The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1905-12-08
RACE SEGREGATION AND Int
GRAFTON.

ON the matter OF the negro question
In The South. the New York indie
pcndent is wiser iu It's own couccit
than seven men that cam render p rca-
SON. Itbel.cves boo the 'a0,ent treat
ment" at q safe distance. lt has been
reasoned with. vain endcavor- have
been made by good and sensible men,
North and South, to teach tine indie
pendent that the people of the south
are not an and altogether bad in their
views ON. and treatment of, The negro
question 10 has even been modestly
suggested that the Independent may
hc wrong. and that the good people
oftle ~outh-who now control South
em policies know something about
Tine negro. but AN this has had mo-
effect ou that diseased sheet Iherea-
SON for this is plain, for the proyerb
SAYS. "Ihough thou shouldest bray d
fool iu a mortar among wheat with O.
pcstle. yet will uo, hi, foollshuess de-
part from him.
Iu its Thanksgiving number the In
dependent cries 'shame, because in
Auann's splendid new railroad sta-
tion separate waiting rooms are pro-
yided FOR the white and colored. Says
the Independents
"But we suppose Atlanta is not
peculiar case. Generally iu the South
we believe that "a separate waiting
room, with separate entrance, Us pro-
vided for negroes. TO is part Of the
system which requires eparate cars
ON the railroads and separate seats ON
the tIOlleys. and sCD1r1fe schools and
los purpose is 20 hum.li te the negroes
aud teach them that they are an iu-
ferior, out-cast race, out ofwhichthey
cannot Doe allowed TO rise
A part Of WHAT the Independent says
is true; part is false. Itis true that
the Atlanta case is not peculiar. Sepa-
rate waiting rooms and cars, aud sepa-
rate schools areproyided, and willcon-
tinue 20 be provided. But this is
not done TO "humilIate the negroes
as is claimed by the Independent. 10
is done because in the judgment ofthe
white people it is best for each race. IL
is more agreeable 10 the white people
10 have separate cars and waiting
rooms. If this is a discrimination
against the negro, why not against the
white also2 Let as illustrate.
We heard prominent minister say
that once when crossing the line be-
tween Tennessee aud Alabama, Oh his
way 10 Birmingham, he was asked by
the conductor 20 move into another
car "Why?" asked the minister
because we are now M Alabama, and |
this car Is reserved for the negroes" /
said the conductor. ln relating the
incident the minister said that there /
were only three or four negroes in the |
ear, which was frst-class i'm its APP /
p0intments. and that he and several /
other white men had 10 move. Take /
another illustration We know a gem
t.eman who, in leaving Richmond on
q trip, found the first car crowded
and moved on intoanothercar. There
WAS only one person IN the car besides
himself, and that was anegro. When
the conductor came along he asked
the gentleman 20 move back into the
crowded car, which was not so nice in
its appointments as the one reserved
for the negroes.
Here, then, are two cases i'm which
the whites were Disseminated against
The separate waiting rooms and cars
protect each race. lfthey "humiliate"
the educated and well behaved me-
groes by placing them with bad ne
groes, do they not also thrust ON the
educated and well behaved whites the
coarse and rowdy white man? There
is one great and essential difference.
The rowdy white person who does not
know and appreciate his position
among refined people i'm a public
place is q rare exception, while the
rowdy negro who does know it and
observe il is the exception. Illustra- !
tions are too numerous 10 mention. J
Laws are not made TO restrain those {
who observe order, but those who vio- {
late IL. 10 would be interesting to D
know just how the Independentwould a
manage the race question In the South,
IL we did not already know. IL IS a
serious question ion the minds ofmany
people whether the treatment of the /,
Southern negro by such race anar-
chi,ts as the Independent has not al !
ready set the negro back century i'm
his proper advancement
AS 10 the Separate schools" of
which the Independent speaks, that
is NOT a matter for argument i'm the "
South. We always have had, and al
ways will have, separate schools: and ii
ihe object of them is not 20 teach the a
negroes that "they cannot be allowed n
10 rise, but 70 preserve the race In Y
.eguty Of the negro and the white Y
The negro can rise as high as he o.
nleases; but he cannot rise by trying q
10 be n white man, any more than the
white can rise boy trying 10 be red
man, OF yellow man. OF
God made the races; and expert al
ncnts in trying 90 mix them have re- Of
ulted disastrously. And this Is true al
IF an races. The editor of the hide fe
pendent cannot, however much he OF
may desire it, succeed in posing the W
lie cannot solve the al
negro problem by insisting ON the b.
social intemingIng of negroes and
al D.