The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-09-07

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"rheae are difficulties which compass
the white man Of the south, Heaven
knows they are serious enough.
But what OF the negro?
VIII the white man permit the negro
to have an equal part in the industrial,
political, social and civil advantages o.
| The United States? This, as l understand
, it. is the question which involves his
life and destiny.
THESE words come from a negro-the
wiseS1. the most thoughtful and the most
eloquent negro of his timc-sas discreet
Washington. deeper thinker and a
much more eloquent man. But for one
hour Of the Atlanta exposition. Council
of Huntsville might stand today where
Washington. of ruskegee stands-as the
recognized leader of his race.
"'rhis question. asked by Council as
the deliberate representative of his peo-
pie. is the core Of the negro problem.
''rhe answer to ii is in eyerv white
mans heart, even il it does not lie open
j. on every white mans lips. II may
be expressed in diplomacy; il may be
yelled in indirection: II may br softcned
in philanthropy: il may he guarded in
nolitic utterance and oftenest of all #
is restrained hv ultra conservat iSm and
personal tir'idity. But wherever the
answer to- this vital Question comes,
stripped Of verbia sc and irdirection. It
RINGS liko nartal bugle in the single
syllable NJ
Race Prejudice.
Mr. Graves said that the history Of
man was written in race antagonism and
race separation A thousand years have
rot removed The prejudice against the
Jew, who is the aristocrat OF history
How can the negro hope to win where
the Jew has failed? The prejudice against
the negro was not limited to any sec
ton. He continued:
''There are lo0.m0 negroes in Ohio, Penn
sylvania and New York Where is the
office that they hold or the station OF
trust and profit that they flu? In Mr.
Ciumpacker's state of Indiana they lyncn
negroes almost as frequently and upon
much less provocaton than In Georgia.
a riot raised on race prejudice reddoned
the central avenues of New York. Chi
cago citizens chased a negro through the
central streets, ready with rope to visit
ca pital punishment for theft Boston
elected negro by accident to her COM
mon council and then offered him $1,000
to remove his offensive color from the
CHAMBER in which he served.
Race pre- JUDGE is as Old as the world
and IS everlasting as the hills, and this
preiudices. deep. uncircumscribed and
uneradcable. sits like shadow on the
future Of the weaker race. 1t makes
the core OF his problem ana 1t answers
Councils earnest question with an inexor-
able-NO.
The Negro Barred.
Under this prejudice the negro can
never. north or south. be received in
equal social and personal relations With
the families of the white race, and can
never. therefore, be social equal with
The white man.
''Under This prejudice he will never
north or south, be permitted to govern in
any state. Or country. even where he has
majority, and he can never therefore.
be a. political equal -
IF he can have, then. neither social
nor political eqGahty-and every fact and
all. theory and all instinct and every I'M
broken precedent declare that he cannot
then he can never under these condi-
lions reach the full development OF