The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-06
AS A NEGRO SEES IT.

with one who shows such an apt under standing of the conditions and circum- stances that his words are worth repro ducing Such an editor Is H. c. c. Ast- wood. publisher of The Defender. Brook. llyn. N. Y. and who was formerly United States Minister to Hayti. In recent editorial on the subject of race condi- tions, North and South, he says:
 The white newspapers, such as The Philadelphia Record, The New York Jour nal The North American, and other pa- pers who ridicule the journals Of the South, will not employ colored man mon their staffs or in any other import ant places in their offices. be they ever so competent. The white business houses of the North, the factories, and indus- trial plants will not employ colored men or women in any of their departments above the menial, and yet they rail at the South, where slavery existed for 2OO years for lighting political and social equality. The North is responsible for 1t all; let it stop it's hypocrisy, give practi- cal lessons of its good intentions, and not begin at the White House. If sectional prejudices be again unframed and blood shed be the outcome and Washington IS appealed to, the negro will be left to fight 1t out alone behind the barricade of State rights.
 The closing sentence of this extract is lsignificant-that if a race war should un- fortunately be precipitated, the Northern people who are doing so much to foment dissa tisfaction between the sections and the races would entrench themselves behind the doctrine of States Rights and lieave the negro to fight his battles alone, in which opinion we suspect the editor lis right. One of these fomenters of trouble Is The Philadelphia Press, which recently stated that the example of Booker Washington has tendency to wipe out the color line, and as The Press puts it, "has quickened every hope of their progress and greatly encouraged the conviction of those who believe that a rational solution of the negro problem is by applying to it the principle of sim pie justice and equality to every man ac- cording to his deserts, his industry, and his opportunity
 If that isn't sufficiently plain and def- nite, take this paragraph from The Bos- ton Transcript. one of the most influen- tal, as we'll as intolerant. papers in New England:
 1 Anything done by the white race to re- tard the social progress of the black race will have a boomerang's effect. and re- turn to plague the plotter against the brotherhood of men. Laws against inter- marriage of the races will prove abortive in face of sentiments older and nobler than the laws of States Arguments based on the inalienable superiority of the Caucasian to rule and flock by him. self will go the way of other doctrinaire sentiments respecting inalienable rights | and ultimately the United States will ar rive at a stage of civilization and cul- ture when the test of a mans status in society, politically or socially, will not be the color of his skin, but worth of his | character.
 In both these extracts the intimation Is plain that the color line must be eradi- cated and that the white people of the South must no longer permit difference of color to stand in the way of a full and complete intermingling of races and peoples We say fin the South because these negrophobists direct all their ad- monitions at our people, being careful to , keep the negro out of their own families.
 
 Bishop Potter our good and worthy prelate, has many colored priests of his denomination here in the North. and yet he does not set the example by having them to celebrate at Holy Trinity and other Episcopal temples here in the North. or invite them to sit at the Lord s table to teach the South the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Bishop Holly of Hayti, one of the most learned and scholarly negroes in the world, who comes here periodically, is ig- nored and allowed to board in colored boarding house in Brooklyn, instead of being the guest during his stay at some of the white parishes.
 Certainly this negro editor knows what he is writing about when discussing the conditions which exist in his immediate vicinity, as we'll as those which obtain generally among Northern people. He knows that most of the people North, who are so blatantly advocating the abolition of race distinctions. are arrant hypocritcs, who advise what they have no intention of practising.
 As we have more than once remarked, it is unfortunate that the race question should be continually stirred up by those who have no personal interest in it and who cannot be affected by it. The opera tives in the large mills and factories up North are treated no better than are the negroes in the South, and the white la- l horers there are just as far from social equality with their bosses and employers as the negroes of the South are, vet the papers and speakers in this section dc not feel it incumbent on them to inter- pose in Northern communities or to stir up strife between the classes which ceri tainly exist all over the Northern DOT tion of the Union. They can manage their domestic social and industrial affairs in their own way, just as We of the South propose to manage ours. We do not need advice or instruction, especially from those who never practice what they preach. Reading the criticisms of this class of people, We are reminded of this severe expression from the sayings of Lawrence Sterne: of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, though the cant of hyprocrites may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormentng."
 We commend the opinions of the negro Astwood to those of our Northern friends who have so much to say about race prejudice, and We once again take occa-