The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-03
TWO MoRrHrnN yTyWs.

&<@@4<88<@4Aa8gse@t recent communication to The Springfield Republican. said:
 The negro in the South has his own public schools, teachers. churches. cars, rants. etc.. but if he enters any white mans resort is promptly put out In our section of the country. however. we do things in q different way. Here in Mas his children attend our public schools, and his race is allowed free access to Ill public places or gatherings, that is. le- anS little social intercourse between the races in the public ones. either in or out of school In the trades our negro fellow fact very. difficult for a bootblack or waiter. If he does rise to the higher walks in life 1t IS through sheer pluck and dation in a irst-class hotel. he is told the house is full; if a restaurant, that the tables are engaged.
 The real difference between the North equal constitutional rights on paper and q blum when contact with him becomes disagreeable. In the South, on the other hand, he Is frankly given to understand the fence, and content himself with the accommodations provided for his color.
 It is plain to see that MT. Andrew is much better informed as to facts and conditions connected with the negroes and their treatment in the two sections than the people of his part of the world usually are, or else he is much fairer and more honest in his expressions. The so- cial attention shown the negroes in Bos- ton may tickle their vanity and arouse their self-importance, but that has little effect when 1t comes to getting a liveli- hood. Allowing negro to eat at the white mans table may fill his stomach, but it doesn't provide food and clothes for his family. In the South the negro and the white man can work side by side, but there ends equality between them. And while on this subject we think it not amiss to call attention to the lam guage of Edward M. Shepard, printed in The Advertiser last Saturday. Discuss ing the threats of certain Northern fanat- ics to force universal negro suffrage on the South. he said:
 None the less, I should regret it as calamitous to the American nation, and. above all, calamitous to the American negro, If the North were to undertake, IhEOuSh Lu6 FcueFat SIOVcI0ment. to en- force upon the South the right of the negro to vote. or to make political issue of that right The undertaking means the use of physical force. Can anything other than an army from the North can make headway with such an undertak- ing. Only under military law could it a5san fSsf he even nSminal members that a Northern army did es- tablish and maintain in the South 'carpet bag" governments, with their infamies other Northern army were to renew the | undertaking we should have the same result.
 Those were the words of a man who sees and understands facts as they exist MT. Shepard expresses doubt whether a Northern army or e Federal army could force the South to admit negroes to all the political privileges enjoyed by the white race. but he might have gone fur ther, for it is not a question of doubt at all. It is an impossibility. The only doubt on the subject is whether such an army could be raised, in the North, or anywhere else. It is no use to point to the enthusiastic uprising in 1861. That war was to save the Union," as express ed throughout the North, and tradition, patriotism and historical associations all united to enthuse and inflame the people. Democrats united with Republicans to l save the Union of our fathers, and the result was a great and enthusiastic army. If it had been authoritatively announced that the war was begun and conducted only to free the Southern slaves. there would have been no army except such as could have been formed among the abolition fanatics, and the greater por- tion of them preferred to flight with their mouths. A war with such an avowed object would not have been doubtful from the start.
 An effort to organize an army to en- force universal suffrage in the South would be a predestined failure. Not merely the Solid South would be against 1t, but the North and West could not be depended on to furnish troops. The Government itself would be powerless, for it would be arraying itself against the
 white sentiment of the Union And when MT. Shepard speaks of the result of a successful effort as somewhat like that of the reconstruction era, he only half ex- presses 1t. If the Government and the
 Northern people could, by any possibility, force the Southern people to undo their
 work and give universal suffrage to the negroes, two results would be inevitable.
 There would be perfect hell in the South
 for few years and the end would be the
 extermination of the negro race. That
 would follow beyond the possibility of doubt.
 It is to us a singular and altogether in-
 applicable fact that well-informed men in the North should persist in the belief that either the North or the Federal Government can control and regulate suf- frage in the South. One would think they would at some time awake to the fact that 1t cannot be done. They might just as well set out to regulate the clothes we wear or the food we eat Such men as MT. Shepard and MT. Andrew recognize the truth, and others may as well learn it first as last.
 The pleasantries and amenities of Wes- tern journalism have caught the papers of Indian Territory and some of them