The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-22
THE BrTrERrsr YET.

We have read our Northern exchanges pretty attentively since the Indianola and crum episodes. and while many of them are bitter and unjust we have found nothing so insaneiy vicious as the fol- lowing from The Sacramento Bee. Under the heading. Southern Blood Boiis at
 Negro Appointments it says:
 southern blood boils at the idea of allowing a negro to hold an officiai posi-. ton in the South. as it chafed and fumed when President Roosevelt received Booker T. Washington at the White House. There be negroes. and there be ne- groes, as there are white men and white men. And it must be said chat when the lower stratum of the whites in the just as ignorant. just as semi-savage. just as brutal just as fiendish, as the negroes whom they loathe, and despise, and spit at. Nor should 1t be forgotten ply no white man the equal of Booker T. Washington In intellectually properly and sensibly directed toward the accom- plishment of nobde purpose.
 The emancipation of the negro may But it was. necessity which was forced upon Abraham Lincoln by the South It. self. In this case the sins of the fathers have beeu visited upon the children. The damnable crime of slavery was rospon- sible for bringing the negroes 10 this land, and those who sowed the wind are now reaping the whirlwind.
 The negro Is heres and he is here to stay. No man has been quicker to probe acknowledge them to the world. than has Booker T. Washington. And he IS the one who. above all others, is apply ing the only remedy-the education of the hand as well as the brain. the heart
 In education alone Hes the salvation of the negro. the hope of the South.
 It Is high time the hot blood Of the South was cooled of by little injection of common-sense. Roosevelt is not the and capable American citizens simply be- cause they happen to be dark-sklnned. He will probably continue to let India noia. Mississippi, do without a postofsice until 1t consents to accept as postmlstrsss the coiored woman whom he appointed.
 And he will be right.
 And the longer the citizens of India nola continue to act as they are acting now. the longer will they be in the wrong entirely and idiotically in the wrong. Tn some respects that passes the limits of anything we have read. The writer was evidently trying to see how vicious otAe 0etecA AS S0A4o AA*oAS bhS G~h6hSA language appear. Many Northern papers are unjust but it remained for this Cali fornia sheet to put the white man of the south down on the same level with the ihgro and speak of it's own race as just as semi-savase. just as brutal. just as fendish" as the lowest stratum of the cobred population.
 of course it would be useless to point outit to this vicious Bee that emancipation was not forced on Lincoln by the South. or 4hat the Southern people were not responsible for "the damnable crime of slavery" It would be, equally useless to tell it that in endorsing and repeating the silly lies about the people of Indianola it makes itself idiotic. It's idea of com mon sense evidently is that Roosevelt can do nothing but what is great and noble, and that in trying to force negro officials on unwilling communities he Is exhibiting the highest qualities of statesmanship. There is hope that the true facts about the 1tdianola affair will come out and when they do we predict that the Presl- dent vfll be shown up as an exceedingly small partisan. working his official posi- ton fer his own ends and making ap- pointmsnts for the strength it will give him with the negroes. But language is wasted ip arguing with such ,newspapsrs.