Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-01
WHITE ~nAN-nLAck MAN.

ON Woshington's birthday the Rev.
Thomas Dixon. who passed as a fair
type OF the twentieth century %Hrp.eater.
gave uttCrrnce to some radical ideas
on the race question az Cleveland, o..
According to the reverned negro.
rlobiac. 80 race war IN this country
is inevitable. 1t will surely cone and
" hen T. does come the Anglo-Saxon
race will prove its superiority by wlping
tile negro from the country. All the
trouble between the African and the
Caucasian in the south has grown out
oc tie education Of the negro, who be-
longs TO an inferior race and all he is
good for is TO 10 manual labor. Just
as soon as he gets an education he be
cones q monstrosity."
On the same day, dedicated to the
memory Of Americas foremost patriot,
George Washington, members Of the
New York Southern society, who OF
tended d dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria
hotel, made an exhibition of themselves
by kissing the orchestra when it struck
UP Marching Through Georgia"
Straws show which way the wind
blows. The vaporings Of the helligercrt
southern parson are the mere echo Of
the pclricious teachings of the negro
whipping. Misunderstanding expoundCts
of the bible lu slavery times, who dis
seminated the superstition that the
negro was cursed by the Almighty and
foreOrdained to be n servant of SER
wants during all future generations. The
dcmeanor Of the southern society with
northern appetites shows that deep
down ir the hearts of latter day south
ern chivalry there is still nm I'M
quenched hatred of the men who saved
the union and freed the African from
bondage.
If we are really facing n race war 1t
is not because the negro is being con
verted into a monstrosity by education,
but because the advice of Thad Stevens
to give each freed man forty acres and
a mule was not needed. Almost at he
very hour when the representative Of
the southern church militant was
breathing fire and flame at Cleveland,
Booker T. Washington, who stands for
the highest type Of the American negro.
discussing the negro problem and its
solution at The Brooklyn Institute of
Arts and Science, said:
To deal more practically and directly
with the AFFAIRS Of my race, believe that
both the teachings OF history as we'll as
the results Of every day observation should
convince us that we should make our most
enduring progress by laying the founda-
lions carefully and patiently in the owner
snip or the soil, the exercise OF the habits
OF economy, the saving of money, the Sc
curing of the most complete education of
mind and hand and the cultivation of
Christian virtues. " . There is moth
ing new or startling In this. It 10 the
old, old experience Of races that have got
ten upon their feet have had to travel. AS
a slave the negro was worked and as a
free mar he must learn to work. There ia
a vast difference between working and
being worked. Being worked means deg
radiation, working means civilization. Pa
tiently. quietly, doggedly, persistently.
summer and winter. sunshine and shadow,
by self sacrince, by foresight, by honesty
and industry, we must re-enforce argument
with results. " One farm bought.
one house built, one home sweetly ana In
telhgently kept, one man who is the lare-
est taxpayer or has the largest bank ac-
count, one school or church maintained,
one factory running successfully, one
truck garden probably cultivated, one pa
tient cured by a negro doctor, one sermon
we'll preached. one once we'll filed, one
life clearly lived-these will tell more in
our v than all the abstract eloquenoe
that can be summoned to plead our cause.
Our pathway must be up through the soil,
up through swamps. up through forests, up
through the streams and rocks, up through
commerce, education n religion.
As between the doctrine preached by
Thomas Dixon, white man, and Booker
7. Washington, black man, all thought
ful, unprejudiced and humane people will
unhesitatingly pronounce in favor of the
Afro-American instead OF the Anglo
Saxon. The Rev. Dixon's prediction of
the irrepressible race war need brighten
nobody, either north or south. II such
a conflict shall come a great majority
Of the stalwart men of the north and
west will be found where their fathers
were before misunderstanding the black
man against his tyrannical oppressors-
battling for freedom and humanity
against bigotry, race hatred and bar.
barism.