The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-04-23
barometer of Public Opinion


Nntht senator bgnrOS'.
Editor World. Ia your editorial entitled
Pcnrosc the impossiblc' you inject little
Common sense into hackncycd subject upon
which worlds Of high sounding hypocritical
twhddio has been spumcd IN American politics
ior so years past.
The two races are not equals never have
been. mover viii be and white and coiorcd
agree ON that point.
Your protest against the bin is vehement and
Iightiully so. but why pick on Senator Pcurose
- the exclusion Of the asses who have brayed
nei"rc him. For example New York "A num-
Der or years ago enacted laws to the general
erect thdt all public places. including hotels,
amusement places, cafes etc. must receive col
nted patrons on terms OF absolute equality with
the whites. ] have been present on countless
prcasons in hotels, amusement places Gates.
etc, IN New York city when the law was either
bupr'u or violated, quite as matter Of course,
ana have also been present In court when on
'"lup"tailVeS rare occasions prosecutions for
SUN Nolhtlohs nave been argued on perjured
testimony and decided upon hypocriticaI pre-
tShse. AFTER being In fun force for some years
inc net eftect Of the New York law In com
pelhng equality and preventing discrimination
brtWeer the two races liz absolutely mia re-
SUIT which should have been foregone Conclu-
sion even to the unmitlgated asses who pushed
these bills through the legislature. The statute
IN New York is made conspicuous by tho main
taken to evade 1t. Necessarily so. because the
whites Will not patroniZe "a place catering To
the Colored race. True IL is productive or ,7uch
perjury and does It's share to make hypocrisy
me iine art which II has become in our daily
ne but what else is to be expected when statute
books become Cluttered with unwiso and un-
enforceable lawsp II seems to take the Ameri-
can public hundreds OF years to ascertain that
act or legislature. senator Peuroses bill Will
undoubtedly pass, because no pennsylvanan
legislature In its right mind would dare refuse
@ MN, ahNthlhg, as they say out there he owns
eastern fennsylyania and has first mortgage
w "n the rest But II is only another stairway
TO the moon and IT only means that staid and
otherwise respectable Pcnnsylvanians viii he
compelled to make liars of themselves In court
ON occasion in explaining why they can't make
the ascent to the moon after the trip was viseed
by their legislature. Passing "A law does not
make 1t 40 and that is something we don't seem
pn ngs
laws that fly directly In the face OF nature: fig
uratiVely speaking, hV statute. we attcu,rt .,
regulate the very tides and change the stars in
their courses. The laws are broken as "A p,nt-
ter of fact and OF course and then we roii"c
lively whip ourselves around a stump calling
the world to witness what bad children we nrc
II mas been the saying Of many more or less
way to get rid OF bad law is to strictly en-
iHr(e .i IT, How come? And did it ever enter
ther master minds' that It might have been
a good job not Ia have the bad law passed
When "" quit putting laws In the statute hooks
that nave no business there and enact "A few
sane regulations capable of enforcement then
mere VIII be some respect FOR the law. There
However, considering these things your fpdip-
nant ting TO the effect that the PcnusyIvauian
legislature might as well 20 to the logical ex-
tfetno ana prescribe intermarriage between the
TWO races has great possibilities, for some Of
our sanity fanatics and citizen fixits" who
had probably never thought of that THO i1n,
seems to us abhorrent and absurd, and vet tho
experiences of the past five years have taught
us that the abhorront thought and incnncrits
morrow. So that it is quite conceivable that
some fool legislature. bearing an alleged man
date from Heaven cor the other place moro
hkclN) may attempt to solve the question bv
passing an act compelling some scheme of in.
tormarriagc thus blending the races and do
away with the color question. | am honestly
surprised that with the amount OF fool lcgisla-
ton we have had some of them have not at
tempted a. before this
impossible, YOU win say Not at all As
we view tho legislative records In this country
nothing is impossible The legislatures Of some
states already makes us eat. sleep. study, Wor-
ship and amuSc ourselves with the Culored race.
In tact, makes us perform every function in life
except intcrmarrv, and that Is already per-
missihlo. In fact under the law clergyman
cannot legally refuse to marry black man
10 a white woman as they are equals uudcr the
law. That would ho an illegal discrimination
The next step is very short one.
The late lamcntcd Colonel Roosevelt. after
that episode of tho Booker r. Washington
luncheon at the White House found himself I'm
a mental cul-de-sac ON that very point II was
the first time they over tloorod that exceed
uEy astuto politician and statesman. hut he
was tOorcd good ana plenty and doservcdv so.
as ne had no business getting into an alley
without knowing tho way out.
cHAS. S FRANCIS.
Tulsa, April A..