Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-11-09

code OF ethics, will be realized when
sou remember that Carnegie, Vienna
maker. Bishop Potter of New York.
President Roosevelt, have all eaten
with the Negro. as host and guest. at
the same table You would realize
it all the more II YOU knew how
absolutely astonishei they have been
at the Outbreak OF feeling in the
South concerning their actions.
THIS Is further evidence agains st
Mr. Williams form oS reasoning.
Tie places the loadng Negroes of the
cities. the industrial stevedores> on
the wharyes. the wealth-producing
Negroes on the plantations or a level
with the negro of the Booker IT.
Washington. w II. Counciu w. ID.
Crum. w. II. Vernon. Judson w. Ly-
ons. John c. Dancy. r. Thomas
Fortune Georee II. White Bishop
S. d. Ferguson type Yet Mr. WI
liams admits chat tine presence of
any one Of these Negroes I'm q South
ern hotel would result I'm n riot
b These soutbcrners would not wait
20 find out the calibre. the social
d standing the educational ability or
/ these citizens of color. They would
class them as "corn-aold'' Negroes.
They would PREJUDICE them. They
would proceed To- murder the inuo-
cent men and gloat i'm that act of
deudishness and their apologist. Mr..
. John Sharp Williams would argue
that hey aie NOT octuated 10y preiu-
dice OF race. oh. mo-. IL is a case of
"rost-iudice" of race-a fore-knowl-
edge of colored men that they had
never met based upon a past kuowl-
edge of colorad men. whom they had
? met Could argument De more RE
. diculous?
ON the other hand. there are fool
! ish Negroos who prejudice white
( men, thinking that all white men
/ are against them and their best in-
+ tercsts because some white men that
they have met and known are against
! the Negroes and their best interests.
Air. William has the eGrontery to
say:
The truth BIS chat we have NO 'pre-
iudice" against Che Negro North
7 ornors have % prejudice in favor of
him. owing .1 choir lack OF personal
| knowledge OH tbc limitations of hts
character Thor ask you. after an
I is hc not member OF the human
race. of On. genus homo. % human
boinE?" have replied: Yes: $50
are zebras and horses and asses an
members OF tle genus cQuus-of the
! equine race. But for AN that. o
horse is uo- % zebra. and am ASS is
not q horse
White mon red men. black men.
yellow men. Hre an of the genus ho-
mo. hut th.r are different animals.
au the saue and their inherent
/ and inherit. race traits and tendon
cios their PHYSICAL mental aud NOR
I1l dincren,.e. strengthened by con-
/ turtles OF ra ian development. are ass
! iucradicahly as che Euk OF tho hair
and the color ot the skin. which are
but rie outward and visible siers
lof these inward and spiritual "jif-
| ferences.
d. IS Uncomfortable chat % gentle
man oc SIR. Williams type possess
ias aa abiding faith iu the Master
and protesting desire to observe
| his teachings should girc voice TO-
lsuch lmnncticabio arumout What
basis %. comparison can there Doc be-
tween a black man ana a white one
land @ cobra and @ horse or am osse
THE mating OF zebra and q horse
/ does NOT produce either q horse or a
zebra and The mating of q horse and
am ASS does not produce an horse or
/ am ASS. But the mating OF a white
man and q colored woman or vice
versa does produce "a white man and
then acaa oolorod one dependent
labsolute'y upon the strain of color
In either The one sex or the other.
To ompla lie this fact we cite again
| from tla Code of Virginia. PAGE
l11l9. section 1852. explanatory
part:
] ~ i.t.I4 hA' DtlMttU IT Mnllt man
and woman who lis or less than
lone-four-h Negro blood, however
small tne lesser amount may be. Is
legal. A woman whose father was
/ white, whose mothers father was
white. and whose greatgreat grand
mother vas OF brown complexion is
not a Nesro in the sense of the stat
Mcpherson Case. 2S Graf
939.'"
Where then is there a basis Of
comparison with that of the animal
kingdom cited2 History records the
rise and fall OF races, while the
Good Book tells us that He made Of
one blood all Of the nations Of the
earth. The Jews are regarded with
contempt in Russia and Turkey. the
Kafirs with the same feeling in
South Africa. the Irish are strug-
Cling for greater recognition in
England while the Negroes are in
| sisting upon and demanding all OF
their rights and privileges in the
United States.
The japanese are the coming peo-