New-York tribune., 1903-04-29
WHITE AND BLACK IN THE SOUTH
Questions of Race Superiority and Race
Amalgamation.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: I was much interested in the report in The
Tribune this morning of the sermon by the Rev
Mr. Grant OF the Church of the Ascension, New
York City. His plea that 'the educated whites
should act teachers. the blacks as pupils sug-
gests various difficulties In many districts or the
South highly educated and refined young white
women-the equal in either respect to any of the
natives there-have been ostracized because they
attempted to educate the blacks. In many other
districts of the South the blacks are superior In edu
,ation and refinement to the whites Does not the
theory evolution teach that the better educated
should teach their interiors? In still othsr districts
indeed In one whole State according to popular oo-
seryation and belief. the greater part or the popu-
latfon is Of mixed blood. and it would be as oiI-
cult TO tell which is the superior race as 1t would
be to tell whether the education lies more with
those having a greater proportion of white or OF
black blood And then, just what Is the criterion
of the superior race? Is it the wild blood thlTst
that impes communities of alleged white men 10
murder and burn of different color! Is 1t
the fierce impulse 10 descend to the foulest black
guardism in speaking of men OF a different race
especially when least OF them is universally
recognized as superior in education, refinement
and all round ability to most of the men VINO pre-
tend to represent the South in Congress to-day
The dusky 8Ioslem despises the white Christian as
less than human being, as merely an amman ol
a lower species. The Chinese look upon the WHITES
Hindoo regards his race as immeasuraDy SUPERIOR supe[ao1
the English overlOrds. Every tribe OF 4ihelIIe
it IS eomPosed i Of the choicest Of the human
The spaniards used to have the utmost conter1pd{ d
thern-and perhaps have no less since we nosSeL
The Phipp9es and there Is dnis J.ae s Now who
shall who shall finally decide that p!e td viz -
which branch of the dominant race shali we con- con-
scede to be the SUPERIOR? southern writers t an
ing the alleged superiority of the so-caled anglo
Wbe3 thew visit NewYork they nd that the Irish
and the German ard the Italian ana the fFeHCn .n
peoples must all be taken into account Let one one
of these Southern orators address IamuanE G.' 49,
and exalt the superiority OF the <AneIo-S9tAo u
race and he will find tremendous howl gong ~, up
from the representatives Of one-thrd the
of New-York who will assert that the irish gentIe-
man has peer as an office holder' i' d PotleT Ie1
uIne simple gentleman. The German VIII as 9 STOUT,
ly maintain the superiority OF ms oW Ia az md
other business streets will suggest to the thougntIuI
Ii fast falling into the control race widely
different from the Anglo-saxon 112 ana one looked t
down upon as altogether inferior TO the ahese0
Nj Grant is at fault IN his philosophy as in his
facts. All the teachings of evolution 60 70 ;n Srlo~
ments II is the individual in each that ee-
Yates the whole; and the elevation OF eaGh % Lace
70 n 70 be this Never mind about the The
@ m 0e m % d an we can for the Individual whether
black white mixed. Let one law De ilape t az ~
f6 he a law compelling the black man or the man
Of mixed blood to work let II apls h1f HACK blood
S1d eGnaTlz If man no matter what his color
5oez an honest day's work let him have an hon
est days wage for his work As Tor me ean6es 6oss
from r1algamatio does Mr.. Grant realy suppose
-ba+ srvb0dv is anxious TO promote that ldea Is
that not matter CT taste, as the old woman ssIo
-, sba kissed her COW? According 10 common
oseration in the South. there is less practca thn
theoretical objection to miscegenauo apn IT Stata =
has repeatedly refused to enact laws TO punsh& & ms
cegenation while they keep on tne sSetIS +I1s
a sorts of laws prohibiting marriage pelWee4 @ t!Ie
TWO races. IS also claimed by those Nlo 7Its I
o5a careful study Of the subject that the euuCtt
ion of The colored people tends 10 inciease @ slg
purity of their blood as no selt-rgpectI s ToTch
less submitting 10 a III M % Ia0P ". y.