The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-09-09

iSeTerdl states NGM II. 'trOIOu;:u ES"-e'
in enjoying Z career oi induStrlai pros
peritv: nor will that party ask the YER
dict. or nurtherc sentiment upon thl'
question,
In answer 20 your first question,
declare unreservedly against congress
sional action TO enforce negro suffrage
in the southern States.
TO your third question L answer
that there is not the slightest danger
that foreign born voters at the north
will be prejudiced by the failure OF ne
GRO voting at the south. Is it not
astonishing that able and high-mind-
ed men do not perceive the absence Of
likeness between the two cases:
Foreign born voters at the north soon
become, if they have not already be-
come, an integral part Of the whole
white population. The white immi-
grant soon shares the instincts ana
prejudiceS Of the native whites, he
worships in the same churches: he is d
member of the same unions, orders and
lodges: He socially mingles with
white natives, subject only to the
limitations imposed by tastes, habits
OF life, fortune. creed business, and
the other categories which determine
the social relations of citizens of pure
white American descent. The second
generation of white European imml-
grants is generally indiStingulShable
in appearance or speech from the de
scendantS of the Maytlower pilgrims.
The third generation is completely
part of the American race. How radl-
callv different the relations between
whites and negroes. The two races
have lived together in South Carolina
for two centuries and a half. But they
remain today separate and distinct.
it is the wisdom aud The aspiration OF
the nobie and Intelligent men OF the
tlack race. no less Than Lhe intense
ana profund instinct of the white race
that the two races must not, for the
safety OF both. fuse in sex or family
relations.
And now for the second question.
If constitutional guarantees OF penal
ties fail to induce-and will not be
used by courts and congress and
presidents to compel the dominant
white race to enfranchlse the blacks
in States where the latter are IN a
majority. or so numerous as with a
relatively small white minority to
make a majority-then upon what
other guarantees and penalties can we
count to secure political rights to the
blacks: To this l answer that we
shall count upon the wisdom of white
men and black men. We shall count
upon the progress OF black men IN IN
dustrial intelligence. thrift and
wealth. We shall count upon the in
1luence and stimulus of their own high
nln6ed }}eesaaderS--ThQSe leaders, see
with heaven directed wisdom that 1t
is not the ballot which gives strength
but rather strength which brings the
ballot. Negro conventions OF late are
much more full Of encouragement than
is your catechism. The carpetbag gov
erument of blacks, however great
their majoriteS. fell wheu the bayonetS
of northern white men were with
drawn. The plain reason was that the
black men lately in slavery and hay
ing ages or aeonS of Africa instead OF
western Europe behind their slavery,
| were inferior in the skill, Industry, IN
telligence, self-restraint which makes
the strength Of white men. Black men
are. however, acquiring thrift, intelll-
gence, well ordered industry, property:
and with these they will acquire
strength in their relatio with all
men, white and black. II the pro-
gress must be long-So has white pro-
gress been long. The black man can
not Justly repine if to compel the
average white man to respect the
abilities and virtues Of his race, 1t
shall take as long as it took to convert
the typical Aoglo-Saxon hand who
titled the soil thousand years ago IN
practical slavery, to become the typl-
cal American or English mechanic or
farmer Of the Twentieth century. Nor
ought he to repine if it shall take
much longer. AS strength and ability
come to black men, industrial success
will come to then-and in this indus
trial republic that success will COM
mand the Difference Of white men.
The dollar of the black man will come
in time-and no long time-to have
the power Of a white mans dollar.
With patience and tact white men
will, l believe, at the south as at the
north, come TO wish that the black
man whom he respects for thrift or
ability or property shall vote, and to
take care that his voting IS not OBJ
Structeo.
So it is that We may count upon the
white man-upon his enlightened self
interest. And we may more safely
count upon him if we recognize the
fact that, whether we will or not, this
problem is to be solved by the domi-
nant race at the south. With it's con-
trol of the solution nothing but civil
war can interfere and over this we
shall not have civil war. Lately l
ventured in Alabama--and what l
said was most Hospitality received
to present this truth. l pointed
out the enormous interest which
the Gulf States had, in the in
duStrial progress Of the negro. One
half or more Of their labor is negro
labor. The productivity Of those
States, their progress in wealth, the
success of the white man in using
their natural resources, the whites
mans fortune and power-all these
must in large part depend upon the
industrial productivity OF the negro.
That productivity will in the long
run, with blacks as with whites, de-
pend upon the confidence Of the labor
;,r r,ocSoS in the iuStiCe OF their