The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-03-11

matte position ever rendered y Negro va. /,
that Of Minister to Bolivia, whick was Of
fered to G. H. ]. Taylor by former Pre<i
dent Cleveland. The suffrage Of 100000 |
people cannot be permanently suppresse,
in republic; neither is it desirable thai
it should be, if it could be.
Negro Domination.
No intelligent Negro has ever dreame''
Of trying to reduce the mythical teri,
!" Negro domination to an actuality
is a bugbear-a ghost that was not bori
in the womb Of his imagination, howeye
distorted at times it might have been
He has never sought nor desired to domi
nate in political affairs, but to participate
He would not control to the exclusion
the white element if he could. His gen
erous nature, and his love of justice and
fair play, would forbid his withholding
from any person any right or privilege to
which he might he entitled, and which,
would contribute to his well-being in per,
son and property. He knows full well
that slavery did not furnish him with
knowledge of statecraft, and that the op-
portunity to gain such knowledge, in an
adequate degree, in a single generation is
not sufficient. He is, therefore, willing
to wait and be taught, and as he advances
in knowledge covets the opportunity to
exercise it-whether it be in the field Of
agriculture, mechanics, science, law, the
ology, letters, medicine, the arts, military
affairs, philosophy, or politics; but non,
of these attainments will he ever use to
dominate his white fellow-citizens. II,
seeks, according to his worth and fitness,
to participate in public affairs; he scorns
the thought to dominate; he will be con-
tent with the former, but content with
nothing less.
Some Things to be Learned.
When the present chief advocate of in
dustrial training for the Negro as the
speediest and most efectual solution of
the so-called race problem shall have gone
outside of his own bailiwick, as has the
writer; when he shall have placed hini-
self in a position to observe the present
status Of the various elements of man.
kind, notably in Europe, West and South
west Africa, South America, and the
Caribbean Archipelago; when he shall
have seen a woman and dog hitched
together and drawing loaded cart
through the streets of Antwerp, Belgium;
when he shall have seen Hungarian
women digging coal in the mines of their
own native land; when he shall have
looked upon the peasantry of Europe, so
poorly fed, poorly clad, poorly housed,
and poorly paid; when his attention
shall have been directed to the fact that
three-ffths of all the inhabitants of earth
live in a one-room hut; that scientific
agriculture is as little known to the peas
antry of Europe as it is to the plantation
hands of our own Southland, and that the
former has no more to do with the diver
sification of the crops than do the latter,
he may at least find some of his views
modified thereby; come to realize that
the doctrine Of the survival of the fittest
will shape and govern the destiny Of the
Negro as it does that Of all the other race
varieties; that the Negro cannot be linz
tied to any one sphere of physical or
mental operation, but will ramify every
nook and corner of Americanism, add his
quota to, its strength, perpetuity, and
adornment; and will be satisfied, though
he achieves no greater accomplishment in
one generation than to unfinchingly look
into the jaws Of death while bravely sup
porting the Rough Riders in their sangui-
nary and successful charge to plant Old
Glory above the crest of Ell Caney's
heights.
Conclusion.
In all that I have said I have only
sought to express my true convictions in
a frank and candid way. That they will
give ofiense to some-perhaps to many
1 d" not doubt. AS to the sincerity of
my purpose an approving conscience at
tests. love the South, which has been
the theater of my activities for nigh thir-
ty years. That the blessings of peace
may soon come to it. that the voica If