The Taney County republican., 1904-05-12
THE NEGRO PROBLEM.
What Booker r. Washington Is Doing
10 Solve n.

vas made by number 4 EoFfats TO
bseak up a meeting OF colored citizens.
which Booker T. Washington had been
hvitsd 10 address. He himself protest.
% on the following day that the color.
% citizens Of Boston. considered as a
whole. should not be held responsible
for the unwise acts Of few rioters
Nine-tenths OF the colored people In
That city. he said. stand by him and
support him In his work. and they were
nsvsr more hearty In their approvh.
thAn they are today. At Tuskegec. Ais.
whore the Normal and Industrial insti-
tuts. presided over by Washington. u
Ltuated, a resolution was un nimo usly
adoOted on July 81 by the Alabama
Colored Baptist convention severely
coAdemning the hostile demonstratiln
made by the negroes in Boston on the
preceding night. and indorsing Princi.
pal Washington as worthy. conssrva-
I've and safe leader, deserving the con.
ndsnes and respect Of his race The
question will naturally arise. What
has Booker T. Washington done that
any men Of his color should try TO In.
terrupt meetings at which 10 is ex-
pected TO appear? The answer is obvi-
Gus enough. He has not advised his
eolored friends to fight for their pol'I.
rights. On the contrary, he has coun
selled them TO leave politics alone. and
to cultivate the virtues Of Industry and
thrift.
In other words he would have them
prove themselves deserving OF the fran
chise before they insist upon exercls-
cal rights On the contrary, he has coun-
Tense In the eyes OF professional negro
agitators, who make living by TO-
msnting antagonism between the black
and the white races. The negroes who
seek to become delegates to republican
national conventions have heretofore
posed as the official champions Of their
race, and have found II profitable TO do
%. Their occupation would be gone II
Booker T. Washington could have his
vay. The negroes also who manipulate
0e colored vote In those northen
states, where II sometimes suffices TO
turn the scale. are disposed to repudi.
ate the teacher who tells young colored
men TO 20 TO technical schools and
learn how to earn living instead OF
clsmoring for the enforcement, OF the
fifteenth amendment. From their
point OF view Booker T. Washington 10
. betrayer Of the black mans cause.
That the free negro will never be
sslf-supporting until, In pursuance CT
Booker Washingtons Idea. he has been
trained In habits Of industry and thrift.
u tolerably clear from the experience
PA colony Of colored people founded in
Canada more than half century ago.
This colony was started in 1919 by the
Rev. William King. an English clergy
man. In Buxton, Kent county. province
Of Ontario. Here tract OF some 5000
acres OF fertile land was set aside for
The use OF fugitive slaves who had been
assisted to escape from the southern
states by the underground railroad.
The land was sold in farms OF from ~
10 100 acres at the price Of $3.50 per
acre. and the colonists. who, at one
Iate numbered 1900. had unlimited
time In which to pay for their holdings
As money could be made from the
start by the nne timber that stood on
the land. the colony began un-
der auspicious conditions. How has II
prospered? Very few OF the negro colo.
aists or their descendants now remain
On the farms. and, with one exception,
those who are still there are renters.
The rest mortgaged their lands and
even their standing crops and squand.
cred the proceeds Of the transaction
end in many cases abandoned their
earms rather than take trouble to TIL
them. They proved incapable OF steady
work and were destitute Of foresight,
their power Of provision being limited.
apparently to a day or week. When
oil WAS discovered on the tract occupied
by the colony the negroes sold their
rights at once for trivial sums rather
than wait for development Of the sub.
tarranean wealth. The one exception
proves the rule. This man came to the
colony from British Guiana In 1872. He
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