The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-11-12
STRAIGHTFORWARD TALK.
Sensible View of u Southern ,zs1n
Regarding the Booker WnsIa-
instoN Incident.

instoN Incident.
The Atlanta Constitution publishes
communication. from w. A. Cabdis.r,r
which makes some points that taa
southern people would do we'll ss>
think about in connection With tRe-
subject of social equality" that fs
just now worrying them a good deal
The Journal does not know anything
about Mr.. Gambler beyond the inter
nal evidence his letter affords that he
is southern man of progressive
views and possessed of more ''herss=
sense" than nonsense. He may posi-
bly, be a relative of Gov. Gambler, az
Georgia, though he is evidently not sa
republican. He makes the reeeRs
Booker L. Washington incident ttss--
text for some remarks regarding the
race question which do not seem &C.
have occurred to those who think IT.
is only skin deep. He admits tf,as
personally he thinks that in inviting
Mr.. Booker Washington to dine with
him President Roosevelt "bl.ndersa
badly" but he ridicules the idea thSss,
any number of such acts could bring
about social equality. But he re-
marks there is real danger, if south
ern whites do not rouse themselves,
that the negro will achieve another
kind of equality, or rather of SUPERB
GRITTY over the whites, namely, edo
cational. He says the negroes hasyf
better educational advantages in. tfss
south than the whites have and that
no 1otf LOT a11
rather than gaining. To quote ks
words:
1.-THE colleges for negroes are far bette-
equipped than the colleges for whites, ana
their superiority in this particular rapidly
increases every day. Booker Washington
can get more money for his school by AZ.
hours speech in Boston or New York thags.
any president of a white college in tssS
south can get by a years campaign among
our own people. Now let this sort of thing
go on for another 25 years. and the ncss
undesirable conditions will inevitably ariss-
In the south. bringing to pass results liz
furious TO both races. While be-
srudge the negro nothing, I cannot beiiere
it would be best for him or best for any baly
else that he should continue to have bettar-
educational advantages than the whites
But this will be the case if our own pc apIss
do not deal more literally With the csss-
leges of the whites The north will da liz
does for higher education in the south gsss
behalf of the negroes. Southern. white PEG
pie must depend upon themselves to 11,aia-
tain and equip the colleges of the whites
in this section. And we are abundaatEw
able to do it. Our horse shows and the
ike prove the plethora of our purses
Coming to facts, he mentions twpe
colleges in Georgia for the educatiaas
of whites which are now appealing
fn Nv. T~l,, n ID
Ter has offered to give $4,000 to Mer-
GER university if the friends of the In
stitution will raise SIS, 900 more, and
southern man has offered $4,000 30
Emory college on the same conssi-
tions. The writer says these two iu-
situations ought to be as dear to the
hearts of all Georgians as Booker
Washington's school is to BostoniaDs
and New Workers, and they should
initiate the example of northern pess-
pie by putting their hands in their
pockets and contributing to the stss,-
port of their own ms titutions. liz.
concludes:
II propose that any Georgian who is tes,
stingy to give to either of them quit ahtEs-
ing the president about dining RoesssR-
Washington. Men who really caro- te,
maintain proper relations between fnss
races in the south will do something mere
substantial to promote that object thar, Ia,
blow hot blasts Of indignation about seciag
equaEty That sort of windiness is cheap
1t is also very Improbable Let us helm.
our colleges for whites-or hush''
"A northern man would hardly yen--
ture to put the matter in as person
al way as this The argument is
clear that educational progress ia--
Volves to certain extent social aa--
vancement and elevation, and that If
the southern whites wish to maintaits
their traditional superiority they
must adopt more liberal and pre-
gressive policy in support of edaes,-
ton. The whites cannot keep the ns-
groes down by hot blasts of inaig-
nation" if they allow them to main
tam permanent superiority in etfrcas-
tlonal advantages. Mr. Gamblers leg
ter goes to the heart of the subject
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