The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-11
The Messenger.
THE UNREsTINs QUESTION.

faculty of the University OF
made an address the other day before
the Southern EducationaI Association,
that is attracting attention and calling
out newspaper comment. He had writ
ten before upon the southern negroes.
and he again takes I'D the theme anu
considers the question OF negro eo"ca-
tion. He may appear extreme 10 some
in the south, n will be sure 10 arouse
the Indignation OF the lonR-range sem
timeptalists i'm the north who believe in
the equality OF the races IL confined to
the south. DR.. Barrinser takes the po-
sition that it is impossible to educate
ALI the whites and all the negroes, for
he says il the south undertakes to
equip both that it will be equivalent
to equipping the negro TO the neglect
of the poor white" which. he holes,
would be a grave political error and
an economic absurdity."
That the white race will rule in the
south as it has ruled wherever 1T has
gone is too we'll understood to require
argument. No negro or mongrel race
ever ruled or ever will rule the Anglo
Saxon or the Aryan branches. Negro
labor can never supplant white b
in the south without constant race col
lisions. Dreamers may think other
wise, but practical minds understand 1T
better.
DIR. Barringer, himself a distinguish
ed medical professor and a close stu
dent OF the negroes and the problem in
@A1 -1,,%h rapooininO To he solved saws
this:
cit is claimed that since education
has raised UP for this people its own
leaders, the problem is solved. Fan
from 1t. An education that makes
leaders at the expense of the led is a
failure. Every negro doctor negro
lawyer, negro teacher or other leader
in excess of the immediate needs OF his
own people is an anti-social product, a
social menace. Neither in the north,
the south, the cas- nor the west can
such a. professional man make a living
at his calling through white patronage;
and to give him the ambition and the
capacity and then blast his opportunity
through racial prejudice and caste in
stinct is to commit crime against ma
ture."
In the north as in the south negro
professionals must look for success to
the people of their own race. The
Richmond Times discussing DR.. Bar
ringers address says this:
THE negro is an alien and he occu-
pies an anomalous position in this
country. 1t is a characteristic OF the
Anglo-Saxon race to absorb the foreign
element that comes In, and a diStin-
guished writer has recently pointed out
that in this capacity TO mix foreign
blood with it's own and Anglo-Saxonize
it, So to speak, is the secret of the sue
cess and power OF the Anglo-Saxon
race. This was done in England years
before the American continent was
discovered. and it has been done on a
larger scale in America since this coun-
try was settled. When foreigners come
into the United States they catch an in
SEPARATION from the very air they
breathe and soon become American
lied
In the opinion of DIR. Barringer the
negroes should stick 10 farming as
their natural calling. Here he is not IN
the way of others and can avoid race
rivsiries. 1t is significant the ex-Rep-
reseusative Murray. of South Carolina
an intelligent negro. and a thorough
bred as he was described III the meet
ing, made a speech at Laurens on lst
inst. He frankly admitted that en-
downing the negro with civil and polit-
ical rights after the war was prema-
ture. Every body of sense in the south
knows that and even in the clouded
north a glimpse of the sunshine OF
truth can be discovered. A special In
the Charleston News and Courier, says
of Murray's address:
When he said tha his endowment
with civil and political rights after the
war was premature there was genera
applause and assent by his dark audi
ence. The result was that the negro
had been set back to the very bottom
and must start anew. He spoke OF the
educational advantages offered by the
state and urged that the progress or the
negro depended upon himself. The
white man believes in education AND
it. blu the white man values
a man for what he has more thar FOL
what he. knows. and the negro must
secure property by industry and saving
before he can secure a strong place In
society This was appiauded. He had
confidence in the future of the Negro
in the south"
He holds that 1.-The negro must star
anew" and he says the e must de
DGnO upon lie OWL CACitiOLS " PiO
gress and appreciation. When will the
laundering fools in the north under,
stand tina much of h negr problem
In his connection we may state that
there are Tots of people" in the great
north who are already very tired of the
incoming of h negro hordes, and are
anxious for relief from their presencs
Some protest against the view Of tha'
Bangor, Maine. fanatic who invited al
the negroes to come up there. nc
bigger fool has written Of the question
than this crazy editor who tells the
negroes to "emigrate to n nortn-
h a black man has equal rights I'M
der the law with the white man Tney
have no chance whatever TO rival the
whites or to compete with them OF &c
xnrk with them. The largest CIRCULAR