ARRESTING A NEGRO.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1129, 17 May 1911, Page 5

ARRESTING A NEGRO.

FOUR PERSONS DEAD.

By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright New York, May 15. An attempt to arrest a negro resulted in a fight.

Two negroes were killed and one fatally injured, and one deputy-sheriff was fatally wounded and two others injured.

AMERICA'S COLOUR PROBLEM,

The recent unprovoked attack on Mr. Hooker Washington, the famous American negro educator, said the "Manchester Uuardian a few- weeks ago, mav bo onlv a sporadic instance of race prejudice, but there is only too much reason to fear that the outlook for the American negro is steadiiy becoming darker. Of this change the tightening of the colour line in the north is perhaps the most discouraging symptom. The New York Cab Company, for instance, has recently decided to discharge all .its negro drivers. These men were among its most' reliable and careful employees, but the company has felt itself unable to resist the demand of the hotels, whoso patrons objected to the presence of negroes on the-cab-ranks. The other day a distinguished Columbia University professor and his wife, who had intended to hold m their own "apartment" a quiet women's suffrage meeting, to be attended by coloured people as well as whites, had to cancel their invitations, as the landlord threatened an injunction. Not long ago, a Now York Judge set aside a verdict for damages awarded to a negro porter in a case of false arrest, on the ground that a coloured man would not suffer as much shame from arrest and imprisonment as a white man would. In the south the relations between whites and negroes seem to be growin" moro strained year by year, in spite of tho attempts at a rapprochement that are being made by many of the foremost white citizens. Popular feeling in the South resents the education of the negro ouito as much as his degradation, for it is a greater peril (o v;hite supremacy. Thus Professor Du Bois, the distinguished historian and economist, is not allowed to enter the Carnegie Public Librarv at Atlanta, although his books arc 'on its shelves and he' pays rates for its upkeeo. On the recent appointment of a negro as an Assistant Attorney-General, a West \ irginia newspaper indignantly protested against the impending spectacle of a coloured lawyer "advocating the cause of the United Stales before her highest tribunal, presided over by a Southern gentleman and a Democrat."