The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-13
SOUTHERN WHITE FOLKS
KNOW THE NEGRO
ROOsev cit and Bassett Feel Competent to Aid The
Almighty---Liberty and
License

SUN viz NOhdlliOuS has come 10
the front with such tightening speed as
cur Southern States. Subjugated, strip
ped bare OF material resources, hated and
despIsed by its onquerors-mprisoned as
IL were by a tyranny both fanatical ard
cowardly, overshadowed by a black pail
OF savagery and lust. the South has risen
IKE the Phoenix from her ashes, and is
POW soaring aloft on the wings of ma
terial and intellectual advancement.
Money, that fetish-god of civilization,
Is flowing in a steady stream to our
shores, and with this dusty old lamp Of
the gepii-world, the dark corners of our
downtrodden land are beginning to glow
with a mild and steady light. The
thorny paths trodden with bleeding feet
by the outgoing generation will be
smooth and soft for the next That old
gray goose which has laid so many golden
eggs for this Southland belongs to us
by right of primogeniture. She will
neither die of age nor be Quilted for the
sake of the treaure within. Each yeac
the nest will fill, and each year, instead
OF the golden fruit being shipped to the
foreigner it will be made into patties and
omelettes at home. The manufacture of
cotton at the door of its birth IS set
tied fact. In ante-bellum days it went
to increase the darkness of the black
pail which lowered over and hefouled
the stream of Southern civilization. The
Yankee wot little of what he did in
breaking this cloud and scattering its
smoky dust upon his own shores. It's UNI
clean particles waited by the winds OF
passion and mistaken humanitariansm
hiS
doorsteps 1t has caused a race question
in the North while the South has no race
question The Southern white man raised
with the negro knows him and knows
what to do with him. The Northerner,
with his theories and his ignorance Is
in a sweat to know how to dispose OF
him. The negro will teach him lesson
valuable in the end but costly A few
generations and the smoke from his fun
eral pyre will roll up to the Yankee heav-
en-. and the ruthless holocaust will give
cut sweet odors to the gods of greed and
sefshness; for never yet did anything
get in the way of the Anglo-Saxon but
what he removed it-by mild means if he
could-by force if necessary.
The dusky hue and frowzy odor of
Booker Washington has cast a spell over
the universal benevolence of New Eng
land, and has even invaded the White
House at Washington. Roosevelt feels
his competency to aid the Almighty In
an unfinished job and thinks he can yet
make the white man equal to the negro.
Some misguided young women OF the
North, under the influence of false teach
ing and a mephitic sentlmentalism have
joined their souls and bodies in the filthy
embraces of miscegenatical lust. Andrew
Al 3h,,, I,.o,
has lent hand to Booker T. in weaving
q web in which his race is ultimately
to be ensnared and throttled. And last
but not least, the infection has invaded
our good old State and broke out into
a maggotty sore where religious and sec.
ular truth should have kept a clean
record. The Almighty Is being slandered,
Christianity prosttuted and history falsi-
fed. Let us hope that the wall of pro-
test now being erected around Trinity
College will grow in height and thickness
unit 1.-The pestilent voices of Kilgo and
Bassett can never reach the ear OF an
inexperienced son of the Old North State.
Ii the flood OF antiseptics now being
poured into that cesspool fails TO dis!n-
feet the canker, let it remain as a sig
nal OF danger, and warning to the youth
OF our State. Well can we spare this
plague-spot, and give it over to the
growth of dead sea fruit.
III Prof. Bassett had read history with
any degree of profit, he would have seen
that no fact has more generally been re-
ognized, by both law and religion than,
that certain races of men have been
marked, both mentally and physically
with the indelible stamp of servituGe.
Deane Milman, in his history of Latin
Christianity says, In nothing is the
stern and Roman character OF the JUS
tinian Code more manifest than in Its
full recognition OF slavery. Throughout
the broad distinction OF mankind into
freemen and slaves is the unquestloned,
admitted ground work of legislation. 1t
declares indeed the natural equality OF
man, and so far is in advance OF the
doctrine which prevailed in the time OF
Aristotle, and is indicated by the phil
osopher, that certain races or classes OF
men are pronounced by the unanswerable
voice of nature, by their physical ard
intellectual inferiority, as designed Tor anu
irrevocably doomed to servitude.'
Self-interest is imbued in the lie OF
every living creature, and self-preserya-
tion is called the first law of nature.
Not only has the Anglo-Saxon ever res
spected this law he has so encroached
upon the prerogatives of Others as 10
mt barbarism to shame and covetousness
70 the blush. He is satisfied only as he
rules. and he will trample the weak OF
his own blood in the dust. Competition
brings out all his energies and reslstar e
sets his soul on fire. He cap live IN peace
with his inferior, can tolerate his equal
hut submit to a superlor-neyer. his
equal has to be of his own klth and KIN,
and his competitor must be OF equal
caste to hold his respect. The negro IS
only tolerated now because he can ana
will work. His only safety is in labor-
The laboring negro is OF use TO, the
world and forms a prop In the oouy
polite, while the educated one becomes
competitor for the easier ana more
lucrative employments of the White man.
AS the struggle for existence becomes
more sharply defined, AID eompetltioh
more strenuous, as the educated Diack
jostles the white for place, and as ne
comes by his toughness and endurance
and his fearful power of multiplication,
ohar email favor Will