Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-04-16

toward those in their midst who SO
much need their aid and encourage
ment.
| need waste no time in detailing
the evidence that this aid and en-
enlargement has thus far been gen.
erOusly forthcoming. Schools for the
education of negro children and in
stitutions for their industrial train
ing are scattered all over the south
and are literally assisted by the
southern public and private funds
So far as | am informed, the senti-
ment in favor of the largest eXten-
sion and broadest influence of Tus-
kesee Institute and kindred agencies
is universal; and | believe that with
cut exception tie negroes who fit
themselves for u5efe' occupations and
service find Ni.fi.E aad cheerful pat
ronage and emplz gme..t among their
white neigAbors Tire man who is
beyond doubt tie be t authority il
tie world on TIE prospects of the
negro race he who founded Tuskegee
Institute. and is Dc nest notable rep
res entatiye of ne%eo advancement,
said at the Atlanta exposition il
1895:
and in this connection it is we'll
to bear in mind that whatever other
sins the south may be called to bear.
When it comes to business pure and
simple, it is in the south that the ne
gro is given mans chance in the
commercial world, and in nothing is
this exposition more eloquent than
in emphasizing this chance. Our great
est danger is that in the great leap
look the fact that the masses Of us
are to live by the production of our
hands and fail to keep in mind that
We shall prosper in proportion as We
learn to dignity and glorify commca
labor and put brains and skill ;nto
the common occupations of life-shall
prosper in proportion as we earn to
draw the line between The superficial
and the substantial-tie ornamental
geN -gaws of life and the useful
Social Equality.
do not know how it may be with
other northern friends of the negro,
but | have faith in the honor and sin
cerity of the respectable white people
Of the south in their relations with
the negro and his Improvement and
we'll being They do not believe il
the social equality of the race, and
they make no false pretense in regard
TO it, That this does not grow out
Of hatred OF the negro is very plain.
1t seems to me that there is abun-
dant sentiment and abundant beha-
Vior among the southern whites to-
wards the negroes to make Us doubt
the justice OF CHARGING thi3 denial
f social equality To prejudice, as
We usually understand the word. Per-
haps it is born OF something much
deeper and more imperious than preju
dice as to amount to racial sfiGct.
Whatever ii is. let Us ren.amb>. that
it has cGnaened the negro's share
in the humiliation and apolia,icn Of
the white man CT the south during
the satuInalia Of reconstruction days.
and has allowed kindly foelins for
the negro to survive the time when
the south was deluged by periious
food of indiscriminate, unintc'ii@ent
and blighting negro suffrage. What
ever it is. let us try to be tolerant
and consideyate Of the feelings and
even the prejudice of racial instinct
OF our white fellow-couHtrvmen of
the south, who. in the solution Of the
negro problem, must, amid their own
surroundings, bear the heat of the
day and stagger under the weight
of the white mans burden.
There are. however, considerations
related to this feature of the negro
question which may be regarded as
more in keeping with the objects and
purposes of this occasion.
Leave 1t to Dixie.
AS friends of the negro, firmly be-
lieving in the possibility of his i'm