Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-03-23

sources and urged that they must accumulate
develop skill in every department OF industry,
besides having their fun complement of pro-
fessional men. These results must be accom-
plished by cooperation. History" he said
rs full of instances where race feeling has been
entirely suppressed. But it has a. ways been by
the exhibition Of worth and power on the part
OF the desplsed race. who proved many times
over that the inferiority which was supposed to
exist did not any longer exist"
POLITICAL DIFFERENCES.
Refer ing to difference in politics Mr. Hill
yer said: I'm that part of the country where most
colored people reside there is difference in pol
itics- This difference is sufficient 10 engender
among men OF the same race and class the
most violent batrels and animosities. and
they are restrained from violence by n sense of
equal power ! am in no sense a politician
and do not desire to be Fully conscious of
the great question of human rights involved in
this difference j submit to your thoughtful
consideration whether it Is desirable at the
present time to emphasize and accentuate this
the strongest motives that influence large
bodies of men Can the colored men of
the black belts afford to jeopardize
their intellectual and material DEVELOPMENT
for an abstract right For the colored people
living in the exposed places in the south this ia
O practical question. Conscious of my in
competency to deal with it leave it with Won
with the parting thought that it is probably the
easiest difference to get rid Of But when we
are rid of it the so-called negro problem will
not be solved, the other differences will still
exist and men would still be mpelled BY the
desire for dominion. We would only be rid of
factor and the problem simplifed to that ex-
tent only.
A SUMMING Up.
The PORTS especially desire to leave with
you are briefly these: That race prejudice grows
out Of ,he love Of power and of self in the in
dividual typifed in the race and based on racial
differences That it apparently increases us the
two races come in contact and measure arms
with each other That this feeling may be
allayed by acquiescing in a fixed relation OF
inferiority: but can be overcome only by de-
yeloping equal power and ability, That white
people are quite unanimous in CHASING ali col
ored people together no matter how light they
| may be, and are determined to make them rise
or fall together. The white people set the
| standards in color prejudice just as they do in
everything else There will likely enough be
| limitations AS long there is an original We
need to develop the feeling OF race sympathy, OF
race cohesiveness, cooperation and harmony in
developing and bringing out all the power that
| Is within us. We must develop the power OF
organization. There will be from time to time
| sharp revivais OF color prejudice. Ii we are
unequal to the contest we Will settle down into
| social and industrial caste, based on color
| one drop Of African blood will be sufficient to
attaint- The tide has been set in this direction
for fifteen years. The anti-color feeling ap-
| pears to be growing stronger and more in
tolerant every day. II 10 not growing stronger.
In our advance We are meeting the natural re-