The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-09-25
INGALLS, ON rHI NEaRo.
fhs Kansas seasesman On the Race Prob
lem In the South

me Kansas seatesman On the Race Prob
lem In the South
Ex-senator Ingalls,, in Truth, says
that tWo subjects appear to be upper
most In the minds Of the southern peo-
ple-the war and the negro. In the cars,
at the hotels, on the street. between
casual acquaintsnces and familiar
friends. the war and the negro. The
confederate veterans are being organ
lied into camps In everv southern state.
with . eommander-in-chiet general Of
ficers, military ceremonlais. regular
meetings for social and commemorative
purposes, like the Grand Army OF the
Republic in the north. The people are
more familiar with the stars and bars
than with the stars and stripes. There
is no enthusiasm for the Union and ma
tion. The young are taught to remem-
Der rather than forget There are prob
ably few, If any Of those born since the
war who do not regard Lee, Jackson and
Davis with greater reverence and honor
than Grant Sherman and Lincoln.
Statues and trophies are erected to per-
petuate the deeds and memories OF those
who sought to destroy rather than to up
hold the constitution. This is doubtless
inevitable, but it is unfortunate.
They are proud and sensitive p.o-
pie, whose self-esteem has suffered an
irremediable wound. Inviting with
confidence the arDitrament OF war. they
failed. and it was not possible that they
should accept the result without per-
petual explanation and protest. Ideas
are daathlnss War settles nothing but
the relative strength of the combatants.
No man was ever convinced that he was
wrong by deirg suoiugated, and the ad-
mission that slavery, secession and kim
dred questions were settled by the
sword, and that the decision is accepted
as final. is accompanied by . mental re-
servation that II was only because they
were overpowered by brute force. It is
impossible to withhold sympathy and
admiration for them in the struggle
which they are waging with themselves.
II they were cordial toward the victors
they would be inhuman. but it is diff
cult to see how the sections are to be
ever and earnestly united into homo
geneous political society while the &C
tivities develop upon lines 20 divergent.
l. we could encounter some great ma
tiousl crisis, like foreign war of pro-
portions formidable enough to threaten
our existence, the shock might over
come the arrangement and make pstri-
otism supreme.
The determination to eliminate the
negro absolutely as political and So
cial factor is complete. It is not dis
guised, and there Ii neither equivoca-
ton or subterfuge. While there are
none who would restore the African to
slavery, there are few who believe him
fit for freedom. Force, violence, blood
shed and intimidation have generally
ceased, and unconcealed fraud have
been substituted when required. The
will Of the majority is no longer the
law of the republic, whenever in any
locality or state the negroes are in the
majority. The Anglo-Saxon has re-
sumed his functions. In the contest
between brains and numbers, brains
have won. as they always will, and
white supremacy in the south is COM
plete. 1t is not recorded in history that
the two races ever dwelt together in
equality under the same govern
ment. Competition ensues, and in the
antagonism the weaker goes to the
wall.
There does not appear to be any SEN
tim1nt of personal unkindness TO the
negroes among the whites of the south.
The feeling is much like that entertain
ed by thoughtful men toward intelligent
animals. 1t is only when he approaches
with ballot in his hand that he be-
comes the object of unrelenting animos-
ity.
There is some reasons for the appre-
hension that education, especially in
the higher grades, has not been OF adj
vantage in all respects to the negro
race. 1t has multiplied his wants and
ambitions without increasing the CD
portunities for their qualification. II has
disqualified him for intelligent. skilled
manual labor without increasing the
capacity to compete in the professions
with the whites. They have undoubt-
eddy made great progress in the inter-
val since their Acknowledgement, but it
is prodigious task to lift an individ-
ual or class from barbarism to en-
lightenment and to keep them there.
The tendency is to relapse. The CRAWL
tation is downward, and while large
provision has been made for the educa-
ton of the blacks ungrudgingly, there
is a conviction that education will ul-
timately render collision between she
races inevitable. Sometime the negroes
will become intelligent enough to de-
tect fraud and strong enough to resent
IL. And then?
Meanwhile they are apparently con-
tented with the situation. They are
growing blacse- and more gregarious,
They are taught separately and have
their own churches. In the cities as
at the north, it is alleged that they are
national affairs they are unpurchaseably
republicans.
Remembering how the north has
dealt with the Indians and with the Chi
nese, it is not improbable than under
the same circumstances existing as at
the south We should do as they have
done and are doing. 1t cannot be de-
MED that the north has become apathet-
ic and Indifferent, and that the appeal
for justice for the negro falls upon ears
that are deaf. For this cause the cleo
ton bill at the last congress was con-
signed to the limbo of departed spirits.
This, however, does not avert the
Danger. Suffrage suppressed, corrupted
or adulterated is a fatal disease to the re-
public. A government based upon po-
litical equality and the rule of the ma
jority. in which upon any pretext the
right to vote is habitually exercised
only By the minority. is pyramid
standing upon its apex instead of its
base. 1t is in condition OF unitable
Sometime il must fall,
and great will be the fall thereof.
Says the New York Times. THE
ubiquitous reporter turned I'D in a new