The Nevada County picayune., 1916-03-16
FAVoRs NEGROES HOLDING 20. LlTIcAL POSITIONS IN SOUTH
 AND IN ARKANSAS.
CRITIClZES CHURCH PEOPLE
Not In Sympathy With Separate Schools, Churches, Nor Cars for Whites and Nesroes-ssversly
 Criticized by Papers In South.

Brough commenced his report by stat. ing that "A condition, not a theory. confronts Us in the South" and after speaking of how much the white peo. pie and negroes were together during the days Of slavery, he continued as follows:
 This close social contact of the races has now almost entirely disap. peared. In the Southern States gen, erally there are today no points of so- cial contact whatever where the two races meet and exchange ideas. Sepa. rate schools, separate churches, sepa- rate telephones. the Jim Crow law. restrictions of the ballot, not to men, tion violent anti-negro political agita- tion in at least two of the states, have produced an alienation of the two races without a parallel Every, where throughout the South, despite the physical contact in a business way, tAe two people live and move Il totally different worlds of thought and feeling, and that is one of the chief causes of the growing danger of the Southern situation"
 pr Brough continued as follows:
 The effect of this social isolation of the negro Is of the greatest i'm, portance for both white and black. The closing of the door of equality of opportunity to the negro, and his persistent intellectual and moral pau perization must in the end react upon the civilization of the white"
 The association between whites and negroes during the days of slavery, which pr. Brough regrets, has been Tn a measure discontinued, and was quite a different thing to the kind of asso- citation that would exist II his ideas upon this proposition should prevail today. In ante-bellum time negroes and whites did not associate as equals Negroes were not clamoring for so cial equality; they did not presume on any kindness shown them. or take advantage of any familiarity with them as they would today if the close social contact should prevail that Is advocated by Dr. Brough.
 From the quoted statements. we reach the conclusion. (and there can be no other conclusion). that Dr. Brough Is in favor of social equality; that he is opposed to the Jim Crow law and is in favor of its repeal so that the negroes may ride in the same coaches with the whites; that he is opposed to separate schools for whites and blacks, and is. therefore, in favor of their consolidation: that he is op- posed to separate churches for whites and blacks and is, therefore. in favor of the whites and blacks belonging to and going to the same church.
 The Southern people know how 70 treat the negro as they should be treated, and the Southern people and the negro are satisfied. About the only trouble the Southern people have with the negro is when some North ern negro, educated In schools where whites and blacks go together. who worships where whites and blacks worship together, comes south and stirs up trouble among the negroes, or when some fanatical dreamer un- dertakes to agitate social equality Tn the Southern States.
 We also have the following Ian guage, taken from this famous report of pr. Brough:
 'In 1914 there are over 4,000 negroes in the Government Postal Service; al n the employ of the U. S. Government"
 Dr. Brough boasts of the fact that there are 225o0 negroes on the gov ernment payroll when everyone knows that these negroes were put on the government payroll by a Republi- can administration; that most of them are in the Northern States. and that it was done solely for the purpose of controlling the negro vote in the doubtful states. The Doctor knows that the Southern people will not now, nor will they ever, tolerate the negro holding office in the South, and that the entire South resented the appointment of negro postmistress at Indanola, Mississippi, by Roose- welt
 He said further:
 Again. it may be fairly urged that the white churches of the South have been pursuing a penny wise and pound foolish economy in dealing with the moral religious uplift of the members of the weaker race. Do we mean to say that one per cent per member is doing our share in evange lizing the whole race? God pity the Southern Christians. the Southern churches and the Southern States if we do not awake to our responsibility in this hour of opportunity The Methodists averaged less than the price of cheap soda water, and the