Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-09-17

women.
This is from first to last a race
problem. It is an issue Of race and
not of politics. It is thing of skin
and type. and not of section or cOndi-
ton. The history of man has been
written in race antagonism and in race
separation.
Boston, the metropolis of abolition,
will not employ negroes in the depart
ment stores. Nor will Chicago. The
Boston Globe received a formal pro-
test against the employment Of ne
gro reporter on its local staff. The
sisters son of Wendell Phillips, rich
with the evangel blood Of emaucipa-
ton, refused to associate with negro
in Harvard University. Fred Doug
las in his last speech declared that on
ly one white man in all the ranks Of
the abolitionists had permitted him to
forget IN his presence that he was a
negro.
There are 100000 negroes in Ohio,
Pennsylvania and New York. Where
is the office that they hold, or the sta
ton of trust and profit that they fill ?
In Mr.. Crumpacker's State Of Indiana
they lynch negroes almost as frequent
ly and upon less provocation than in
Georgia. A riot raised on race pref
udice reddened the central avenues Of
New York, Chicago citizens chased
a negro through the streets, ready with
rope TO visit capital punishment for
theft. Boston elected negro by ac-
cident to her Common Council and
then offered him $4,000 to remove
offensive color from the chamber in
which he served.
"Race prejudice is as old as the
world and as everlasting as the hills,
and this prejudice, deep, uncircum
scribed and ineradicable, sits like a
shadow on the future of the weaker
race.
Under this prejudice the negro can
never, North or South, be received in
equal social and personal relations
with the families of the white race,
and can never, therefore, be social
equal with the white man.
Under this prejudice he will never,
North or South, be permitted to gov
ern in any State or country, even
where he has a majority, and he can
never, therefore, be political equal.
"Some of the greatest names and
greatest hearts in all our history have
thought and said that separation was
the logical, the inevitable, the only
solution. Daniel Webster said so.
Thomas Jefferson said so most definite
ly aud eloquently. Edward Everett
said so. James Madison said so.
Henry Clay believed and said it.
Twice in his glorious and illustrous
lifetime Abraham Lincoln, who did
not believe in the negro as citizen
and voter, moved in bis public sta
ton toward a definite plan of separa-
tion. Henry Grady believed in it.
Bishop Turner is its open advocate.
"Blyden and Council and Taylor,
and the ablest leaders of the race are
said to favor it, and think that
Booker Washington in his heart knows
that neither worth nor merit nor
achievement will ever bridge the i'm
passable barrier of race prejudice, and
that, when the last arrow Of his noble,
but hopeless, effort has been shot, it
must come to this at last.
at is neither impossible nor i'm
practicable.
"In the matter of location, the Phil
ippine soil and climate are suited to
the negro, the territory is ample, and
on one Of these islands the fortunes Of
the negro and the native may be
worked out eide by side. 1t may be
that the islands of the sea were placed
by Providence in our keeping to fur
nish an answer to the problem Of the
times. The repatriation Of Africa is
the sentimental ideal Of the advo-
Gates of separation. Lower California
might be secured. The lands west of
Texas might be had.
Il frankly confess the promise Of
some opposition to the idea in the
South. Paradoxical as it may seem,
the South loves the negro-not the
new negro, but the old. In his place
and in the relations clearly under
stood, there is feeling Of affection
between the Southern white man and
the better negroes, which our friends
to the north Of US can never appre-
ciate and never understand.
"But the relations Of the races in
the South are constantly growing more