The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-30
Independence Of The Chronicle.
Chicago Chronicle

SHfcdSO EHFOn1cIe.
The Washington Post takes occasion to
say that The Chronicle is In the first
decade Of the twentieth century what
Garrison's Liberator was In the middle
OF the nineteenth. 1t finds the independ-
ence OF the editorial page. Of The Chron-
lcie phenomenal in a Democratic news
paper published in the second city of the
continent, AMI presenting every appear
ance OF prosperity
1t ought to occur to so appreciative a
icle has an intimate connection with its
independence. The humanity of The
Chronicle is implied in its independence.
The critic. however. Is amazed that an
independent newspaper presenting eevry
appearance OF prosperity and published in
the second city of the continent should as
send that the question of color at that re-
cent farcical convention of women's clubs
was, in fact. whether the women of At
rfcan descent in the United States shall
remain free women or be again reduced
TO the condition of human chatteIs
This Interpretation of the colored cues
ton was perfectly understood al the con-
vention. The question of social equality
was not involved. The object of the CON
vention as declared by its own voice was
the promotion of the good of humanity
and the advancement of women.
BY the voice of the convention women
with an admixture OF African blood should
De excluded from association with white
women. IL this declaration were put into
enect women with an admixture of Afri-
can blood would be excluded from honest
employment.
The question, therefore. is not social. hut
but economic and moral. To exclude any
class of women from honest employment
Is to reduce that class to an Infamous
mode OF subsistence. The action of the
shotgun policy feminized
sectional politics ruled the Los Angeles
convention. The sectional faction manip.
uiated the convention with daring cum
ming. transparent and for the moment eff
enectual That faction succeeded in max
ing professsed momentary organ of
American womanhood affirm that the &C.
c1dent OF darker pigment In woman S
blood should debar her from association
with white women; should stigmatize her
as unworthy and base. no matter what
her personal character, her education or
her talents.
The sectionalists listened with respect
TO Chinese woman. pagan. a content
ed representative of the lowest status of
womanhood even in Asia, But for the
nativt American woman Of dark blood
Christian. refined. college bred-it had
only the brutal dogma of perpetual and
hopeless degradation.
The Chronicle Ia of opinion that a
woman in the United States must belong
to one of two classes. She must be free
or she must he a slave. To he free she
must have the same privileges of educa-
for employment that all free women en-
JOY. II these privileges be denied she is
practically condemned to actual, II un-
avowed, serfage.
Women OF all races are now freely ad
United to the highest educational insti-
buttons of all countries. Their presence in
the professions In this country no longer
causes surprise. In proportion TO their
numbers coiored women are well repre-
scented IN all honorable vocations which
women follow for their own support and
the support of dependents
To declare that women of color shall not
be employed in activities in which other
women are engaged is to condemn an en-
tire class of women to slavery. fair
field in the struggle for virtuous existence
Is all that the colored women in the Unit
ed States ask
The white woman who feels that she
cannot afford to give this chance to col
ored women thereby confesses that sh7
fears the colored woman may prove to be
hei' superior.
The question snot of social equality
1t Is merely question of economies and
morals