The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-07-12

slye means to this end because in its results an
TONS against the negro Which enter into The
makeup Of the so-called race problem. Let US
examine more infinitely these elements OF the
problem in order to Justify the reasonabisness
its intense forms most in those sections and
states where the negroes are in the majority.
This is because the whites. as they say fear az
negro supremacy This supremacy is feared on
account of the ignorance Of the negro voter.
1t is concluded that the majority
Of the voters being isnGFan they
in charge Of the affairs of the county, state or
section and this would work to the bankruptcy
and Of the county state Or section
that opposition to the exercise of negro fran
chise, by whatever means, is a patriotic duty
matter is dent
cation or increased intelligence among those
representing the majority is the remedy. 1gno-
rance being the ground OF objection, If this cause
ligence). the objection must disappear as the
darkness recedes at the approach OF the light OF
the sun. None OF US, even negroes, desire to be
the patriotic duty OF every man to aid in
bringing about such reforms DIS will
put only the duly, qualified in positions
only to be done bv lawful means and by forces
that are acknowledged to be in every way legit-
innate and in harmony with the humane spirit
Southern problem in the Christian Union, June
5, says: sit does seem great outrage to prac-
tically deprive American citizens OF the right to
the ends Of government by putting an inferior
and semi-barbarous race i'll control OF a superior
race who own the property and have the lntelli-
gence.' 1t not only seems but is a great out
rage to deprive American citizens or the right to
vote, except on the conditions sustained by
law, and not by mobs and the capriceS of men.
Such mob violence is the more reprehenSible
when it is taken for granted that these outrages
are the only way of escape from the conditions
confronting u.s. ..' .a'
WHAT OUGHT TO BE DONE.
II the voter is unprepared to exercise his
franchise Alright, then prepare him for its in
telllgent use or deprive him OF it by cOnstitu-
tional enactments. The latter cannot now be
done, but the former can and ought to be done,
and by so doing we shall save the negro from
unlawful oppressi on and outrage, simply because
he claims his rights, and save the nation from
the disgrace and burning shame because it de-
MES him these rights. Intelligence is universally
admitted to be the prime requisite for good cit
tains there will be no necessity or fear OF 'de-
stroying all the ends of government by putting
a semi barbarous race in control OF a superior
race 4s,,, who own the property and have the
alterable, as expressed by Dr. A. &. Haygood
Of Georgia, in his pleas for Progress" when he
says: Good government implies intelligence,
and universal suffrag &c demands universal edu-
cation" 1t cannot now be said, as it was
stated fifty years ago, that negro cannot be
not confirm the statement. The noble men and
women who went into the South as mssiona-
RES and felt their way through the smoke OF bat
tie and stepped over crimson battle fields and
among the wounded and the dying, to bring in
telligence to the negroes tainted going OH
tools errand. But the tens OF thousands OF
vice and philanthropy-a million negro
CHILDREN SdI1 NO in the public schools in the
az II re- fpn1O
DR.. Haygood, who is an authority OH this sub
!ect: "All told, fully S5O.OOO,OOO have gone
into the work OF their (negro) education since
been Southern money" The negroes have made
more progress i'll elementary and other educa-
ton during these twentythree years than any
other illiterate people in the world: and they
have justified the philanthropy and public pol
icy that made the expenditure.
1t must be remembered, however, that more is
to be done than the education of the blacks as
solution OF the race ublem, for much Of the
stubbornness of the question is involved in the
ignorant, lawless and vicious whites OF
OF the blacks. TO educate one race and neglect
the other, is to leave the problem half solved
for there is a class OF whites in the South to
some extent more degraded and hopeless in their
mental and moral condition than the negro
This is the class to which many OF the actual
outrageS are more attributable than tc
any other. Educate these, as we'll AS the
blacks, and our problem is shorn OF its strength.
When we call to MIND the fact that 10 per cent
OF the cOlOred vote in the South is illiterate and
80 per cent of the white vote is in the same con
diton, it is not difficult for one to discern thai
education of the blacks and whites as we'll is not
only necessary for the solution of the race prob
progress and prosperity of that section where
such illlteracy obtains. For the safety of the
republic, the perpetuity Of it's glory, and the
stability Of it's institutions are Commensurate
and only commensurate, with the intelligence
and morality Of its citizens. whether they be
white men or black men.
THE POVERTY OF THE NEGRO.
The poverty OF the negro is another stubborn
element in the problem 1t is urged that The
wealth and Intelligence OF the South must not
suffer man, if he is poor and black, to exercise
Strange doctrine, this, in a republic which is a
refuge for the oppressed from all lands under the
SUM- and the so-called land OF the free! But will
education help to remove this objectionable ele-
ment in the negro? 1t is the object of all educa
ton to aid man in becoming a producer as well
as Il consumer. To enable men and women to
terial wealth OF their community or country
to develop the resources Of their land, is
the handspring i'll the work of all our schools
and public or private systems OF training. From
a material point OF view, we find that one OF the
great differences-in TACT, contrasts-between
the North and the South is a difference OF wide
gent, coupled with the impetus arising from cap.
ital, will touch the South with magnetic
hand, and that region with marvellous resources
and Unreasonable capabilities, will blossom as
the rose. 1t is d matter OF observation and
history that a section or country that seeks
to keep it's labor-producng class ignorant keeps
itself poor, and the nation or state that fails to
provide for the education OF it's whole
people, especially its industrial forces,
is cons wofu1ly lacking in states:
ments to material progress and prosperity. To
this general rule the negro is no exception. To
educate him, then, makes him all industrial
factor OF the state. ana argues his own changed
condition from repulsive poverty to more ac
ceptable conditions of wealth. Whatever
strengthens the negro Of the South adds to the
strength and wealth OF that section, and moth
ing initiates against the negro but initiates
against the South as well. Even in his present
condition OF ilteracy, the negro is evidently the
backbone of the labor element of the South
Whether he reaps all the benefit of his labor or
not it is clear that he is the prime element in it's
growing and boosted prosperity The late
paid taxes on 10000, 900 worth Of
property. and that the negroes in the
ucts every year to the material prosperity OF
that section. The Atlanta Constitution. -
speaking OF the negroes in Texas, said recently:
taxes Oh 500, 100000 worth OF property, have
1000 churches, 1000 benevolent associations.
10 4 high schools 5000 teachers, % doctors, IS
newspapers, hundreds OF farmers and stockmen,
and several inventors. Now, these two states
are but samples of the wealth-producng results
OF twenty-five years LABOR. II this has been
their progress when it is admitted they have
been under the hampering and retarding infiu-
ence OF ignorance, not to speak of other disad-
vantages, it is fair to assume that under the
stimulus OF intelligence they will do hundred
fold more, and year by year and decade by dec
AIDE change their poverty-stricken state, and
thus remove another element in the problem,
and thereby hasten it's solution.
But it is not necessary for me to stand in this
intelligent and representative presence anc ar
que the advantages of education to alter the
n nfpio ~ oOoc T,,<oJ
ligence and industry have always demanded the
respectful consideration of men, no matter how
intense their opinions to the contrary; and it
has been their universal opinion that these
forces have been the leverage to lift their less
fortunate fellows to their proper place on the
plane OF political and civil equality. These in
dustrial forces are the things that must enter as
a. Key into the solution OF the problem. IT will