The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-10

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| 1t is problem for us because 1t halts
our material development. 1t frightens
immigration from industrial competition
| with the negro. II deters capital from
| Investment in the shadow of an unsolved
| problem. 1t makes a standard of labor
| that rejudices all our poor against men
| lal but honorable service. 1t is paralyz.nS
| agriculture on the farms and property in
| the suburbs and is driving all who can
maze the sacrifice to the safety afforded
| by proximity and police protection in the
| cites.
| 1t is a problem for the white race, be-
| cause 1t poisons in the minds of growing
youth the conception Of q sacred ballot.
| 1t stabs our reverence for the constitu-
/ ton 1t corrupts politics. 1t throttles
| Independence of thought and freedom of
political action and forces us, whether We
| will or no, into the ranks of one politi-
cal party.
1t is problem for us, because it weak
ems law and tempts justice from the jur-
ors' boxes to the judges bench.
| 1t is a problem for US, because it divides
the Church and sets men of common faith
and creed into separate and sectional di-
| visions.
! 1t is problem for us, because it grows
| in difficulty with marvelously increasing
numbers and is magnihed in vitality and
danger by delay.
Every vital issue Of civilization and de-
velopment is wrapped in the shadow Of
this increasing problem.
II is no less a problem of appalling i'm
! port for the negro race.
| 1t is a problem for him( because he can
never-North or Soluble received in
| equal social and personal relations with
| the families of the white race, and can
| never, therefore, be a social equal with
| the white man.
1t is a problem for him, because he will
never-North or Soluble permitted 60
| govern IN any state or county even
where he has a majority, and he can
never. therefore be a political equal.
If he can have then neither social nor
political equality-and every fact and all
theory and all instinct and every I'M
broken precedent declare that he cannot
then he can never under these condi-
| tons reach the full development of citi-
zen or man, and his suffrage becomes a
mockery and his liberty a farce.
1t is a problem for the negro because he
| can never compete with Anglo-SaXon civ
| LIZA ton. His is the weakest and ours the
| strongest race on earth. Our majority is
100000 and we have thousand years the
start of him. No race has ever competed
successfully with the Saxon, and where Is
the hope for the negro? In politics, in So
ciety. in industry, and in trade there is no
we'll founded hope for the inferior race.
History without a break and precedent
without an variation, proclaims this to be
true. There is not a line of light or ray
of promise for him in either.
This is the core of my contention-the
| basis OF my argument All our splendid
platitudes are wrecked on this stern fact
! All our brave philanthropies beat out tn 2ir
| beautiful lives on this memorable truth:
! The negro fronts hopeless and unequal
competition!
There he stands, that innocent and I'M
! fortunate stranger. For his sake the one
difference has widened between the sec
/ tons of our common country. over hie
! black body we have shed rivers of blood
and treasure to emphasize our separate
convictions of his destiny. And yet as the
| crimson tide rolls away into the years we
| realize that all this blood and treasure and
travail was spent in vain, and that the
negro, whom a million Americans died to
| free. is in present bond and future prom
Use still a slave, whipped by circumstances,
trodden under foot by iron and ineradica-
BILE prejudice; shut out forever from the
| heritage of liberty and holding In his
| black hand the hollow parchment of his
! franchise as a freeman looks through
| slaves eyes at the impossible barriers
which imprison him forever within the
PROGRESS and achievement of a dominant
! and all conquering race.
A Startling Question.
| On the social and political line:
Take Booker Washington. He is the
tyne and embodiment of ell worth and Of
oil achievement in his race. His linen Is
as clean as yours. His fame is broader
than the repute of any statesman in this
hall His character, stainless and untm-
peachable, defies criticism. His patriot
ism is clear, his courtesy unfailing. What
attribute of worthiness could you add to
his equipment? And yet l challenge this
| conference with proposition:
| What man of you, gentlemen, philoso-
pliers. statesmen, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., prob
lem solvers that you are-what man of
you would install this great and blame
| less negro in your guest chamber to-
night? If he were unmarried what man
of YOU would receive with equanimity his
addresses to your daughter or your ward?
What man of you would vote for this
proven statesman for Governor Of Ala
bama?
Would you do this now? Would you do
| It tomorrow? Would you do 1t in 10
years? When would you do it?
And why would You refuse to do 1t at
adj?
| Search through oil your logic for rea-
son. Explore all your themes for cause.
And when you fail 10 find in reason, in
religion, or knowledge or justice. any
where an answer, you will find at last
the answer-IN HIS SKIM Bleach that
to the wilderness of your own, and you
have solved the problem by a chemical
| solution. But until this leopard shall re-
move his spots, until this Ethiopian shall
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