The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-07
THREE MODERN INSTANCES.

THREE mOUEhN 1NSIANN1S. The New Bedford CMass,) Mercury. all iuding to race feeling in the South, thus liberates a Iarge-sized feline from the bag:
 And we can provide any quantity of testimony showing race determination here in New Bedford. It is an unwritten law that no colored girl shall teach in our schools. They are barred from clerk ships in our stores and the white and the coiored will not live in the same tene- ment houses.
 We do not for a moment doubt that The Mercuary can easiy find instances in its own town of race prejudice, and we have no reason to doubt that such in stances are to be found in many other New England towns. We know that such prejudice exists and is carried out in Pennsylvania, in New York and New Jersey in the States of the Northwest, and that it often breaks out with as much virulence as 1t ever does down South. As an example. we find this special from Omaha, Neb., dated March 1, in The New York Sun;
 A negro school teacher was appointed on Thursday to the George Francis Train Public School. one of the largest in the city. At noon the pupils reported tine matter to their parents. The attendance for the afternoon was only 50 per cent of the normal.
 On Friday still more deserted. and the ultimatum has gone forth to the School Board to Take away the negress or we will close the school in which she teaches by keeping our children away" The School Board will take up the matter on Monday.
 We have not kept up with this last ra- cial embroglio and are not apprised of the result, but that makes no difference. The point is that the same feeling which operates against social equality in Ala bama operates with equal force in Ne tions of the North. It Is in the blood of the Caucasian, and 1t will show itself in every instance when occasion arises. Suppose, now. that the school authori- ties of Omaha had followed the precedent laid down by the President in the In- dianola affair, and told those white pat rons and their children that they should submit to a colored teacher, or the school would be closed? Or, suppose the matter were up to the President himself, would he close the school on account of the opposition to a negro teacher? What diff ference is there, so far as the principle of the matter is concerned? These are all pertinent questions and appropriate to the circumstances but the incidents them selves are much more appropriate in any discussion of race feeling. We of the South can appreciate the feelings of the white parents who refuse to have their children taught by a negro. for we know that their objections are both natural and right White people here would not subs init to that sort of thing. and they ought not to do so in Omaha.
 And while on the subject of Northern sentiment we must not omit significant remark recently made by Dr. Henry 5. Pritchett, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in which he de- clared that "the balIot-the right of fran chise-has been given all too freely, and to leave no doubt of his meaning he add ed that "the men who were instrumental in enfranchising the negro did that which no thinking man of today could wholly endorse" We. suppose no one will ac- cuse this Boston professor of being pre- judiced, and as he was addressing a Chi cago audience there was no occasion for him to speak otherwise than with perfect sincerity.
 These three modern instances are only given as specimens of what is going on all over the North. They show that race feeling is practically the same through out the country, and they further prove that 1t lies not in the mouths of our Northern friends to taunt Southern peo- pie with race prejudice.