The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-03-07

tHS foNored schools. It seems
nut 3usr tthatEas the Kentucky, law
uectess .. enc separation of the students,
tMe WniteIones should be given the new
peal implies that Berea is now a whEte,
-inst1tutien,,a and, that, If tt;is to assume
the 'sdusati0n Of colored youth. .anoth-
eT ana separate fund must be raised
., Inc -appre1ensions concerning tho
changed nature of the college. felt he-
Iore the States|action was .antIcfnated
were seemingly not unerounded
rather theySRere confirmed by the ~ ..
4 4 hSant .attttuae of President eliot and
hlsth1top Lawrence at the Boston lunch
Imagine JohnsEG. Free present in the
neshA when this humiliating, concession
70 Inc hateful spirit Of caste found
vGGice sly would have been memoir
able Scene. no silent acuuiesence Rn+
the grandson or William Goodel1 hol
tray edsh4 evidence of his linnaae pot
ter that the institution, dedicated to
equa!E Rlghts, by it's founders, should
STAND untenanted than flourish as a
h10n9mentHtos ubserviency, And niti.
aDle II Is that the announcement Of ;ts
surrender should have been proclaim.
cd without protest in the CITY where
the abolition movement was born,
FAIR warning is gwen that futnrc
equaf educational rights SSirfsMassachu-
ssetts may jbe abridged, If the colored
popHulat1on> fs &unduly incrhased. t"po
u npexton has it come at last !"
Inc '~ilgnt pr Institutional learn ing
nqst list :deteFmine the applicants
eoior, before undertaking to ,ilhmi
nate, his darkened mind. Az IowaiI
put 1T; theS testsmay. be ian accidental
a q, An the secreting vessels Of
the. skln that would seem ridiculous to
herman count, who had earned his
tltle by the vaitd consideration OF thir-
ty-six ,dollars.' -, = w. -
~ Wo4ia bepinteresting toFknow how
the dead line will be drawn when
the rated huur5of separation arrives
Wlil color or race be the test?, What
II the color fails to betray the race? Ts
the invisible drop of Negfo, blood
which In the South is.@considered
enough to faint the entire BODY, to no
so viewed at Harvard? If so, IS the
me one OF caste or colo:? Hf caste,
noW long pef0Te new. distinctions Will
smut smut out 'othef unfortunate PEOPLES?
- must logleySs1mply courtesy to pre-
Juaice = ,Ihen every nationality witt,
which this s: Continent is swarm "a in no.
must submftft6 degrading cd" dia ,mie :,
Inatton when popular passion or mil
Tres denandsSit9' To-day, it is the Ne.
gro an6Ne3ahsse, and, on the Pacific
coast, apparently, the race thai,
Drought the Russia IAN empire to defeat
is Is to be plaSedl in THE same pariaf
President Eli6t Knows that the az; az,
clusion of any PERSON or race from ad
Vantages open to American citizens
ana those of favored nations, ineyf-
tany puts stigma upon the. exclud.
ed, 1t is adding weights to those al
Leaoy weighted too, heavily, closing
t only the dooTssof the best schools,
out equal access to the wider school of
the industrial world. One follows the
other; as the day the night. Is Anglo.
Saxon blood so thin that it needs nro-
lection, fearing competition with i'm.
ppoVerished and backward peoples? or
Is; not this sudden recrudescence of
Ine siave-hofd1ng spirit also the reyi.
va or temporizing attitude that post
pones, the settlement Of principles un.
I'll the elemental forces show their do.
structive hand? :>l
Whatever the justification offered
tor this surrender, the issue cannot he
too quickly joined. 1t. is to be met at
the outset and fought increasingly. Bar
colofed. children, as it IS suggested,
and the poiyglot pupils Of this foreign
CITY, to whom Massachusetts should
teacn brotherhoodJ. would be infected1
with the spirit Of caste.
The moment a single colored school
IS, established in the commonwealth,
the org contest WIFI arise, and it is the
prejudice and not the State, that will
eventually succumb. We shall not 20
back to the type, OF the Smith (col- |
ored school in Boston without a |
struggle, even' though Bishop Law
Tence's denomination shall again mutt
late its prayer-book to erase The kneel-
ing figure Of the Negro, in the picture
Of AIRY Schaffer's "Christus Consola,
tor. "'' a. ~,
*Thes dear Christ, hidden from hi;
. kindred flesh, o. &c..
And on his poor ones, cruciied |
. afresh!" IT,.
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.
Boston, February 25.
-.. THE DEFENSE.