The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-27
FRANK B. HOWE, RdltOr and Publishs
is BURLINGTON LILY WHITE ?

lHe COlOTeu lTOOpS at rOIl Elhali
Allen has given that city unexpected
fame in the south. The following is
from the Baltimore Sun.
Our Northern friends do love the
colored brother-when he is a thous-
and miles away; and they do love to
continually preach to the South the
beauty of blacks and whites dwelling
to gether In unity and brotherhood.
From the time of "Uncle Toms Cab
in" down to the Booker Washington
soiree they have besought the nation
to take the prosecuted blacks to its
broad bosom and punish the wicked
whites who put the poor negro into
Jim Grow" cars, and will not eat at
the same table with him and refuse to
allow him to run the Government.
This is their favorite subject of phil
anthropy, denunciation, admonish-
ment, advice and tears; and, as they
know so little about it, and it touches
them in no vital particular, they can
indulge in unlimited Mysteries.
But when they begin to come in
contact with the negro they quickly
change their tune. 1t grieves the OBJ
server to note that the most implac-
able negro-haters are the Northerners
who have gone South to live and who
regard the faultless negro as ignorant
shiftless and generally unbearable
And it is somewhat the same way
when the colored man goes North.
Before the Civil War Burlington,
VT, was one of the strongholds of
abolition sentiment, and since that
time it has been one of the centers
of advice to the South as to how to
deal with the negro problem. 1t was
shocked when the dear colored troops
were prosecuted at Brownsville, Tex
as, where the white people rudely OBJ
jected to the negro soldiers shooting
their wives and children and burning
the homes of the whites. If there
was any post outside of Boston, Mass.
where the negro was loved, you would
think it would be Burlington. VT. So
President Taft orders the negro regi-
ment, the Tenth Cavalry, to Fort
Ethan Allen, the army post near Bur
lington. You would have thought the
| 200 black troopers who were the fell
lows of the Brownsville martyrs,
would have been received with open
arms. You would have thought the
bands would have met them at the
station; the leading citizens have de-
livered addresses of welcome, and
every home would be thrown open to
the conquering heroes.
But. to our panied surprise, the Yer
monters have acted very much as
~ rfan II
ed under the same conditions. White
residents have refused to eat in res
taurants where the negro troopers are
served. White patrons of the trolley
cars have demanded that the negroes
be put in separate cars very like un-
to the Jim Crow" variety that is so
popular in the benighted South.
This is the first time the colored
troops have been stationed in New
England, the section which is the
patron of the negro, his self-constitut-
ed guardian and next friend" How
does New England like IL?
The Burlington Free Press. a very
conservative newspaper, says
If the Government officials, after
their trouble with Brownville and
other posts, thought the extreme
North would make no objection to the
presence of so large a body OF ne
groes, they were in error. A South
ern town could hardly be more up in
arms than this city and Winooski are
today.
Can be believe that the pure and al
together righteous people OF New
England have the same passions and
prejudices as the reprenensible and
sinful residents of the benighted
South Can they be losing their in
tense love for the martyr negro? Per
haps, after ALL President Taft would
do well to take no more chances, but
send the three regiment of colored
soldiers direct to Boston, where they
would be certain to be greeted as per
secuted brothers, and any one who
dared to interfere vita such pleasant
little pastimes as getting drunk and
shooting up the town would be arrest
ed and properly punished.