The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-07-09
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The IrrepressibIe NEGRO.

iHS SoSlOiC NCQTOs
To The Nashville GLOBE:
More effective and more Materials
tic than Banquos ghost; as irrepres-
sible as intelligence, industry and
worthy ambition can inspire, and as
sure of lofty place in the scheme of
the worlds great affairs as the mex
orable law of God has decreed and
given assurance of to those who fit
themselves for life's work, is the Ne
gro who will in time come into his
rightful inheritance-untrammeled
manhood.
No Negro Enumerators, an
editorial in a mornings paper Of
the 7th inst, is an acknowledgement
of the preparedness of the Negro to
meet other men of otner races on
common ground in the busy activities
of life, not on the score that he is
Negro, but on that of qualification and
efficiency. He asks no quarters, for
he lacks not in moral intellectual Or
physical fitness to perform the same
class of duties, and as efficiently as
mon of other races. This fitness of
the Negro to do with equal grace, in.
telligence and dispatch what other
men can do is calculated to draw out
just such an editorial as the one re.
ferred to. 1t harks back at DIR. Crum
and the Indianola post-office episode
to bolster up some far-retched reason
to prejudice the appointment of Negro
census enumerators.
The editorial utters an astounding
amount of racial ego, which would be
attacked by that paper with all of the
sarchasm, bitterness and vitupera-
ton at its command were such utter.
ances made use of by an organ of the
race against whom it has directed the
editorial in question. 1t says that
the race question is ever present in
the South" but this is true only be-
cause of just such newspaper effus.
ions as the one under comment. The
old cry that the Negro is not compe
tent and prepared in every way to
compete with other men in perfor N.
ing creditable service in every field
of human endeavor is no longer being
made as a reason for his Disqualified
tion but, pitiful as it is, objections
have been narrowed down to the
WEAKLY, pygmy proportions-"He is
Negro" That in itself is high COM
pliment to the indomitable pluck and
courage that have characterized the
Negro in his forward movements
since he came into manhood's free
estate. Pardon this expressive street
expression, but he is reporting at the
bar of public opinion with "The Goods
in Order"
A word to the point. Let those in
appoint enumerators that
will be satisfactory to all concerned.
Negro enumerators for the Negro peo-
pie, and enumerators for the other
races who will harmonic with their
wishes and meet their approval. If
all the "kindliest feelings for the Ne
gro" as that paper expresses itself,
are dressed in garb like that editorial,
the Negro people are best pleased to
return them with thanks.
The Negro is averse to any enum-
orators coming in contact with their
women and children save members
of their own race. Things that are
equal to the same thing are equal to
each other. This old axiom or propo-
sition is apparent to the simplest
mind; therefore, it is meet to repre-
sent to The Daniels who have come %
judgment this simple proposition as
a criterion to aid them in their consid.
Grafton of the appointment of the cen.
sus enumerators.
JADECEE.