The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-22
A sANER NORTHERN VIEW.
The Brooklyn Eagle Sees Negro
Question More Clearly Than
Roosevelt.

To the Editor: In New England
and the Middle States there is a
largely prevailing distemper that re-
suits from a very warm dislike OF
tho South. A large majority are so smit-
ten they cannot be fair or just in any
thing that concerns the South. OF course
moi all have eaten of the insane root
for happily there are thousands who can
be- reasonable and sensible in considering
The white people in our glorious South
land In the remainder of the North
there are probably more who are friend
~ to the South than hostile. The reac-
ton against extreme views and denun-
ciating hostility is slowly extending
Now and then even in the section most
severely bitter and unfair, you will meet
with opinions that do not suggest the
mad house, and reveal common sense OBJ
servation and sense OF uprightness and
even penetration of judgment
The following, which appeared in The
Brooklyn Eagle. once Democratic after
a true pattern. and not crazy with
fatred of the South, is good enough to
be copied. 1t is not able TO like General
Lee. but it has grace enough to write in
diligently and properly of the Negro
At time when those two political mad
caps and partisan zealots. Roosevelt and
Hanna-are stirring up Sambo to cause
trouble to him and his best friends in
the South, sowing the Dragons teeth
of discord that they may bring forth a
most baleful crop of armed men, thus
visiting calamity and curses upon two
races, and seriously injuring the country,
il is in good time that the Eagle writes
as | copy below 1t is fortunate that
when high handed acts and false views
are so detrimental to the country, that
an old leading newspaper in a great
city, should present sane AMI wise
opinions. | copy but a part of what is
said in the editorial. as it concerns the
bone of eontention-the Negro. l men
tion that already rascals have feeced
the negroes out of 100000 by playing
upon their ignorance and credulity rcla-
tive to the deceptive promise of Hanna
to give them a pension. The New York
State Eagle says:
"The negro of today as the ward or
charge of the Federal Government has
oql qo!qM III uonnedIuoo e ST eJr1,,
fittest last Government is an evolution
of the needs and genius of men among
freed forty years ago. In that time he
has been the cause or occasion OF a deal
of trouble in the country, but only be-
no status and should have none. He was
cause he has been coddled pampered or
privileged beyond his measures of ca
pacity or development by those who do
not understand him and whose motives
as partisans were. to say the least, not
philanthropic. What the negro needs is
ahstenson from politics, abstension from
office holding, educational facilities, on
industrial lines, which recognize his APP
ttudes and his limitations, and then to
be let alone, to stand or fall, according
to his deserts.
This is government of States as we'll
as a Union. Suffrage in States turns on
State treatment of suffrage. And public
opinion in States touching office holding
classes. considered by races, will get
the best of political experimentation
against it, or at the expense of it. The
white race everywhere keeps the red man
under, keeps the yellow man under and
keeps the black man under The latter
problem is a little harder here than else
where, because the black man is massed
rather than diffused here.
whom the fittest dominate. The fttest
race in the world is the Caucasian.
Among the weakest is the negro race.
Neither poetry nor proclamation nor con
situations nor laws nor oratory will
change the fact that it is best for the
whites to control and best for the blacks
that the whites should control"
This is sober second thought 1t is
much wiser and more reasonable than
Roosevelt's pretentions, abuse of power
and rabid rant about his friend, the
negro. he seeks to use for his own i'll
tempered passions and aspirations.
THEODORE BRYANT KINGSBURY.
Wilmington. n c., March 10, 1903.