Evening journal., 1890-01-18
Try a NEW POLICY.

Very few people have the calmness and
intelligence TO consider the race question
on its merits
Those whose minds are immature and
whose hearts are incapable cannot 60
farther in the consideration of the great
| questionable audacious problem OF two
races living together on equal footing,
never solved and never attempted before
than to blame one or the other race for
the troubles which have arisen. Some
assert. even, that there are no troubles,
that there is no difficulty, that there is
no problem, whatever.
Such men Of course, cannot believe the
evidences Of their own senses. Such men
are unfit to argue. much less to decide a
momentous question like this.
The evidences Of race hatred are too
apparent in the North and ia the South,
in the East and in the West to need
proof. Those who do not admit the exis-
tence of worse rancor than prevailed
between the different religious sects in
the seventeenth century, or between the
q ermans and the Jews OF this century,
are wilfully or ignorantly obtuse The
| arguments not with such persons their
minds are closed to arguments as their
perceptions are closed to facts. The
argument is with those persons, who
having eyes. can see that one race is
white and one IS black who, having
ears, can hear the prattle Of race Of
men who have only lately come from abb
solute barbarism. with no history, no
traditions, even, behind them, and the
talk of the race OF men who never were,
never could be, slaves, and who possess
the arts, sciences and history Of all Of
the ages.
II is not to the purpose to attempt to
account for or to explain, this situation
1t is enough to admit that il exists
Admitting it, what shall we do about
it, Not frown and swear like a knave
and fool at some man, or some party Of
men, that we imagine are responsible
for the existence Of an evil. That will
not cure the evil 1t merely shows who
are the knaves and fools.
The facts are, that there are two very
distinct races, and that they do not live
together on political. social, or religious
equality without friction. There is no
question that the situation might be diff
ferent, but the problem results from the
situation as It is, not as it might be, nor
perhaps, as it should be.
Considering the condition then, and
not the theory, is the proposition Of
Senators Morgan and Butler to transport
and help to settle those negroes who may
wish to go to some foreign country or
distant state, wise and kindlyY If IL is
we shall make it practicable no matter
what it costs. Or is the policy Of Mr..
Blair to abuse the South, to call the
southern people vile names and accuse
them Of indiscriminate murder, kindly
and wiser VIII such policy help any
body or solve the great question:
Are Senators Blair, Sherman and
Chandler, with their policy OF vindictive
hate, competent to deal with this problem.
granting even that they have the welfare
Of the negro at hearth
Have they not failed in the failure Of
the reconstruction laws, and in the fail.
ure Of the civil rights and the force billsY
The policy Of the Blairs. Chambers and
Shermans has been tried and the evils
have increased. 1t has proved failure
in principle and in practice Let us try
some other policy.