The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-04

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lawful to sell liquor to Indians. LABOR
contracts and apprentice laws re.
stricting negroes were made III mus
Southern States, the State recogn1zlns
the necessity for some guardianship
for negroes just out of slavery.
AS to marriage and mlScegetldlloH'
the writer shows that this is one race
distinction, for which the South mas
ESCAPED the adverse criticism heaped
UPON it because Of other distinctions
During the days Of Reconstruction,
when the Fedora officers were
the social barriers, it IS on
served that none OF the .a
against m~iscegenation were repealeo:
~Intermarriage between MEMBERS VI
the Caucasian race and those OF any
other is prohibited now in 20 states
and territories, while in Mortimer
of course-it is permitted. II is no
ticeable, however, that IN Boston,
where the number Of mixed marriages
has been larger than in any other CITY,
intermarriage is steadily decreasing.
Everywhere it is an IN
stitution.
h civil rights Of negroes are
shown to have been the greatest
source Of trouble. After the
Of the thirteenth amendment the ne
gro was assured he had a right TO go
into the white mans hotels, theatres,
barber shops, etc. The passage or
statutes in the South to prevent this
intrusion into public places; the cases
wherein the constitutionallty OF the
State laws were attacked; the $40"
and painful evolution into the pres
ent condition wherein the white
mans superior and separate social
station is still maintained, all THESE
are given with painstaking exactness,
which should be valuable to the stu
dent of history.
One of the most interesting chapters
in the book is that on the sch
aration of the races in schools. The
case Of Berea College in Kentucky is
considered at length. The discussion
Of the exclusion Of colored students
from that institutions. much against
the will of the president and trustees.
was commented on much
the country, and h question OF con-
s~titutionality of the statute was fnal-
ly carried to the Supreme Court OF the
State and thence to that of the Unit
ed States. BY both courts 1t was held
tina the law did not Violate the FOur-
teenth Amendment to the Federal
Constitution. The exclusion of the
Japanese from the public schools or
California is also discussed. DR..
Charles W. Elliot is quoted on the
matter of mixed schools, and the eX-
tent Of such separation prevailing IN
the country now, both in public ana
private schools is shown together with
the different reasons therefor Inc
Jim Grow Law-and by the way, this
had a most interesting Origln-and the
treatment Of the negro in the court
room are both treated fully.
The most interesting and helpful by
far of all the II interesting and help
full chapters is that on suffrage. The
different legal of eliminating.
or greatly restricting the negro vote,
the author enumerateS through the
days following the reconstruction pc
riOd to the present. To the lawyer it
will be helpful because it shows the
intent Of the law as construed by the
courts and Interpreted by the legis-
lators who framed 1t; to the layman
1t will be helpful because it shows,
by the pathos OF ~innuendo, the pa
triotism. and the herotsm of the South
in its finally successful efforts to pro-
vide against race troubles in cleo
ton times. The so-called Grand
father causes" and the many conSti-
tutional amendments adopted in re-
cent years. are analysed. The attitude
of Maryland toward the fifteenth
amendment and the attempt of the
last legislature to enact laws for the
disfranchisement of negroes are also
stated and discussed.
The most powerful chapter-that
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on which both lawyer and layman can
unite-that which alone would justify
the circulation of the the last
Race Distinction Versus Race
DETERMINATIONS In this Mr. Ste
phenson remarks that the various
race distinctions having been review
ed at some length, it is perhaps, worth
while to consider what conclusions
the facts warrant and what practical
lessons they suggest
1. Race distinctions not onfne
to one sectiOn.' OF the 2s States and
territories that prohibit intermar-
rage, more than half, extending from
Delaware to RECON are outside the
South. Negroes are excluded from
hotels in Massachusetts,, PENNSYLVANIA
Indiana, New York, Wisconsin, Mich
igan, and Iowa; from barber shops
in Nebraska and Connecticut; from
boot-black stands in New York from
billiard rooms in Massachusetts; from