New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-21

ONE SOUTHERN WHITE. THE OTHER AN AFRO-AMERICAN
WIDELY DIVERGLNG VIEWS.
From The Independent.

From The
am colored woman. wife and mother I have
lived ali my life In the South and have often
thought what a peculiar fact 1T Is that the more
ignorant the Southern whites are of the more
vehement they are in their denunciation Of US.
They boast that they have little intercourse with
us, in our homes churches or places
OF amusement. but still they know thoroughly
They also admit that they know In capac-
ty except as servants. yet they say are at our
best in that single capacity. What philosophers
they are! The Southerners negroes are
happy laughing set of people with thought of
tomorrow. How mistaken they are! The edu-
Gated thinking negro is just the opposite There
is a feeling of unrest insecurity, almost panic
among the best class Of negroes in the South. In
our homes, in our churches. wherever two or three
are gathered together there Is a discussion OF
what is best to do Must we remain In the South
or go elsewhere? Where can we go TO feel that
security which other people feel? Is 1t best to go
in great numbers only in several families?
These and many other things are discussed over
and
People who have security In their homes whose
children can go on the street unmolested. whose
wives and daughters treated as women. cam
not perhaps. sympathize with the Southern ne
gros anxieties and complaints. I ask forbear-
ance of such people.
1t is asserted that we dying rapidly
than other people In the South 1t is not remark
able when the houses built for sale rent to
cOloreO peope are usually placed IN the lowest
and most unhealthy spots. know of houses occt-
pied by poor negroes In which respectable farmer
would not keep his cattle 1t is impossible for
them to rent elsewhere. All Southern real estate
agents have white property and 'colored prop
erty." In of the largest Southern cities
there is a colored minister. a graduate of Harvard
whose wife is an educated. Christian woman. who
lived for weeks in tumbedown rookery because
he could neither rent buy a house In re-
spectacle locality.
Many colored women who wash. iron. scrub,
cook all the week. to help pay the rent for
these miserable novels and help fill the many small
mouths. would deny themselves some of the neces-
saries of life If they could take their little children
and teething babies the to the parks OF
Sunday afternoon and sit under the trees. enjoy
the cool breezes and breathe Gods pure air Tor
!. only two three hours; but this is denied them
Some of the parks have signs. NO negroes allowed
these grounds. except as servants fi'iiui'
ptiful customs and laws that make war on women
and babes There is wonder that we de- the
wonder is that persist in living.
A noble man. who has established rescue MONIES
for fallen women all over the country, visited
Southern city. The women of the city were IN
vited meet him in of the churches Inc
fallen women were especially invited. and botn
good and bad went They sat wherever they conid
find a seat long their faces were whi,e' ou'
l. respectable married woman. was asked TO sit
| apart. colored woman. however respectaoie' Is
| lower than the white prostitute. Inc southern
| white woman will declare that no negro women
are virtuous yet she places her innocent children
in their Many times she goes on long VISITS
| Of DAYS and weeks and leaves her children with
| these No amount OF discussion VIII alter
| a fact and 1t is fact that very great nnmoel
| of negro women are depraved 1t IS also iac'
| that those who now condemn the negro oepraVity
most helped (they their parents) to bring ABOUT
| this same depravity Christian men and women
of the South sold wives away from their husoan1s
| and then compelled them to live with other men.
| Fathers sold their own children. BeautiIui glIis
brought large sums to their M ,asbeas and
| brothers of these sarue women who now marvel
that the nes SHOWS Us not ore plainly than her
sisters because she is poor and isndraht dos. No,
cringe. but walks erect supports his family edu,
his children and by example s and edna Is
called dangerous niger he is too son,. hs
| Vow, we are told that the negro has the worst
traits Of the whole human family ana tne souo QUA,
by his example or we are regarded as dangerous
niggs5s; .na.,. an, other chance visitors who
come into our homes ask questions that we m1ss
not dare a ak have Clean faces and that
| hair hair Is combed You cannot insult a coiored
southern railway stations have three ss,, T s a
and the very eonsP H1 and tni.
for gents for the sooF red people We
neither aaes in eTs in and
misfertune in the South The white criminal can,
mot mot t nenitentiary with the criminal The
white pauper is just exclusive; ana a.thousn
about it. they must be kept separate at ssea.
axtra exnense Lastly. the dead Wnite man
homes must not be contaminated EIIh . a,.es..
black mans. / know one OF ttie 1900 lou and
that the Southerner speaks Of IN tones I9W ~
soft who is compelled TO go TO tne it. ~
certain Southern city for pass 70 ~ whose
grave of a she nursed at her u 80 not mat
Children She afterward reared II does not saWsrv
tar that this old woman gave herseii IN sasS
and out of slavery for this man an anu ms ys '
She must pass 70 WIS.,. ms t ne south the
Whenever oak c for the negro the white
man with face and hands backeneo can f S1
any crime in the calendar n,s guilt and he is
stream soon 9oi W. fhe hunt to lynch the big black
brIy brute When white man In the s6u.n man
commit a crime that is Simply hrutaI he is
cons wrong II his crime is especiaiv " Iou, To-
so pesIt n5 temporarily insane III one ~ AZ
norant hyeck wretch commits crime Una. =,
ferent All of us must bear MS gum, ~
white boys badness Is sin bpIsck boys badness
| young animal spirits: tne oia "
| badness, pure and snlple. .-,au for other work,
uho need the work more than the Whl.e oo se,s IL
| not allowed to sell Ee"sPdpei0 vs.
| most of our Southern CUES. Dauev Sampson
When we were shouting ror De .s!So 20 toucb
Schley and Hobson. and "eIv re we're delighted 10
49, that some of our Spanish 1, m 81
| were coming where we coui9 81 IN a small way
( 49, tJad not black men heipeu III 20 ~.
e. -.hara these heroes went. the WIZ So,
cSiidren were assembled: flags Were Were rountr,y sTs
ers strewn. speeches rnaog' h at was sung Our
OF Ihee' ~ nod TO be taught SO mucn; were no.
essennbled their hands waved no sang no song
no flowers heard no thrihhs the Soutf's idea Of
OF ther c9u a. ssnrnrising that feeling grows more
| Hitter when the white mother ssn hut because
| hate my boy not because ne seen very small white
his skin Is oar their black dolls It Is not the