The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-03-17
TUESDAY, MARCH II, 1908
DAY is BREAKING.

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nre weary of following tho discussion
! But 1T is q live question and a pressing
questions: 1t is a problem that demands
d solution, and tho way to arrive at Inc
Arue solution, IL there be any way, IS
through fair and honest and unpreJu-
X diced discussion. 1t Is for TINS reason
ard with this ono idea In view that Inc
rames-Dlspatch addresses itself every
now and then to the disagreeable task. u
ono Of the most significant contripu.
II tions Of the day to this subject IS an ar
4 ttcle in the current issue Of the outlook,
and It is most encouraging because al
Enough written from the Northern point
of view, several important admissions o.
truths. which the South has always oe-
clared and which the North has too often
den,ed are made. Tho most Important
of these is that there can be no amalga-
nation Of the races; first OF all, because
they are kept apart by d 1ly n'ea I'M
planted instinct, and secondly, for the
sclentifl reason that amalgamatlon
would mean the destruction Of the the Anglo gu
saxon race. On this point the outlook
says:
"rhe negroes will remain here as a sep
arate race. Blacks and whites, Africans
and Anglo Saxons will not intermarry.
f,rhe two races will never intermlnglc as
Tie Anglo-Saxon and the Norman races
:intermfnrled in Great Britain. Never
Z means a long time; and If any doctrinalre
! Is inclined on scientific or other Srounos
10 question this assertion, let us say
I that there Is no prospect OF any such
ABSORPTION Of the negro race by the Whlte
|. raccin our time, or in any timo now 70
jshc taken account Of. The race problem
y Will not be solved, so far as this genera
5ttion cum see, by any intermingling OF the
y races. If 1t were so solved, 1t would De
X by the deterioration Of one race. IT not OF
3 both. Irish, Germans, Poles, liungarlans'
& may possibly in time lose their distinctive
pocularties and be merged in one Amer.
/ lean race-the negroes never. The South
ern protest against social equality is
fundamentallySa protest against race IN
termarriage. and so against race dete-
rioration. It may sometimes foster pre-
tudice; but 1t is not itself q prejudice.
1T is a just, natural, divine instinct for
the preservation OF the race. Negroes
and whites share In this instructive de-
Sire for the separation OF the races,
Z II this Is fairly representative of the
Intelligent view at the North, It puts the
people Of the North and the people OF
the South at the same view point
ana makes the solution Of the problem
that much simpler. That Is a phase q
the question which 6outhcrners Will no
even discuss. ana it greatly slmplihes tn
mater for the NORTH to eliminate IT.,
The Outlook then takes up the politl
cal aspect Of tho negro question a in
warns the Northern people that iwhateve
missionary zeal SO cducates and inspire
4 the negro as to enlist his prelude
against his who neighbor Is q great
mistaken missionary zeal, and that what
ever political leader SO inspires the negr
rs to lead him instlnctively to vot
against whatever his white neighbors DC
sire is leading the negro to his own &c
4 triment.
Again, 1t says that the first duty 6
Il the North Is to recognize the fact tina
4 III tho race problem is q national prol
lem. 1t Is also permanently souther
problem; that men in the South. who a
lovers of their country, OF liberty, and
their felowmen, are trying to solve tn
II problem on principles consonant with tu
tice and freedem. and that the Mort
can servo the negro race best by c.
operating with the Negroes white neigI
Dor and largely under tho white neigl
boris leadership,
3 1t may be we'll enough to mention ju
here that the outlook is fairly represe
tatiye of the sentiment Of those Mort
ern men who are identified with VIII
lis known as the Ogden Educational Nov
ment. and they are working in that q
rection., They are working with u
white people Of the South, feeling sur
'g as we have heard several of them sa
that the best way TO help the negro AZ
the only way that The North can he
~ him, is through the agency of the sout
ern whites
Now, II we can get our Northern frien'
to take a broader view still and SEQ wi
1t has become necessary to disfranchi
the great body of negro voters, we sha
be still nearer to solution of the pro
lem.
Some OF the Northern newspapers. not
Sbly the New York Evening Post al
the Boston Transcript, complain Til
under our plan of outrage Ignorant viii
#1nen are admitted. while ignorant n
Tsgroes are excluded. Admitting this to
Vtrue, they do not comprehend that 1
white men of the South have been yoti
from the beginning, and while there a
ome ilHterate, they have neyerthele
ieen trained through generations in /
ane art OF government, and as a RI
% are entirely analihed to vote. Where's
the negroes, being an inferior race
H start with came 10 this country out OF