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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-10
John swIutOu, Journalist and RefOrmer.

John swInton, Journalist and Reformer.
"What shall we do with the Negro?"
Shall we not help him. to yet advance
along the lines of freedom, education,
industry and prosperity upon which he
has been steadily advancing for CEN
fury? He has grown, he is growing, he
will grow through the years, II the right
Of growth be not denied him.
When l recall the Negro as l knew
him during the existence Of slavery, in
the Carolinas, In the States Of the Gulf
and in those along the Mississippi
when I behold the Improvement that
has been brought about In his being
and condition since his liberation-yI
feel bound TO say that he is doing as
well as could be expected, and to ex-
press the opinion that he will dolyet
better under a larger liberty. He has
been transformed within generation,
and the work OF transformation will go
on steadily, If he be not impeded.
What shall we do with him?" l see
no reason TO believe that he will 60 to
Liberia, or TO Mexico, or to British
Honduras, or to any other country be-
yond that OF his nativity. Yet II were
OF his race would fly from any part Of
the South in which the franchises Of
mankind cannot be enjoyed.
1t is grievous to know that the Negro
does not possess his natural or his con-
stitutional rights in some OF The South
ern States. It's inexpressihly horrify-
ing TO me, as a Christian or as be-
lever in the commonwealth TO read the
ever-recurring reports Of the torturing
and lyuching OF colored people in sun
dry States Of the South. But Of these
wrongs speak not here.
The very best thing We can do for
the black man, or for the white, Is to
strive with all our might9.o promote and
secure the establishment of his inaIen-
able rights. John SWINToN.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-10
Carlyle Mckinley, OF the Charleston
.Nnws and lCourIer"

News and Courier
In my opinion we have no reason to
hope that any moral, educational, poit-
zeal or industrial remedies, or all OF
them together, viii afford such a solu-
ton OF the race question as would be
satisfactory and just TO both races, and
final In effect.
We can hope to solve 1t only by in
ducing the gradual return of the ne
groes to Africa, under conditions that
will insure their present welfare and
future development as a people, in a
separate and independent estate.
The country is not ready TO accept
this conclusion, however, and will not
now a,cceptit. Very many white people
North and South find their interest in
maintaining the existing conditions.
The negroes as a race are silent, and for
the most part satisfied with their posi-
ton. The people generally are either
indifferentt 20 the question, or content
themselves with the assumption that 1t
twill settle itself" some how, some day.
In these circumstances the only
course to be pursued, for the present
and for some time to come, 1t appears
TO me, is to continue TO 'do with the
Negro" what we are now doing with
him-that is TO let him alone "poitic-
ally" and apply every means that we
can command for his Improvement on
educational, industrial aud moral lines,
IN the confident assurance that he will
thus be made better citizen and better
man at once, and will he better quail
fed and equipped to help us to settle
''the race question" in the end, in what
soever form the solution must come,
and to take care of himself and give a
good account OF himself, when 1t shall
have been settled.
CARLYLE MCKINLEY.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-10

allowances while represer ting
abroad they receive but very g.
salaries at home; and, as Aoki hs
fortune OF his own, the financial
yantages which he possessed 10
eyes at the time Of the marriage a
peared. Her demands even Tor the
elementary comforts Of civilized
constituted a drain upon his So.
purse which he could not but res,
Nor did her constant dissatlsfactio
with the primitive character OF her sur
roundings contribute TO increase bis DO
nestle happiness, added to which ne
gradually commenced 70 neglect those
courtesies and attentions which, while
in Europe, he had been accustomed 70
cav his wife. Neither the japanese
nor the Chinese, nor, indeed, any OF the
A.Iatic races entertain any respect Tor
women. whom at hear, they regard a.
creatures OF altogether Inferior intelii-
gence. resembling brutes In being with
out soul.
any untraveled Oriental 10 conpre-
bend the Difference which the men
Of civilized nations pay 70 women. Inc
latter. 10 his eyes, are solely lifted 70
act as the servants-nsy, even, Is the
slayes-of the stronger sex. Seldom,
n ever. IL the native wife permitted 70
sit a. the table with her husband, DO
mater how high her rank, and when
admitted 10 his presence she Is forced
nv etIoue,,e 70 approach In the same
manner as domestics. namely. on ell
four.. with repeated prostratIons-
remember how startled was
a. the manner In which Sano
Tsupetami, formerly ambassador .,
FIenoa. bat now vice president oil
the Senate, made me- acquainted with
bis wife .. f'-n6 ave Ia
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-10

The American Negro asks no mora
than Diogenes in his tub: Get from be-
tween me and the hight" Let me alone
with liberty, justice and equality, the
free use Of my own hands and brain and
mowers OF locomotion. the natural condi-
ton of every man, can make place
for myself. Freed from the artificial
trammels, shielded from the bitter pref
udices OF his neighbors, the Negro has
shown the necessary capacity to take
care of himself.
But IL those who ask the question are
Isincere In their desire to elevs'-
Nlac,a< lid suggest as tbs
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-10
WORSE TITAN DEATH.
THE ORIENT MAKE THE WORST HUS-
BAN IN THE WORLD.
Can the Women Make Good Wives-Their Chill
drsn are Puny aud Die YO1ng-Ths Experience
Of Some European Girls il Japan.
O0ppriqht, 1893.

The engagement OF Commander Will
liam Whiting, U. S. N, to Miss All
Fong, the full-boOded Chinese daugh-
ter of wealthy Celestial parents, is for
mally announced. Naturally, the dis
cussion as 20 whether marriages be-
tween Caucasians aud Orlentals can
have a happy issue has become more
animated than ever.
Almost all such unions have been
unhappy in their results" are the
words used in the resolution passed
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-10

affronted at every step, or with few cx-
ceptions. He ispever safe from insults
or even violence, and his wrongs fire.
ouently wait redress till the great as
size. where all wrongs are supposed to
be righted and all wrong-doers punish
ed. The mUb, too, sometimes Port Jer-
Wis June 1, 1892, for example) seizes
him for sacrifice, and outraged justice
folds It's hands in helplesSness or indif-
ference.
If the North desires the elevation OF
the negro IL must clear its skirts. In
justice is excusable nowhere and to no.
body, but II the South is inexcusaole
the North is triply inexcusable, because
the natural temptations to Cypress the
inferior race is ever present and ever
strong South, while such natural temp
tation scarcely exists North. So long,
therefore, as injustice to negroes,
whether positive, such as violence, or
negative, such as denial or cur
tail OF rights, prevails North, eIe-
walton Is well-nigh impossible, because
one wrong North will be made to Justi-
fy hundreds South, one outrage North
be made TO justify thousands South,
and one lynching North be made 10
justify innumerabie lynchings South.
A heavy responsibility rests upon the
North, whose temptations are few, TO
treat the Negro not only justly but
generously, not only TO place no imped-
iments in but to take them out OF his
path, not only coldly to leave him to
work out his own salvation, but to ex-
tend fraternal, helping, sympathetic
hands. When the North thus acts, it
may then with hope appeal to the
South to do likewise, but until the
North does so act the most fervent, elo-
quent, patriotic appeals will fall
upon cold hearts and deaf ears, and the
Negro will remain helpless. degraded,
oppressed, q disgrace TO American
Christianity and blot upon American
civilization.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-10
Clark Howell, Editor OF the Atlanta
"Constitu tion."

What shall we do with the Negro? 1t
is my deliberate opinion that the best
thing to do with him is to let him alone.
The race problem is not OF such In
tricacy as to Justify the time spent in
it's discussion and solution. The Ne
gro is doing well, and If let
alone would do better. Treat him
kindly aud let him understand he has
the support and announcement OF the
white people in his effort TO become a
useful citizen. The negro will never be
colonized, abroad or at home. He will
continue to live as he has, for hun
dred or more years, in the South, with
scattering representation OF the race
in other States In sufficient numbers TO
let people understand that there are
plenty more where they came
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-10
LEWIS 81. BLAIR.
Booker T. Washington, (CoIored), Prin-
cipal, Tuskegee institute, FasheSee'
Alabama.

Booker t Washington, (Colored), Prin-
cipal, Tuskegee institute, FasheSee'
Alabama.
Any solution OF the Negro problem
that is not based on the masses OF them
remaining la the South where they are
during the next seventy-iiye or one
hundred years, is, think, so much idle
talk. Such agitation IS that fathereo
largely by Mr.. John Temple Graves, OF
Georgia, about colonizing them in the
West, and by Bishop II. NJ. Turner,
about deporting them TO Africa, does
vast deal of harm In causing the mora
ignorant ones TO think that the Govern
ment can move them to this or that
place and acquire property, education
and a standing in any one community.
The Negroes do not want TO leave the
South, nor do the Southern white peo-
pie want them TO leave.
While Mr.. John Temple Graves
IS agitating the sending OF the
Negroes TO the West TO form State,
his State, Georgia, has on her statute
books, law imposing fine OF $500 on
any agent who COOS into the State for
the purpose of inducing people (meant
to apply to Negroes) to leave the State,
and the white people would enforce the
law at the point Of the bayonet.
The Negro can more easily cope with
Southern prejudice than with Northern
competition. When itcomes to business,
pure and simple, the black man has
vastly better chance at the South than
at the North. Here black and White
merchants work side by side.
With education, property and char
acter, which through the aid o. the
North and the Southern States the
Negro is now acquiring, he will not
need be treated differently from the
Irshman or German in our country.
BOOKER 7. WASHINGTON.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-10
RUFUS K. WILSON,
AurIos Thompson, Author and Native of
the South.

Aurioe Thompson, Author and Native OF
the south.
II were delegated by 3 supreme
over to carry the gospel OF education
the Southern negroes l would say TO
ZEN: The first lesson for you 10 learn
that NO are inferior TO the white
ian. The next lesson Is that II you IN
ertake TO 90 white man you viii fall
\ everything. Be negro and be a
,ropd. earnest, steadiaSt one, willing TO
earn. patient 10 endure. Understand
hat the very fact that you are no" IN
'erior 10 the white man must Do your
yreatest stimulus 10 effort. Time was
gben the white man used flint axes
and lived In caves Your state Is i'm
measurably betteg thar that Lay tne
lesson Of history 10 hcsrt success Is Ia
tie long run, not In the squirt. second
con: The white man owes you moth
and II no does he will not pay H.
recover. II you try 10 dominate him
aWrI destroy you. This may seem
VA but n Is the law OF life. The
ne man Is where he IS because he
med the right 10 be there by centu-
. Of ceaseless work, seli-Sacrlhce,
lomjtable pluck. You must patient
90 the same slow road up the hill TO
: eminence. Third: The white man
not your enemy. DO matter what oru-
I{rdividuals or MODS may do; be de-
res 70 see YOU succeed and will help
% do 1t, II you help yourself and &C.
,pt your place 10 the progression OF
estiuy; bat he will not retreat one
,cb before you or give up 70 you
ne thumb-nail space OF the area
,,stibe has won in his own long battle
J, r breathing room. What you get you
INST honestly earn, Just as he has
armed what is now his. Slavery was
yboIly curse to the white man; but to
, ,,u IL was not wholly curse. You are
AR beyond your African kindred In
Congo. Do not forget that you are free
now. and that freedom does not mean
license: IL does not mean opportunity
merely 10 Outvote white people ana
TO rob them Of a rule still rightfuIly
theirs. Theirs Is still the Intelligence,
the property, the strength, the will force.
Let poitics alone until Won know
enough 20 vote for what will advance
All mems good. There is 20 sudden
royal plunge up to the white mans civ
ilization. Years and years, IL may be
centuries. OF toll, study, varied, often
narrowing experiences are the price
Won must pay. Get ready 10 pay 1t.
II negroes from childhood up are
Taught these things, taught TO know
themselves as they are, and TO feel that
the long future is theirs, that education
means the residuum left over from gen.
erations and generations OF earnest, stu
dious, ambitious, steadfast men aud
women, they will make the most Of life
IN the long run; otherwise they will not.
MAURICE THOMPSON.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-10
The Views of Elizabeth oady stanton.

After centuries OF slavery, this Is the
question asked by the governing race, as
to the victims OF their oppression. In
the same spirit England asks What
shall we do with the Irishman?" who
replies, LET US alone, hands of, give
us Home Rule"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-10
I. Thomas Fortune, Colored journalist
and Author.

and Author.
What shall we do with the Negro?'
you ask.
Let him alone.
All in all, he as thrifty, moral, law
abiding and progressive as any other
element Of the population, occupying a
similar status in our national life. He
does not need special consideration,
special laws, special anything. All
these have hampered him since he was
made a race factor. What he stands
most in.need of is the common con-
sideration, the recognition OF his legal
and manhood status, freely accorded to
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-10
rbo nanrnisa native horn citIzen OF

The negro IS a native born citizen OF
the United States. Give him full equal
ity before the law with all other citl-
zens. This includes the right OF trial
bv Jury, equal chance for an education
and the opportunity to make an honest
living. Then let him alone. and he
will take care Of himself.
JOHN 2. ST. JOHN.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-10

the other race elements Of the popula-
ton. He has never had this. He has
always been regarded aud treated as q
member OF the family, sick with n
contagious disease, who must be
Isolated, and remorselesslY dubbed II
he crosses "the dead line, In spite OF
A. all, however, he has made all the
progress that should be reasonably
expected Of him, when his antecedent
condition and the inexorable law OF
social growths-are properly weighed,
T. THOMAS FORTUNE.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-10
Thomas L. Rosser. Late General of the
Confederate Army.

The material Of the mental as well as
the moral construction Of the Negro
cannot be- refined and perfected. 1t
NAV be improved, but it cannot be re-
fined, highly tempered and elegantly
furnished, anu sll effort to elevate the
Negro confronts the fact that grapes
are not gathered from thorns, nor figs
from thistles," and no degree OF culti-
walton will or can make the Negro q
gentleman.
If the white and black races remain
together T. the South, or anywhere else
in the United States, the white race will
sooner or later enslave or exterminate
he black one, and while the Negro will
ever again be q chattle as IA days Of
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-10

In compliance with your request to
give briefly what l think should be
done with the negro, l say, Let him
alone" WILLIAM Z. OATES.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-10
lAT SHALL WEDO
WITH THE NEGRO?
INTERESTING SYMPOSIUM ON AN INTER
ESTING QUESTION.

st and Thoughtful Men Give Their Views on
Ia solution Of the Race Quesion-haares
hompson, T. Thomas Fortune, Gen. IAomA' L
Io,ser. John Swinion, Elizabeth Cady stanton,
Clark Howell, Joseph Cook and JOIN r 81
ioha Among The Contributors.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-10

where they number sever. 6illion, and
where they are dispised b. whites and
full-blooded Orientals alike, they con-
stitute growing source Of embarrass-
ment to the government. Indeed, the
so-called EurasIan question is enc Of the
most difficult Of all the problems with
which the viceroy OF Queen victoria's
great eastern dependency is called upon
TO deal.
There is one thing to which I shout d
like to particularly draw attention /,
namely, that In all my experience l
have never known a single case OF re-
spectacle white girl who was already
acquainted with Asiatlc life. and who
hal previously resided in the Orient,
marrying an Asiatic. They know too
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-10

CORRUPTED 1898 5y ,. FgOreH1' Wt'son-
number OF those best prepared TO
ak on the subject were recently In
cd 10 give their views on the ques'
n "What Shall We Do With the Ne
lPn Their answers follow, and con-
tute an interesting and suggestive
mposium on subject Of great and
rmanent interest.
RrrFTrs K. WILSON.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-10

Four Brief but Pregnant Opinions.
Let the negro alone, as he Is, with
the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments intact, and be will, as he is now
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-10

the laws; adopt reading test for the
suffrage; execute the great amendments
to the Constitution. Do justice.
JOSEPH Cook.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-10

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-29
ELECTRICAL FLASHES.

IN 16co Gilbert recorded that other
bodies besides amber had electric prop
critics.
TESLA, the electrician, thinks he has
solved the problem OF transmitting
electricity 70 distance with little loss
OF power.
TIE destructiveness Of a new Calling
gun may be imagined when it Is stated
That it fires 3, 100 shots minute. When
operated by an electric motor. il hres
5000 OTIS in minute.
SAMUEL LEFFERs, an aged resident
OF Icralne. y. D.. who has been q
great sufferer from rheumatism for
over twenty years, has been entirely
and. At IS thought, permanently cured
by slight stroke Of lightning.
Nh EDIsoz Is now engaged in the
construction Of a magnetic ore eoncen-
traitor which he expects wiz work a
revolution in the iron business 50 that
northern furnaces can once more sue
cessfuliy compete with the south.
fELEPHOSENETEg Is the new word
naming an Instrument 20 register the
time Of each -onrersalion ~ tie tele-
phone from the TING OF ringing up the
exchange 20 the ringiag-oR signal
such system would reduce rentals o.
telephones to a scale according TO the
service, instead Of a fixed charge 10 a
business iAs--a or occasional user alike
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-29
a LETTER FROM THE NATIONAL
SECRETARY.
Los ANGELES, Cal, Oct. q, Il

Los ANGELES, CAL, Oct. "a, 1893.
To the Editor of the Easie
DEAR SIR note that Kansas is to
hold another irrigation convention, this
time at your city, and am greatly
pleased to see the interest manifested in
this great question of the future by the
people of the Sunfiower state. In the
recent congress held in Los Angeles, the
delegation from Kansas, while not
numerically strong, was one of the
brainiest in the entire lot. Such men as
Judge Emery of Lawrence, as chairman,
Z. Z. Moses Of Great Bend, Hon. j. ".
Gregory of Garden City, national COM
mitteeman, and J. Y. Hinckley, will
command attention and respect any
where. l enclose you copy of an adj
dress to the nation. and I hope you can
find room in the EAGLE for all of it. 1t
outlines the plan of the campaign of the
national committee for the coming year.
We must have irrigation to make homes
for tho homeless thousands, and we
must have uniform state laws, and,
finally, proper national legislation to
secure the best results to the people in
terested. The press of Los Angeles
treated the international congress here
nobly, and / hope the press OF Wichita
viii give the coming convention in your
city that space which its Importance
merits, Fraternaliy,
FRED l.. ALLIES, Secretary.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-29
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS.

PRESIDENT GAEFIELDs farm at Men
tor has been divided up into building
lots. The land boom and the historic
site often come into conflict
PRESIDENT CARsor has toasted the
French army. But tho German en-
peror seems to think that he is the
only man in the world that can do it
up brown.
BISMARCK has sold his memoirs for
large sum, the condition being that
they are to be published Immediately
after his death. This is bit of in
telligence that VIII make william
squirn
PATH has been admitting her pet
weaknesses. which include Dickens
among novelists, Longfellow among
poets, and entertaining friends as
favorite pastine, bat she said not a word
about her hobby for farewell tours
KING BEHAxzEx. Of Dahouae-. recent
ly sent 20 Eng.a-,d, by way ot Lagos,
cable message on which the tolls were
nearly fifteen hundred dollars II the
cable company properly cultivates
''Old BeDzine" it viii be enabled 20 de-
clare extra dividends
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-29

A big suit at law is about to be iusti.
tuted in Chicago; based on novel sort
of plea of constructive damages. The
complainants are parties who built ex
tensive hotels in the city in anticipation
OF immense patronage incident to tie
opening and holding or the worlds fair.
which patronage they have been de-
prived OF. they aver, by reason of the
refusal of the railroad companies center
ing there to establish and maintain
reduced rates of fare over their lines.
which railroads are made defendants TO
the suit. The point Of excessive rates
was raised against the railroads early in
the season after the fair was opened, and
was urged upon the roads throughout
the country. and if the disappointed
hotel-keepers in ticago should gain
their point the railroads would soon be
bankrupted by similar litigation extant.
But it won't win. The disappointed
losers will just have 10 smother their
disappointment and pocket their losses.