The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-02-14
THE NEGRO PROBLEM.
1T is BEING VERY GENERALLY
DISCUSSED.

DISCUSSED.
7 he Southern People Are the Ones tG
Solve it.-Yankee Newspapers Know
Nothing About it.-Extracts From
North Carolina Papers.
The discussion of the negro ques-
ton has recently received new i'm.
petus, both North and South. The
Northern newspapers are especially
busy solving the problem for US. In
this connection the Durham Tobacco
Plant has this to say:
"The race problem at the South is
attracting about as much attention at
the North as it is among US; that is.
the Northern papers are having about
as much to say about it, although they
have not the slightest idea what the
words mean. Most of them think
that the only question to be solved is
whether the white people shall con
tinue to pay the taxes Tor the main
tt nance and education of the negro,
and let the negro and his few allies
among the whites rule the Southern
States, or whether the white people
shall insist upon retaining control OF
the State government, most OF them
favoring pursuing the former course.
All of these papers show most clearly
every time they have anything to say
ON the subject that they are supremely
ignorant about it. Even the New
Ycrk Herald, whose opinions on most
subjects are generally sound, makes
the great blunder of showing of its
ignorance on this subject in lengthy
editorial.
The race question is to be decided
here at the South; its solution cannot
be determined by Yankee newspaper
arguments and denunciation Of the
Southern whites, and these men who
try to solve it by such means show
their ignorance. What does the Her.
aid OF any other Northern paper know
about the true status of affairs at the
South as to the relation the two races
bear to each other?
five are let alone we will work out
the problem to the best intel est of
both races that the peculiar situation
Of affairs will admit of, and what we
want is to be let alone, and this is what
the Northerners would do if they had
any sense; but having freed the ne
groes and made them citizens they
think that thus free they know all
about the race question and any one
of them can solve it in two minutes on
paper.
'Tis true negroes are sometimes bad
ly treated at the South. as they are at
the North; that is no more conclusive
proof that the whites of the South are
in favor of depressing them than the
strikes and riots at the. North are
proof that the Northern laboring men
are in favor of wrecking the fortunes
Of all their capitalists and destroying
their property. Since the Democratic
party came in power at the South, it
has been faithful to its promises made
the negroes, and has done far more
for them than the Republican party
ever did, and it will continue to aid
them in making them better citizens,
tor it is to the interest Of the men COM
posing that party to do So" '''l =
THE QUESTION ABLY HANDLED.
Brother Kingsbury, the able editor
of the Wilmington Star, writes as fol
lows on this subject: r
The Star in its many discussions
of the race problem has mentioned the
deep and ineradicable prejudice tc
some races. The Northern whites
seem to cherish bitter and implaca
Bile dislike of the Chinese except ir
election times. They also have nc
real liking for the negro and they
show this in the way he is treated re
iigiously, socially, politically and il
the trades. The Southern whites arr
far more sympathetic and kindly, q.
We and others have often mentioned
But the negro is as full of prejudict
as the Northern whites are. His pre-
judice only extends to the self-re
spectiog whites in the South and no
TO his dear "RadikiP' white-skinnee
associate. This may be explained il
an easy way. He thinks his former
master is his enemy because white
faced tricksters have told him 80
But being savage" according Il
the wisdom of a bitter and blind Re
publican, he is regarded with pity ant
sympathy by the intelligent and hon
orable whites. Being black he j
easily led by designing fellows of tn
baser sort to antagoDize the whites
Being a human he is not able to dives
himself of race prejudice, and he vote
with his color. Senator Morgan say
"it is impossible that any man ca
vote impartially when a question
presented in which has race IS believe
to be vitally concerned" This is tru'
Race sympathy always controlled a
men but low-down politicians an
men unworthy of their rsrace. Tn
applies alike to the Capcasisns th
Mongolian, the Negro and the In
dian.
Senator Morgan, in his very abb
article in the Forum, to which we r.
ferred at some length in .ohr last issu
says that educatiOn, nfnemen
wealth, and the conscioosness zof pel
sonal merit add a stronger jealousy
the power of race, ard continuall
widen the separation between Il
white and negro races" and he adj
with equal truth, Ahat 'thise e1e4
more decided with the negro sh1h h
with the white race" He says th
has increased every. day since Il
l aeUrrsoe Uoro orn enos s,afo1 Thav n