The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-02-21
The Negro Question at the North

THE Kansas House of Delegates nus
concurrcdt In tho Sonata amendment 70 y
< bill separating tho white and negro pupils
;fn5high schools Of cities containing over
A5,0O population. A special from TOPEKA
saws that the enactment Of this law Is the
Il result OF a. remarkably brief. hut lgor--5
Gus campaign {wnged by tho snpl,ort!el's
Of the measure in Kansas City Kan.
.vrhere has been q strong feeling says
( thu correspondent, against the neg.o
& pupils in the Kansas City high school
ever since the murder of q white pupil
By a negro last April. Some OF the high
school boys secured as many as 1900
signatures each to q petition for sep
arate high school bill. "a:
~ Wherever III there Is any considerable
number OF negroes In the white mans
territory there is a negro problem, md
$5it IS the same the world over--n the
Northern States and in South Africa rs
4 we'll as IN the Southern States. There
IS but ono safe rule and that is the rule
which the South has adopted--the rule
Of complete separation. It Is best for
x both races that tho line be drawn. rs IT is
& tic only way to preserve tho peace,
I'm this connection the washington cor
RESPONDENT of the Boston Transcript calls
attention to circular which Tho Ameri-.
81 can Negro Academy has sent out, giving
4 the subjects for discussion mt the con-
yention which Is 10 meet IN Washington
G fhe day before Inauguration, and says
that the circular dearly shows the line
OF political aspirations Of the American
negro. The topic which Kelly Miller, a
professor in Howard University, has Sc
lected is Migration and Distribution Of
X tile Negro Population as Affecting Negro
Suffrage Conditions" The transcripts
2 correspondent says that without knowing
what this negro professor is going to say.
at must be acknowledged that his title
suggests that he Is on an exceedingly
important track
"The negro population" he proceeds,
lis increasing rapidly in Northern cities
Y Philadelphia already has a number or
\ colored inhabitants which is exceeded,
by but few cities Of the South. AS q
part Of the modern division OF labor, GER
tain occupations in hotels and elsewhere
seem to fall to the negro. Tie cannot
q be shut out Of his right to vote in the
n Northern stats lie cen thus make a good
deal of trouble for public mon who disre-
gard the interests of his race in Congress,
When Senator Perkins. of California, was
supposed to be holding up the Crum
nomination in the Senate committee, the
{ colored people of San Francisco began to
.,get busy" and Mr. Perkins gradually
lost his interest in opposing tho contlrma-
1tion. 1t may be significant that a Phila-
dephia representative has recently intro
duced n bill attempting to control the
Jim Crow car question, on roads engaged
X In interstate commerce, and while moth
ing could come practically OF this at
tempt, 1t shows the attitude OF Northern
representatives.
Roosevelt's majority was so decisive
u that no class in the community can he
& said to have held the balance of power;
but when party battles become closely
waged again the negro population on the
\ North will! undoubtedly be able to COM
pei u certain recognition of their race
alaims by the Republicans OF the North"
That is a frank confession and sig
nihcant statement. Coming ms 1t does
from the correspondent of n New England
newspa per, which is very friendly to the
negro, and which rarely loses an occa-
sion TO rap the Southern people for what
II terms their prejudice against the
black race. But the negro question IN
: New England is one thing. when dealt
With at long range, hut quite another
when IL becomes matter Of local con-
Germ.