Sunday Washington globe., 1902-04-13

on the Mississippi.
And this vulgar excuse for an editor (2l
has the nerve to expect decent people TO pay
for this virulent literary poison!
Whom the gods would destroy they
FIRST make mad. If that is true the finish Of
the Mirror is in sight. a madden indi
vidual doesn't bestride an editorial stool in
the District. Listen further to his tale Of
woe-and then shall pass him up"
There never will be decent restaurant
in the departments as long as the darkies
persist in feeding in them, because the
patronage by the better element alone does
not warrant the outlay of money necessary
for a we'll appointed restaurant. Tim
Grow" lunch rooms have been suggested
but the we'll known obstinacy of the negro
race makes the proposition impracticable
because the coon" would insist on going
in where the white people go, knowing the
polite stencil that will grow out of a refusal
to serve him. II would be a regular pud-
ding of an argument against the admins
tration in a locality where the coon" vote
cuts a decided figure, to hear that a colored
gentleman had been denied his constitu-
tional rights in the very executive depart
ments in Washington.
Certainly the colUred writer lets the
Mirror man off easy in passing him up"
Perhaps it is the most sensible plan, at all
events it is characteristic OF the negro
The one great mark of the inferiority of the
negro is his lack of resentfuuess to foes
and his failure to practically appreciate his
friends. The Caucasian has the latter fail
ing to some extent There are some un-
grateful white men, but vino ever had to
complain of lack Of Auglo-Saxon resent
fulness2 To get even" and hit back" are
as dear and as vital principles with the
average white man from the rank of coolie
to the Presidential chair and the throne as
life, fortune and sacred honor The eau.
casian is divided into natiOnalities and there
are no two separate nations of white men
who are not ready to spring at each others
throats at the drop Of hat for any real or
faucied grievance. The negro is as a race,
more amiable and nOn-combative which
would be in his favor If he had the other
neutrality-suspicious. which softeus the
aggressiveuess and resentfulness of his
white brother II NAV be advanced that
because the negro votes the Republican
ticket he is grateful and practically demon
strates his gratitude in loyalty to the party
which emancipated him from bondage and
made him a citizen.
But a little investigation into this loyalty
shows that fear and not gratitude ac-
counts for the negro's afilation with the
Republican party. He is afraid of
the Democracy and that the Demo-
cratic party would, if it could emascu-
late him of those privileges which he now
enjoys as peer aud citizen.
No, the negro is neither grateful nor
clannish like his white brother even though
he possesses the more amiable character
istic of uou-resentfulness. When he begins
to show his teeth as a race, and hits back"
in the congregate instead Of individually,
and when he manifests preference and
gratitude towards and for his friends, then
will the negro begin to realize the plane of
the white man.
And editors of the mirror stripe will not
select the "coolie" type of negro when
writing representatively of the race itself
any more than an American weary
Willie, ," an Irish stevedore, German beer
seller or an Italian fruit Deddler would be
referred to, put forward or accepted as the
highest or even the average types of their
respective races. The editor of the Mirror
was recently spanked on the bosom of his
pants by the writer for bigOted and lying
attack upon the Irish people. The editor
of the C0l0red A0EeyfeGn might read with
profit the language one white man uses to-
wards another in that reply when the
/ question of an insult to ones race is the
moving or motive power behind the Faber.
| The negro writer must smoke up" and ex.
| hibit the same readiness for a fight or a
killing If necessary in defense Of his race
that the white man manifests when it comes
to a show down. But the negro writer won''
do so hardly this century and for the simple
reason that his race lacks the clannishness
and the loyalty which is but another name
for resentfulness when the ideals of blood
race and nationality are attacked, outraged
or coutemned by nongrels in or out Of the
press.
II is one thing to be revered as a marty
or champion by ones race, it is another
thing altogether to be the member Of Z
race without pride Of ancestry or hopes tina
posterity will remember much less revere
its champions and defenders.
And hence the mild reply Of the coloreC
writer to the grossly outrageous, indecen
and insulting attack Of the Mirror on thu
Negro clerks and employees in the Govern
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