The enterprise., 1900-01-12
FUTURE OE THE NEGRO.
The New York Tribune Endorses
Booker 7. Washington's Idea, and
Pronounces Him the Most
Practical Leader of
the Race.

ID States is better qualified tC
advise both white and black races
or their common good concern
ng the Negro problem than Book
n I. Washington. Entirely free
rom every trait of the agitator
md demagogue, and candid in
ecognlzing the Negroes faults
md the practical obstacles in his
bath, he is also respectful and
courageous IN claiming for the
black man his full rights under
The Constitution, and in claiming
hem as much for the sake of the
white man as for the black. Mr..
Washington has just published
a volume on the the 1.-The Fu-
ture of the American Negro,
which is the most sensible, praC-
teal and clear sighted treatment
.Ot that subject that has Chal-
aenged attention for long time.
Iii every white legislator who is
t inclined to vote for laws to sup
f greSS and degrade the Negro as
man and voter, while protect
1g ignorance and crime in the
7hiteS, could read it carefully
nd with open mind, he could
hardly fail to be convinced. The
slution of the race problem
iIi'to help the inferior race to a
higher civilization, lest in de-
gading it the superior degrade
: itIt. And if every hopeless
f Student who thinks the Negro
| hsS no future in America, could
ory once grasp the full mean,
inS Of Mr.. Washington's idea
e an learn what he and others
woklng en- the same plan are
: doi1g for southern prosperity
aut harmony we could see that
: the Negro's salvation and that OF
his white neighbor's is IN being
the woducer and developer of the
| yet mdeyeloped South.
Tie South needs skilled work
menn every industry and offers
splenid chances to trained
Negpes as producers, while it
hasllprejudice against them as
politicians or parasites. Mr..
Was hngton believes that the in
telligent Negro should be pro-
tected in his voting as well as the
white man, and the ignorant
white man should be deprived of
the huchise along with the lg-
nOrant Negro. He wants to see
his rase occupying high positions
in BUSINESS, professions in the
State, put he believes the ideal
must he reached step by step,
and thai the present duty of the
Negroes as body is to learn to
be law NabiGing and prosperous
cltlzenswho will command the
reSpectef the w1ite man because
they haNe some hing the white
man waits. III. best farmer IN
a countyIwill nobe treated with
contempteyen Inc has a black
skin. The goo dairy-man or
carpenter will ave a place IN
life, and lis ch dren will have
chances Which cannot hope
for himseI f. Thprime need OF
the Negrd les is background Of
respectable e&achiement and pres
perity,H a settler position of use.
fulnesA ID their communities.
With that accomplished, mutual
respect and liberation between
whites and blacks will spring up
and the race problem will solve
itself. Thorough manual train
ing in white as well as colored
schools might be an excellent
foundation for conservative, law
abiding thrifty civilization. The
Negroes need it more than the
whites, and they need it sooner,
for if they do not do the skilled
work of the South, the white trade
unionists will occupy the field aud
shut them out and leave them
still to climb to respect from the
depth of unSkilled drudgery.
But with growing competition
the whites will yet have to face
the same problem of making uni
versal education a preparation
for nratica1 life,