The age-herald., 1901-11-18

respectors of persons beneath the starry folds of our glorious flag there are no such sticklers for civil liberty and social equality as they. On the face of things, on paper, all things open to the Caucasian are open to the African.
 The hotels, cars sleepers, bars, soda founts and theatres are open to all alike and yet the means of making the money to frequent these places is not open in many cases to the African.
 They are not allowed to be f1remen or brakemen on railroads, switch tenders or crossing watchmen and many other things. Why not? Where you see him at all you see him filling the position that | he does everywhere-the position given him by Providence when the wrath of God was raised and the curse came on the son of Ham as shown by the written record of the will of God.
 If you see him under any condition you see him alone or with one of his race. Silently he enters the street cars and silently the white man of Mort hern blood enters and takes the seat furtherest from him. The African moves as much unno- ticed and alone as does the sad eyed Mongolian or the unspeakable Turk. The hotels are open but he is not there. They prate of social equality yet MT. Roose- welt was the only person in the capital of New York to give a negro student shelter.
 The jewel of consistency if worn has surely not been duled by constant use.
 The negro as we know him at the South does not exist North. In the North he is more intelligent, better dressed and cleaner but no 1eper ever walked more utterly alone. Around him he will see the statues of Lincoln. of Sherman and of Sheridan, memorial arches to the saviors of the nation, the maintainers of the union, and other signs that rebel lion has been put down, and the shackles stricken from the limbs of slaves, but mo- where does he find the helping hand. the kindly word, the hearty sympathy that he does in the South.
 And if by chance he does rise some what in the human scale no postoffce waits for him in the North.
 As an instance of the misrepresenta- ton of affairs in the South, 1t may be noted that only few days ago so promi- nent a paper as the Buffalo Express stated that the white people of some small place in Louisiana had burned negro to get even with Roosevelt for dining one. How can the general public in the North therefore know, unless they lay aside prejudice and study the truth closer. Here in the North where intoler- ance and difference of opinion led people chained to the stake for Chirst's sake here where the first shackles were plac- ed on the first slaves in this country is a poor place for criticism.
 The Express never mentioned the horri- ble crime that caused a few maddened men to wreak vengeance on a brute.
 It misstated the truth for a purpose. In prating of social equality in the broth erhood of man; in the universal law; in the duty to humanity and in the higher life, why do they not practice what they preach?
 Why did the white race exterminate the Indians? Why did they not assimilate, each finding their affinity? Why the ex- clusion of the Chinese by a congress that represented Eastern ideas of civil rights, why does the negro walk the Northern sti eets alone-an outcast and leper? Why do the Turk and Syrian sell their brass jewelry and sleep in tenets or novels in quarters of theIr kind no matter what their station may be? Why is it here in Buffalo even the Poles have section of the city and are practically outlawed? TA e. race, even when clcuded by prejudice and tainted with fratricdal hate knows its own height and destiny
 The acts or desires of part of a people of country Gin this case hollow and in sincere) can neither impede nor acceler- ate destiny nor change the fixed laws of progression. The Anglo-Saxon and the African are created differently. Between the two there is a great gulf fixed. The black man and the white have had prac- tically the same time upon earth, yet one stands today almost where it began while the other has written almost the entire record of the worlds achievement.
 The Anglo-Saxon race has had a hard time It had to create opportunities, at times under dangerous conditions and then grasp these opportunities. Up through the long years filled with sacra- flee and blood, with wars and trouble it has come Defeat but spurred 1t further Empires and civilization arose in golden glory and sunk in midnight darkness and are but memories now, but down the long stairway of time the Caucasian came with the others of the earth be- hind.
 He is and has been first and no social precedent; no thoughtless act; no direct slur, will ever change the record of the centuries-the destiny of the future. This is a white mans country. He freed 1t from the grasp of tyranny and from it's shield tore down the sign of monarchy He fought the soldiers of the King upon the East while his blood curdled at the savage war whoops on the West In hand conflict with the wild beasts he vanquished, and clearing fields to raise his bread came home to find his cabin ashes and his wife and babies corpses. bathed in blood.
 That was a dark page in the book of civilization, and was caused by oppres sion and intolerance on the part of some of their own people. But the page was turned at last, for back of the movement was the hand of the Infinite, and in his councils the result was seen. So the Caucasian came on through the years the born leader in the race of existence. It is today the balance wheel in the o,,i1 af ia,E fI9-