Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-11-16
CURRENT LfrBRATUKE.

The keynote of the current Atlantic
Monthly is u certain sweet seasonable-
ness,'' facine of actualities and
evolving from them the hest attain
able, if not the best conceivable. The
leading article by Booker Washington
should be taken in connection with his
report of Tuskegee Institute Just pub
lished for this year. He strips in the
first place the negio problem Of sensa-
tional features. The race conflict in
the South, the whole condition of the
colored race, has tetn written up' for
the newspapers utterly regardless of
average facts. Mr.. Washington believes
that the negro should remain in the
South and identify himself with its
| interests. He must win, not assert,
position there. A race must struggle
up from lower to higher conditions. At
all periods, property and intelligence
have borne sway. Therein negroes. at
present, are deficient. Only patient
effort can remedy this Frederick
Douglass, of all things, eyhorted his
race to accumulate property. Nothing
steadies and elevates man more than
owning his home. The best outlook
now for the great body of negroes is
agriculture, especially dairying. Here
for number Of years the stress should
be laid. Let them make themselves
necessary by these ayocations, lot them
begin at the very foundations, and out
Of these rise as high as thay can. Mr..
Washington, all done and said and
lynching Notwithstanding, does not dis,
trust the general feeling of the South
towards really useful negroes.
4 just as sensible, Just as efficacious,
| 10 fha IN M
bilities drawn from the Malay States.
Here in brief, tho Dutch did all thai
was unwise, the English Just the re-
verse. Meantime, it is disquieting tt
know that the Dutch war with Acheer
is still rerverse reality. These savage:
have untold resources in their juneles
, food always aJ hand and many lnerr,
trick of ambush and surprise. Thi
war has gone on for % years.
, Jacob Riis still pleads for the outcas
, and disinherited Kuno FiancKe de
duces from Goethe a special messag
for America 1t is imitation. b.
/ doing some one thing exceedingly vel
We make our best place in the large
| whole, to which whole we should b
! rererentially subordinate. Mr.. Gun
1 ingham points out that for 200 year
England has relinquisbed all attempt
at assimilating territorial acquisitions
They are perfectly free to retain nativ
4 customs, Institutions, and, so far as POS
r siple, laws. Herein lies suggestio o
n for US.
. "City Government by Taxpayers,
. by Robert q. Brooks. is the eadin
article of the last number of Muuiop,
. Affairs. Whether it would not be Wis
a to make some provision whereby finar
v cial questions in city governments migf
/, be submitted to the taxpayers or |
. their representatives alone, is ver
n vital problem. The Tilden Co,nmissio
!. of New York unanimously thought the
!. should. Other articles IN this interes
"a ing number aie a New Patriotism.
by Mayor Jones; Free Lectures I,
the People," by Dir. Henry Nj. Lei
ziger; "Detroits Efforts to Own II,
,f Street Railways, by Professor Bemi
q 4 "Recont Municipal Progress in S
n Paul" by Editor Wheeook; "a Yel
"a in London" by Lord Welby; Mum
"a cipal charities" by Homer Folks.