The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1902-01-10


lower one morbidly vain, as they have
TO live together, and as every distinc.
tiOn, II fully carried out involves
breach OF law, this condition of affairs
provokes a silent struggle, breaking
out perpetually in village war, which
IS so dangerous that many keen
and cool observers. TOcQueyille for
one, have believed that the ultimate
remedy must be either the extirpation
OF the negro, or his forcible expulsion,
or his voluntary retreat sOuthward,
which would leave the territory OF
the Union to the whites and the
Red Indians, who, though equally
hated. are, for reasons, which have
their root In the history Of past ages
not equally contemned. A trace OF
ludian blood hurts no man on the
American continent and the Virginia
aristOcrat would dine with President
b'"h "IUuouV q luditu.
We believe that the remedies" we
have quoted are all impossible, the
numbers to be dealt with being un-
manageably great, and that there is a
far milder one, strict social segrega.
ton, with full Acknowledgement OF
inequality to be maintained until in
the course OF ages it Is found to be In.
convenient or absurd. The white and
the black men should form themselves
avuwedly, as they now do unavDwed.
ly into castles like the HindOos and
Musselmens Of India, with no inter.
course except on the common business
nf life. The white men should be &C.
knowledged by the black men as the
superior caste, which they are, and
the black men should be acknowled
ged by the white men as fellow.citi
zens entitled to all rights excep,
those which presuppose equality
The two should neither quarrel no.
embrace, never intermarry, never eat
together, nnr play together, or wor.
ship together, or, II that is found
necessary, travel together in the same
car. The vote should, for the present
be withdrawn from the blacks who
then would occupy precisely the
same position OF white women
and the right to sit on juries should
be regulated so that though the
whites gave the verdict the blacks
were never left unrepresented. Every
otfice but the presidency should be
left open to both, but the white
should have the right OF demanding
as a mark of caste superiority that he
be tried by white judge, apriviledge
which he demands and secures in
every country in which he has obtain.
ed 'captulations."
We believe that under these ar
rangements the two colors would be
able to live together in peace and
would develope side by side in theiI
own way, until at last the color rules
were felt to be inconvenient and were
swept away in favor OF equality
They are exactly in accordance with
the facts, which is always stron!
0uttress for the arrangements OF any
community and might, II strictly OBJ
served and kindly worked be brought
il not completely within the Christian
law, at least into full accord will
practical Christian sentiment. Forty
years ago they would have been hOtl.
denounced by philanthropist, bu
that excellent though enthusiastic
class of men have learned much wis
dom lately and seem to recognize tina
though no inequality can justif!
slavery for one moment, that natura
inequalities do exist and are bes
treated by complete and kindly rec
ognitiOn. We do not dt least, hea
any audible cry for giving votes t
the Zulu or the Bushmen. AS
their practicablity, they already e,
ist in India, where In thousands G
villages Mussulmans and Hindoos liv
side by side, never intermarryin!
never eating together, never, II the
can help it touching each other, y,
transacting all The business Of II
with each other without quarrelir
or breaking any ordinary law. So {
the Brahmin and the Sudra, and S
, aoove all do the white men and Il
brown-n0 Indian Is really black
though the former claim, and actual
WELD the sole political power. 1t
!, not always in close association ths
:, liking and respect are born, still LEI
!, through the depial or artificial cor
. cealment ef plain facts, and the plal
= fact is that the black man In tt
!, Southern States is not and cannot
made the equal Of the white, Il
;, effort to treat him as such producln
: nothing on both sides but 4 DANCE
!, GUS irritation. II we are not great
, mistaken Mr.. Booker Washington,
whom We wish to speak with
, respect as perhaps the ablest man
his race, himself recently ackn0wle'
: lged this in a speech, which made
. deep impression not only on bis hea
I,lers, but all through the Union. A
, any rate, this solution 10 strongl
n rvod nv n nepr0 writer (Mr w.