Sunday morning globe., 1901-11-03
A HOT ROAST
By a Progressive Veteran on That
White House Dinner.
The CHIVAlRY AND THE COON

OIOn WhOop Against DIles Land and Peo-
pie The Maroon Jndershlrt Waived Fero-
cOusl High.
DEAR GLOBE: Now that the storm Of
the Washington episode has
partially spent it's fury and the south
ern contingent has had its opportunity
to fume and foam and fret over its
preconceived notions Of the violated
sanctity and soicial traditions of the
White House customs, would IL not be
well at this time to crack this cocanut
and ascertain what kind of milk is on
the inside.
Who is this man Booker Washing
ton? Where is he from, and what is
he doing to command such universal
distinguished consideration at this
time? The answer is that he is an
educated negro, not very black, who
has gone down TO Tuscogee in the
Southland, built up and equipped an
| institution for the education and
ameliOration of his race. He has been
successful Notwithstanding the effect
Of the Taney decision in the Dred-Scott
case.
He comes to the White House to pay
his respects to Presidnet Roosevelt in
the same manner as any other Ameri.
can citizen would do. Roosevelt is in
terested i'm his enterprise and desires
to talk and advise with him along the
lines of his work. He invites him to
eat, because it will give him (Roose-
velt) better opportunity to discuss mat.
ters with him than at any other time.
But Roozy didn't know, or perhaps care
for the shock of outraged sensibility
his action would occasion among the
+. =. VS. of the Sunny South. And
we are glad he didn't care, for there
has already been too much soldering
over this matter of catering to this
pompous sickly sentimentalism which
has been paraded with as much gusto
recently by these psendo descendants
of the long-haired Cavilyiers who they
seem determined to perpetuate and imi-
tate, and who never by the way,
amounted to much at best Let these
silly croakers remember that had il
not been for the niger which they had
held i'm bondage for years, this ma
tion would be far richer by millions i'm
blood and I'm treasure than it is to-day.
Take the Southern people as a class
and you will find in them a disposi-
tion to pose as heroes Of the toploftical
order and to terriorize, by a sort Of
assumed loftiness Of bearing like Lord
Bateman, the weak and undecisive
creature who dares to brook their
honah, sab; but the real game, shoot
ing fellow they always let terribly
alone Show me an instance where
this is not true
But coming back to the Niger i'm
the wood, there seems to be a failure
to notice that the president of the
United Sttaes receives as a general
thing, all the coppercolored represen-
tatives Of the nations of the world In
other words he is color-blind in this
particular, and nobody demurs. But
when the American representative Of
our colored contingent in the United
States appears and is affectionately re-
ceiyed and dined by the President.
hell is to pay at once, and yet this fell
low Washington isn't half as black as
he is painted, and perhaps knows more
English to the square inch than half
Of our Congressman or all of the for
eign copper colored contingent put to-
gether. The case is not without pre-
cedent. Grover the 1st. fairly slobber-
ed over Queen Lii a few years ago.
at tea, so has the president OF Yale
College But Teddy has committed the
objectionable sin, and can't be for
given. There is no way Of appeasing
the outraged sensbiities of these
overstrained sticklers for social dis
elimination Yet they know that a
Niger regiment saved the day at San
tiago. Nigs cook their food. Nigs
wait upon them Nigs sit beside them
I'm the street cars Nigs act as their
messengers and buffers A mig collar
ed Czolgosz, the assassin Of Nc
kinley. A mig is our Recorder of
Deeds likewise our Register Of the
Treasury, whose name is necessary be- |
fore we can get the long green. Take
it all i'm all our Southern brethren
don't hate the mig half as badly as they
let on, or there wouldn't be one-hun-
dredth par Of the molasses-colored nigs
throughout the South as there is to-
day. Mebbe the mig does emit a pc
culiar odor at times, but they, the so
cial equalityists, don't seem to mind |
It from the evidence disclosed.
Like Vice, the wench may be of
hideous mien,
That TO be hated need but to be seen |
But seen too Oft, famaliar with her
face,
They first endure, then pity, then en-
brace"
A mig like Booker Washington de- |
serves better treatment on account OF J
his loyalty alone than the man who f,
was educated at West Point at the ex-
pense Of the Government and who took |
a solemn obligation before his God |
with bare head and uplifted arm at |
West Point to defend his country's flag
against all enemies both foreign and |
domestic, and at the first opportunity
deserted that flag for another. and for
four long years used the education he
received by this magnaminous Govern.
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