The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-29
THE CONVENTION
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Guido the ba rDarian, but the latter can
u7,terlive'' him, and there's the rub ;.
! The laborfrlg man who Knows "lliI IL
! means to have to underline ms ietioW
! will always hate the negro on contact
J There are to-day thousands OF negroes III
| the South living on a ration That Sosss
| G.5 cents a day, or less than two doi,ai9
| per month. WHILE if pressed they can Nv {
| t.s the half OF it. Imagine the tate OF tne
! white nam who has to compete VIII sueil
| labor!
ONE OTHER CLASS
There is one other class in the south
and that not a small one. refer 10 the
man OF wealth. or education. Wiloi1i ine
warand 1t consequent social chaos brought
Gown to poverty and personal ma n is.l
competition with negro labor. h.itS
wears of rsnrequited toll has broken ana
soured them. till any 'isu1,' from Popu-
lism to nihilisrn, finds fertile SOIL. Iies
have not risen, they have done wen ~
even mark time in the RANKS, pue
through the public schools tneir emu -. q.
are rising. and they are the nope " ..io
South and nation. A legion Is coh'Iiis
,yith avn 1,oreseitarv Intelligence sha1pe1'ed
nv adversely. but with their very nlothe, 5
milk they have drawn a hatred OIL inc
negro that is as the hate OF nell!
have here briefly presented the facls
leading I'D to present conditions 9olhe y,
these will change and some VIII NOT at! ~
the last to so will be the bitter eGotio.i..s
anita pon;sm of the white Southern ldoo' q.
,vn,s., ,.o,, ,oaye this cut you are leaving
The Southern problem. If the Potitieai
question is not reopcned, the ANITA sOn's1' l
Of the dominant class VIII pc 3AI on
withdrawn. This class mas lfe'el
and will never be influenced py lgesio GIN.
netition. and if the Fifteenth Alne'foh ':,,
~
is nulliied, as at present, OF. ~
,e,,eaIed they will have nothing more 20
.s, Their antasoniSm Will die WIN Poii-
tics. the laborl!lg mans afrtagonism o'eS
onI1- witf, the man We might as wen DC
frank These conditions exist, ana ii'eS
seriously complica.te the case as preseL'eu
by the negro himself, winch IS a'ou' %
follows:
off American residence. the EnSilSh
tnrqre the opportunities of the CHRISTIAN
religion. a sound body, and thorough 'rdil-
ing in agricultural and ali the oohles'i'
arts he after two centuries received <i'
a gift from the North freedom. cltizensnlp
ana the ballot. In the next generation nc
rocajyed from the two sections, again as
!. diff NV, hundred millions in education,
and he still stands a begsar at the door OF
the South. now a criminal beg2ar. WHAT
are We to do with him?
is A FAILURE.
AS he has grown in crimlnaitty ana
physical depravity since receiving what
he has of education, that kind OF educa-
ton is surely a failure. Moreover, he has
used this education, given. in compassion
as an arm of defense, as d weapon OF po-
litical o(fense against those who gave It.
Under the circumstances there IS a natu-
raj and growing sentiment IN the south
demanding that we give him only the
Dittalrce that he himself produces as
,e-t,i for ~
self The object of this paper is TO pro
lest against the adoption of this pohcy as
economically unwise and unworthy OF the
South We should as soon think OF With
drawing our subscription to the church
because the ''infant class in its SunoaE-
school has missed its lessons. NO! we
should not and we will not withdraw from
The negro the one hope Of mis- race-the
white mans support. N2blesse oPilge
1t is now suggested that the hope OF
the negro is industrial education. 1t IS
hailed as a discovery, and 1t is shrewdiy
claimed that this educa ton will check po-
itical antagonism. This is a mistake. Any
education will be used by the negro po-
liticallv, for politics. once successful, is
now an instructive form of warfare. The
question then. plainly put. is simply this:
Shall we, having. by great effort. gotten
rid of the negro as a political menace, de-
lfberately proceed to equip the negro OF
th., .fntllre as an economic menace? Shali
we, knowing his primitive racial nee1s,
arm him and put him against the poor
white OF the South? Shall the educated
class OF the South, to whom the lower
classes, both white and black, look Tor
s1,idarce. endorse a policy which Will GER
ta:nlv promote racial warfare!
There was never before, on the race Oh
the earth, people more laW-aoldlng,
patient or long suffering in the face OIL
great temptation than our Wnite Ssoh''i
Of the South. Living beside an alien race
witch rhev know to have been the cause
of their poverty, which they recognize as
having corrupted their manners, their
MORALS and their speech, and which, ABOVE
any other race degrades labor, they spare
him.
While the negro came out OF slavery
i11iterate he was not ignorant Oh tiie
trades and mechanic arts; he was the
smith, the carpenter, shoehsther' 'aii'ei
etc of the plantations OF the South.
Trained TO labor as few white men We're,
and with labor ever in demand, he Is
still the laborer and common mechanic
rarely the skilled artisan. He has not
kept pace with his opportunities All TINS
is suggestive and leads TO the CONVICTION
that il would be folly for any State TO
enter upon the industrial training of its
deficient race while the laboring class OF
its higher race is equal TO any training
and any effort. We cannot equip both,
and to equip the negro to the neglect OF
the poor white would be Il grave political
error and an economic adSurdity.
SHOWS THE. MIMIC.
The average negro is so iiShthearted,
gay and free from care. that he gives a
pleasant impression, but in all his ac-
tons he shows the mimic. He provokes
an involuntary ssnide, and we ignore the
lack of the genuine article. These char
acteristics are generic and, in varying de-
gree, they make up idea of the negro
to the extent that we habitually dis
count TO a marked degree his faults,
vices and defeats. We set, in fact, for
this race d different standard from our
own. The result is that any old suit
makes OF q negro a dude reasonably
fluent speech makes him seem the orator,
while Il fair address and Intelligence so
itumtoundS us that such a negro "ShineS
as one-eyed man amongst the totally
blind" He is not what he seems. What
we call a good man servant may be,
and often is. an absolute liar, something
of a thief and quite rascal. y good
nurse or cook may be anything provided
she can nurse and cook. We pay 10 more
attention, as a rule, to the moral atmoS-