The Washington herald., 1908-04-30
SWANSON INCENSED
Indignant Over COsmopOli-
tan Society Propaganda.
SOCIAL EQUALITY IMPOSSIBLE
Question Settled for All Time, says
Yirginia's GoVernOr-SoIution OF the
Negro Problem Made More DifGeuIt
SOuth'S Men and women Aroused.
Negroes to Denounce Participants.

Special to. The Washington Herald
Richmond. Va, April pa storm Of
protests has been raised in Virginia and
throughout the South at the advocacy Of
social equality by the Cosmopolitan So
ciety of Greater New York at the New
York banquet, at which twenty white
girls and women sat at feast with ne
groes, and when social equality and mis-
cegenatiOn were openly preached by the
orators OF the occasion.
It is generally conceded that the action
of the society will have the result of
drawing more tightly stin the lines sepa-
rating the two races. The development
and growth Of the negro in the South
VIII be retarded, it is believed, at least
quarter of a century.
Condemnation Is General.
People in every walk OF life are open in
condemnation OF the white women and
men who further the idea of the final
amalgamation of the black race with the
Anglo-S Saxon The only effect of the gos-
pei as propounded at the New York din
ner. will be a check to the advancement
of the negro. The white people of the
South who live with and understand the
negro viii adhere to their determination
that there shall be no intermingling Of
the two bloods.
Women asked for an expression of opin-
Ion tonight said they thanked God South
ern girls would have found it impossible
10 attend the banquet, or. if they had
gone under a misapprehension, to have
remained.
Men 10 whom similar questions were
put expressed sorrow that people who
could know so little of the real cOndi-
tiOns in the South have seen fit 10 raise
their voices in heresy that instead Of
helping the negro can but result in
setback to his mental and moral develop
ments.
GOV. Swanson Angry.
Gov Swanson is burning with indigna-
ton at the reports as they appear
through the press. When seen in the
mansion tonight by q press representa-
tive, the governor said:
1T is difficult to believe that the ac-
counts published in the papers Of the
dinner Of the Cosmopolitan Society in
New York are true. II is difficult 10 be-
stated, and could give expression 10 such
views This is a discrepancy which is
difficult to reconcile.
such disgraceful performances as these
and expression OF such views make more
difficult the solution Of the negro prob
lem. Those most injured by such actions
in the North are the negroes OF the
South
There is one thing the South is deter
mined upon, and which it viii never
tolerate or permit in the slightest de-
gree-that is any social equality.
Matter Is settled.
For veal or woe. this matter is abso-
lutely settled. and admits Of no discus
sion. The sooner the negroes and their
pretended friends realize and understand
this the better.
"The speeches and performance as ap-
pearing through press reports can bring
nothing but disgust 10 reputable people
North and South, who must entertain for
such proceedings and performances su-
preme contempt and disgust
Already the reports of the dinner are
circulated among the negro population
here. and plans are on foot among the
most respectable colored citizens to call
mass meetings. It is understood the pur-
pose is to discuss the affair in New York
and TO denounce the participants 3nd
their propaganda.
These meetings will be addressed by
the clergy of the colored churches, one
of whom says no reputable negro would
have been willing to submit his fellow
men to such disgrace and contempt as
must follow from the whites