The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-10
EDUCATION AND
 CoNsIDERATE TREATMENT
Sew Ur Every Pistol Pocket South of
 Mason and Dixon's Line.

Sew Ur Every Pistol Pocket South of
 Mason and Dixon's Line.
 Raymond Patterson in Chicago Tribune.
 In summing up the results of my study of the negro question, I am much i'm pressed with the belief. to which have frequently referred that the South Is too near to the negro. and the North too far away from him. There Is, believe, a safe middl ground on which the North and the South will ultimately unite, and that middle ground on which the North and the best for the negro himself. The most important thing to be observed, in my be- lief, is the necessity for extreme caution iE disturbing present conditions. The North must beware of of making things worse. The South must abandon its idea that the negro is hopeless. The negro himself, meanwhile must be patient.
 The Indian was eXterminated because he resisted the irresistible. The negro is as ignorant as ever the Indian was. but he is by nature tractable, so that he is des- tined to a slow process of improvement rather than a rapid one of annihilation.
 In word, the negro is not likely to have much voice in the settlement of the race question for some time to come. This seems harsh, but the tail seldom does much toward guiding the footsteps of the dog The North and the South are botb to blame for the present disagreeable situ- ation, and each must modify it's point of view to reach an accurate and enduring settlement. The North must abandon It's hysterical attitude It must admit that the negro as race Is not the equal of the white man. and that until he approxi- mates the Caucasian in general racial in- telligence he cannot safely be intrusted with full political power.
 Meanwhile. in seeking for the desired middle ground. the country must bear in mind that the race question is an extreme ly complica ted one. There are issues at stake involving politics, education. labor, immigration, industrial and agricultural necessities. which must be settled long before we reach the great issue of possi- ble social equality, which, after all, is only the fabric of dream so far as the present century is concerned.
 The hysteria in the North over the ne- gro question is almost always grouped about the political situation in the South. I doubt if there is a first-class hotel in any large Northern city which could make a practice of receiving negro guests and keep out of bankruptcy. Yet in these some Northern communities. where the negro is not granted the slightest sem blance of social equality, and properly so. the demand is constantly made that the South shall permit him to vote and hold important offices. which would of neces-
 
 with the white people The people of the North must divest themselves of the idea that the welfare of the negro is, for the present, at least, in any way connected with the exercise of the right of suffrage
 The Mecca of the Southern negro to- day is here in Washington. Why is this? Neither negroes nor whites vote in the District of Columbia. The white and black children are provided with separate schools, and the lines between the two races are drawn with care entirely un- known in cities a few degrees further North. In New York or Chicago the ne- gro can secure the unrestricted right of suffrage and his children can sit side by side in the public schools with the boys and girls of white parents. Yet the ne- gro does not hurry North because the avenues of employment are not as good there as they are in the South. and also because in the North the negro is treated as a man, and If he does not work is apt to starve. Until the negro gathers in sufficient numbers in the North to make