The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-18

America, Is no sSWScI-SouiloliIS
the 'army Of half-educated and needy
more than lads for the
most part"-who, with ceaseless activity
and boundless impertinence, proWl about
the city collecting Stories, soliciting
INTERVIEWS" inventing fakes" OF every
description, pushing their way INTO
houses, respecting no privacy or san ,s1,
Of personal grief, sullying and smirching
all they came In contact with. We siis.
pect that Sir Philip has himself Jared
badly at the hands of some of these "har-
pies" But though the picture Is perhaps
a little overdrawn, the main features are
dstressingy real and true. IT VII 70, .pe
which I believe will one day occur,' says
the writer "that this cancero,,s growth
on healthy American Journalism VIII pc
eradicatcd."
The other point to which we would d.
rect attention Is this English mans vie"
OF the negro problems solely as expressing
the opinion of an outsider Sir Philip
approaches this subject with dinldenee
as becomes man who, with discern
ment as keen as 1T is rare, says that IN
America It Is those. who know and see
least Of the negro who are loudest IN their
shouts for equality But here IN part IS
what Sir Philip himself has to add TO ms
much discussed subject: VEG
zone notices the great number or ne
groes In the streets-their proportion 70
the white population increasing, sup
pose, as you 60 farther South. con-
fess | didn't like them-but then what IS
one to do? There they are, and the sitta-
ton has to be faced : and after ut was
worse for the Americans than for me,
because could so easily leave them.
When aversion to race is instructive
and deep-seated It's n bit difficult to
write quite fairly on the subject. in spite
Of, all that is spoken and written ABOUT
the ''brotherhood of man" and the argu-
'ments that race and color should be no
bar to men enjoying equal rights ana
privileges In practice l don't see how
this theory Is to work In the United
States. There's no doubt about It, the
negro is not, can never be, the equal OF
his white brother He does belong to an
inferior race, and there's no getting over
1t. II may be regrettable that THIS should
be so, but so It certainly Isl. me
sort OF proportion to the white man. me
whole history of the race points 70 It's
limitations and disabilities. Through
thousands Of years, while other nations
were becoming civilized, the negroes OF
Area have remained stationery and par
barous
when they were Transported in ship
loads to America as slaves OF course
they hadn't quite a fair chance but since
freedom was given to them have they
shown any particular aptitude for dis
3tinguishing themselves In any way?
With exceptions here and there, ne pest
that can be said for them Is that they
make tolernbly good servants ~ io'llss
course, in America, among a highly civil
slized and strenuous people, the negroes
are in an absolutely false position they
ought never to be there; but as they are
there, and are increasing every year--inH
some of the Southern cities the negro.
3popula ton far outnumbers the white
they'll have to make the best OF ~ az
round. 1 don't think the problem will be
successfully solved by admitting them
to positions of power and authority IN
the State and don think the Amerl-
cans will ever endure IT, for nothing can
eradicate the inherent antipathy which
the black man arouses In the white, ana
they cannot work in double harness. One
must 20 to the wall, and it will not pc
the white man. IS {
VI f"ItAis a real tragedy-their8 presence IN
America-and this perplexinG legacy of
past generations Is one for which the
modern Americans, as well assthe negroes
themselves, deserve our profound sympa-s
thy. find that enthusiasm for the ne
ratio to the distance that the "enthus-s
ist', is from them. Mrs. Beecher Stowe,
the writer OF Uncle Toms Cabin
though on the whole she probably did not
overstate matters as they then were, had
never been South in her life, and 1t IS
those who knew and see least OF the ne
groes who are loudest In the reclamation
Of their equality to the white man.
MANY awhile man and woman to-day
in America looks back across the years
with affectionate memories to their black
mammie' in old slave days In the South
but enpancipated negroes-male and te-
male-of the North to-day are very diff
ferent beings, and 1t IS dlft1cult TO
imagine their instilling affection or any
sentiment based upon feelings more per-
sonal or real than those Of a vague and
perfunctory philanthropy
HISTORY OF MARYLAND. BY James
Mcsherry. Edited and continued by
Bartlett B. James, PHI. D. Baltimore
Book Company rs
IA new edition Of McSherry's History OF
Maryland, edited ampllfied and continued
by Dr.. Bartlett B. James, of the W Western
Maryland College, is brought out by the
Baltimore Book Company, Up to that
part Of the volume describing the close
OF the Revolution DR.. James has left the
original work pretty much as he found
it, but thereafter NIcSherrys narrative,
appearing somewhat more meagre than
desra ble the work has been substantially
rewritten. DR.. James Is not, therefore,
the mere editor alone, but also the re-
wiser and Joint author Of the present vol-
ume. {ss
r. Jamcs's volume tells the complete
story of Maryland from the original con-
ception of the State In the mind Of George
Calvert. Lord Baltimore, up to events OF
such recent memory as the Inauguration
Of Governor NNartield on the l3thRof Jan-
uary, 1904, Between these two dates Is.
recounted everything Of moment In the
history of the Terra Mariae, Considerable
space is devoted, very naturally, to- the
part played by Marylanders In our two
great wars. The somewhat anomalous
position of the State during the Civil
War and the efforts Of each party,
prompted by Maryland's obvious stratcg c
Importance, to enlist her declared co-op-
GRAFTON, are interestingly told. Dr..
Jamess style is pleasant. and his story
has the merit Of being Alternative with
out being dry,s4t should have the favor
able attention ofs4a historic ally-mnded
Marylanders and such others as are tin-
stcrested in the more detailed stories or
our State.
The authors purpose In publishing the
volume, lie says is the hope that 1t may
hear fruit In enlarging popular knowledge
of the States great past and IN incul-
eating patriotic sentiments In the rising
lof lie tb6r To- Ia "a