Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-17
The NEGRO QUESTION
Des Moines Man Criticises Pres
ident Roosevelt For Bring
ing Up the Question
NORTH DOESN'T UNDERSTAND II
MIR. White Tells of His Trip Thru the
South and of the Attitude of the
southerners Toward the Negro
Incompetence, Not Color. the Cause
of Dispute.
Special to Times-Republican.

i Special to Times-Republican
/ Des Moines March 17.-1owa men
who have lived in the south change
their views in regard to the color and
race question. F.. S. White was for
many years a resident Of this city, a
/ market gardener and scotsman, but
eight or ten years ago moved to Birm-
Iingham, Ala, where he has since re-
isided. He has recently done great
ideal Of travelling all over the south
las an agent for railroad, and his
opportunities for observation have beer
great But he depreciates the fact that
the race question has been getting into
politics again and seems to be COM
ling to the front in a dangerous way.
/ Il regret very much" said Mr.. White,
who is here on visit, that there has
lbeen reopening Of the negro question
apparently all along the line. be-
4 lieve that there is a growing estrange-
sIment between the white and colored
Ipeople, not in the south but in the
north and in many places where 1t was
mot expected. For instance. there is
a bill pending in the Kansas City coun-
tcil for Jim Crow cars, or those for
jcolored people alone and separate from
1.-The cars for white folks. Legislation
lof this kind In cities where race feeling
Twas not before known indicates that the
trace feeling is spreading. In Texas
the matter OF cars is In best shape.
THE law provides that the colored and
white people shall remain in separate
cars. IL white man goes into Jim
/ Crow car and rides it is the duty of the
Iconductor to fine MIN. In many of the
states the Jim Crow cars are used for
4 the colored people and IL drunken
fwhite man gets on the train he is also
1put In the Jim Crow car. In Texas
white man is as rigidly excluded from
| a Jim Crow car as colored man is
t tisrn the other cars, and one is just as
well furnished as the other.
Il am rock ribbed republican. but
my views have changed a little on the
negro question since 1 went south.
/ The people of the north do not UNDER
stand the negro question at all. The
truth is that the negroes are given
just as fair trials in most places in the
south as the white people. In Birming-
1 ham colored man was on trial for
murder. 1t was plain case, and yet
lit has gone thru the courts three times
| in regular way and he has had every
opportunity that could possibly have
given a white man to secure acquittal.
can not understand why President
Roosevelt should have stirred up the
| old race question again after 1t had
tbeen kept quiet long while. In the
south, in the matter of Office holding.
| the whites do not want negroes, not so
much on account of their color as be-
cause they represent nothing, are ir-
responsible and contribute nothing to
good government or to stability of af-
/ fairs. They draw the line at incom-
lpetency and weakness rather than at
| color. find that there is no objection
to republicans holding office and the
people are perfectly willing that when
Republicans are in control of affairs
Republicans shall fill the federal posi-
tions; but they do not want the negroes
to be given the places. We organized
| a white republican party in Alabama.
and accomplished nothing. But that
| does not prove that the people of the
| Something has been said recently
about a plan to colonize the negroes OF
the south in the Philippines. to give
them republican form of government
and send Booker Washington there as
president. This is Senator Morgan's
lplan 1t will not work. l believe il
such government was set up "
wouldn't last six months. The negroes
are incapable OF handling a govern
ment. They will not be governed by
negroes any more than by white men.
The trouble lies deeper than the skin.
believe the people of the two sec
tions ought to understand each other
better and to appreciate the difficulties
that lie in the way of providing for the
negro people as whole"
The program has just been issued for
| the annual state meeting of the only
state association of medical women In
the United States. The meeting is to
be held in Sioux City beginning April
| IA. The State Society of Iowa Medical
Women was organized in Des Moines
lin 1898 at a meeting of the state med
Iical association by the women VINO
were in attendance, and annual meet
iings have been held ever since at the
| time of the state medical society meet
| ings. The present officers are President
Jessie v. Smith. Winterset; vice presi-
dents, Sophie Hinze Scott, Des Moines
and Mary A. Coveny, Clinton; record
ing secretary, Mary Breen, LeMars;
treasurer Agnes Eichelberger. Sioux
City; secretary, Jennie MCGOWAN, Dav-
export. The society also has district
| Organization committee of one from
each congressional district, as follows.
lin the order of districts: Christian
Clegg, Columbus Junction; M. A. Cow
eny Clinton Lily Kinnear, Dubuque;
Alice Burton, Mason City; Mary T..
Neff, Cedar Rapids; Clara Gray. Tai
leyrand George Stewart, Des Moines;
Alice Burnet, Clarinda; Mary u. Tin-
ley. Council Bluffs; Nellie Binford.
Boone; Lena Beach, Cherokee. The
program for the April meeting includes
an address of welcome by Julia Hal
lam, Sioux City, and response by Mary
Hinze Scott, Des Moines; and series
of professional papers including dis
cussion of the prevention of insanity,
manual training in public schools. and
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