The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-30
A sLANDERous ARTICLE.

III 0ttOtnEE ltdtC VIC fGRuVnSu MI Cit-
trial from The Chicago Chronicle. a pa
per which boasts Of its Democracy and
its fairness. We have noticed, f7swever.
that 1t rarely misses al opportunity to
criticize the South and the Southern peo-
pie, and its criticisms are generally will
fully malicious or else betray an mex
C, sable ignorance.
with The Chronicles controversy with
The Washington Post. We have nothing
to do. nor do we propose to interfere
erence to its own Independence and pros
perity. That II Is prosperous may be
strictly true, as it has for its patrons that
large class of Northern people who pro-
tend friendship for this section. but are
always ready to endorse and applaud
newspaper or speaker relative to the
South, AMI there are evidently enough of
that class to enrich a paper which is ''in-
dependent" enoAgh to satisfy their Sec
tional feelings and preiudices.
The Chronicle blindly misapprehends
or wilfully misstates the question which
was settled at Los Angeles when 1t says
the question is not social. but economic
anc MORAL On the contrary. social
equality Of the races was at the bottom
of the whole matter. The women of the
South are just as much opposed to So
cial equality In the club room as In the
home, and they are right, for the Two
are intimately connected. and one IN
wolves the other. Mingiing with each
other in the club room and in the parlor
means practically the same thing 1t Is
the same thing. only at different places.
The white women of the South know this.
and they will never submit to either. 1t
Is not a matter of life and death that
they should be members of the National
Federation of women's Clubs. and they
will certainly forego that privilege IL they
must sacrifice their pride Of race to OBJ
tain 1t.
The assertion of The Chronicle that the
question is whether the women OF Afri-
can descent in the Upited States shall
remain free women or be again reduced to
the condition of human chattels." Is the
veriest rot, and The Chronicle probably
knows 1t. Nor 1t its further assertion
that "women Of all races are now freely
admitted to the highest educational In
st,tutions of all countries any better.
II evidently means to convey the impress
sion that colored women are admitted
into the white schools and colleges OF the
South, which 1t knows is not true. some
of its readers, relying on the 'independ-
ence" of The Chronicle, may believe tna'
there is no separation Of races in the ed
ucational institutions of the South. out
TIE Chronicle knows better, aud knows
that its staten ut Is sianoer ON this
section. The negro race IN the south
has schools and colleges. and some OF
them are doing excellent work, but II any
OF them are teaching their women and
girls that they should insist on race
equality. either In the home or the club
room. they are doing their race an in
iurv and filling them with false ideas
and with ambitions which will never be
realized and which will cause them
trouble In future. Better let them remain
ignorant for all time to come than to
fill their heads with the belief that edit
cation will bridge the gulf formed by the
Almighty.
There are doubtless white women In
the North who have no pride Of race.
There must be, or papers like The Chron-
icle could not have ground to boast of
their prosperity. They probably know
nothing of the negro except from reading
OF them in such papers as our Chicago
contemporary. 1t may be possible that
there are white women up there who adj
init the colorcd ones to their club-rooms,
to their sewing circles and to their homes.
That is a matter of taste, which they
are perfectly az liberty to exercise. II
their inclinations run in such low
groove, but it is rot and will not be so
here. We do not want that kind of mix
ing colors, and we have no desire to mix
with those who believe in 1t. II there
are Northern women who believe in mix
ing let them mix to their hearts content.
and let the mixers remain In the North.
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