The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28

Une Governor 5 Suggestion Will receive
favorable considera ton from the Leg
islature.
THERE CAN BE PEACE AT LEAST.
At the North there is beginning to be
clearer understanding Of the race
problem. There is not the strong de-
mand there now there was few years
ago in behalf of political equality for
the negro. 1t is even admitted that the
negro is as likely to be lynched in
Northern state as in South
ern one for a like provocation. In
our dispatches yesterday there was an
account of the lynching of a negro in
the northern part of Illinois for the
crime that is the most common cause of
lynching in the South.
The change that is taking place in
Northern sentiment in respect to the
negro is found in letter published in
Sundays New York Sun from Prof.
Goodwin Smith of Toronto, Canada.
Prof. Smith has long occupied promi-
nent place as writer and teacher, and
| he has given great deal of attention
to the race question. In the course of
| his letter he says:
The negro is entitled to personal and
| industrial rights, which to secure him
| was the prime object of reconstruction.
| His political incapacity in his present
stage of development cannot be doubt
| ed 1t is proved by century of Hayti,
| by Liberia, by carpetbag government,
| by negro suffrage in Delaware and
| wherever the pure blooded negro casts
| a vote. We had Booker Washington
| speaking here the other day. He would
| grace any Legislature. But at a little
| distance should not have known that
| he was a negro. Is there any
remedy? All thought of deporta-
| ton or corralling has of course been
| abandoned The best hope of improve
ment appears to lie in the partition of
| industries, which would keep the races
apart and yet in friendly commercial
| intercourse with each other.
| Fusion of the races apparently there
| can never be. Nor, without fusion, can
there be political or social equality. But
| there may be peace.
1t will be noticed that he makes the
| the races and that without fusion there
can be neither social nor political equal
| ity. His conclusion is therefore that
the negro will have neither political nor
social equality in this country, not even
| political equality when he is better
qualified for it than he is now. but he
says that there may be peace between
the races.
| Some of the negro leaders are taking
the position that there can be no peace
if the negro is not given political equal
| ity, but those who hold that view are
| looking far into the future At present
the way is open to the negro to secure
happiness and material prosperity.
Schools are provided for his children
and the entire Industrial field is open to
him. He has the same chance to ac-
quire property and the same protection
from the law that the white man has.
If he is willing to adjust himself to
these conditions he will have peace-for
a period at least-here in the South. If
he insists upon political equality there
will, in all probability, be trouble.
eSS
John Burns, NJ. P, of England, pre-
diets that there will be a terrible up
rising among the workers of America
against the barbarous industrial con-
ditions," unless the employers make a
number of concessions which he names.
And yet the workers of America would
not swap places with those Of Great
Britain. American workers generally
are fairly well contented When they
become discontinued they go on a lit
tie strike for the purpose of enforcing
their demands, and then after a time
they go back to work again. Mr..
Burns need loose no sleep over the
probability of American workers
breaking into a terrible uprising"
They constitute too big and influential
a part of the governing body to make
any such thing necessary or advisable.
Recently there has been manifested
in st. Louis some anxiety lest the hotel
accommodations should prove made
quate during the exposition. The Chi
cago Chronicle bids the st. Louisans
to cease worrying on that score and
assures them there will be accommo-
dations enough and to spare. Chi
cagos experience during the Colum-
bian Exposition was that every citizen
who owned four walls and a roof was
periodically willing to set up hunks
install a clerk and call his establish
ment the palace" or era nd" or the
''Majestic" applications being
Justified by the prices charged. ST
Louis Will enjoy the same experience
says the Chronicle.