The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-10-23
NEW GROUNDS WHY THE RACES
: SHOULD BE SEPARATED

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educating the negro. permanently re-
moving him from the cotton fields. has
benefited the white farmers by raising
the price Of cotton. The increased
production of this crop would far ex-
coed consumption at this time had the
negro remained a cotton raiser instead
Of becoming a Pullman porter
We read much of southern Ta.e
prejudice" y prejudiced person is
one who ''pre-judges" or expresses an
~ticIpatiTe Judgment; n not properly
informed. The southern resident
alone in this country possesses oppor-
tunities for judging the black race
fairly. The evidence is before him,
and IS not presented to any other.
Pace prejudice" should not be
charged against the English people in
India. the American in the Philippine
islands, or the white man in the south.
'Prejudice" in favor of the Indian. the
Filipino or the negro may exist in
thOso who have no experience gained
by personal observation. Hence, race
prejudice, if it exists for or against
the negro. is not chargeable to those
h post judge, but To those only
who pre-" judge. Not to those VINO
live south, but to those who live north.
The development Of manufacturing in
GuStrieS in the cotton states has been
the greatest blessing to the impover-
iShed whites. The taking OF the WO-
men from exposed isolated rural
homes to factory villages removes the
constant anxiety that was part &C
their daily burden. Since the aboli-
ton of the caste restraint of slavery,
the crimes committed by negroes
against the wOmen n girls Of this
class has principally precipitated the
race troubles in the south.
The employment of white hands IN
focr1ri1- har.f-e ,Igp nv 1aSca0inO tha
competition between white and blauk
labor. Every negro finding employ
ment north or west of the cotton
states benefits himself and the south.
II this gradual exodus continues. the
race problem will become national m
stead of local, a burden to be borne
by all of he citizens instead of by q
few. Census statistics show as great
or even a greater percentages of mu-
lattO births in northern states han in
southern. All history appear to prove
that every s~lave-hOlding nation mas
finally absorbed it's slaves by mixing
the blood of master and slave. Such
a solution is only to be thought Of in
horror by him who reVerses the moral
ity of his ancestors and prizes above
earthly possessions the unblemIshed
caste distinction of a thousand years
of EurOpe'S best culture. Eve in the
absence of ethical caste instinct, it
would be opposing stirpiculture to ad-
Vocate the absorption Of S,00O,O 600 of
an inferior race bly, $4,000, 900 of a
superior people. What other solution
except segregation al be seen by
those who look into the future? The
present observer counts nearly as
many negroes carrying a percentage
Of white blood as pure African. When
this crossing shall have progressed to
show White-skinned, crOSS-bred peOpN,
with the absence of caste distinctions,
who may then know the pedigree Of
his guests, his social a~cQuaiptanCes.
or ven his own future grandchildren?
OF several measures 1 already see
at work, all palliative. only n radi-
cal cure has been pointed out. 1t is
the removal of the negrOe to a negro
territory. Not as the Creek and Cher
Okee Indians of Georgia were removed
by force and en- masse. but slowly,
gently, and for the benefit of the dis
satisfied negroes as we'll as for tGe
betterment of the whites. Public Opin-
ion may now be against this desidera-
tum, as it originally was against the
abolition of the institution of slavery.
1t is a move that should win the sup
port of every altruist. and when SUI
ficiently agitated. it or some kindred
eas will protect US from the Cr-
rOr of our fathers in bringing the
African to America.
BENJAMIN w. HUNT
EatOnton, Ga, September IS, 1903.