The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-31

mines. let II the American people
grow ever more and more hungry for
the white sparklers it will become All eco
nomic necessity for somebody to locate
new and literally yielding diggings. The
expenditure Of Sc, 100000 year buys a
heap Of diamonds.
Free and Liberal Discussion Mt the
south.
At Durham, in North Carolina, noted az
a great and rich tobacco manufacturing
centre. is published the South Atlantic
Quarterly. 1t is a very remarkable and
u highly creditable review founded at
the beginning Of last year. in order TO
afford better opportunity in the South
for the discussion Of literary, historical,
economic and social questions. without
sectional jealousy but with view to
obtaining the respect and the support of
thinking men in all sections of the
country and especially the South"
At Durham is also Trinity College, an
institution founded nearly fifty years
ago under the auspices of the Southern
branch Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, body in which there are about
million and half communicates. In
the South the Methodists and Baptists
together comprise about three million
members, or the vast majority Of Prot
estant religious believers, as against,
for example, only about a quarter of a
million Presbyterians. The Southern
quarterly, though not directly connected
with the Durham Trinity College, is cd
tied by professor in that college and
among the foremost contributors to its
discussions are the president and men,
bers OF the faculty.
In the last number of the Southern
Quarterly RerieW, for October, is dis
played a liberality Of thought and a
calmly judicial temper in the treatment
Of questions which are usually supposed
to stir only passion and sectional preju-
dice in the South. For example, in the
treatment Of the negro question and Of
race antipathy, of Our Duty to the Ne
gro" and The Function OF Criticism in the
South, the leading subjects Of discussion
in this number there is nothing in the
views presented to distinguish the writ
ers as peculiarly Southern in their bias.
Except for the knowledge Of facts of the
situation displayed and possible only to
Southern resident, these papers might
all have been written in New York or
Boston, London or Edinburgh. Their
temper is even more judicial, more dis
passionate, less tinged by race prejudice
Of any kind than we find in any similar
discussions at this time at the North
The editor, Prof JOHN SPENCER BAs-
sETT. a Southern man Of Southern edu-
cation. speaks Of BOOKER WASHINGTON
as take him all in all, the greatest man,
save Gen. LEE, born in the South in q
hundred years." though he proceeds to
explain that "he is not typical negro,
and that 1T is too much to hope for a
continued appearance Of such men in the
near future Prof. BAssETT says also
that the political agitation" aroused by
sensational appeals to the race feeling
of the white man, wi is awakening demon
in the South, 30 that to-day there is
more hatred Of whites for blacks and OF
blacks for whites than ever before i"
The negroes, he says, in spite Of our
race feeling, Of which the writer has his
share, will win equality az some time:
we cannot remove them, We cannot kill
them, we cannot prevent them from ad-
vancing in civilization"
DR.. JOHN CARLISLE kILGo. president
of Trinity College, "A South Carolinian,
says of the cry Of sociUi equality between
the races" that nothing il more absurd
1t isa political hocus- pocIs Of the hUges'
sort for always AM. everywhere SOCIAL
equality IL "A mate ~ individual
choice il has Oniy been dragged into
this question" and ia no part Of tn,
negro problem which is simply one Of
personal growth not Of social equality"
However far behind the white the negro
may be-" writes the Southern author
vi huo'uci aDic I'uINI' h' ilho, III 'lS
forty years of his pseudo freedom, shown
capabilities that give hope Of hi, final
attainment TO worthy manhood an u,s-
full citizenship He says further that
she who fanoies that one third Of the
people Of great section can be kept in
ignorance, subseryiency and serfdom
while the favored two-thirds enjoy the
blessings Of generous civilization,
stands refuted by history"
Writing Of "The Function Of Criticism
in the South" Prof EDWIN MINIS says
that when Southern writer speaks u
the civilization Of the Old South M the
sweetest, purest and NEST beautiful in
tbs history VI the world, lie needs 10 know
something OF other civilizations We
need now, above all other times, pro-
Geeds Prof MINIS, TO ask ourselves I'M
comfortable questions and TO face the
answers heroicsIly;'
How do the southern statesInsD of ths pTrsrH /
DAY compare win those ~ . former gensIAtlon 10
pTogTsssiysDs@ aad brsAdib VI sympathy saa
euIiuIe' Hov many ministers and sJi-en ara ihsIs
IN the southern states who have national rsppts
tons W deserve 10 hays thoni' How many highly
endowed Institutions VI learning Aays gr' WIN III
our boastsd universities how msay rally deserve