The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-24

OIlO INDISN II vi y n ILL II II
BALLOT AND INVEST HIM WITH
POWER. AND THERE WILL NOT
ONLY BE \ CHECK TO THE PRO
GRESS OF THE SOUTH But THE
ADVANTAGE GAINED WILL BE
LOST.
There can be no admixture of the
races / his is law of nature. They
must work ont their Gestinies on paral-
lei lines. which can not come together.
The Anglo Saxon blood and brain will
always lie the superior and can not
be subordnated to the negro.
The negro. unfortunately for the
country, is here to stay His deporta-
ton is impossible. He has strong local
attachments which viii keep him in the
South. He must move along his own
line Of development. directed. encouraged
and assisted by the Anglo Saxon. He will
become more intelligent. more sef-sus-
tanning. and better adapted for work
along all lines of industrial development.
Since the supremacy of the white peo-
pie has asserted itself the negro is be-
coming more tractable. b better laborer
Il better mechanic. and i'll some in
stances has attained a respectable stand
ing in the professions. These intelligent
negroes are III the electorate and are
helping To shape the destiny of the State
Ii would be cruel wrong to again
throw them back into race hostility and
prejudice and TO consign these who have
the opportunities for advancement TO
again possess the idea that they are
wards Of the nation" better than a
white man. and are entitled to Govern
ment support and to live i'll idleness and
dissipation.
SOUTH ELENATING THE NEGRO
We of the South are making the ne
gro's condition better every day. He
has been treated 80 as to destroy, to II
great extent, the antagonism engendered
by carpetbag government. He is re-
garded us a factor i'll the South's future
development. He is not debarred from
work because he is a negro. The fields.
/ the workshops, the factories. and the
professions are open TO him for his de-
velopment We do not deny his political
rights because he is negro. We regu-
late the suffrage because he is ignorant.
and AT present the majority Of the negro
race has no electoral capacity.
TIE course of civilization has been
in the supremacy of the white race. The
physical properties of soil and climate
have had less influence than intellectual
superiority. In every climate. on every
soil where the white man has appeared
he has asserted supremacy. he Afri-
can and the Oriental fall under his
dominion, and the populations are moved
and controlled as he directs. II is 50 to-
day in India. in Africa. and is rapidly
crystalliZing into a fact in the far east.
in China. and in the islands of the Pa
cific. The conception OF this power and
strength in the white race. whose distinc.
ton is in the separation of the races,
is the hope of civilization and the en-
lightenment Of the world. Language
and art and science and architecture and
all modes of culture will bear the inn
press OF the white mans supremacy. II
is universal law. 1t is present here
and everywhere and no act of Congress
can suspend it.
The greatness Of republic consists III
the representation Of persons. Political
power i'll Il representative government
must be in the organization of electoral
action. so that there may be an express
sion, a realization Of personality III the
government.
TEACHING THEM TO VOTE.
There is no basis for electoral rights
where there is no capacity for electoral
action In the impersonal mass. where
there is an absence of individuality AMI
personality and an absence Of electoral
capacity. it is the duty of the State TO lift
the individuals composing the mass from
an Indifference TO electoral power and IL
educate them for it's exercise. 1t is the
duty of the State to develop in each mem
Der of the community personal power Is
an elector. This is what the Stare o.
Louisiana is accomplishing. 1t provide
for the negro and the igrcrant emlgran'
schools where they can learn the Gle
ments Of an education. 1T gees further
and provides for higher education. The
State is trying from among this class "th,
formation of an independent manhood
so that he who has reached his majoritv
in years is always III his political major
ity" When this shall have been accom-
plishcd the voter can exclaim. Il hav'
net gone with the multitude TO do evil.
1t is thus also that Indians arr eE
Guided from voting: not because they ar.
not taxed. but because they are subser
Went TO the will OF aschief: and ahsn
lutelN cOntfOllSu UN III tHes uAc VIM =
freedom. They also exist in a tribal re
lation. the organization of a race. whiei
.solates them from the organic and NOR,
being of the natioA: but in withdraw via:
from the the tribal relation they coin'
upon national position and should be re
gardel as members of the nation.
The populations in the Philippines. a
we learn from the Junior Senator from
Indiana, are wanting in personality an'
fall under the ccntrol of some superio
mind. and are not fit TO be in.rusted Will
electoral power And this may be trIl'
said Of the mass Of the negro population
in the South. Every person should nav.
repr sanitation Inv the State. but TIM
means every actual person. one who L
possessed of sufficient intelligence TO Sc
parate himself from the mass and wh'
is invested with a personality. shown:
Il capacity for electoral action.
The qualifications OF an elector arr
defined in a general law. but they may b.
more exactly defined as the State pro
crosses In defining the qualifications o.
an elector under the Constitution Of th'
United States the State has the power
to exclude those who have 70 will o.
their own. and to keep them so excluded
until they attain the qualifications pre-
sIal