The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-01-30

and will not associate, let alone ac-
cept position with negro as EN-
ployer. 1t is shown, however, that
all of these expensive surroundings,
which only wealth can give, are not
sufficient to overcome race prejudice
for the paper goes on to state that
when one of the "Colored Aristo-
Gratis" moves in a community, the
value of real estate Immediately goes
down.
In commenting upon this article
the Baltimore Sun says;
president Roosevelt is greatly
shocked by the exhibition of race
prejudice in South Carolina in the
opposition to the negro Crum for
collector of customs at Charleston.
Doubtless he would prefer to see the
color line entirely wiped out as it
seems to have disappeared in Boston,
where intermarriages take place
without exciting remark. But there
only seems to be an absence of race
prejudice in those parts of the coun-
try where there are few negroes to
excite it. 1t exists everywhere among
white American people. The very
negroes in Boston who have white
wives probably find themselves ex-
cluded from the trades organizations
and are not permitted to make a liv.
ing in any of the mechanical arts.
Booker T. Washington sums up the
difference between the North and the
South in the treatment of the negro.
In the North, he says, the negro has
every facility for spending his money,
but he is denied the opportunity to
earn any. He can spend his money
at the opera or in the college or in
riding on Pullman cars. But he is
not permitted to earn any by being
a carpenter, a mason or in the mills
and furnaces. In the South he has
every opportunity for making a liv-
ing that a white man has, but he is
excluded from the opera, the Pullman
cars, the hotels and the white mem
colleges. 1t cannot be doubted that
under the Southern treatment he
fares best. Just the other day the
Philadelphia Bulletin published the
following letter, which tells the
story:
"Sir: l am a colored man, a me-
chanic by trade. There is nothing in
the line of house in wood that
cannot make. 1 can build all the
stairs, windows, make the sashes,
blinds and doors. l can build house
from the ground and turn the keys
over to the owner completed. l can
draw the plans, make the blue prints,
make the specifications and givee sti-
mates. Yet l am debarred from en-
ployment on account of my color.
The prejudice in this city is strong
against me, much stronger than in
the place 1 came from. No one
wants me because l am a colored
man. Why is this? 1 am 81 years
old, drew the plans of the colored
church on Tasker street, above
Twentieth. My name is in the corner
stone. l built the State Colored
College of Orangeburg, S. c., and l
have built cottagesin Orangeburg and
for the Mayor of Beaufort, S. c., but
still am debarred from employment
in Philadelphia.
SAMUEL H. BYTHEwooD.
at will be a sad day for the coun-
try when the race prejudice as it ex-
lists in the South disappears. If the
time should ever come when the
white people of the South shallmake
marriages with the negroes, the end
of a proud race will be in sight and
there will soon be mongrel popula-
ton worse than the populations of
Cuba and the South American
States.
Gin a speech made recently in New
York DR.. Charles w. Dabney, presi-
dent of the University of Tennessee,
said: What about this question of
race prejudice? 1t is not peculiar to
the white people of the South. be-
lieve this prejudice has been placed in
the heart of the plain, simple people
of the South to keep their blood pure,
and it is going to persist untilreason
and culture take its place as the
guardian of race integrity"