The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-23
SOLUTIONS OF THE NEGRO PROB
LEM

Many solutions of the negro problem are
offered. None of them seems to be salts
factory. On Wednesday Booker 7. Wash
| iLgton gave one 10 the country through
the Associated Press. He has given
great deal of thought 10 the problem, and
il is pretty generally conceded that he is
the most progressive negro in the South,
if not in the United States. His soiu-
ton is education. There is no doubt that
if the negroes were raised 20 a higher in
tellectual plane there would be a very
great decrease in the kind of crimes they
now commit, but would there not be an
increase among them of other kinds OF
crime? That is a question which is well
worth careful consideration.
But would education assist in solving the
negro problem? Bishop Turner, one of the
ablest men of the negro race, doesn't
think So He believes that the problem
can only be solved by emigration-by send
ing the negroes TO Liberia or some other
country where they can work out their
own destiny. According 20 his view it
will never be possible for the whites and
negroes TO get along together where the
negroes crowd the whites as they do in
most of the Southern states. There are
potent reasons for thinking that he is
right. We have said many times that two
races which do not assimila.te, one inferior
to the other, occupying the same territory
and nearly equal in numbers, cannot get
along tremendously if they have equal
political and civil rights The white and
black races win always remain separate
and distinct and education will only serve
to accentuate the differences which are
factors in the race problem.
Several of the Northern papers have Of
fered within the last few days solutions
of the negro problem, among them the
New York Journal That paper says:
THE Journal believes that the only sal
vation of the Southern negro is in cult
waiting friendly relations with the white
man of the South. 1t was an immeasur
able misfortune that the enfranchised
slaves were led in reconstruction days TO
look to outsiders for leadership, and TO
distrust their white neighbors, who un-
derstood them and wished them well.
That evil will have to be undone. When
it is, the negro problem in the South will
disappear"
was enfranchised at the time he was. He
was not fit for the ballot. He was not
capable Of seeing in what direction his in
terests were. The Republican party used
him TO strengthen itself, regardless of
what was best for him. The result was
that whites and blacks were drawn wide
apart in political matters but if the blacks
were to cease to distrust their white neigh
bors in political affairs the race prob
lem wouldn't be solved. The white race
will not submit to the domination of the
black race in any way nor to any extent.
and before the problem will be solved all
chance for such domination will have to
be eliminated. Education will improve
the intellectual. moral and, perhaps, the
material condition of the negroes, and the
solution the Journal offers would prob
ably bring about a better feeling between
the races for a time, but neither would
permanently settle the negro problem
Bishop Turner's proposition, namely, en-
igration, comes nearer a solution than
anything else that is suggested, and that
apparently, is impracticable.