The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-20

US, and brings in conditions before which
We can not stand but become pariahs or
move on. What Is our duty today? Lett
deeds tell
He who seeks the bed rock of proper re-sz
lationS is wise, as the man who takes
shelter from the approaching storm. Ate
the bottom of aur religion and educationz
must lie conceptions Of our relations. II we
move in diverging lines we will hate each
other and have no common interest. If our
religion and education teach the blending of
races, we Will attempt the overthrow OF ma
ture, the counter-acting of Gods laws of
variety and introduce conflict, woe and
miser. With such conceptions all education
would be a sharpened instrument of an
tagonism and death. Separate and distinct
development of the races is natures own
method. They must travel in parallel lines
for only such a course can insure good feel
ing and fellowship common interest, az
common destiny as two friendly ships,
each lader with precious freight, side by.
side plough the trackess and dangerous
ocean to common port. AS long as each is
true TO its own construction and capactx-
it may serve the other: .1u. tsiisearding
their struetnneii differences, driven together.
by external forces, or dsregarding the re-
Stations of natural and legal lights and the
laws of propriety, they clash, the weaker
goes down forever. Let us teach our child
rem and youth these proper relations of the
races that all through manhood they will
observe the teaching, even down to gray
hairs. Then we shall see strong, prosper
Gus negro race, and a strong, prosperous
white race in the south. Let there be no
strife, I pray thee, between thee and me,
and between me herdsmen and thy herds
men, for we be brethren
Must Elevate Himself
I'VE must quit blaming the white man for
our own misfortunes and negligence. We
charge every conviction of a negro criminal
to a white man. Some of us often bewail
the so-called persecution of the guilty Gull
prit, sympathize with him while serving his
sentence in the coal mines, and receive him
with open arms, as hero, when he re-
turns from the prison. We are too often
our own worst enemies. We forget that we
are the informants and the witnesses bring
ing about conviction in nine-tenths of the
criminal cases. This is commendable where
justice demands it, but three-f ourths of our
disputes and quarrels grow out of ignorance
and malice. Who prevents the negro from
being his own friend? Who prevents him
from personal cleanliness? Who prevents
him from treating his own women with re-
spect as the white man does his? Who pre-
vents the negro from being a well dressed.
quiet unobtrusve, sober man, instead of
the boisterous, dirty roudy we nearly al
ways meet in the sitting rooms of railway
stations and in public conveances, where no
respect is shown women? l do not blame+
the white man for rejecting such associa-
tions. If we want respect we must have
respect. Who keeps us from patroniZing
negro merchants, lawyers, doctors, carpen-
ters and other negro enterprises2 Who preza
vents us from opening up scores of posi-
tons where negro boys and girls may be-
employed and be lifted up in the world?@
God bless the white for standing by
his women and children. even to lay down.
his own life for them Today the negro in
the south has better opportunity to make
money, to become a substantial, upright,
intellectual man with his own happy home
than any other man in civiza ton. / sayss
this without fear of successful contradic-
ton The negro of the south today handless
more money then New England did
hundred years ago. -.
I'VE must cry aloud until our industriaTs
emancipation comes-unt the negro is free
from the discriminating labor unions. Lett
competency be the test, and If the negro
fall, let him go down. How can men who,s
denounce the methods of capital and trustS
band themselves together against other
men who ask for an equal chance in the
struggle for shelter raiment and crust
of bread? Set the negro free. Let him toll
anywhere, at any kind of work, skilled or
unskilled and for his own price. Why is
he feared? If he is not the fttest, he can
not survive Down with the lawless, merci-
less strike throttling personal rights, dis
truction of property, starvation of women
and children. riot and murder. The negro
does not question any other mans right to
labor wherever he pleases. and for his own
price, but he appeals to the brave. loyal and
liberty-loving people of this land which he
has helped to redeem from savage night.
he appeals to the philanthropy of this land
which he has helped to make prosperous
and bud and bloom to fruitage, to give him
a chance to stand on his merit in the labor
markets of this country.
"Tha Sam Hose in Georgia is not to
be compared with Rockford, Pana and Car
tersvile In Georgia a crazy mob pursued
and tortured supposed fiend guilty OF a
revalting crime. In Illinois men in cold
blood shot to death negroes who were
quietly lawfully, 4fighteously begging for
an opportunity to do an honest days work
for an honest dollar to keep the gaunt
wolf from their doors.
The "Old South"
1--WE constantly hear something about the
new SOUTH We are told that the south is
away behind. Men seem to forget that the
south has been a school room wherein mil
lions of savages were learning the lessons
of civilizati ton. The south engaged in
making a nation in a nation and did not
have time for the smaller work of inven-
tions. But l love the old south. Hallowed
memories of consecrated men and women
of both races cluster around 1t, forming
a halo of glory which will shine more
brightly when truth and integrity shall be
revived as in those olden times. Men lived
then who scorned wrong. Men lived then
who would no more take the hand of the
sharpers who get rich by dishonest methods
than they would embrace Satan. Negro
men lived who initiated the old master in
those high convictions of right and duty.
Give me back those grand men, with their
honor, who demanded for their associates
true hearts and untarnished hands.
"I know not what will be the outcome or
these race discussions. I do not know what
action will be taken in the franchise de-
bates but I do believe that the right will
triumph in the end and the honest prin-
cipes of the old south and the negro and
the white man of the new south may yet
disgrace and ruin"