The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-22
A NebrasIxa View of the Race ProbIe,

 4 Nebraska View of the Race Problem. New Orleans States.
 Evidence is not lacking that the ne- gro question is coming home to roost in many cities in the North, and the people there are beginning to get, a very clear understanding of if This is undoubtedly true of Lincoln, Neb, the home town of William J Bryan, where 1t is quite evident that the -''probien" has already made itself felt. At least we Judge as much from the interes ting way in which that stalwart Republican newspaper, The Lincoln Journal dis- cusses the movement which has been put on foot to have the Interstate Com merce Commission abolish the system of separate cars for the races on all railway lines where the Commission has power to act. In its comments on this agitation The Journal says:
 The law Is perfectly clear on these points, but what will happen when it Is enforced in the South, and, what Will be the effect of the advent of ne- groes in Northern sleeping cars? It is the evident intention of a considerable section of the negroes to Insist upon the very letter of their civil rights, and they are organizing for that purpose
 The trouble will not be confined to the vice the disfranchised negroes of the 5eUth are certain to trek slowly North ward, and recent history shows the race feeling is no milder in a Northern city than in Southern, given equally large proportions of negroes. Under the law Lincoln restaurant or hotel Keeper can be prosecuted for refusing accommodation to negroes. The one who obeys the law sees his white pat rons walk out in real or affected dis
 gust. If so minded the negroes of every Northern city could keep such lines Of business constantly in hot water merely by demanding the en- foroement of existing laws. They show a not unnatural fandannU fO Ia uA North and South, and thereby force the issue. This is apparently the most nearly hopeless problem of the time The more reason this that 1t be at- 1 tackled with the most serious care and | freedom from prejudice"
 For many years the leading news ! papers or the North have contended in their arrogant and cocksure way that | the blind and unreasonable prejudice' | of Southerners against negroes was solely responsible for the race problem, | but here we have a frank admission that the North also has nearly hope | loss problem to contend with, and the outlook seems to be pregnant with ra- ther thick gloom in that section which we have so often been told is Gods l country and the gloom has been pro- | 'uced bY the knowledge that "the dis franchised negroes of the South are certain to trek Northward." The result | of this trekking, The Lincoln Journal knows quite well, will make the race question quite as acute in the-North as | 1t is in the South, hence, the prospect | Is not one to be relished. However
 the faster this treking goes on the bet | ter the South will be pleased, because
 as The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph recently remarked, it will result in great good to the whole country by removing the negro question from sectional politics and causing the people of the North to unite with those of the South in an ef- | fort to find rational solution of the | problem.