The age-herald., 1898-11-25
THE RACE PROBLEM
 BY GREAT MEN

Senator Morgan has given to the New York Journal expression of opinion re- garding the race problem in the south that will attract the serious attention of all thoughtful citizens of the republic, albeit the senator's main contention be not new. The negro must return to Africa! That. in the opinion of Alabama's ilustrious senior senator, is the only solution of the negro problem. The suggestion is of vast import. It has been made before, but the weight of the senator's mature judgment forces it anew upon the public mind, and to every man who thinks the proposition is staggering in the immenslty of it's diff ficultie5. With characteristic method Governor Johnston goes straight at the question. He plainly informs all the world that the South objects to interference the part of the federal government, and only de- sires sympathy in it's efforts to make the negro better citizen. All the south is now, and has been ever since the days of bayonet rule, making noble efforts to improve the condition of the negro. Wherever a dollar is spent to educate a white child an equal sum Is ex- pended in the effort to educate the negro child, whose immediate ancestors were the personal property of the immediate an- cestors of the child that is white. The burden is very heavy. For the negro pays | hopelessly insignificant proportion of the | taxation.
 Governor Candler, of Georgia, says | broadly that the south has been enormously paying to educate the negro. That is statement which this is not the place to | discuss. The proposition is not startling. | Like that of Senator Morgan, it is not new. | In point of fact. it is old-fashioned. Gov ernor Candler Is against the education of | the negro, against agitators. He asserts. l in effect, that if there were no agitators there would be no riots-a proposition true | as holy writ.
 The question is one that appeals to every person, white or black. in the south. | It is of vital concern, and therefore the l opinions upon it expressed by such eminent | leaders of southern life as Senator Morgan, | Governor Johnston and Governor Candler l is of interest to all southerners. Washington, November 21. | To the Editor of the Journal: Education has seemed only to better in- | form the negro of the fact that they can never be admitted to the family circle of | the white race or to dominate in govern ment, whatever voting strength they may possess in any locality. In their resentment | they resort to violence.
 | The conditions have been much aggra- vated by putting guns in their hands. as | soldiers, and making them the peers of white men in that high character, and most | honorableesrvice. The republic should not | be dependent on any inferior race to de- | fend it's honor on the battle field. l Their ultimate repatriation in Africa Is l the only solution of the negro question, but ths may be far distant, and should not | be- in the least compulsory. Once the move | ment has begun by voluntary migration, | the government should aid-it as duty to that race, and for the sake of humanity.
 JOHN T. MORGAN, Senator from Alabama. Montgomery, Ala, November 2 To the Editor of the Journal.
 When the federal government ceases to | select the south as the peculiar and exclus- | i've field for the appointment of negro off1- | cials and refrains from intermeddling in our domestic affairs, and the people of the north
 shall come to the conclusion that we are l entirely capable of legislating for ourselves,
 and desire only their sympathy and assist
 ance in making better citizens of negroes,
 we shall have little difficulty in solving the
 race problem.
 JOSEPH F. JOHNSTON, Governor, Atlanta, Ga., November 21.
 To the Editor of the Journal:
 Education alone will never correct the
 evils that culminate in race riots at cleo
 tiops. For a generation the people of the
 south have taxed themselves erroneously to
 educate the negroes and, in most instances,
 1t is, as in the case of the North Carolina
 negro editor, an educated negro who Is
 primarily responsible for race riots.
 Legislation alone can prevent such occur
 rences. The ballot box must be more close ly guarded. The franchise must be taken
 from the venal and corrupt.
 Virtue and intelligence alone must wield
 the ballot Suppress agitators, white and
 black, by effective legislation and race riots at the polls will be thing of the past.
 A. D. CANDLER, Governor.