Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-26
THE SOUTH REsen1s CRITICISM.

/ important trlDut1On TO tnlS SuDJecl
THE SOUTH RESERIS CRITICISM.
The people of the southern states OF
/ the present generation are to be pitiec
as much as censured in their efforts tc
solve the race problem for which their
4 forefathers We're responsible. The ed
/! uitable adjustment of social and politl-
cal relationships between two distinc,
races continues to be a disturbing fac
tor and will be for a period whose
length no one can foresee. 1t is attend
cd with so many difficulties, antago-
nisms and clashes that it is not strange
that 1t attracts the attention and crltl-
cism of the wide-awake north.
/ But this latter feature, this "nagging
of the south, is resented by one named
Calhoun of South Carolina (strange con-
/ junction of names!o, who declares that
race prejudice is as strong in the north
as in the south, that, as a rule, social
/! lines at the north are as closely drawn
as they are at the south In proof of
this he quotes the following editorial
from the Sun of Baltimore, Nd, of a
recent date:
Trace hatred and prejudice seem to
be getting so bitter in the north that
brunette girls may be compelled to use
complexion powders. 1t Is only neces-
sary to be suspected of relationship
with the negro race to be subjected to
all kinds of indgnities. The other day
in Boston the door of trades union
was closed upon all black faces. Then
in Chicago, at the Northwestern Uni
versity, the headquarters of liberty, a
young colored woman who had entered
the school was turned out into the
street AS soon as 1t was discovered
that she had negro blood she was ex-
PEELED. But the most extraordinary
thing happened at Evansville, Ind. A
girl with dark complexion entered at
one Of the public schools, and at Cnce
all the other children left and the
teacher was confronted with empty
benches. Truant officers We're sent after
the children, but the parents said
they should not attend school with the
dark faced girl whom they suspected
OF being a negress. The board of edu-
cation took the matter up and, after an
investigation, discovered that the girl
has no negro blood. She is simply a
brunette. and her parents are French.
IL. will be we'll hereafter for brunette
girls, when they enter the public schools
in the north, to use some kind of COM
plexion powders 1t is really painful to
rote the existence of such prejudices in
the minds of our northern brethren"
Mr.. Calhoun goes on to assert that
mo force, no power, no authority and
no persuasion and abuse can or will
make the Caucasian and. the negro
come together socially, politically or in
Gustrially. Their presence in the same
the stronger race holding the weaker
down.
He admits the truth Of the expression
that the white man and negro will get
on we'll together SO long as the negro
renlaihs in his place-that of mental.
He asks: What is he told at the
north? Listen and 1 will tell you. You
must not work in our iron and coal
mines; you must not enter our public
| schools; you must not even build a
school house in our towns; you must
not hold public office; you can have no
social standing with us, you must not
compete with our laborers; you must
not enter our hotels; you must not en-
ter our trades unions; you can not be
an engineer or fireman on our trains;
you can not marry our daughters"
The T.-R. admits there is much truth
in this indictment. and yet it is aware
that two wrongs never make a right
Iill-treatment in both south and north
will not cure the evil. 1t is safe to as
sert too, that the negro receives better
treatment in the north than in the
south. 1t is the rule in the latter sec
ton to turn the negro down; it is the
exception in the north to betray race
prejudice to a similar degree.
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