Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1905-10-13

i the doctrine OF separation and indie
! pendence.
The negro remains on this continent
Z for one reason only The southern
white man has needed his labor, and
{ therefore has fought every suggestion
I OF his removal. But when he refuses
! longer to work for the white man, then
. what? i
, 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 borrower?
Hardly, II the negro is the banker
Even now. with the white man still
hugging the hoary delusien that he
can't get along without the negro, he is
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 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 mans industrial scheme, become
more and more difficult.
A Gulf That Grows Wide.
Professor Kelly Miller says: "It Is a
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 l raise is that education
necessarily drives the races further and
| further apart, and Mr.. Washington'g
brand Of education makes the gulf be-
tween them If anything little deeper.
n there Is one thing a southern white
man cannot endure It Is an educated
negro. What's to be the end Of 1t II the
two races are to live forever side by
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 to work under the
direction Of the southern white man,
this arrogant" "rapacious" and "in-
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 sublimer height than
the idea that the white man will stand
idly by and see this performance? What
Will he do when put to the test? He
will do exactly what his white neigh
Dor in the north does when the negro
threatens his bread-kill him
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 COLOMBO the whole negro race.
He never believed 1t 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 M.
Turner.
1t IL curious how the baldheaded as
sertion OF He can be repeated and re-
peated until millions Of sane people
will accept the bare assertion as an es-
tsbiished fact At the close Of the
war. Mr.. Lincoln, broodlng over the in
soluble problem Of the negro's future
which his proclamation had created,
asked General Benjamin F. Butler to
devise and report to him Immediately
q plan to colonize the negroes. Gen.
eral Butler, naturally hostile to 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 as they are bornl"
The president was assassinated a few
days later. This lie is now forty years
| old, and Mr.. Booker T. Washington
actually repeats 1t as a verbal inspira-
ton. though entirely unconscious of
its historic origin.
We have spent about $500. 000.0 900 on
negro education since the war. One
half of this sum would have been suf-
hcient to have made Liberia rich and
powerful negro state. Liberia 10 cap
able OF supporting every negro In
America. Why not face this question
sQuarely? We are temporizing and
playing with II. All our educational
schemes are compromises and temper
airy makeshifts. Mr.. Booker T. Wash
ingtons work 10 one Of noble aims. A
branch Of 1t should be Immediately es-
tablished In Monrovia. the capital Of
Liberia. A gift Of ten millions would
do this. and establish colony OF half
million negroes within two years.
They could lay the foundations Of a
free black republic which within
twenty-five years would solve our race
problem on the only rational basis
within human power. Colonization 10
not failure. 1t has never been tried.
We owe this to the negro. At pres
emit we are deceiving him and allowing
! him to deceive himself. He hopes and
dreams OF amalgamation, forgetting
that self-preservation Is the first law
OF nature. Our present attitude of
hyprocisy Is inhuman toward q weaker
race brought TO our shores by the sins
of our fathers. We owe him q square
deal, and we will never give II to him
on this continent