The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-02

as to the negro; first, that he
Is here to stay;second. that he is an Amer
lean citizen. The recognition of these two
facts will materially help in the proper
solution of the so-called negro problem.
Those who advocate the deportation or eX-
patriation of the negro, ignore these two
important facts. l do not believe, with ex-
Senator Butler of South Carolina, and
John Temple Graves of Georgia, that the
great and good God, who calls upon man
to love his neighbOrs as himself, and to
live in peace with all men, has put enmity
between races so that they can not live
together in peace. Let us be careful lest
we charge God with the unholy work of
petty demagogues, designing politicians
race fanatics, hotheads and inflammatory
newspapers; for more and more the con-
victfon grows upon me, that whatever of
bitterness and bad feeling there may be
between the races is due 10 these sources
and not 10 natural causes.
The man, black or white, who stirs up
strife and bad feeling between the races
is an enemy to both and the better and
more conservative element of both should
in some way, get together and stand to-
gether against the common enemy of the
peace, progress and material prosperity of
this Southland
TIE public press-especially the South
ern press-can do miracles toward an am
iCable adjustment of the Two races to each
other, and the establishment and maiuten-
ance of friendly relations between them,
for il is mighty power the moulder of
public sentiment. Those Huntsville resolu-
tons recognize the value, tractability and
reliability of the negro as a laborer, and
the wisdom and justice of according to
him a fair chance in the great struggle
for meat and bread, by opening to him all
avenues of industry, without discrimina-
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cheapest, most tractable and reliable la
borer in the world. He does not take to
communism, nihism, socialism, anarcsl-
SIN strikes or boycotts. The South knows
nothing about labor troubles, while in the
North strike is declared, the fires in a
thousand furnaces go out and million
wheels and spindles cease their singing.
Thus the mightiest motives of self-inter-
est to the whole South, as well as simple
justice to the negro dictate policy to-
ward him that will elevate, and make MIN
a better citizen, more efficient and pro-
ductive laborer, and thus increase the pro-
ductce power and wealth of the whole
country. The pursuance of a policy to-
ward the negro that will keep him ig-
norant degraded and inefficient as a la
borer will be a great curse to the social,
political and industrial interests of the
South For even if the negro were dis
franchised and deprived of political rights
and privileges, still such are his num-
bers and influences upon all phases of
Southern life and society, and the con-
tact and intimate relationships of the two
races that if the negro Is not uplifted, he
will pull the whites down.
Let the spirit and policy of those
Huntsville resolutions be pursued toward
the negro and there will be no negro
problem, as he will so develop himself
and the vast natural resources of this
Southland that her ships, laden with the
products of field and forest and mine and
mill, will go over every sea and anchor
in every harbor"