The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-08-26

Ntl NCO d OlOChs I'd NCu ~ lOOb VI utl
Der or built a house save of broken
sticks and mud, and for four thous-
and years he gazed upon the sea yet
never dreamed a sail.
Who is the greatest negro that
ever lived according to Mr.. Booker T.
Washington? Through all his books
he speaks this mans name with bated
breath and uncovered head-"Freder-
ic Douglass of Sainted memory" And
what did Saint Frederick do? Spent
a life in bOmbaStic vituperation OF
the men whose genius created the
American Republic, wore himself out
finally drawing his salary as a Federal
office-holder, and at last achieved the
climax of negro Sainthood by marry
ing a white woman!
Says the author of Napoleon, Hon
orabie Thomas e. Watson: "Educa-
tion is a good thing, but it never did
and never will alter the essential
character of any a or race OF men.
l repeat, education is the develop
ment of that which is. Behold the
man whom the rags Of slavery once
concealed-nine million strong. This
creature, with a racial record OF four
thousand years of incapacity, half
child, half-animal, the sport of i'm
pulse, whim and cOnceit, pleased with
a rattle, tickled with a straw, q being
who, left to his will, 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'S-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 confrOnts
the thoughtful, patriotic American is
that the greatest calamity which
could possibly befall this Republic
would be the corruption OF our nation
al character by assimilation Of the
negro race. | have never seen a
white man Of any brains who disputes
this fact. / have never seen a negro
ofeaByzcapacity who did not deny it.
One thought / would burn into the
soul of every young American land
-szwi4estffinkS 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 blaZed the way
through our wilderness for the trem-
bling feet of liberty.
A distinguished negro college pro-
fesSor recently expressed himself as to
the future American in n of our
periodicals as follows:
"All race prejudice will be eradica-
ted. Physically, the new race will be
much stronger. 1t will be endowed
with a higher intelligence and clear
er conception of God than the
whites of the West have ever
had. twill be much less material
than the American white of today.
1t will be especially concerned with
the things Of the mind, and moral ex-
cellence 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. Pro-
lessor Du Bots, author of the Souls of
Black Folk, undoubtedly believes this.
His book is a remarkable contribution
to the literature of u race problem.
In it for the first time we see the ma
ked soul of a negro beating itself to
death against the bars in which AIRY
an society has Gagged him! No white
man with a soul a read this book
without a tear. Mr.. Charles w.
Chesnutt, the negro novelist, believes
in amalgamation, for he told me so,
Professor Kelly Miller, the distin-
guished negro teacher of Washington,
believes it. In a recent article he de-
clareS:
1T is, of course, impossible to con-
ceive of two races occupying the same
area, speaking the same language,
worshiping according to the same rit-
ual, and endowed with the same po-
lIUlCdl d1u CINll pIIfiICRCS "ICIAOuU "a
timately fuSing. Social equality is
not an individual matter, as many
contend, but is vigorously under the
control of public sentiment"
/ commend the solid logic of these
sentences from a thoughtful negro to
the Industrious society of Pooh-Poohs.
What is the attitude of Mr.. Booker
II. Washington on this vital issue?
You will search his books and listen
to his lectures in vain for any direct
answer. Why? Because, if he dared
to say what he really in his soul of
souls believes, it would end his great
career, both North and South. In no
other way has he shown his talent as
an organizer and leader of his people
with such consumate skill as in the
dexterity with which he has for twen-
ty years lodged this issue, holding
steadily the goodwill of the South
ern white mar and the Northern phi
l%anthropiSt. He is the greatest Dip
lomat his race has ever produced.
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