Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-05-07
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The dinner of the so-called "Cosmo-
politan Society of Greater New York,"
reported in yesterdays newspapers. a
dinner at which more than one hundred
black men and black women snd white
men and white women sat down to-
gether, and where race Equality" and
intermarriage of whites with blacks
were discussed. may in the orderly
nrse of nature. like many other
un pleasant things. be consecrated to
tnt good of society, Just as In
the individual organism the white
corpuscle busies itself with devour-
ing the germs of disease: Just as
the gastric cisis averts the more seri-
Gus consequences of dietetic indiscre-
ton; just as the disagreeable results
of any transgression OF hygienic law
serve as timely warnings or correct
ives, so, in the social organism. the
tendency to righteousness and he
betude inherent in SO many men and
women, sooner or later, and before the
danger point of epidemic idiocy Is
reached, bumps against its inhibitions.
This particular banquet, We think, pro-
voking as it must the public disgust
and indignation, win serve to call the
attention Of the community to certain
forces of evil that have been rather
actively at work of late, and will, If
we mistake not, tend in a marked de-
gree to check and destroy them
through the odious exhibition now
At this banquet, of which brother
hood was the mote" and the promo
ton of Socialism the moving spirit
and intent, negro men and women
there were more negroes than white
met white men and women upon q
plane of extemporized equality" and
listened to and applaused addresses
from persons known for their activity
in the Socialistic propaganda. some
lof them known, also, as settlement
workers. in which the intermixing OF
races by marriage was discussed. "In'
termarriage,r enough. would solve the
race problem. / do not believe that
the white man would be so anxious
to marry the negro woman. as the
negro man to wed the white girl
But this would continue, the negro
man marrying the white woman until
the dark race would gradually bleach. .
We quote these observations textually
as reported in order that they may
be pondered and the significance of the
equality" doctrine understood by men
and women who have hitherto paid
little attention to the ideas expressed
in the word Socialism" by those who
use it with definite purpose. .
In the first place, speakers at this
banquet discussed what is expressly
prohibited by the marriage laws OF
twenty-seven states and territories
of this Union. That is, perhaps, the
least of the reasons why public cen
sure should be visited upon this ex
hibition of Socialism in its naked
ness. The opinions of people may
change, and then they may change
their laws. This law strikes it roots
deeper than the statute book. The
establishment of the. race equality
and the intermarriage of whites with
blacks are forbidden by an instructive
prevailing, and unconquerable resolve
and condition of mind. Prejudice Is
not the name for it, since the thing
is not a matter to be judged, but mat
ter as to which belief and conviction
are innate. That belief and that con
viction are so nearly universal as tc
be quite beyond the possibility OF
change; their universally and theil
depth are so attested by the facts ot
human experience that to call them il
tquestion is everywhere felt to be {
public affront.
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