The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-03-22
NORTH AND SOUTH
New England Paper Discusses
Negro Problem.

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Manchester On. HI Mirror.
In personal letter received by the
editor of The Mirror from citizen
of South Carolina who is as we'll fitted
as any man in the South to express
correctly the feelings of that part of
our country, we take the following
paragraph:
"Not so much the victory of Mr..
Harding but the manner of the late
campaign has been disappointing and
saddening to some of US. We were
not prepared for the reopening of
vials of wrath against the South on
the part of some of our Republican
friends. I know that they do not
mean it; that most of them, at any
rate, are friendly to US. l have met
too many of them in the last four
years, and talked with them, to be-
lieve it. 1t has been long day since
have heard any sectional feeling
expressed against the North by any
one in this part of the country. That
there should be, at this time, preju-
dice in any part of this country
against the people Of another part
seems to me childish. Yet it has
cropped out in many Republican pa
pers and from Republican speeches
in the last four months, and l think
there is nothing here corresponding
to it. Of course we have the negro
question and our people are not all
saints or philosophers, but there is
stubborn difference between living IN
a state where the colored race num-
bers about $50, 1000 and the white race
about 100000, and living in a state
where all the peopole are white"
We have also a clipping from the
Columbia Is. CO. State, represen-
tative publication of the South, which
contains a letter from citizen with
which The. State expresses disagree
ment. The correspondent says that
the SoHth has tried in vain to regain
the old position it had in the union
of state, that the North regards the
South with suspicion and distrust and
that he is discouraged over any fur
ther attempt to make the rest of the.
union understand that the South has
good will, desires only to give and
take in friendship and be wholly at
one with the country.
These are grave symptoms of a
doubt of our national unity, while we
are before national perils which may
involve the North and South in
common disaster. The election of
Tom Watson of Georgia as United
States senator, though Watson is
usually regarded as socialistic, more
or less pro-German and a creator of
class hatreds, is bad omen. If for
eign propaganda resisted elsewhere
should thrive in a discouraged South
the consequences might be very Sc
rious.
In truth the South has done its ut
most to progress, to establish justice
and equity and build up high ideal
of patriotism during the past half
century. Some are prone to criticise
her for not giving the negro voters
full opportunity for Office and full op-
portunity to vote. But New Hamp-
shire people who should find that
some mill had put eight negroes into
the old home town to every seven of
the home folk might not leave full
control of the colored people, under
any condition. They would probably
insist especially upon white control of
the police and the administrative Of
fees. If it should chance that the
colored people, as in the South, could
not, as whole, show any great de-
gree of education, and if it should
chance that New Hampshire should
find, some election day, that there
were about nine negro voters going
to the polls to each seven white peo-
pie, it might not submit to negro
governor, negro legislature and negro
management of prisons, asylums and
schools. Of course, it might be that
the negroes would divide up as to par
ties, though they do not, North or
South. Would we handle race
problem as we'll as the South? North
ern men on Southern farms are no.
toriously more sever with the color
ed people than are the older resi-
dents.
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