The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-16
JUDGE FEAG|N ON SARATOGA DINNER  Exceedingly Unfortunate for Negroes in the South  BLUNDER BY WASHINGTON
  Southern People Regard This As Direct Insult By the People of
 the North-other
 Views.

Juuge ~. B. feagin Of the inferior criminal court, has added his voice to the chorus of southern men who have given out interviews deplorlng the Booker T. Washington- wanamaker episode in a Saratoga hotel. Few men are more cap able than is Judge Feagin of giving an opinion worthy to be heard on the sub ject of negro character and the evils that will result from any attempts at social equality.
 Tt was exceedingly unfortunate for the southern negroes that Booker Wash ington took MT. Wanamaker's daughter on his arm and led her into the dining people are supposed to be entertaineS in the north" said Judge Feagln Many people of the south regard this as a direct Insult to them by the people of the north. They regard 1t as dlsposi- tion on the part of the north to elevate the negro among themselves for the ex- press purpose of teaching or proving to the people of the south that the negro is unfairly and improperly treated by the southern people. The people of the north fall to realize that the large body of the 10,O00,000 negroes in the south have not the culture and polished manners of Booker Washington, nor have these ne- groes the discretion to keep away from the society where they are not welcomed. them to obtrude themselves in places where their society is not desired.
 Fail to Realize.
 "The northern people further fail to realize that the disposition on the part of a large number of the partially edu- cated negroes Is to thrust themselves Into social circles on public occasions in which their presence is disagreeable This action of Booker Washingten's will tend to ag- gravate or encourage such disposition among this class of negroes. At the same time 1t arouses the keenest feelings of bitterness and race prejudice among the working classes of the white people of the south It is usually among this class of people that race prejudice is most intense.
 "The people of the north fail also to realize that 1t Is for race integrity that the south is struggling. Every southern state and a large number of the northern states have statutes in their codes of laws prohibiting miscegenation or intermarriage among the races. even to the fourth de- gree Some of our anthropologists hold that fin the intermarrlng y a superior with an inferior race the offspring in- herit few of the virtues and all of the vices of either race. To put it mildly, we know that anyone who is daily con fronted with the fact that his blood Is tainted with that of an inferior race Is robbed of that pride of character that has made the Saxon, the Celtic and the Teutonio races what they are It has been the commingling of the blood of these great races in America that has caused her people to set pace to civilization in architecture and agriculture. in com meroe and manufactures, in arts and in- vention and in law, literature and gov ernment that has attracted the favorable attention of mankind everywhere. No people since the beginning of time has achieved grander conquests in mastering the secrets of nature in both the domains of mind and matter, nor has added so much to the progress of civilization and the uplifting of the human family.
 Especially in South.
 .'Especially in the south, where the cavalier and the Huguenot, with their long line of proud ancestry and their many inherited virtues made their homes, has this race pride predominated. It ought not to be surprising to our friends in the north to realize the fact that the race the south received, addicted to canibal- ism and all of the lewd instincts of lower order of beings, and over whom the southern people dominated as mas ters for two centuries, could not now re- ceive this race in such social relations as would entail upon the south such citi- zenship as we notice upon our borders in the peons of Mexico and in Central and South America, besides contamination of their own blood with race which they regard as mere children In the early stages of civilized life.
 "The white people of the south through a long series of years, have trained the negro from ChihDdi hio to""iN ~ Christian life-from the state of savage towards that of civilization and these years of watch-care have endeared the negro to many of them, as has been shown since the negroes freedom in the exnenditure of hundreds of thousands of dollars in the negro's education, and these people regret anything that accurs to mar the pleasant relations that have sx,stad and are existing between the races in the south
 KlndIes Prejudice.
 maucb conduct as Booker Washngton's kindIes unnecessary prejudices and ar rays antagonisms that will result In great harm to the negro race. If there is a,vtbing dear to the heart of the south ern white man it is the love of home and for his women and children. It is this cavalier spirit that has idolized the wo- man-that dominates the soul of the southern white man in retaining woman and her offspring in the utmost spirit. This pride is lothe to surrender and when 1t is pushed upon the southern people bv such conduct as Washington's 1t Is arousing prejudices that will disturb the neace and well being of our social sys-
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