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it units him for farm labor It should not do

it units him for farm labor. 1t should not do
so, but it does. AS fast as the younger portion
OF those raised since the war get little learning
they leave the farms and congregate in and
around the towns. But you ask how are their
places filed? The Southern white people are
going to work, and so far they have kept the
deficit up.
In the second place, and where the trouble be-
gins, is this. The better education you give to
the negro the palmer he sees and knows that
under the laws of every nation he is entitled to
certain social rights, as we term them. That is,
he says: In every civilized nation and among
al people. except at the South, am entitled to
just the same privileges as the white man, if
pay for them or if my conduct and actions as
man and citizen entitle me to them" We
frankly say that the negro has the right to feel
that way.
The whites feeling as they do and the negroes
feeling as they Go will necessarily bring on some
friction. The negro, feeling he should be recog-
niZed, will force himself forward and does do it
whenever opportunity offers, and the only thing
that prevents the negro from going to the dress
circles OF the theaters. and in the white peoples
car and in the hotels is fear 1t is not because
he doesn't want to or doesn't believe that it is his
right
Nothing but fear; that's, he knows if he at
tempts 1t that he has got to take chances of being
kicked ont. You let negro come into my par
lor and take seat and [ will kick him out
quickly. and every other Southern raised man
will do the same Still, the negro is gaining
these social rights every day. He is aggressive,
and is continually asserting his privileges as he
understands them. The whites resist awhile
and then give way on some point and the mo-
ment they do the negro appreciates it and has
fee simple title to its forum 1t is remarkable
fact that when you give the negro right he
never loses it, Let him occupy the dress circle
at the theater two nights in succession with
whites and he will always do so. Let him go to
one hotel table one day with the whites and he
will be fixture.
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fighting for and demanding all these social
rights, and they resent it. In their hearts they
resent it bitterly. We are endeavoring to edu
cate the negro; we give him all his legal rights
with good measure, and the truth is, we have
done so hoping to satisfy the negro that want
to do right by him, and hoping, too, that such
treatment would satisfy him and that he would
not demand the social post. But we were mis-
taken The better he is educated, the more
fully we accord him legal rights the more clam
orous he is for social rights
The summing up is this The negro is de-
handing every day full recognition of every
social right-that is, as to churches, railroads,
hotels, theaters, etc. The whites are bitterly OPP
posed to 1t, and these bring up the question:
What is the solution Of the negro problem? Our
answer is this: The negro must emigrate He
must move out. He must 60 somewhere else, or
in a few years he will see inaugurated war of
determination of either the whites or blacks
one or the other must CO. Theorists may sug
eests plans, and Northern writers may say it is
all stuff. but every negro in the South feels as
have stated. and every Southern man, woman
and child feels that thus far shall they come and
no further.
I have not written in anger or spite. There
is not negro in my whole section but person
ally likes me, and l like them. We have always
been kind to them and have made special en-
deavor to assist them in any way we could as to
their moral, legal and financial rights. Further
than that we feel they should not ask to 60 and
we cannot 60. Thousands of Northern people
honestly think we ought; they were raised to
think that way We don't blame them; and
now, don't blame us. The education of the
negro teaches him to demand these social rights.
Hundreds of Northern missionaries and writer's
urge him to demand them. Both should have
been content to let the negro and the whites
work out the solution. In time we might have
done 80; it is too late now. In our humble
opinion the wind has been sown and whirlw;nd
will be reaped.
MILLEDGEXILLE. Ga. June 30