San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-10-03
The Race Problem--The General Edu
cation OF White and Black tho
True solution.

True solution.
Fort Worth Gazette.
The talk lately so prevalent about
negro equality, negro rule, the color
line, the race problem, and other
similar topics, is uncalled for, idle
and Of no possible good. It Is point
less defamation and not q little non-
sensical, that is, much Of IL.
There is nobody asking for, nor
advocating, negro equality, nor any
other human equality, and there is
not, and cannot be any equality ex-
cept equal rights and equal protec-
tion by law, and / don't understand
that the negroes ask for, or expect,
or wish for any other equality.
Negro rule is q ghost or myth of
tho imagination. There is no real
probability that the negroes Of this
country, or Of any one OF the states
will ever become rulers, though pos
sibly in some counties or other locali-
tiles they may acquire the balance OF
power and cause the election of some
colored man to Office. If they do
there is nothing alarming in such an
event. There are already negro Off
GERS in several Of the states and I
have not learned that any very &C.
rious disorders have been caused by
that fact.
The color line md race problem
are made topics for the expenditure
of long and eloquent speeches and
essays to prove what? that the negro
race is inferior to the whites, which
nobody denies but if the conditions
of the two races, which have prevail
ed for 300 years, should be reversed
for 300 more, perhaps the white
would be the inferior race. But that
signifies nothing, nor does the supe-
riority of the white race have any
political significance. The negroes
of the United States are citizens,
and many of them, like many other
citizens, are somewhat ignorant and
somewhat vicious, wherein they re-
semble some whites. No sane per-
son disputes their ignorance, and
consistent philanthropists should,
and do, seek to relieve them, white
and black alike, of their ignorance
and vice by the only possible remedy,
education. But l am asked, do you
want your son to dance with q colored
girl, or your daughter to marry a ne
gro? I Ianswer no. And l add there
are some white girls with whom l
don't want my son to dance, and some
white men whom l don't want my
daughter to marry.
The fact is, society is made up Of
many classes and all the classes have
their special lines of distinction, and
those lines are based on various con-
such as family, wealth, sta
ton, intellectually, color, nationality,
etc. Parties and associations are
generally Of those who affiliate under
The above head, and always will be.
Social parties are always composed
of persons who hive natural affinity
Tor each other. White and black
people naturally rapel each other and
avoid intimacy. They always prefer
70 associate with their own color.
That it is unfortunate for the south
hat there is 80 much ignorance among
;he negroes nobody will deny, and I
hink may safely and truly assert
hat there is q pretty large amount Of
ignorance amongst the whites also
,ut I repeat, these facts have no polit-
cal significance. An ignorant ne.
,ro is of no more or less Importance
o the government, or any political
,arty, than an ignorant white man,
,ut when we consider that both are
'oters they become Of absorbing and
Unlimited interest to all philanthro-
lists and patriots, and the best inter
st and welfare and prosperity and
lappiness Of the whole people and
he whole country demand that they
hall be educated as speedily as pos
ible, cost what it may. b.