The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-09-12

South by education, mechanical, IN
~telIecsual and moral. When you con
slider that ouly for thirty years has
the experiment been made you Will
not be too hasty in your judgment.
Thirty years is a short time in an evo'
luton. What the negro needs is
property and education, and when he
gains those he will gain his rights. At
my school we have one thousand stu
dents; we give instruction in twenty
six industries, and the students have
seven hundred acres OF land under Gull
ti~vation."
Bishop Henry NJ. Turner, n of the
leaders of the Liberia colonization
scheme, said:
you whites never get along with
any other race, As 1 read history you
have oppressed them all. A down
trodden, abject, demoralizsd race ex-
cites plenty of pity, but it never gets
any respect. A nation to be a nation
must get by itself, have its commerce,
it's laws, its literature, its bishops, its
statesmen. That is what we blocks
want. l feel that we can do it. Give
US a chance to make a black nation in
Africa. Let the government which
owes US something provide a steam
ship line to Africa, and let us have
cheap passage. There is no hope for
the black race in the South"
Again getting the views Of white
people, we will say that Bill Arp is
strongly against colonization and is
writing in opposition to the idea. Bro.
Click, of the Hickory Mercury, on the
other hand, is lending all the influence
of his paper to the plan and the strong
est article in defence of colonization
that we have yet seen is from his pen,
He says:
80 long as both races live together,
race riots and other crimes will not de
crease, but rapidly increase; and no
one can tell what the end will be. The
young of both races are being prepared
for q serious conflict. The negroes are
fast moving to the towns and their
children are being allowed to run loose
and idle on the streets where they zee
and hear things even said and done by
white people that will poison their de !
PRAYED natures; and when they grow
up it is only q question Of time when
the seed thus goWn in their young and
fertile natures, will begin to bear fruit.
They will not be as Industrious, hon
est, civil and law abiding as the older
ones who were reared on the farms
and taught to respect white folks and
counsel.
On the other hand, the white boys
have and are also receiving their train
ing. They have heard the negro abused
go much, and the lynching and killing
of negroes threatened and sanctioned
so much even by protessed Christian
parents, till they have gotten it planted
in their little souls that it is no harm
10 kill a negro; and when they get to
to be men, they will do it for a great
deal less p~rovocati2n than the present
generation, eud all admit il is too will
ing, This ia a serious question. IL ia
q moral question. No paren5 c2n treat
it as q mere political question. There
are many sins and crimes committed
by both races because Of the two races
living together WHICH will also If e
80 every lover Of humanity dad his
race, black or white, should favor and
work to separate the races
Bro. Clicks article, as all can see, is
a strong one. But as no practicable
plan for colonization has E3en brought
forward, and further if a practicable
scheme were in hand we might then
be as badly in need of q prac :icable
plan for inducing the negroes to accept
it, would it not be better to accept the
inevitable, drop visionary plans, and
try to deal with the race in a manner
calculated to promote the best interests
Of our country9
In most countries whers there are no
negroes there. is q class in characters
tics strikiDgly like them-degraded
people, a source of as much trouble as
the negroes are to US. Such a condi
ton exists in many Of our Northern
States where vicious foreigners, Poles,
Hurgarians, etc, Compete with honest
white Americans and force them to
their own level. II the negroes were to
emigrate, it is possible that such con
ditions would 500 prevail here in the
South.
We may be wrong, bat We are of
the opinion that the best thing to do is
to separate the races, noE by putting
oceans and continents betgeen4bem.