Evening star., 1896-07-10

same southland. more than Goo colorei chill
dren were born. No. my friends, the ques-
tion cannot be solved in that way.
1t Is a curious thing that If a man has
out 1 per cent of negro blood In his veins
he is still negro. The 10 per cent Of An
gio-Saxon blood counts for nothing. We
claim him as our own. Thus our race must
needs be stronger than yours By that pro-
cess of reasoning II will not be long before
We absorb you entirely
Another solution that has been offered
Tor the problem of negro citizenship is that
a state or territory be Set apart for them
exclusively, where they should be a COM
munity all to themselves There are two
latal objections to that scheme In the
irst place II would be necessary to put up
a wall to keep the negr oes in, and smother
ana a higher wall to keep the white men
out. Why, if the Chinese wall had been
buiit about Africa It would not suffice 10
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The True Solution.
NO, my friends. none of these solutions
VIII answer There is only one way to
sclve the question Of negro citizenship, and
that Is tc treat him as Christian gentle
man."
Mr.. Washington then went on to picture
In wonderfully eloquent manner the con-
oluon OF the negroes on the cotton plant "a
| uons OF the south today. They wear the
| paoge OF ton, he said. They are willing TO
work, and they do work, but they are for
ever held back by their lack of thrift and
self-dependence Having earEed money,
they do not know how to use it wisely.
for instance, they will spend their earn
! ihss Tor clock when not member of the
| family Is able to tell time, for cheap finer
| les or In other ways equally foolish They
| DO not know how to take care of them
selves or TO make use of their opportur.i-
| ues In other words, the habits and ideas
| OF 2D years of slavery cannot be lived
| down in single generation.
| we negroes OF the SOUTH" he continued
are sensitive race. You may think bet
| ter than We do. but 1 believe we can feel
! more In ten minutes than a white man
| can In an nour. When a negro gets re-
| Lyon he Is expected to show some tangible
| evidences of il, or else the people say tina,
| he has got white mans religion So it is
| that our preachers are fond of talking
| about the great white mansions we are
| to occupy In that other world, while their
| hearers are content to live in miserable lit
| tie one-room cabins in this. / notice tha,
| while you white people are making your
| preparations for the next world you are
not neslect.ng any of your opportunities
In this That's just exactly the trouble
| with the negroes.
One Southern Hymn and Its Apvlfcu-
Down in the south we have a hymn
| something like this:
"'You give me Jesus,
| And you can have the world
| The white men naturally take us a,
our word They give us Jesus and they
| take all the rest
In conclusion, President Washington said
that the race problem will work itself ou,
| as soon as the negro can make or do some.
| thing that the white man must have. The
| need of the times is manual training Wher
negro owns mortgages on a dozen house,
belonging to white men he Will have M
| trouble about voting. When a negro spend,
$1,000 a year on freight charges, he will
be able to ride In a Pullman coach al
| right The negro has tried to begin at tn,
top He has spent money trying to go t,
Congress and in attending political con
ventions, when he should have spent
learning to become a good business man
artisan or farmer, thus laying the founda
tion for true Christian citizenship.