The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-20
THEY ARE LEARNING.

In a recent issue of The Kansas City Journal there Is an editorial on The Negro Problem" which starts on in this style:
 During recent years negroes have set- tied in large numbers in many of the Northeastern States. The black popuia- rate of 10000 year. So the race aues- ton now has been brought home to the part of the country which has always been most denunciatory of the way the South has treated the colored man. A chance Is given the opponents of brother ly love and social equality to put their doctrines into practics-but instead of do- ing so. they are acting like regular South In ss city gs sns everything Is being done necessary to re- move the danger of social contact and to make his isolation complete.
 The people of Philadelphia. Nike The Journal are getting their eyes open to the true inwardness of the race question. and as a natural consequence 'they are acting like regular Southerners." They will act the same way in Boston sand elsewhere in the North whenever circumstances make it safe and desirable. and it will always be thus whenever and wherever the relative proportion between the races renders social equality dangerous.
 The Journal asserts that mutual asso- citation between the whites and blacks 'n America is impossible" and calls atten- ton to conditions existing in South American countries where miscegenation among all races is practically unlimited, and where there is now a mixed popula- tion whose capacity for future develop ment and progress Is doubtful"
 All this of course is interesting, chiefly as showing what, in the language of old Horace, the discordant harmony of cir cumstances could and would affect" or, in the words of Judge Halliburton ''cir- cumstances alter cases" As long as there was no color question to vex them in their own homes the Northern people looked with intolerance on what they were wont to consider our intolerance towards the negroes. and from the superior heights of their own self-assured sympathy for the blacks they could de- liver lectures and homilies on the Chris tian duty of treating all men, and wo- men, as social, industrial and political equals.
 But the negroes are going Northward' in considerable numbers and wherever they go they carry with them not only their aroma, their habits and customs. but, for some reason which we will leave the scientists to explain they soon create large instalments of the sentiment which pervades and governs the white people of the South. As intimated, we shall not undertake to explain this fact, but fact it is that when negroes in con- siderable numbers plant themselves in a Northern community the white people soon begin to recede from their high and mighty attitude of human sympathy and are soon acting like regular Southern ers." It Is a law of the white American, mate. irrennovaIble and irrevocahle. that they will not admit the inferior races to an equality with them, and that law will dominate in the North as 1t does in the South, whenever the number of colored inhabitants approaches that of the whites, or even threatens to do so. It Is Gods law, and all the fine-spun theories and sermonizing of inexperienced dreamers will not annul or change 1t. There is nothing like actual contact and associa- ton with the colored race to open the eyes and quicken the understanding of those who assume knowledge of condl- tions of which they really know nothing The people of Philadelphia are .cting rightly when they provide separate schools for the races and remove all other incentives to race equality. The senti- ment will grow in the North. let us hope, till we shall hear no more of their criticisms of our methods.