this may be added the further fact that it is a sGojsct about which little is said among our people be- cause there is little need to discuss it. It is so natural for the Southern people to look on the white race as superior to the colored, that they do not consider it necessary to be always exploiting it. They act on that feeling, and can see no need of constantly proclaiming it to the world. It is only when some extraor- dinary event, like the late unfortunate dinner at Washington, gives prominence to the subject that public sentiment is aroused and discussion becomes com mon.
 The Times has read the Southern papers to very little purpose during the past few days, if it fails to understand the feeling existing here And 1t is equally unob- servant, If 1t insists that the episode is only condemned by what it somewhat sneeringly calls "a certain class of peo- ple," or If it believes that the more progressive people" approve the act of the President. While many of the South ern papers have taken a conservative view of the episode, and have not been at all denunciatory of either the President or Washington, there Is left no room for doubting the sentiment of Southern men.
 Certainly The Times will not have the hardihood to assert that the newspapers, embracing practically the entire press of the South, do not represent the sentiment of the very best element of our popula- tion While, as before stated, some of the most prominent of Southern journals have not seen fit to criticise the act of the President in terms of severity, they | have with a degree of unanimity un- paralleled in the history of newspapers, proclaimed their disapproval of it, and almost without exception they have made it plain that the act was in violation of the feelings and traditions of the South ern people. And, further the almost uni versal sentiment down South, as shown by the newspapers, has been that the Roosevelt w ashington incident may have a tendency to create in the minds of the negroes a belief that a start has been made towards the obliteration of the color line.
 | The Times may deceiVe lJs reauerS ana it may deceive itself. but it has never
 been more mistaken than when it inti- mates that the Southern people, individu-
 ally or collectively. have lost any of their
 pride of race, or that they are not as de-
 terminedly opposed to anything like social , equality now as they have ever been. Be- cause some of the prominent and repre-
 sentative newspapers of the South have
 not advised lynching both the President
 and Washington should not and will not
 be taken by any fair-minded man as evil dance that those papers approve the act
 which has been the cause of so much dis cussion. If The Times wants to inform itself as to the feelings of the Southern people on the question of social equality of the races, let 1t read the Southern pa pers. In no other way can it get a fair understanding of the true sentiments of
 our people
 We are very much afraid that both
 England and the United States will be
 looking for somebody to help them turn
 loose.
 The Columbus Enquirer-Sun tells us