Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-08-25

conception Of God than the whites Of
the west have ever had. 1t will be
much less material than the American
white Of today. It will be especially
concerned with the things Of the mind,
and 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. Profess
sor Du Bois, author Of The Souls Of
Black Folk, undoubtedly believes this.
His book is a remarkable contribution
to the literature Of our race problem.
In II for the first time we see the nak-
ed soul Of a negro beating itself to
death against the bars In which Aryan
society has Gagged him! No white man
with a soul can read this book without
tear. Mr.. Charles w. Chestnut, the
negro novelist. believes In amalgama-
tion, for he told me 80. Professor Kel-
1ly Miller, the distinguished negro
teacher of Washington, believes 1t,
In a recent article he declares:
"It Is, of course, impossible to con-
ceive Of two races occupying the same
area, speaking the same language, wor-
Shipping according to the same ritual,
and endowed with the same political
and civil privileges without ultimately
fusing. Social equality is not an indi-
vidual matter. as many contend, but Is
vigorously under the control Of public
sentiment"
I commend the solid logic Of these
sentences from a thoughtful negro to
the illustrious 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. Why? Because, II he dared
to say what he really in his soul Of
souls believes, II 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 consummate skill as in the
dexterity with which he has for twenty
years lodged this ISSUE holding stead
lily the good will Of the southern white
man and the northern philanthropist
He Is the greatest diplomat his race
has ever produced.
| Yet he who reads between the lines
of his written and spoken words will
find the same purpose and the same
faith which his more blunt and fear
less brethren have honestly and boldly
proclaimed. He shows this In his wor-
ship of Frederick Douglass. In his
book, The Future Of the American Me-
gro, we find this careful sentence:
To state In detail just what place
the black man will occupy In the south
as a citizen when he has developed In
the direction named is beyond the wis
dom of any one."
| Yet on page SO he says:
"The surest way for the negro to
reach the highest positions is to pre-
pare himself to fill well at the present
the basic ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Industries Of course-for, mark you,
"Tuskegee Institute Is not a servant
| training school"
Again on pages SO and IS we are
told: There is an unmistakable In
fluence that comes over a white man
when he sees a black man living In a
| two story brick house that has been
paid for. l need not stop to explain.
Just In so far as we can place rich
negroes in the south who can loan
money to white men, this race question
win disappear"
| Why?
The conclusion is obvious: The ne
gro who holds a mortgage on white
mans house will ultimately demand
and receive social recognition from
him.
On page sc of his Future of the
American Negro he says: 1.-THE Jew
who was once In about the same posi-
ton as the negro is today, has now
recognition because he has entwined
himself about America In a business
and industrial way"
Again his conclusion is obvious. The
absurdity Of the comparison, however,
Is the important point In this sentence,
not only for the pathetic ignorance OF
history 1t displays, but for the revela-
ton of the writer's secret hopes and
dreams.
The Jew has not been assimilated
into our civil and social life because
of his money-but for a very different
reason. The Jew belongs to our race,
the same great division of humanity.
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 me
man Of transcendent genius at any
period Of the worlds history and I'll
show you a man with Hebrew blood In
his veins" Our prejudice against the
Jew Is not because of his inferiority,
but because Of his genius. We are
afraid of him, we Gentiles who meet
him in the arena Of life, get licked and
then make faces at him. The truth Is
the Jew had achieved noble civiliza-
tion-had his poets, prophets, priests
and kings-when our Germanic ances-
tors were still in the woods cracking
cocoanuts and hickorynuts with mon
keys. We have assimilated the Jew
because his daughter Is beautiful and
his son strong In mind and body.
The Danger Of a Nation Within a Ma
| tion.
The trouble with Mr.. Booker T..
Washington's work is that he Is ST.
lently preparing us for the future heav-
en- of Amalgamation-or he Is doing
something equally dangerous, namely
he is attempting to build a nation in
side a nation Of two hostile races. In
this event he Is storing dynamite be-
meath the pathway Of our children
the end at last can only be in blood