Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-03


to be true At. least it may be con-
coded that at this time the Anglo
Saxons. as whole, are the most en-
frightened and most powerful people
on the globe. but it does not follow |
from that fact that such will always
be true. If that logic be conceded to
be sound, then there is no way to
explain why the Egyptians who were |
so far in lead a few thousand years
ago, are not still ahead. No. all men
belong to the same great family Great
ed equal, in that they were created
alike and the relative position of any
people, as does that of men generally.
depends, as a rule, upon educational
environment
Ratio of Population.
I'VE find ourselves at the beginning
of the twentieth century great ma
ton, but a century and a quarter old
and yet having a population OF seventy
millions of free people. OF these. SIN
ty millions are white and ten millions
are blacks. The question is: What
are to be the relations between these
two classes? / want to refer here in
an abbreviated way to what Lyman
Abbott says on the subject in an az
ticle in the September number of the
Review of Reviews: He says: In the
| past whenever two such races nave
been brought into the same commun-
! ity and put side by side, one of three
things has happened: The superior
race has exterminated the inferior race
as the Israelites practically eXtermin-
lated the Canaanites: the superior
race has subjected the inferior race
and held them in bondage as the
white race subjected and held in bon
dage the black race in this country
or the two races have intermarried and
| out of the intermarriage a third race
4 has grown up. as by the intermarriaSe
of the Anglo Saxons and the Normans
1 the present English race has grown
up
He further says: Neither one OF
these solutions is possible for us in
1 this country We cannot eXterminate
the negroes or drive them from the
country. Christian principle, religious
4 instinct, economic need, the patriotic
: impulse-all combine to say that
the negro will remain on American
soil
Must Share Responsibility
: with the American people the
thought of intermarriage as we'll as
, the thought of slavery are both clear
, out of the question. What, then, shall
we do? 1t will do no good to stop
and complain about the situation ano
{. wish ii We're different. Neither does
/. it do any good for one section to Try
i to lay all the blame upon another sec
: ton of our country. The fact is, how
> lever we might wish it To be. the ne
: groes are here in large numbers alt
D their numbers are sure to increase
9 rapidly. They are here to stay ant
i the north must share the responsible
n ity and blame. if there is any blame
:, equally with the south for their be
: ing here.
. Equal in Eyes of Law.
These two races must live in thi:
I. country together. Socially they ma.
y and in all probability viii continue u
e live separate and apart. That is
n right that must be accorded to eacl
l. as each has the right to adopt Suci
n rules for social conduct as its owl
:, best judgment may approve, and tn
other may not be heard to complain
S Whether or not they are now or vii
II be equal socially will doubtless al
D. ways remain a question as to whfcl
h the two races disagree. But that tn
e black man must be recognized as
=, citizen equal in the eyes of the lay
v must, it seems to me, be conceded t
II be a permanent condition of thing
ID in this country, and one of the fruit
or of that which we so often boast
o. as our Christian civilizations
Il give no weight to the assertio
that God made one man superior |
i'd another and made the one white an
d the other black. That .le whites a
a a general rule are far superior TO III
N blacks in this country must be con
coded by all. 1t is most reasonab
that it should be so. for as stated b
Mr.. Abbott in the article above refer
red to- believed this Anglo-SaNon pee
II pie then have been ten centuries
in Christian education. And believed tn
st African people have been three Gel
,e. turtles of slavery and nnnumbered Gel
~. turtles of balbarisn. If three centuri'
~, of slavery and unnumbered centuri'
~ of barbarism have at this time mat
OIL this negro race equal to the Angl'
Is. Saxon race with its ten centuries
ne Christian education and civilizatit
re believed it, either the negro race w.
a., unmeasureably the superior race
nature or else there is no value
NJ centuries of Christian education.
m Result of Education.
,v. "tThat the difference is the result
~, Christian education is shown by t
~ wonderful Improvement brought abo
an in the blacks of this country by mea
OF of education during the past for
IN years.
u.s. Christian Discipline to Blacks.
m What shall be done then. Let t
in pressure of Christian discipline be a
an piled TO the minds of the blacks FRI
oil generation to generation until I
=; black man has the same ideas a
- conditions of character virtue, hon
sls- integrity and industry as To the VIII
es- man and he will then be his ecu
Ich That this can be done is demonstra'
I'M by MANY living examples of black M
In. now living in this country.