The Washington bee., 1890-08-23
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be convinced of that fact. Where
as diamonds is superior to gold so
Is the cultured Negro superior to
the ilIiterate, if not in physical
sense, he is in an educated sense,
and so is this cultivated class equal
to a great degree to the refined
and cultivated white man. The
white peOple think that they
know the Negro. They were new
er more mistaken. Why should
so much prejudice exist: 1t is as
| have said, the common or the
inferior white man will not acknow-
ledge his lnferiority to the educat-
ed Negro and presumlng that he Is
the equal of the cultivated white
man who knows no prejudice, and
will not recognize him as his equal,
this common class arrOgate to
themselves their superiority over
the Negro. The more common
white man is, the more prejudlced
he is. Why my friends, the de
partment laborer puts on more airs
than the department messenger,
the messenger out dresses the
clerk; the clerk looks at the chief
of his division as being inferior to
him, the chief orogates to himself
more power than the secretary and
the secretary says that he is boss
and the President has no rights
that he is bound to respect, nor
will be submit to the Congress OF
the nation. Presidents some times
forget by whom they are elected
and defy the people, but the peo,
pie say, your days are numbered
and when the people say step
down and out, Judgement Is at
hand. So you can see the lower
man is the bigger he seems in bis
own estimation. Whenever a man
attempts to rise above bis people,
or whenever a man disregards the
wishes of his party be will find
himself in the position of the Illus
triOus Damon when the tyrant
Dionissus hurled him from the
tOpmost rounds of bis popularity or
he will find himself weighed in the
balances and found wanting. Men
may be powerful in Il their siTT own eSti-
nation. bit when the verdict Of a
people is cast against you, you
might as we'll retire to the shades
of the Elysian fields and listen to
the song of the syrine.
THE NEGRO Is HIS OWN ENEMY.
From time immemOiial the rep
resentatives of the Negro and
many others who claim and have
expressed their friendly feeling for
him, have spoken from the rOstrum,
the pulpit, the stump and a thou.
sand other places, that there is a
Negro problem. My friends there
is no more a Negro problem, than
there is an Anglo Saxon problem.
The politician wants little cheap
nOtoriety, the "quasi' ph ilan-
thropist is too lazy TO work and by
going from city to city, state to
state as an Inherent lecturer, |
may say, on Negro ology, his tri-
ais and tribulatiOns. These ap
peals are not made for the Sympa-
thy that they claim to have for the
Negro, but to make them selves
nationally notorious to the Ne
groe's detriment. The cOlOred
man is inimical to himself to a
great extent; the advice from his
true friends he pays no attention
to be is too quick to believe the
advice of those whom he knows to
be inimical to his interests; coop.
Grafton among the cOlOred peON
pie is the secret to their success ;
while it is true that the north has
manifested great friendship for the
Negro it has been slow to open the
avenues of industry and when
we are asked in the South what
the Negroes are doing in the north
or what is the occupations of the
greater portion of the cOlOred pop.
ulatiOn, we can only give the Id
mental answer that they are wait.
ers and BARRIERS. Perhaps you
doubt this; personal inveStiga-
ton will convince the doubtful
mind that, what l say is true. Il
we look to the South we find me.
chanics in all the branches Of
industry, the bricklayer, the black
smith, the wheel~right, engineer.
matchmaker, the farmer, the edi
tor, the scholar, the statesman, the
legislator, the doctor, and many
dozen more different trades and
professions followed by the Negro
What a contrast is this to Oul
brother in black at the north. II
is true that political chivalrl
reigns supreme in the south, the
midnight assassin diStuTbS the
domestics tranquility of the house
hold, the school house, and the It's
sue ballot and fraudulent count,
are the monuments of fairness: fOI
all that the southern Negro ha;