The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-24
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER "a, 1897.
TWO ADVISERS OF THE NEGROES

their w~orthiness to be entrusted with
public office and secure political pre-
ferment. It matters not how kind the
feeling Of a southern man may be for
the negroes whom he so we'll under
stands. because he was reared among
them and has lived among them all his
life, yet he is not willing that he should
be dominated by them in any way, and
1t is distasteful, even offensive to him
to find the inferior race in places OF
public trust requiring capacity, indus
try, integrity. No white man Of any ma
ton, If not degraded himself. relishes
negro bossing. The>Aryan race are the
born rulers and they will rule. Remem-
Der hat.
Booker Washington. the intelligent,
capable negro, president of a g in
dustrial schoo in Alabama, the crea-
ton Of the whites of that state, has a
clearer insight into the needs of the
negro race han any of his fellows in
either church or state. He thinks like
a man Of sense, Of reflection, of breadth
Of view, Of a clear understanding of
the race situation and the condition
and environments Of his race. He has
told his people, what they are slow to
understand, that before they are fit
for office they must be equipped intel
lectually and accomplish something fl
nancially. There are tens of thousands
of sensible, observing white men in the
north who favored once the enfran-
chisement of the negroes who now see
the mistake made and deplOre results.
The failure has been most complete.
ALI men not in al asylum who are
white and i've in the south know this
perfectly. The cruel demagogues who
live to destroy and who use the ignor-
ant negro voters as mere tools. to at
tain their own selfish ends, hut their
eyes, degrade the Anglo-Saxon nam
hood, patronize, ~button-hole, hob-nOb
with the negroes, n all to use them,
to lead them at their will. At heart
when not so mean and low as not to
have lost all semblance of white nam
hood, they despise their w baseness
and wish often they were indeed real
white men self-respecting and worthy
of the respect of the manhood and in
tenigence of the white race.
We do not blame the negro for crav-
ing office and seeking preferment above
his capacity, and hungering for the
flesh pots half so much as we blame
their white masters h ave mis-
taught, misled, deceived and used
them. Why should not Sambo seek to
obtain that which he sees so many
white skinned demagogues secure,
(mainly through his own black race,
who really are no better than he is,
and some times meaner and stupider.
The Houston Post considering the fu-
ture of the negro gives this bit Of rem
iniscence in considering how little quail
flied the recently freed negroes were
for citizenship and it's truly grave re-
sponsibilities:
HE had no idea Of the government
under which he lived and M cOncep-
ton of the responsibility of the suffrage.
Very eminent northern statesmen
pointed out at the tim that constitu-
tional amendments were being rushed
through that would give the vote to
the negro, but it would be simply to
place an additional club in the hands
of the south, as the southern white
man would control the negro vote, and
the facts have verified this SUPPOSE
ton. Through the negro vote we have
increased our representation In con-
gress enthusiastically controlled It,"
To return to the thought that started
~Lo -o-ro ~o,ct Rrcf qualify him
self for office before holding office. He
must prove his qualification, gain the
respect and confidence of the real
white folks before he is really needed
or can be welcomed as a public func-
tionary. President Booker Washington
sees his need and has plainly stated it.
Recently the ablest German in Our
country, ex-United States Senator Carl
Schurz, in an article in Harper's Week
ly, a publication by no means friendly
to the southern whites who have not
become black, follows on the line of the
negro college president, and gives a
view that it would be much better for
the negroes to receive and act upon
than to pursue the phantoms that elude
them so much under the promises of
the deceiving white leaders. The ne
groes will not have the lesson for they
are hungry, some a. got places that
enlarge their borders and necessitate
the letting out of the belt, and the
masses are stolid, submissive and not
without hope that some how they
will get there and something will
turn up'' by which they a be helped
or made to believe they are better off.
Credulity of the blindest sort is a dis
He even loves to be fooled.
Mr.. Schurz is not a democrat, has
never been one but is a republican OF
the independent type. He is a man of
very superior abilities and his advice J