The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-09-22

Southern life on new and more per-
manent basis. He rises above section-
alism; he forgets or tries to, the re-
construction period, when his people
We're submitted to humiliation never
before or since undergone by the Anglo
Saxon race. He not only does not hate
the negro. he does all he can to help
him; the money given him for schools
since the war is evidence Of that fact.
He does not believe in social equality,
nor in universal suffrage; but he stands
for legal justice and limited suffrage.
impartially enforced.
Up to this time the liberal Southerner
has steadily defeated any suggestion
looking towards the separation of the
school funds, he has condemned and
put down peonage and he has spoken
through press, from pulpit and platform
Of the crime Of lynching Such men are
Judge Jones of Alabama, who has done
valiant service in exposing and punish
ing white men engaged in peonage;
Governor Aycock of North Carolina.
who in his last message spoke strongly
and effectively in favor of the educa-
ton Of the negro: Chancellor Hill OF
Georgia, who at Richmond in April
made an address on the negro problem
that was enthusiastically received by
men Of the South and the North, who
crowded even the aisies of the theater-
President Kilgo Of Trinity college has
on several occasions given vigorous ex-
preston to the better academic opinion
OF the South. And more encouraging
even than the utterances Of these men
is an enlightened public sentiment,
much Of which expresses itself in a.
quiet way in the recognition of the in-3
dustrial and civic rights of the negro.
There are the extreme Northerner5
and the liberal Northerner. The
former thinks always of the progressive
negro--generally the nulattoes found in
Northern cities-kowing nothing what
ever OF the masses of criminal and
ignorant black folks that live i'm the.
swamps and rural districts OF the
south. He is an idealist and talks
abstractly of the equality of all men.
He cannot see that the reconstruction
policy of the government was great
mistake, however natural it may hHve
been. If you ask him what he would
do IL suddenly the voting population OF
Massachusetts, be increased by the adj
dition> Of an equal number of ignorant
negroes, he thinks he would submit to
their domination. He has never seen
the problem in its practical aspects, nor
felt the situation concretely. He has,
given all his sympathy to the Southern
negro and none to the Southern white.
man, who since the war has had to.
master obstacles almost overwhelming.
The extreme Northerner thinks of the
extreme Southerner and not of the,
liberal, and RACES with indignation
against the fire-eaters. Or, what is
harder to bear, he adopts eondescend-.
ing and patronizing air towards the
South, looking at everything from the
outside. He has never really or ina
ginatively put himself In the place of
the Southern white people. DIR. Hills
is, for the present, the most pronounced
leader of this type 49,. Il,
The number of liberal Northerners
has constantly increased during the
past few years. The experience Of the
government in dealing with the Philip
a vivid realization of the Southern
problem. More significant than this
has been the effect of contact with the
Southern people in educational con-
ferences at Winston, Salem, Athens and
Richmond. Such men as DR.. Lyman
Abbot. Mr.. Albert Shaw, Editor Nc
Kelway, Mr.. Robert G. Ogden have seen
the situation in the South as 1t is and
are doing constructive work in remov-
ing prejudices and in creating
national spirit. They have been mis-
understood by the extreme Northerner
and the extreme Southerner. but they
are working hand in hand-and heart to
heart-with the liberal southerner.
They point with admiration to the work
done by the Southern people in industry
in education, in literature, under most
distressing circumstances. They do not
judge the South by: its political leaders,
They know the silent forces that are
at work now that will mean vastly sig
nificar1t results for the next generation.a
and they are not disturbed overmuch by
the raging passion Of Tillman or the
envenomed7 fury of Dixon. "The
Leopard's Spots" - ''''"
Recent events have brought into
prominence the extreme negro. The
disturbance at Mt. Zion Church in
Boston-overstated by the extreme
southerner and understated by the, ex-
IRENE Northerner-is indicative of a.
widespread tendency injjthe. negro race.
The disturbing element there was not Of