The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-13
IT WAS AN 1MPERr1NENcE.

LHe WISCONSIN statesman who wants
 a race convention" held at Atlanta to | solve the negro problem, has been turned down very properly, not only by the white Southern leaders. but by the most intel ngent and enlightened negroes. There Is no need of any such conferences; if there Is anything the people of the South know 1t Is the practical side of the race uues- toon. If the Wisconsin people want any Information on the subject a brief resi-
 dence hereabouts will furnish them all the eye-opening facts they may be look | ing for.-Chattanooga Times.
 Periodically, or oftener, there spring up cranks who evidently think themselves | called, predestinated and set apart by | Providence to settle something. Anything I is in their line, from tiff between hus- | band and wife to a quarrel between
 great nations, and if no one else will se-
 lect them as arbiters. they select them- | selves and proceed to get busy in the affairs of others.
 The Wisconsin man evidently belongs
 to this class. He may be thoroughly l honest and sincere, so far as we know. Impertinence and crankiness are not al- ways evidences of dishonesty, and a man may be a marplot without any intention of wrong. being fully convinced that something is awry and that 1t is his busi- ness to set 1t right.
 This Wisconsin man, probably having nothing else to do, has evolved from some section of his inner consciousness the idea that there is a race question to be settled and that he has fallen on a plan | l. kla sition that the Governors of States meet in Atlanta and go to settling. It should not cause surprise among sensible people to find that the Governors, especially the Southern ones, fail to respond to such a chimerical idea and evince no desire to go into the settling business
 But suppose all the Governors had been willing to join in the scheme and should met in Atlanta or anywhere else. what would or could they accomplish? They would make speeches, interchange opin- ions and adopt resolutions, but what then? Their opinions and suggestions would be as variant as their features. and probably no two of them would agree, as to what should be done. And even If it were possible for them to agree fully they would probably adopt some resolu tions and issue an address, none of which would be worth the paper they were written on, for they could bind nobody.
 If there is any race question, 1t Is not to be settled by convocation of Cover nors. It is not to be settled by resolu- tions and addresses. It Is not altogether sectional question, for the North and the West have 1t with them. Each sec ton must deal with 1t for itself Each State must be it's own judge of what Is best, and each community must take care of those who compose its citizenship. The people and the government of Ala bama are amply able to work out their own salvation, so far as the races are concerned, without outside advice or in- reference. The latter can only make the problem more difficult to settle Neither Governors nor statesmen of other sections can manage our internal affairs as well as we can and any mixing in from the outside is both injurious and impertlnent. Let this Wisconsin states man mind his own affairs and let the Governors of States look to the interests of their own people. They will thus find something to occupy all their time