The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-12-02
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critics..
Certain New England papers, an(
eve the old Democratic paper, the
New York World, are having spasm:
over President Wilson's concurrence
in the action of Secretary McAdoo
and Postmaster General ,Burleson III
segregating the races in department
al work.
About the only serious criticism
that has been passed on Presiden1
Wilson's administration in this par
of the country has been that he was
a little dilatory in this respect.
Men who understand the tempera'
ment of the more intelligent O
Southern negroes know that they
do not object to Jim Crow methods
either on trains or in government
departments. They recognize the
social difference between the races
and so long as they are given com
Portable accommodations, they would
prefer segregation to indiscriminate
intermingling in public places that
in times past was so productive OF
racial troubles.
This fight against segregation Is
being made by Northern and moi
Southern negroes, and it is nothing
more nor less than a contention for a
measure of social equality. If only
white and colored men were EN-,
ployed in the departments in Wash
ington the necessity for segregation
would be minimiZed to a trit1e.
White and colored men work side by
side all over the South without fric-
ton, for the reason that the social
standing of the white man is not
jeopardized so long as he is self-re,
specting. Southern negroes recog'
nize the white mans greater capacity
for superintendent and they work
willingly under his direction.
Northern papers and Northern
people raise a great cry against seq
regation in the departments, and yet,
there is not a State North of Mason
and Dixon's line in which the negro
is given an equal showing with the
white man in any vocation. The
fact is, a negro simply can not gel
employment in the North, even in
the humber channels Of labor. The
very papers that r raising this
hypocritical cry against segregation
would not employ and can not EN-.
ploy a negro because of. union regu'
lations, and further, because of q
deep-seated antipathy which at heart
the Northern man always shows
when actually put to the test. 1t has
long been recognized by thinking
people of both races, North and
South, that the negroes have better
opportunities for earning an honest
living in the South than in the
North.
One of the most blatant advocates
of the Negroes socalled rights in
Congress within the last ten years
was Congressman Keifer once Speak.
er of the National House. His
last blow aimed at the South was to
offer a bill to cut down her represen.
tation to the basis of the actual votes
cast in the general election, thinking
that Southern people rather than
give up their representation would
permit even the ignorant negro tc
vote. While his bill was pending,
and just shortly after one of his Sec
tional speeches, a ace riot broke out
in his own town over some trivial
matter, and the white people burned
every home in the negro section and
hunted them like they were wild
beasts in a jungle.
The real bone and sinew of the
Democratic party is in the South
For the first time since the war Of
Secession, Southern influence is dom
inant in Washington. 1t is hoped
that President Wilson will continue
to respect Southern sentiment, espe,
cially when he is so clearly in the
right, as in this instance. If the
Democrats must in a short while
turn over the affairs of government
to the Republicans, and they wish tc
work white girls and negro boys side
by side, let the responsibility rest
with them. The Democrats are en-.
titled to have their way at least fol