The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1905-09-16
What EDUCATION Cannot Do.

that which is. Behold the man whom the
rags of slavery once concealed-Eine millions
strong? This creature, with a racial record
of four thousand years OF incapacliy, half
child, half ANIMAL the sport of impulse. whim
and comcpil. pleased with IA rattle, tickled
with straw. being who, left to his wilt,
roams at night and sleeps in the day, whose
native tongue has framed no word of love,
whose passions once aroused are as the tiger 5
equality is the law of our life when he is
educated and ceases to fill his useful sphere
as servant and peasant, what are you going TO
do with him
The second big fact which eonfronts the
thoughtful, patriotic American is that the
greatest calamity which could possibly beiall
this republic would be the corruption of our
national character hy the assimilation OF the
negro race. | have never seen white man
Of any brains who disputes this fact | have
never seen negro of any capacity who did
not deny il.
One thought | would burn into the soul of
every young American and who thinks of a
negro when he says American this
Our republic is great not by reason of the
amount OF dirt we possess, or the size OF our
census roll, but because of the genius OF the
race of pioneer white freemen who settled
this continent, dared the might of kings, and
I
trembling feet of liberty.
A distinguished negro college professor re-
| Gently expressed himself as TO the future
American in one of our great periodicals rs
follows:
IAN race prejudice will be eradieated.
Physically, the new race will be much the
stronger. Il will be endowed with higher
intelligence aud clearer conception of God
than the whites of the west have ever had.
II will be much less material than the Ameri-
can white of today. 1t will be especially con-
cerned with the things of the mind, aud moral
excellence will become the dominant factor
in the life of the new nation. The new race
is to gain more from the black element than
from the white.
We have here an accurate statement Of the
passionate faith OF ninety nine negroes out of
every hundred Professor Du Bois, author of
The Souls Of Black Folk undoubtedly believes
this His book is a remarkable contribution
70 the literature OF our race problem. In II
for the first time we see the naked soul of a
negro beating itself TO death against the bars
in which Aryan society has Gagged him No
white man with soul can read this book
withuut n tear. Mr. Charles ". Chestnut,
the negro novelist. believes in amalcamaiion,
Tor he told me So Professor Kelly Miller, the
distinguished negro teacher of Washington,
believes 1t. In recent article he declares ::
at Is, OF course, impossible to conceive Of
two races occupying the same area, speaking
the same language. worshipping according 10
the same ritual, and endowed with the same
political and civil privileges without ultimately
fgsiug. Social equality Is not an individual
matter. IA mAn contend. but is vigorously
under The control OF public sentiment.
I commend the solid logic OF these sentences
from a thoughtful negro to the illGstrious
Society Of Pooh Poohs.
What Is the attitude Of Mr.. Booker T.
Washington on this vital issue? You will
search his books and listen TO his lectures in
VAIN for any direct answer. Why2 Because.
if he dared to say what he really in his soul of
souls believes, it would en1 his great career,
both north and south. In no other way has
he shown his talent as organizer aud leader
Of his people with such consummate skill as
in the dexteriiy with which be has for 10 years
lodged this issue, holding steadily the good
will OF the solthsrn white man aud the north
ern phianthropisi. He is the greatest diplomat
his race has ever produced.
Yet be who reads between the lines Of has
written and spoken words will lind the same
purpose aud the same faith which has more
blunt and fearless brethren have honestly and
boldly proclaimed. He shows this in his
worship OF Frederick Douglass. Ia bis book,
The Future Of the American Negro, we find
this carefu! sentence
TO state in detail JUS; what place the black
mau will occupy in the south as citizen when
be- has developed IN the direction named IS
beyond the wisdom of any one.
Yet on page be says:
The sur-si way for the negro to reach the
highest positions IS TO prepare himself to till
well nj The present the basic occupations -
independent Industries, ef course--ior, mark
you, 'fraskesee Institute Is not - servant
trimming school!
AGAIN Gu pages s. aud S5 We are told:
There Is an uumistakable influence that
comes over a white man when he sees black
masl living ia two story house that has been
paid for | need not stop 10 explain. Just
la 81 lar "a We can place rich negroes IN the
south Who eau loan money to white men. this
race question will disappear
why2
The conclusion IS obvious: The negro who
holds mortgage on a white mans house viii
ultimately demaud aud receive social reeogni-
frnn hm.
On page G6 of his Future Of the American
Negro he saws: The jew. who was once in
about the same position as the negro Is today.
has now recognition because he has entwned
himself about America in a business and IN
dustrial way.
Again his conclusion - obvious. The alb
suriity Of the comparison, however, Is the
important point ia this sentence, not only for
the pathetic ignorance Of history It displays,
bn, for the revelation Of the writer's secret
/ hopes and dreams.
The Jew has not been assimilated into our
/ civil aud social life because of his money-but
| for a very different reason. The jew belongs
/ 10 our rare. the same great division OF human
| ity. The Semitic group OF the white race Is,
/ all in all. the greatest evolved IN history.
! Their children have ever led the vanguard OF
/ human progress and achievements. A great
/ historian and philosopher once said; SHOW
I me a mau of trAnscendent genius at any period
ofthe worlds history aud I'll show you man
/ with Hebrew blood in his veins Our pre-
I iudice against the jew is not because OF his
/ inferiorty. but because of his genius. We are
/ afraid Of him, we Gentiles who meet him IN
4 the arena of life. get licked and then make
I faces nj him The truth is the jew had
| achieved a noble civilization-had his poets,
! prophets. pries,sand kiugs-when our Ger
1 manic ancestors we're still in the woods crack
/ ing cocoanuts and hickoryuuts with monkeys.
! We have assimilated the jew because his
| daughter is beautiful and his son strong IN
mind and body
The Danger Of Nation within A Ma
/ tiOn.
! The trouble with Mr.. Booker I. Washing
| toms work is that he is silently preparing us
| for the future heaven of lgamation-or he
] is doing something equally dangerous, namely,
| he is attempting to build nation inside a ma
| ton of two hostile races. In this event he is
| storing dynamite beneath the pathway of our
! chiIdren-the end at last can only be in blood
! shed.
/ Mr.. Washington is not training negroes to
| take their place in any industrial 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 cal
| of any man. He is training them all to be
masters of men, to be Independent, to own
and operate their own industries, plant then
| own fields, buy aud sell their own goods. and
| in every shape aud form destroy the last yes
! tige of dependence on the white man for any
! thing.
! do not say this is not laudable-I do not
| say that it is not noble. | only ask what will
| be its end for the negro when the work is per
| feet? Every pupil who passes through Mr..
! Washiugion's hand ceases forever to work
under white man. Not only so, but he goes
| forth trained as an evangelist TO preach the
doctrine Of separation and Independence.
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 the white man,
then what ?