The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-25

ored people have been taught to hate
each other. That is, when one gets up
IN the world, acquires a little property
and has enough of an income to live
ignorant and poorly off try to pull us
down. A colOred girl who win serve a
white woman faithfully becomes care
less and impairment the minute she en-
tiers a coIored home. She feels herself
an equal and cannot recognize the
necessary difference between mistress
and maid
You surely have a pretty home
said the white woman, looking around
the drawing room. It was like the
room in the home of a white woman
of similar means. and in much better
taste than many.
1T is comfortable" admitted the coll
ored woman with some pride. but it
is no better than many other homes
presided over by colOred women. We
are not all shiftless, you know, and
with half a chance a great many more
Of US would have nice homes"
Mrs. Gilbert, who lives in a hand
some brick house at No Is Douglass
street, Brooklyn, never has any but
white girls who are willing to work in
colored families" she said yesterday
to Tribune reporter, and they make
most satisfactory servants L pay no
more for my girls. than do my white
neighbors. Why should II"
Her house is as neat as any on the
block and as comfortable. Among tha
Brooklyn cOlOred set-and there is a
set which draws its lines with extreme
cloSeneSS-her dinners are highly
praised. Her husband owns consider
able property; more than the average
well to do white man in Brooklyn.
James e. Garner, who has offices at
No. lab West TWenty-sixth street. New
York, and who lives at No. 387 Gates
avenue. Brooklyn, is a coiored man
who does not believe in hiring white
servants if coIored ones can be secured
I'VE colored people have a hard
enough time, and should do all in our
power to help each other" he said Il
had a young white woman in my office
for several years as stenographer and
bookkeeeper. She performed her work
well and retained her position until
her family moved away. I have filled
her placed with a cOlOred girl, and viii
continue to give preference to colored
help.
ut has always seemed strange to me
how quickly aliens acquire a dislike for
cOlored people They come over here
/ from Europe without any race preju-
dices Before they can speak the lang
uage properly they learn to dislike ne
groes, and none are more eager to put
slurs upon US. To show how groundless
and unjust this prejudice is, let US COM
pare the NEGROES and the Italians. To
my personal knowledge there are more
/ than 200 colored men in this city who
1 are prosperous enough to own their own
I homes and who live in comfort. Are
/ there a greater number Of Italians in a
similar poSition2 do not believe there
J are, because so many of them. after
saving few thousand dollars, return to
Italy"
i Several New York negroes own auto
mobiles, and more than one house with
a colored master has white man for a
butler. These buffers are usually Scan
diavian or English. and no colored. man
has found difficulty in securing their
services when he could afford it.
There is a dressmaking establishment
| uptown presided over by two colored
women, in which most of the work vvo-
men are white The patronage OF the
place comes entirely from white vyo-
men, and the service of the vhite
lsean1stresses is not so unusual as thai
Of the white domestics in BROOKLYN col
ored homes.