The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-13

he is tha sAne way about observing constitutional and legal requirements. If they do not seem good and wise to him he treats them with contempt But the most bitter comment that we have seen comes from The New York Age, one of the most prominent and influential organs of the negro race in the United States, which says.
 This. action of the President is con- sidefed extraordinary by army men and civilians. It Is carrying Into the
 eSSsrhg wne Ss s dSnG S5 sns and law-abidIng black men shall help the legal authorities spy out and de- liver practically to the mob black men alleged to have committed one sort Of crime. The principle involved is not only vicious and contrary to the spirit of our Constitution, but Is an outrage nn0R s,9,.n the rights of citizens who are are and in military life to trial by court
 Asy. black man in any part Of the the United States armyI to fill the places of these Innocent but dishonor- ably discharged men should be hated and spurned by all the members of the any member of the z5th infantry whose term expires should not re-enlist in for him that it gives him no promo ton in the army, however meritorious his service. and no protection in his civilian rights when a mob of hood lufns in a Southern town seeks to do him bodily injury and he retaliates, as he should, and as all Afro Americans should. under like eircumstances. If We cannot have q change of policy in the War Department toward Afro- American troops in all directions. The Age earnestly advises the members or the three remaining black regiments not to Te-enlist when their term ex- pErss and that Akro-AmericAns every where refuse to eater the army unless conscrtpted to do so. If we cannot get Justice in the army, we are not compelled to enter 1t.
 This is offset by the strong language of The Chicago Record-Herald which unqualifiedly endorses the action of the President in these words:
 In dismissisg a battalion of colored troops from the army in disgrace Pres- ident Roosevelt has taken pains to make his reasons appear with the greatest exp.icitness. Private soldiers of this battalion had been guilty of rioting at Brownsville, Tex, their fel- ton of the the guilty @ '" men, a0 ana sfn discipline required therefore, after three mofths' delay, that the entire battalion be pun
 Nevertheless. the enemies of the ne- groes will strive to make 1t appear that race feeling entered into the Presidents act, and very possibly many negroes will be misled into be- lteving that the fa1sehood Is true.
 It should be the duty of leaders of the negroes to make it perfently clear to their race that the President acted in this case as he would have acted against d battaIfoD of white Soldiers similarly guilty, and that If no such radical order has ever before been is- sued from army headquarters it is be- cause such open defiance has not hfth- ertO been seen.
 This further point should also be emphasized to the negroes, that such an attitude as that of the discharged companies is itself q stimulant of race prejudice, and that if race prejudice is to decline ne~roe8 as we'll as whites must struggle against 1t. The atti- tude of the colored soldiers In making the issue one of race. not one of crime, was great mistake. Had the guilty soldiers been surrendered the race feeling would have been quieted rath- CT than Aggravated, and the Presi- dents disciplinary measure would never have become necessary.
 The fact about which much com plaipt has been made in the South, is accentuated by the President. vis, the disposition of negroes, of all classes, to harbor and shield criminals of their own race.