The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-01-29
THE NEGRO THE CHIEF SUFFERER.

THE NEGRO THE CHIEF SUFFERER.
II the chorus of protests North and South
against the presidents mistaken policy with
respect to the lndianola affair and other ne
gro incidents will not give him pause, pos
sibly the incendiary speech OF negro or
ator in Washington reported in yesterdays
Post, may suggest to others Of both races
the evil result which any sane man should
have foreseen,
James H. Hayes, negro lawyer, who is
associated with John s. Wise In an attempt
to defeat the franchise clause Of the Wiz
ginia constitution, in addressing a negro
mass meeting was applauded for violent
speech In which he said, among other
things The time has come when the ne.
gro must fight, not theoretically not intel
ectually, but fight with his hands. -
give warning that If this oppression in the
South continues the negro must resort to
the sword and torch and the Southland will
become a land Of blood and desoatlon.
And just word about the question of the
absorption Of the races. No two people, hav-
ing the same religion and speaking the same
tongue, living together have ever been kept
apart"
Here we have an expression Of the brut-
ish thirst for murder and destruction and of
tho mad passion for miscegenation which
the presidents conduct has aroused.
Now, there isn't going to be any whole
sale slaughter of whites by blacks. In the
first place the intelligent negroes of the
South understand the folly of violence, In
the second place, the first attempt at dis
order upon the part of the negro would be
answered by punishment so swift and dire
that the race would be tanned and terror
lied. AS to the suggestion of an admiXture
of the races, it is so unspeakably repulsive
that it's very utterance in Southern com.
munity is riotous
The point is not what the presidents in
discretion will do to the white race but
what It is doing to the british and the gno.
rant Of the negro race. It Is inhamlng their
passions, inspiring impossible ambitions and
fomenting unrest, which, if not suhdued by
thoughtful negro leaders and conservative
white men, will provoke hot-headed mobs TO
Indulge In wholesale lynchings
The president didn't do any harm to him.
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down to dinner with him, for the guest was
wiser man and as highly cultured as his
host; but the incident has put it into the
minds of thousands of ignorant and depraved
negroes, with whom Booker Washington
would not make common, to ride in trains
and eat at table with respectable white
people The president did not iniure Mrs
Cox or DR. Crum by recognizing their intel
ligence, but TO thousands OF incompetent ne.
groes political Office has become the chief
thing Of honor and endeavor, BY inviting
negro women to a White House reception
he has not injured them, or other respect.
able negro women, perhaps, but he has de.
liberately insulted a fixed social sentiment
he has made social equality the burning
ambition of thousands Of utterly unworthy
creatures, and he has intensified and en-
Uttered a spirit which had fairly we'll set
tied down TO a condition Of tolerance and for.
bearance.
The mounting of this fellow Hayes proves
it all. What one has had the daring to utter
hundreds have muttered under their breaths
and thousands have thought In silence
( There will be no outbreak, but there will
| likely be occasional violence in which the
negro will be the sufferer; there will be no
leveling of social barriers, but there will be
miserable longings among the negroes which
can never be satisfied there will be no CIV
Ing In marrying but there will he some rap
ing and its prompt and awful vengeance;
there will be some annoyance and trouble
to the whites, but there will be great sor-
row and bitter disappointment for the poor,
unthinking people who have ever been the
football of base republican politics and who
are now the victims OF the grimmest folly
that was ever committed In high ofHce-the
criminal bravado OF playing with infam.
mables.
The Post has been slow to speak on these
vexing incidents because it is useless to argue
with the president and his kind. But his
sowing Of the wind is so quickly serminat.
ing into the proverbial whirlwind that it is
time to speak word. not to the reckless
president nor TO the negro incendiary who
betters his pernicious teaching, but to the
mass of negroes themselves who will reap
the heaviest share OF the dlrefll harvest.
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The decision Of the court OF criminal appeals.
in the habeas corpus case OF NJ, Z. Foster, is a