Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1905-09-28


afraid of him. we Gentiles who meet
him In the arena Of life. get licked and
then raake faces at him. The truth IA
the Jew had achieved q noble ciyilixa-
tion-had his poets. prophets. priests
and kings-when our Germanic ances-
tors were still In the woods cracking
oocoanuts and hickorynuts with mon-
keys. We have assimilated the Jew be-
cause his daughter II beautiful and his
son strong in mind and bodyl
The Danger Of Nation Within q
Nation.
The trouble with Mr.. Booker II.
Washington's work is that he is SILENT
~ preparing us for the future heaven
OF amalgamation-or he is doing some
thing equally dangerous. namely. he ID
attempting to build a nation inside a
nation Of two hostile races. In this
event he is storing dynamite beneath
the pathway Of our children-ths end
at last can only be In bloodshed.
Mr.. Washington Is not training ne
groes to take their place in any indus
trial system Of the south In which the
white man can direct or control him.
He Is not training his students to be
servants and come at the beck and cali
Of any man. He Is training them all 70
be masters Of men, to be independent,
to own and operate their own indus
tries. plant their own fields, buy and
sell their own goods. and In every shape
and form destroy the last vestige Of
dependence on the white man for any
thing.
do not say this Is not laudable-f
do not say that II is not noble. / only
ask what will be its end for the negro
when the work is perfect3 Every pupil
who passes through Mr.. washington's
hand ceases forever TO work under q
white man. Not only So bus he goes
forth trained as an evangelist to preach
the doctrine of separation and inde-
pendence.
The negro remains on this continent
for one reason only. The southern
white man has needed his labor. and
therefore has fought every suggestion
OF his removal. But when he refuses
longer to work for tho white man. then
what?
Mr.. Booker T. Washington says on
page 65 OF his book: The negro must
live for all time beside the southern
white man."
On what sort Of terms are they TO
live together? AS banker and borrowerf
Hardly, II the negro is the banker.
Even now. with the white man still
hugging the hoary delusion that he
can't get along without the negro, he In
being forced TO look TO the Old World
for his labor. The simple truth is. the
south will lag behind the world indus
trially In just so far as she depends on
negro labor The idea that q white man
cannot work in the fields Of the south
Is exploded. Only one-third Of the cot
ton crop is today raised by negro labor.
Even now the relations Of the races,
with the negro an integral part Of the
white man's Industrial scheme, become
more and more diflcult
A Gulf That Grows Wide.
Professor Kelly Miller says: 'Tt is q
matter Of common observation that the
races are growing further and further
apart"
Mr.. Washington says on this point:
"for the sake Of the negro and the
southern white man there are many
things In the relations of the two races
that must soon be changed" (page 65).
The point raise IL that education
necessarily drives the races further and
further apart, and Mr.. washington's
brand Of education makes the gulf be-
tween them IL anything a little deeper.
II there Is one thing a southern white
man cannot endure II Is an educated
negro. What's to be the end OF It II the
side in the south!
Mr.. Washington says: "Give the
black man so much skill and brains
that he can cut oats like the white
man-then he can compete with him"
And then the real tragedy will begin.
Does any sane man believe that when
the negro ceases 10 work under the
direction Of the southern white man,
this arrogant" "rapacious" and sin
tolerant" race will allow the negro TO
master his Industrial system, take the
bread from his mouth, crowd him to
the wall and place a mortgage on his
house? Competition Is war-the most
fierce and brutal OF all its forms. Could
faulty reach q gublimer height than
the idea that the white man viii stand
idly by and see this performances? What
win he do when put to the test3 He
will do exactly what his white neigh
Dor in the north does when the negro
threatens his bread-kill himi
Abraham Lincolon foresaw this ira
gedy when he wrote his Emancipation
Proclamation. and he asked congress
for an appropriation of a billion dol
lars to colonize the whole negro race.
He never believed It possible TO assimi-
late the negro into our national life.
This nation will yet come back to Lin
coins plan. still so eloquently advo-
Gated by the Negro Bishop, Henry NJ
Turner.
It Is curious how the baldheaded as
sertion Of lie-can be repeated and re-
peated until millions of sane people
will accept the bare assertion as an es-
tablished fact At the close Of the
war, Mr.. Lincoln, brooding over the in
soluble problem of the negro's future
which his proclamation had created,
asked General BENJAMIN r. Butler 70
devise and report to him Immediately
q plan to colonize the negroes. Gen.
eral Butler, naturally hostile 10 the
idea, made at once his famous. false
and facetious report, that ships could
not be found to carry the negro babies
to Africa as fast az they ara born!"
The president was assassinated q few