The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-22

ding with the negro problem. But ne IS no"
President of the whole country, and 1t can 90
the South no good to misjudge him or m1scontrue
his motives. And there is danger that his polltl-
cal opponents by their cartoons and speeches nave
made the negroes believe that he would like to
put them over the white people. Really, OF course
he holds no such views; and the political neces-
sity, which is responsible in large measure for
his policy, is thus set forth by the Washington
correspondent of the New York Evening Post:
"It is much to be regretted that the North and
| South cannot agree upon a common rolicy re-
garding the colored man before the law. The
fact that he does vote in the North and does not
in the South, makes it necessary for Republican
Presidents, who have been helped by his vote IN
the North, to recognize to some extent his aspira-
tions in the South. No Republican President
could carry out the policy on which South Caro-
lima insists in it's resistance to the Crum appoint
ment, and hold the colored voters of the North.
This is a point which the critics of President
Roosevelt often overlook. There is a Northern
colored vote large enough to hold the balance of
power in many close States, which demands a
certain recognition"
Mr.. Roosevelt will insist on the nomination of
the negro Crum as Collector of Customs in
Charleston, and will again present his name to
the Senate in December; but the indications are
that the demand for reducing Southern Congress
sional representation will not find favor with the
Executive. With the heat and passion of the
campaign fresh in our memories, such language
sounds strange, and yet it will do us no harm
at least to hope that the editor of the New York
Outlook, a personal friend of President Roosevelt,
spoke not entirely without reason when he de-
clared a few days ago:
"We make the prediction that before he leaves
the White House the South will learn it has never
had a warmer or more consistent friend in the
Presidential chair than Theodore Roosevelt"
Booker Washington's Advice to the Negroes.
Booker Washington, too, has made an address
to the negroes of Alabama in which he gives them
some advice which the leaders of the race in
every section would do we'll to take up and re-
peat.
"Not a few have predicted" he says, "that on
account of the recent election many members Of
our race would lose their heads, would become
unduly Pompous, self-assertive, and generally Of
fensive. With all the earnestness that I can COM
mand, [ want to urge our people in every part
of the country to disappoint those who have made
such predictions by leading a life of increased
usefulness, soberness and simplicity, remember
ing, as I have often exhorted before, that in the
long run it's to the certain and Fundamental ideas
of growth in property, intelligence and high
Christian character, friendly relations with our
neighbors of all races, that we must look for our
ultimate success.
"The masses of our people are to dwell for all
time here in the South, and here it is that our
destiny must be worked out and we can only sue
ceed when we have the confidence and co-opera-
ton of those about u.s."