The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-14

to the whole human family. And they
cannot be done away with; they lie too
deep; they are a part of the race.
Some years ago there was a great
public meeting held in one of the West
African colonies. presided over by the
Governor. At this meeting a native
a x G. M. G.--clad in the white waist
coat and swallow-tails of Western civ
ilization, delivered a powerful and elo-
quent Grafton. After it was all over a
friend of mine congratulated him on
his splendid effort.
He sighed, quaffed a glass of Pom
merry, and then said: YES, and yet do
you know l often feel that one day l
shall throw it all Off put on the loln
cloth of my fathers, and rush back
into the forest?"
/ can assure you that poor Grant AL
lens THE Rev. John Greedy" was bas-
ed on solid fact and a deep knowledge of
colored human nature. However brill
liant the veneer of his civilization, the
black man remains forever a black
man. East is east, and west is west,
and never the twain shall meet"
We are loud in our condemnation of
the methods employed by the South
erners of the United States in punish-
ment of the offending negro. / quite
acknowledge that burning an erring
negro alive is a horrible method of
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we English do not usually resort to
| such extreme, yet without a doubt we
| treat our colored fellow-subjects in a
| manner which would not be tolerated
in the heart of the empire.
| Within the last seven years I myself
| have seen the thumb-screw applied.
with the full knowledge and consent of
| British authorities, to thieving native;
| and in West Africa the methods adopt
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Ell in the extreme. We in England say
that the black man is in all respects
the equal of the white.
If you go to Bombay, one of the
daintiest jewels in our imperial crown,
you will find that not even the great
est Indian Prince is allowed to put SO
much as his face within the doors of the
Byculla Club or the Yacht Club.
Some time ago distinguished coll
ored cricketer was staying with the
Governor of one of our great Indian
provinces. The Governor wrote to the
secretary of a certain club and asked
that this cricketer should be put up as
an honorary member. The reply he re-
ceived ran as follows:
my Dear Lord: have received
your Excellency's letter. If your friend
chooses to come in his turban. and take
off his shoes and wait at table like his
brethren, he can enter the club. Not
unless" %kgA
When Lord Reay was Governor of
Bombay he gave large dinner party
to which he invited a certain very high
class native gentleman. This gentleman
he introduced to an English lady, say
ing: "Will YOU take Mrs. So-and-so
in to dinner?" The lady at once left
the room. accompanied by her husband
and Anglo-India has not even yet for
given Lord Reay for his innocent sole
cism.
Sometime, ] own, this prejudice can
be carried too far. Some years ago
young subaltern in India left his first
class railway carriage for a moment,
and on his return he found a colored
gentleman sitting there. "D-n your
cheek" he cried, in frenzy of rage
and indignation. "Out you go, you
black brute" and so saying, he flung
him. bag and baggage, upon the plat
form Unfortunately, the BLACK
brute" happened to be one of her maj
esty's judges of the Supreme Court
i could give many other instances of
a like nature, but these will suffice
to show my readers that, with GER
tain notifications, we of the British
empire entertain precisely the same
feelings toward the colored man that
the Southerners do toward their own
negroes.
1t is a delicate question to handle;
but the fascination of the black man
for the untraveled and inexperienced
Englishwoman is inexplicable to one
who knows what the black really Isl
In the Southern states of America,
/ believe, and in South Africa, also,
understand it is penal offense for a
white woman to be even seen talking
to a black man; while, personally
speaking, / consider that the white
woman who can degrade herself to
marriage with colored person places
herself outside the pale of decent hui
manity.
There is one satisfaction, and that is
that her punishment is swift, sure and
unerring. AS a colored Bishop once
said to me: ut is violation of the
laws of nature, which is bound to end
in disaster"
However much the sentimentaiist
may deplore the statement, the fact
remains that the black on close and
intimate acquaintance and in the mass
wins neither the liking nor the respect
of the white man. That is, be II UNI
derstood, when he claims equality.
AS soldier, as servant he is un-
approachable; our colored soldiers are
the glory Of our empire; the negro or
the Hindu servant is the most charm-
ing and the most faithful being on
this earth.
But the white man rules by Virtue Of
his superiority and the British empire
is based on the answering assumption
of this fact