If I were to' vote for any bill on this
subject at all, it would'"e one to liep
the colored man out of the drinking
saloons; and I hope no bar keeper
will ever let a colored man have a
glass of liquor at any bar open for
drinking. Indeed, I should be glad,
'whenever a colored man should go
Into a drinking saloon for the purpose
of drinking at the bar, if somebody
would at once take him and put him
out, doing him as litt e injury as pos
sible. Ie Culd do the colored man
no greater kindness.
As to the oiher branch of your ques
tion, in re erence to barber shops, let
let me sa' mat the trade of a barber
is like any other trade, to be carried
on by the noan who is engaged in it
at his own will and pleasure, and the
civil rights bill ha$ nothing to do, and
was intended to have nothing to do,
with its exercise. A barber has a right
to shave wiois. Ie pleases, as much as
a jeweler hiss a ri ht to repair a watch
'for whom he ple ses, or a blacksmith
to shoe such endored horses as lie
pleases. In 'ot words, these are
not public employments, but private
,businesses, in whiel .the law does not
interfere.
