The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-03-11
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suited from President Roosevelt's
foolish course, is that of the Wis
eonsin wiseacres who propose to
hold q convention OF Iall the state
governors at Atlanta, Georgia, to
consider the race problem" The
reply Of several Southern governors
as well as OF a prominent negro
educator to this proposition, to the
effect that such a convention would
be useless and absurd, as there is
really no race problem" is an apt
one. and should settle the matter
without further ado. The South
needs no meddling from Northern
marplots TO decide what is best for
It. As well send the governors of
Wisconsin and other Northern
states to South Africa to settle the
social status of the Hottentots, as
10 bring them South to advise re-
garding social conditions here.
They probably know as much con-
eerning the one as the other. The
fact is, that with the exception of
j few political malcontents who had
been made. such by the efforts of a
certain class Of white republicans,
the negroes at the South were con-
tent and, in the main, doing well,
until Theodore Roosevelt conceived
it to be his duty to call their atten-
lion to the fact that he was aching
10 make a cause for them. Other
presidents had appointed represen-
satives Of the race to offices of more
OF less prominence in the South,
and no revolution followed. Yes,
more negroes were appointed to OF
Zee by President Mckinley than
President Roosevelt has named, but
It raised 10 cutlery. Mckinley did
not conceive it necessary, and
would doubtless have thought it I'M
dignifed and unoecoming, to rush
into print on the subject, and rivet
the attention of the entire race up
on his acts, fof the sole purpose Of
gaining their political support. He
did not either seek social relations
for himself with the race, or seek
10 force such upon the South, as
Roosevelt has done. To the latter
IS due all the disturbance of the re-
lations between the two races which
exists today. Never since the days
of carpet-bag domination in the
South have there been such i'll feel
ings as today exist against the
North, and Roosevelt, with his i'll
conceived and self conceited acts,
has caused it. The further interior
snce Of the North in the matter can
emily increase this feeling, and I'M
settle conditions more. The truth
OF the matter is that whatever
question or problem, if any, there
may be in the relations of the white
and black races at the South, time
alone can solve it. The North may
preach and lecture and advise for
; thousand years, but it cannot lay
down any rules which the people
of the South must follow. And, in
faet, the South might truly say to
she Northern governors that they
should concern themselves with the
Status Of the negro race in their own
states. They may give few of them
ssme social privileges, but they do
psf give the masses of colored labor
ess the right to work alongside of
white laborers. Even in the mines, !
she scum of Europeis welcomed, but
nA pick may be handled by the
darkey. 1t is not so in the South.
There Is doubtless much that might
bs said on both sides, but, after all,
he matter IS one that must adjust
IAelf, anf one that no political