The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-23
TnnY ARr Non WELCOME.

The San Antonio Express has these plain words in connection with negro troops in the South:
 The outbreak of the negro soldiers at Brownsville. with its attendant fa- tality and unF est, raises again the 1usstion as to why the od,sra VAT Dspals, fo tss South. and especially to Texas.
 Thfs affaIr at Brownsyflle Ia not the
 first of the kind Complete statistics ss rot a Gas ao ess afanSs H city of fsw @ years ago is stlli fresh in the minds of the public. On that occasion 1t Is said that negro soldiers turned Ing to the report of Colonel Cyrus H. Roberts over 5000 shots were fired. ! It would seem that this experience meme the futiiity of bringing into dan gerons contact two such combustibie clements as the Southern people and drunken negro soldieres. Yet in spite uf it, by the blind workings of subli- mated red tapism the negro soldiers were sent to Brownsville lately, when different shift might as well have
 Although 1t is against the military regulations for armed men to go out of barracks with munitions of war in unattaehed and irresponsible squads, se sss as denasa tass s tst ssfa @ ni oxor thirty negro soldiers went out after taps armed with rifles and sup piled with ammunition. Somebody ap- pears here to have been guilty or gross negiigence.
 Then from The New York Sun we have this:
 A negro in the army uniform is al ways stalwart fellow and has very good opinion of himself. He looks down on the plantation negro ana brooks no interference by the Whlte man with his movements ana amuse, community east of the Mississippi ne would be regarded as negro and not as a soldier, and his independence and sented Moreover, his influence on the town and plantation negroes would be baneful to the relations existing be- tween them and. the whites
 And The Sun in the coursA of the editorial uses these very significant words: The negro soldier is not as- signed to posts in or near Northern cities-for his own good as well as for the welfare of their mixed popu- lation." We are not Informed as to that but presume The Sun speaks au-S thoritatively as to the locating of ne- gro soldiers in the North, and the req sons for not placing them in or near the towns and cities but we all know that the reasons are sound, and that they apply with ten fold more force in the South than in the North.
 It Is announced that the negro troops who caused so much trouble at Brownsville have been removed. not only from that place. but from Texas This is belated reparation for an inexcusable act. but that does not help us to understand why such troops are ever quartered in the South. It requires a great stretch of charity to make us believe that the admlnistra- tion does not do it purposeiy as de- fiance to the feelings and sentiments of the Southern people. It is like deliberate shaking of the red rag in our faces because they know it is irri- tatfng It Is an unnecessary irritS- tion of the racial feeling that exists here. The administration, the Presi- dent and the War Department all know that these troops are not only unwelcome but that they are con stant menace to the quiet and safety of communities where they are. sta tioned. It has ever appearance of be- ing done for Q purpose
 Whatever may be the reason for stationfns negro troops in the South. the fact remains that it Is an unwise and unjust proceeding. They will cause trouble wherever they are To- cateds and the government knows it. It is natural that our people should resent it and we have no apologies to make for it. The Sun tells us that they are not forced on the mixed populations in the Northern towns and cities and we suspect there is the
 good reason that those populations would not stand for it. They are not
 wanted here and an administration governed by right reelings would not send them here.
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