The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-23

which God has set our limits. we ought to be fully satisfied. and to live and labor cheerfully. with good will to all men.
 If full equality is impossible, so is any state of serfdom unwise The only con- dition under which any man can be plac- ed under the control of another. is when that man has by his criminal or Insane conduct committed a moral feio de, SO.
 and thrown himself under the feet of sound social law. But for a normal man to be put under the control, in matters of life. liberty, or property, of any other
 man is contrary to the Fundamentals of social happiness. It Is really this, and not the former, of Jefferson's ideas.
 which Is the essence of the great Amer
 ican idea. Whether serfdom take the form of Southern slavery, of Northern
 sweatshops and mining camps. of Rus sian absolutism, of Chinese despotism, 1t is all alike to be condemned, and all
 alike to disappear like a hideous dream,
 as mankind moves onward and upward
 in it's mighty progress.
 There remains now the Idea of restrict-
 ed freedom, as the remedy left by the
 process of logical exclusion. and as the
 means advocated by the author, who
 modestly believes that he has now had
 more practical experience, and opportun-
 ity for correct judgment on the subject
 possibly than any man living. By the
 restricted freedom Is meant, in general.
 the placing of the lower races, and of
 the lower individuals of the higher races,
 in a position where their weakness cam
 not operate to the detriment of the
 whole mass of society, and where they
 will be so directed and controlled as to
 enjoy the utmost opportunity for devel-
 opment along the lines of their special
 fitness. The, way in which this is best
 accomplished Is reserved for the last or | A fora
 Before leaving this part of the discus
 sion, 1t may be pertinent to refer to the
 great need for unanimity of sentiment and practice upon this issue by the mem bers of the white race. It is unfortunate to the last degree that we should be d. vided on this matter. We must remember that we are still numerically a small mi-, nority in the human family. The dark races outnumber us, six to one. Their mower has never been fully tested in the arena of modern conflict. Their power of imitation, their desire for assimilation, their less acute sense of moral responsi-; bility. their adherence to lower and gross CT forms of religion should solemnly warn us that as race we must stand united in our attitude towards them. Particu- 1 larly, it seems to me ought those meTn- bers of our common race to allow to those who have been longest in contact With the lower races, and who have had most experience in dealing with them, and who have shown their capacity to live peace ably with them, to have large influence in deciding the matter of the best plans for settling the problems arising from their presence. Not by passionate appeals to prejndice. not by division and discord. not by mutual jealousy and angry con- | tention will the branches of the Caucas- ian race arrive at the solution of these l tremendous problems that now face them
 in every land; but by union, by forbear- l ance, by concession to experience, and to | good intentions on all sides, and above all, by maintaining one toward the other the real spirit Of their high Christian re- | ligion will the fair-faeed sons of light" | as one of my African friends called. us, | ever achieve that grand destiny of world
 arbitration which stands invitingly be- l fore them. sS l.