The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1897-06-26
THE PAsTAND THE FUTURE
OF THEAMERIcAN NEGRO.
By D. W. CUR, A NJ, N. D.

NOW, sn0ulo the whites treat the
negroes as Bishop Hsygood has in
dictated, il would help matters won-
derfully.
3rd.-The whites must respect
the negroes and concede to them
their rights. The negroes viii
never be contented as long as they
are forced to ride in dirty smoking
cars, when they pay the same fare
As the whites; nor as long as they
are excluded from the jury box and
prescribed IN public places; nor
as long as they cannot have their
votes counted. And il the educa-
ton of the negro is to make them
what it has made the white men;
If, in becoming educated, the ne
gIoes will become more independ-
emit, more manful, more conscious
of their rights, and more willing to
die for them, there will be the most
terrible conflict in this South land
some day that has ever been heard
or read of, unless the whites be ed
ucated out of their prejudices; edu-
Gated up to the point where they
win readily concede to the negroes
their every right, this 'irrepressible
conflict" is bound to come. For
when the negroes become educated,
they viii not quietly submit as they
now do, to the wrongs perpetrated
upon them. IF that time should
come and find the whites with the
same prejudices which they now
have, the same determination to
deprive the negroes of their rights,
there viii be many negroes who
viii rise up and cry, like Patrick
Henry of old, 'fGive me liberty or
give me DEATH" So the white
people of this country had better
begin their education along the
line of treating the negro better.
4th.-The whites must take a
greater interest in the negro's ed
ucation. But, says one, what more
can the Southern people do? 1
viii let a Southern white man
answer: "The Southern people
should give money to help educate
the negroes. / do not mean only
to give it as States, In the payment
of taxes, but as individuals they
should give it, when they are able;
and some are able to give money
to this cause. IF the work of edu-
eating the negroes of the South is
ever to be carried on satisfactorily;
If ever the best results are to be
accomplished, the Southern white
people must take part in the work
of teaching negro schools"
] do not concur with this last
statement, for the reason, that they |
are untitled to do so. But they
can give money to this cause, and
they should give it, not only be-
cause they are responsible for the
negro's ignorance and are indebted
to him for centuries of hard SER
vice, but also because the education
of the negroes would render the
problem less complex and, there
fore, less difficult of solution, and
would put the South on a more
substantial basis of prosperity.
3rd.-In the negroes legal rights.
And here l cannot do better than
use the words Of an eminent South
ern white man: eff Weof the South
are to make progress with our
problem; if We are to become the
people Providence designs us to be;
if We are to do our duty to God
and to man, then let us understand
distinctly, once and for all, that in
the administration of law the ne
grOes shall receive, not only in the
DRY, but in practice, fair dealing
and justice. And this principle
must assert ikself In every eourt