The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-02-16

solved and unsolyable problem or the
coming century: Can you build. IN q
democracy. q nation inside a nation OF
two hostile races? We must do this or
become mulatto, and that is death Every
inch in The approach OF these races
across the barriers that separate them
is a movement toward death. You can
not seek the negro vote without asking
him TO your home sooner or later. II
you ask him to your house he will break
bread with you at last And If you seat
him al your table he has the right TO ask
your daughters hand in marriage
EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO.
Two hundred pages further on appears
this argument for and against the educa-
ton of the negro. Castor had advised
large appropriations for the Industrial
training of negroes along the lines OF the
new movement of their more sober lead
ers. The passion of the argument in
Durham's replies is the outgrowth OF
feelings given life by the outrage of u
10-year-old girl by negro the burning
of the negro by mob and the suisse
quent death OF the child to all of which
the speaker was q witness.
Its q mistake" argued the preacher.
If the negro is made master of the in
dustries of the South he will become the
master of the South. Sooner than allow
him TO take the bread from their mouths
the white men will kill him here, as they
do in the North when the struggle for
bread becomes as tragic The negro must
ultimately leave this continent. You
hight as well begin to prepare for ii.
but We propose to train him, princi-
pally In agriculture. We need millions
of good farmers persisted CASTOR.
$50 much the worse, l tell you re-
piled the preacher. Make, the negro a
scientific and successful farmer and let
him plant his feet deep in your soil and
it will mean a race war;"
1T seems to me impracticable ever TO
remove him."
.'Why?' asked the preacher. Those
over certain ages can be left to end their
days here. The negro has already cost
us the loss OF seven billion dollars. a war
that killed a half million men. the de-
bauching OF our suffrage, the corruption
of our life, and threatens the future with
anarchy. Lincoln was right when he
said: There is a physical difference be-
tween the white and black races. which
] believe will forever forbid them living
together on terms of social and political
equality"
RECONSTRUCTION A DELUSION.
Even you are still laboring under the
delusion of reconstruction. The Ehtio-
plan cannot change his skin nor the Loop
ard his spots. Those who thinks it pos
sible will always tell you that the place
to work these miracles is in the South.
Exactly! II a man really believes in
equality let him prove it by giving his
daughter to negro in marriage. That is
the test. When she sinks with his mulat-
TO children into the black abyss of Il
negroid life, then ask him! Your scheme
of education is hunbug. You don't be-
lieve that any amount of education can
tit negro to rule an Anglo-Saxon, or to
marry his daughter! Then don't be a
hyprocrite.''
But can we afford to stop his educa-
tion?"
THE more you educate the more inn
possible you make his position In a de-
mocracy, Education. Can you change
the color of his skin. the kink Of his
hair, the bulge of his lips. the spread of
his nose or the beat of his heart with a
spelling book? The negro is the human
donkey. You can train him, but you
can't make of him a horse. Mate him
with the horse, you lose the horse and
get larger donkey called a mule, in
capable of preserving his species. What
you call our race. prejudice is simply
Gods first law OF nature-the instinct OF
sef-preseryation."
But what, Mr.. Dixon, Is in you per-
sonal opinion the solution OF this pro-
blem?" asked the reporter.
Colonization, replied Mr.. Dixon MY
view is that the negro will ultimately be
colonized. | think the negro bishop, Turn
err has the clearest ideas of all the negro
leaders OF today
The reader will find many friends and
acquaintance in Mr. Dixon's story. two
of them from Uncle Toms CABIN
Simon Legree, whom Mr.. Dixon takes to
North Carolina and make a political
leader and George Harris, Jr., the son
of Eliza. whom he uses to represent the
educated negro of the North living in
Boston. Historical characters from real
life with their real names are Generals
Lee and Grant. Thaddeus Stevens, Charles
Sumner and B. f. Butler. All of the
characters are taken from life. Henry
Cabot Lodge has a counterpart, though
not an exact one in q Boston Congress-
man; the authors father. brother and
an uncle figure in the book--under other
names of course as Kuklux leaders as
they really were in life.
MY white william, Mcleod, also has
counterpart in Southern political life, "
said Mr.. Dixon. but I'm not going TO tell
you who he is.
A striking feature of Mr.. Dixon's book
is that it is largely illustrated by pho
togravures made from photographs of
the originals of the characters.