The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-02
SOME VIEWS WE HAVE EXPRESSED

SOME VIEWS WE HAVE EAPREsSED
In an article published in the New York
Journal, ex-senator ingalls,. Of Kansas,
| expresses some opinions on the race prob
lem so akin to those that have been fire.
q1ently expressed in the Morning News
that we take occasion 80 call particular
attention to them. The fact must not be
overlooked that Mr. ingalls, IS a native
of Massachusetts and for many years has
been one of the leaders of the Republican
party.
In the course of his article Mr.. ingalls,
says: "Deplorable as are the murders and
lynchings Of the blacks In the South, they
bring us face 10 face with the fact that
there is no future for the negro in this
country except political subsection and So
cial ostracism. History teaches that
superior and an inferior race cannot exist
upon terms of equality under the same
government The weaker will go to the
wall The prejudice against the African
is stronger if possible, in the North than
in the South. The reason why the negro
Is not violently suppressed in Massachu
sets and New York is because he is not
in the way of the white man. He is
not numerous enough to cause trouble.
THE butchery of Baker and his family
at Lake City makes the blood run cold,
but no administration would dare appoint
a negro postmaster in Boston, and no viii
lage in Pennsylvania or Ohio would sub
NIT to negro domination. There is no
town in the North where the neighbor-
hood of the negro does not depress rents
and depreciate the value of property. This
cleavage between the races is complete.
Booker Washington, one of the ablest
of his blood, writes that the cure for these
desoating conditions is education. This
is a patent medicine, not the prescription
of a physician. So far as education goes,
Booker Washington knows better than any
one else that no colored man in the South
can be educated enough or made rich or
respectable enough to be received by any
white man. except on the kitchen porch
or in the barnyard.
Education intensifes instead of mitigat-
ing the difficulties and dangers of the
situation. BY education the negro is lift
ed from his own environment into COM
petition with the white race and in the
rivalry he must inevitably go down. BY
education he becomes more bitterly con-
scious of the injustice of which he is an
innocent victim. He will eventually in
sist upon the restoration of the political
and civil rights of which he has beer de-
prived."
In the foregoing Mr.. Ingalls, expresses
the views to which the leading men OF
the North are gradually coming. 1t is
noticeable that about the recent race trou-
bles the Republican leaders have had very
little to say. The reason is because they
are coming to the conclusion that the race
trouble is not confined to the South-that
il manifests itself in the South more than
in the North only because of the large
black population in the South. They also
see that all the remedies which have been
proposed for the trouble have failed to al
lay it. The reason the President went out
of his way, on his trip to the South last
winter, to inspect Booker Washingtons
school, was to see for himself if education
promised to be a remedy for the race
trouble. 1t is safe to say that he came
to the same conclusion as that 20 which
Mr. Ingalls, has come. Education will not
solve the back problem. 1t will only in
! tensify il. If it were not for the politi-
cal power which the negro yields in
national conventions he wouldn't be ap-
pointed 90 any Office North or South, and
if the negro were wholly eliminated from
politics there would soon be a pretty
strong white Republican party in the
| South.