The age-herald., 1901-11-30
H07O Educotson N'sAl .Solve
 1Ae So-Cal2ed Negv0 P,o6Iem
sY coL HILARY A heRsear, b the Msw Yora Journal.

ness between the present generations of whites and blacks that had never existed between the ex-slnye and his former master.
 Abolition sentiment was proclaining tn the North that slavery must go, no mat ter at what cost. In the South, therefore the stern law of self preservation de- nanded the rigid suppression of free speech on this question lest discussion should ineite insurrection and light the midnight torch of the incendiary.
 In the North the motives of the mobs which, like those who gathered around MT, Curtis in Philadelphia in 1859, and called themselves Union men. was to pre- vent abolition speeches because they saw In them disunion. The civil war came, It was terFible-mere terrible than dreamer eyer dreamed of. But 1t is over and there will never be disunion. No one fears it now because no one desires 1t.
 Slavery is dead and can never be resur- rected. So, therefore, there Is nothing now to hinder free speech In our country about the race problem in the South.'
 If, in 1861, there was dynamite in the
 
 had exploded and when states had been wrecked and social and economic systems shattered the problems that grew out of the negro question were quite as excit- ing. when up for discussion. as had been slavery itself
 The most acute form in which this many-sided question then presented itself was suffrage, and every student now knows that political science played no part in its solution; that the reconstruc- ton acts were passed and the fifteenth amendment was adopted when party spir- 1t was more intolerant than 1t had ever been before and the passions of war were still blazing flercely.
 These are among the complications of the Trace problem in the South" as to social and industrial betterment.
 Another crying evil that has resulted to the people of the South and of the whole Union is that we now have an absolutely Solid Southn when the ne- cessity for white supremacy is so domi- nant that no political question can be discussed on its merits, and whites do not divide themselves between the two national parties.
 What is needed in the Southern States today, above all things is two Npolitioal parties, strong enough and able to doal with each other at arms length
 The negro's prospects for improvement his development since emancipation his industrial conditions his relation to crime, the scanty results of the system how that system can be bettered-all these are questions that exist today in the problems surrounding the negro race of the South.
 Here and there among Southern people are some who in despair are advocating that no more money be spent by the whites for the education of the blacks.
 This, I am glad to say, is not the pre- vailing sentiment.
 The Southern people, as a rule, believe that we should continue to strive for the development of the negro and the lifting of him to a higher plain where he may be more useful to himself and to the States. A
 Most of the people in the South are looking hopefully to that system which is now being so successfully practised in many Southern schools, and notably at Tuskegee, Ala, by Booker T. Wash ington, the president off that institution. A A