Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-02-05


much; that education has spoiled him. Quite
the reverse is true.
Ignorance is at the bottom Of all the prob
lens, including the race problem. To be suite,
there is great deal of wickedness, but wick.
edness is largely the result of iguorauee.
Wisdonl-all kinds of wisdom--tends to de.
stroy wickedness.
If the Negro is british because ignorant.
why is not the white man british because OF
ignorance? 1t is poo, rule that does not ap-
ply TO both races.
1t is weakness of the human race to tape"
people who are above them, or whom they
think are above them. So many OF US poor
mortas have gotten our morals from kings,
nobles gentlemen and holders that. as a
matter OF truth, we have taken, as whole, a
most abominable lot and large assortment. I
sometimes think our morals might pass in Hades
for full stock OF 6:st-class goods.
Our Southern brother had bad beginning.
Born in prosperous times, fed in the lap Of lux
ury, it became second nature to nurture lust
and that devilish pride that rode over and
crushed the natural rights of race whose only
tault was ignorance and black skin.
God made both races. The Devil made
kings, mobiles, gentlemen and SHAREHOLDERS. If
both races would initiate Jesus, there would
soon be no race problem. The first thing Jesus
did was to establish the kingdom of Heaven
OH earth. In setting up that kingdom, the
first thing to do was to teach, then heal; or
healing follows teaching.
The Kingdom OF Heaven rests upon the
earth-as least, the kingdom to which Jesus
referred.
The so.called Christian church, in the North,
has plenty of sins of omission, but the church
IN the South, far more. The dominant class
in the South, true to early tradition, utterly
fails to recognize the Fatherhood Of God or the
brotherhood of man. Church people in the
South are very selkrighteous lot of people,
taken as whole-moie so than in the North j.
but in the North, our ideal, in some degree, at
least, is the ideal set up by Jesus of Nazareth.
If the Northern sentiment prevailed in the
South, the Negro would have schools and fair
treatment, aud there would te no mulattoes.
The enlightened Northern people would give
the colored people an opportunity to work out
their own salvation.
The race problem is very simple problem
compared with the labor problem; yet, the
Northern people are graphing with the labor
problem in so vigorous manner as to promise
an early solution.
The Southern people are not progressive.
The ruling classes are ignorant and prejudiced.
| Her progressive element is held at bay, as in
''the good old times, befo' the wah," when
agitators were treated to tar aud feathers, OF
hemp. The pioneers of advancement ware
driven from the South in large numbers, before
the war The old Southern SHAREHOLDERS
learned NO new thing and forgot no old. The
men who are shaping the destin;es of the South
to-day are descendants of the men who forced
on the Civil war. The war taught that class
but one truth, and that was that "Yankee mud
sills" could fight as we'll as labor. That class
has not learned the great truth that intelligent
labor is superior to unintellieent; that an edu-
Gated and weil.iuformed people are necessary
to an advanced aud advancing civilization.
| AS we see, it costs less to lift ten men atove
crime than to prosecute one criminal. We are
beginning to see, in the North, that it will cost
less to make all the people self-sustaining than
TO maintain poor-houses; but We don't look at
the problem wholly from the standpoint OF
cost We may not be conscious of the fact,
but in doing away with povetty, ignorance and
crime, we initiate Jesus. We wish to cure
and have no recurrence of the disease. The
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