The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-05
THE NEGRO. THE CTIINAMAN AND
THE JAPANESE.
They Must be Kept i'm a Class by
Themselves. Declares a Cor
SpOndent.
New York Sum-

(New York SUM-
To the Editor: Booker T. Washing
ton on independence Day addressed
an audience at Montclair, n. j., and
during his speech said that he was
glad that a sentiment prevailed that
favored giving to the Chinese chance
to come to the United States. He said
that he believed that it would from
every point of view pay to give the
people of China "a fair chance.
1t is probably going back to some
what ancient history to renew dis-
cussion of the negro question Oh
America, even though it be brought
up in connection with that OF the
Filipino, Japanese and Chinese. But
Mr. Washingtons words seem 20
bear strong support of the theory OF
the Southern States that a colored
man-brown, black or yelioW-nas
ideas of government and Things that
are not essentially white
The self-constituted laws or man
have many times been used as a pat
tering ram to punch holes in the I'M
perviouS laws of nature, with the m
evitable result that nature has al
ways demonstrated the lmposslDllty
of defeat. No one begrudges Mr..
Washington, or any other negro, mis-
brains-and many covet them. The
fact remains that 1t was some strange
ruling of the Creator and not the
great educational system of the
country that gave to the gentleman
the power of gray matter that mas
managed by force of individuality ~
predominant over the black OF SKIN.
But how many of Mr. WashingtonS
people have shown ambition sufficient
to take them out of the rut and place
the gray above the black? How many
of them are capable of receiving
knowledge, even were it offered them
inadvertently in his Montclalr
speech Mr. Washington develops the
dangerous fraternalism that exists to
a greater or less extent among all
races that are of other shades than
white. His words were undoubtedly
born of an instinct of representation
of a kind that nature has instilled in
every human being. They were the
instinctively answered call ei
They come from man who knows
nothing of Chinese immigration or .ts
evils and who simply speaks from
"colored'' point of view. 1t is the
echo of the warning that makes the
t'vellow peril" the "brown peril ana
the BLACK peril"
The plain truth of the matter is,
the great white race does not care to
halt in it's progress for the black
hordes. the yellow hordes or the brown
hordes to evolute standard VI
mental and mechanical proficiency.
Nature put the Chinese in one class
the Japanese in another and the negro
in another The white man had ms
distinctive place in the great plane OF
DEVELOPMENT allotted long ago be
cause Mr.. Booker Washington happens
to be a most estimable, we'll educated
gentlemen, and there are a few othe"s'
with a black skin like him is no reason
why we should take our hats on 10
his race, the Chinese or any other
s'gentIemen of color" A study OF the
skulls of most of the kind of people
that white persons object to reveals
that it would not be possible to pene-
trate their brain cavities with a dose
of class courses, even were these load
ed and fired from a chokebore shot
gun. The average japanese is imprac-
ticable as an American citizen. the
negro improbable and the Chinaman
impossible. AS might have been eX-
pected, the education of Mr.. Washlng-
ton has developed several color lines
all but one of which he certainly
ought to fight very shy of.
J. S. TYLER.
Washington, July 18th.