The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-09-28
COLONIZATION OF THE
NEGRO RACE. NO. 8.
pHk ONLY RATIONAL HOPE foK THE

PoIitical. Social. knd Irdussrfsi Ksao~s- |
tion Of North Carolina. And of The South. /
VIII be Found Ia th~ Gradual Deports-
tlon and Settlement Of the Afro-Amsfs-
esn.. Upon some Portiss Of the Pebble
Dom.sn. Ouisid. tn. Lsmits Of the Uni-
ted states. VIII re They Shall be Free to
Govern Themselves, Under the National
rot. etsr>'s.
Editor CAUcAsIANl
In a partial review, in your last
issue, Of the manifold iniquities
which lie upon the very surface,
while many more are hidden with
in this Suffrage Amendment, no
mention was made Of the over
whelming preponderance. which
an Educational Qualification must
give to our urban over our rural
population. Even now, that pre-
ponderance out of all proper
ton to numerical strength, Is
strongly felt in our public al
fairs. And this is naturally so. For
many, and great, are the advantages,
which people who live in towns
and cities, possess over their less
fortunate countrymen. They have
the Newspaper Press at all times
within easy reach OF them. They
have the mOney-lenders. They have
the residen. attorneys. They have
schools Of higher grade and longer
terms. They furnish nearly the
whole Of the State Guard. They
have better facilities of trade and
transportation. hey have broader
credit, based upon corporate in
debtedness. The emplOyments OF
their laboring people, being chiefly
mechanical, are PROTECTED INDUS.
TRIES, which makes them more re-
munerative And, what is more
than all else, their numbers are
concentrated, which gives them su.
periOr organization and unity, as
compared with far greater numb
} ers Of men, disunited, and dispers
ed throughout the countryside
All these are legitimate advanta-
ges. But when to them you add
an Educational Qualification, theil
supremacy in our public affairs
and you may call it White Su
D p-r-e-m-a-c-y if you like?-will be
come absolute, and the waning in
fuence of our rural population will
3 be gone And this will result from
3 the fact, that the occupations o
townspeople, being largely clerica
and professional, necessitate a bus
mess educatiOn-whlchi is the SAM
thing as an Educational Qualifica
tiOn-higher, and more general
+ than is required for those who fol
f low, less ambitious, but not les
+ honorable pursuits.
In saying this | am not tryin
to arouse antagonism betweel
town and country That is who'll
unnecessary. For as BASIS for tn
r ELECTIVE FRANCHISE, l utterl
n contemn and dispise any Educs
i tional Qualification, and l care nc
70 whether it shall be inaugurated i
= 1908, or shall be set up just so 500
70 as the deceptive and swindlin
b Grandfather Clause-known as Sc,
ton 8 of this Suffrage Amendment
l. can be first kicked into the quite
and thence carted to the dung-hea,
For the amusement of the reade
suppose we take a look at this &c
n ucational Qualification, for MT
i ment. Section of the AmendmeI
reads as follows:
% Every person, presenting him elf f,
a registration, shall b able to read al
~ write, any section of tie Constitute
IF in the English language.
= Hereupon number of question
Ks suggest themselves. For do tt
words "any section" mean Que Sc
tion only? or can they be made
mean more than one, and every Sc
IN ton, and all sections of the Const
or tuition? And must the reading al
or the writing, be correctly done? tn
is to say; must the words wht
VI read, be fifty accented? and correc
n ly pronOunced? And when wr
,ir ten, must the writing be legibl
re must the words be accurately spell
49, and correctly capitalized? al
must the whole be properly pun,
r. uated? SO that whatever is read,
mt written, shall be true copies of Il
m. Constitution, VERBATIM, LITER
nc TIM, FIT PUNCTUATIM7 Nor are the
frivolous questions, when it is !
membered that he who can raj
them, and must pass upon them
Oh this political schoolmaster of t
Nv Democratic party-may be SOL
40. villainous, and lOw-Drowed Reg
's trar, who has been selected on Z
no count Of his moral fitness fer su
'ur work. Nor, il wrong be done
by him, will there be much hope
Il redress, in going before a parts
Judge, at time when party fe
on ing is running high and ell. ctio
are close. No! these questions a
not frivolous, but the Education
Qualification is. And to show hi
'n frivolous that is, it is we'll to
ere member, that there is to-day in t
Ate Tower OF London, an old piece
ms parchment upon which is ir Scrib
en- Magma Charta, and under it 8
~ written the names of all tho
he brave Barons, who extorted tt
DIV charter from King John at RUM
es- mede, but opposite the name
each one of them a cross mark q
ere pears, except against that of s
.ry phen Langron, Arch bishop of Ca
I've terbury, who alone could write
,U own name-and yet all but he, Wi
is section 5 stricken out, VIC uld tO-C
ho be disqualified by this Suffra
The Amendment! And in this conn
jch tion, it is we'll to remember al.
Tho that such small men as Oily
TED Cromwell, and Napoleon BonaPar
TO-. 70. and George Washington, and A
6t a row IackSon xroro no4or;o,.e