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

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 the oats like the
white man-then he can compete
with him."
And then the real tragedy will be-
gin. Does any sane man believe that
when the negro ceases to work under
the direction Of the Southern white
man, this arrogant" "rapacious'
and ''intolerant" race will allow the
negro to master his industrial sys-
TEN. take the bread from his mouth,
crowd him to the wall and place a
mortgage on the house? Competition
is war-the most fierce and brutal of
all its forms. Could faculty reach a
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 neighbor in
the North does when the negro threat
ems his bread-kill him.
abraham LIIICOlu OlC OllO SluS-
| edy 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 assim-
ilate the negro into our national life.
The nation will yet come back to Lin
coins plan, still so elOquently adyo-
Gated by the negro Bishop, Henry NJ.
Turner.
1t is curious how the baldheaded
assertion of a lie can be repeated aad
repeated until millions of sane people
will accept the Dare assertion as an
established fact. At the close OF the
War, Mr.. Lincoln, brooding over the
insoluble problem of the negro's.fC II.
ture which his proclamation had crc-
ated, asked General Benjamin +. But
Ter to devise and report to him imme-
diately a plan to COLOMBO the negroes.
General Butler naturally hostile to
the idea, made at once his famous,
false and facetiouS report, that ships
could not be found to carry the ne
gro babies to Africa as fast as they
are born!" The President was aSSaS-
Sinated a few days later. This lie is
now forty odd years old, and Mr..
Booker II. Washington actually re-
peatS it as a verbal inspiration though
entirely unconscious of its historic
origin.
We have spent about $500, 600, 600
on negro education since the War.
0nd-half of this sum would have been
sufficient to have made Liberia a rich
and powerful negro state. Liberia is
capable of supporting every negro in
America. Why not face this question
Squarely? We are tempOrizing and
playing with it. All u educational
schemes are compromises and tempo
rary makeshifts. Mr.. Booker Il.
WaShington'S work is one OF noble
aims. A branch of it should be i'm
mediately established in Monrovia,
the capital of Liberia. A gift of ten
millions would do this, and establish
a colony of half a 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 is not a failure. 1t has
never been tried.
We owe this to the negro. At pres
ent we are deceiving him and allow
ing him to deceive himself. He hopes
and dreams of amalgamation, forget
ting that Self-preseryatiOn is the first
law of Nature. Our present attitude
Of hypocracy is inhuman toward a
weaker race brought to u shores by
the sins of Jul fathers. We W him
a square deal, and we will never give
il, TO him on this Continent.