The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-28
WHAT HOLDS The NEGRO BACK?
DISCUSSION BEFORE THE OUT
LOOK CIUB or MONTCLiJR.
Prof. Du Bois. . Southern Negro, Laments
Disfranchisement In the south-Mr.
Page Thinks the Prospect for the
Negro Was Never 80 Bright.

| Disfranchisement In the South-Mr
Page Thinks the Prospect for tn
Negro Was Never 80 Bright
Nearly every seat in the lect ure hall o
the Mont clair Club was filled at 8 o'clocl
last night. when President John Reynold,
of the Out look Club introduced Walter
H. Page. Esq, editor of the Worlds Worj
and Prof. w. f. B. Du Bots Of the Atlanta
Ga, University as the speakers OF IN,
evening. the subject being The New Souti
and the Negro Question
Prof. Du Bots Is himself a colored man
but Of SO light hue and with 80 little trao,
of negro features that he mi gilt readily pas
for a Spaniard of swarlhy type. Mr.
Page himself later In the evening de.
scribed him as knowing more sbou, tn,
negro Of the South than any man In the
world. white or black.
He IL the author of number OF pamphlets
con, aiming statistics and facts regarding
the Southern negroes, their progress aBt
! the difficulties and t.rnbarras,m.nts which
lie ia their path
| Mr.. Reynolds in introducing PROD. Du Boif
mentioned the fact that he and the pro-
fessor had been classniste. at Harvard.
| Prof. Du Boil began by saying that along
| WIFI the kTtdt pff'PftS~ az iuuutfftSl GOJ-
ditions in the South thero was ia progress
a fernent OF thought that was tcnding
toward great moral as well as E,ate!ial
changes, Yet while this was true there
| still remained among many pSople oil the
| South the conviction that me sOOI,oD or
| lO,OCO,OO0 negroes there exist for the bene-
| III Of the 1900 900 whites.
He spoke OF the evis OF the ne gro's en-
vironnent and lniLented the constantly
widening chasm between him and the white
man.
The old point OF contact. the relation
between master and slave. was gone and
there WAS a growing tendency on the part
OF the negroes as IL the case among the
whites, To abandon domestic service.
and this was about all tie remaining
ground on which the Southern white man
and the Southern black man met.
He denounced the laws disenfrsnc hising
the negroes, and said that taking away
from him the franchise left him NAKED and
defenceless among his enemies.
The right Of the negro to vote. he con-
tinued. lis not d local and parochial
question.
There is too great a tendency 10 speak
OF suffrage as though II were ball and
plaything instead OF q weapon in the hands
Of the weak against the encroacbment Of
the strong There Is too great tendency
to speak of oihoeholding as though IL were
q reward instead OF q duty. Disfranchise-
ment in the South was not aimed At the
ignorant and vicious; Il was aimed at the
black man. Persons who tAoitly soqutsscs
in this wholesale deprivation Of the right of
suffrage do not appreciate the defenceless
post ion in which II leaves The negro OF the
South.
There In in the South a large and growing
group Of white men who are ashamed OF
the past treatment OF the negro and desire
to see him led on the road to q betterment
there Is still u larger group, before which
the former sits silent, group which In
to-day dominant and which would make
Of the Northumberland legally forti-
fed monument under which the black
man must rest az servant and a con-
cubine.-
Nj Du Bots cited several instances tend
ing to show that the administration OF
justice in the South inflicted grievous wrongs
upon the negroes there. The negro, he said,
had three rights-the right to know, the
right Ia work and the right to vote. and
until these rights were recognized the
outlook FOR the betterment Of hi- condition
was gloomy and fraught with difficulties
that were hard 10 overcome.
Mr.. Page, who followed Mr.. Du bo,s. said
that he had been in contact with the negro
problem from his childhood that his child
hood and youth had been passed in the
South while for many years lac had lived Ia
tine North that he approached the subject
now repIeseniin ing no sect ion, mo geokraIIhi-
cal boundaries. no political party; no APP
preached II representing himself alone.
Il am mo-t unalteTably and unconi-
promsingly u believer In American De-
mocracy," lac said. | believe that every
man should stand for aud receive that
which his individual worth and intell-
Rence entitle him TO. OF this dark problem
Tor which no man IL Responsible, j uhhs-i-
taiingly say that the outlook IL more hope
ful than II hA. ever been ] have long
thrown away the theory. II 1 ever enter
tanned u. thai any one ~ going 20 solve
the prObi.in ny son. r.Intuy appiis.d
lis solution d-p~nds upon tbs work u
genera ions, oi paiient, thought ful cob-
scioih ious men. III. coming oi the nsgro
was th- Inisfor uns, ia" in,in.asuraDl.
nisfort uns, Of III. shi- man. THIS faut
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