The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-23

We have found. The New 4Ork lrloune unexpectedly fair in it's discussion of Southern affairs of late and in a recent editorial about Alabama we find this:
 For our part we still think it best to hasten slowly. Southern men like Judge Jones. if left alone can punish Southern oppressors of the negro better than Con gress can by passing new laws. Indus trial education is making negro voters who are fit to vote and will be allowed to sure than sweeping national legislation. Yet We recognize a growing impatience in the North which threatens radical steps. The moderate men of the South should take warning, and make their in- huence effective to stop the civil and political determinations against the ne- gro merely because he Is negro. Mod crate men here do not want to see the old strife renewed any more than moderate Southern men do: but our Southern friends must realize that if the country is aroused the people who want to cut down their representation will have the Constitution on their side. The North has long shut its eyes to constitutional viola uons, that the South might have a free hand to solve its problem in its own way It will still shut it's eyes if the South uses Its free hand in a right spirit and works with justice toward ultimate equal rights. But, if the North is once forced to open its eyes and face facts. 1t Is the Southern free hand and not the national constitution which will have to give way.
 The covert threat in the concluding sen. tence is natural from a Northern Repub- lican paper. It is given by way of warn ing, but it was unnecessary. Judge Jones and his court If left alone" will be found fully competent to deal with the matters that have caused so much stir in Alabama recently, and there seems to be no present intention of interfering with them. That growing impatience" of which The Tribune speaks has no cause for existence, and if word of counsel will not be amiss we advise that those of the North who are fretting because of real or imaginary wrongs to the negro continue to shut their eyes and curb their impatience until we show our inability or indisposition to punish those who mis- treat the negro.
 The you are another style of argu- ment never settled any question yet but when The Tribune virtually argues that we are not hurrying matters in dealing with acknowledged crimes 1t Is surely not amiss to ask it why it's own city has been so long honeycombed with rottenness and corruption such as hardly any other city Is cursed Wltn! The 1TlDune s own party has had ample opportunity. both in the city and State of New York, to wipe out the evils which should be unbearable but has it done so? We of the South may shut our eyes to the wickedness prevail ing up there but New York is part of our common country, and If we should exhibit a growing impatience" because Republicans do not clean up before their own doors We would be doing only what some of our Northern friends are so much in the habit of doing. They shouldn't object to taking some of their own med icine.
 If the North will "open Its eyes and face facts" as they really exist, and will get the conviction firmly fixed that we can settle our race troubles, and that we intend to do it in our own way, it will go a long step in the right direction. Threats of Congressional interference will only make matters worse, and will cer- tainly not benefit the colored race