The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28
Pertinent Question.

ulSeaSed Women raised III unnyRlenlC naD- itations, on insufficient food and exposed to infection by it's manner of life? This question is being answered by the weak and diseased negroes you see about you. The race Is doomed to die out, if let alone. But l have stated that l cannot believe this for the southern white man is des- tined to come to his rescue. 1t was this southern white man who took him as bow-legged barbarian, fresh from the northern slave ship and by care and training gave him the fine constitution he had in the later days of slavery, and he will still give him the benefit of his supervision and care. He cannot afford to have a dying race at his door. and will come to the rescue whenever social condl- tons settle down in natural relations. They are destined to have their life yet further regulated by the whites, not in conditions of slavery Indeed but in some form of peonage Just what that form will be 1t is impossible to forecast, but so- ciety has always evolved her institutions to meet her conditions.
 We are fast learning that society is not stereotyped according to the bill of specifications prescribed in a written docu- ment called a constitutions but like every living organism takes form from it's own inherent life and nature narrow liter allst on the bench may create sensa- ton for a season by arbitrarily forcing written prescription on a living organism, but soon he will of his own initiative see that nature takes on it's own laws and outgrows her several conditions as she develops from stage to stage.
 Any man who knows anything about the negro knows that humane peonage. regulated by law and equity, is infinitely more humane and better for him In every way than several sessions in that Ala bama school of vice and crime, commonly called a county jail
 Ever With Us.
 "So I believe we are destined to have the negro ever with us, that as his su- perior in natural endowment and racial training we owe him a duty to lead his life 10 happier and more wholesome con ditions; that this will sooner or later be recognized by both and they will adjust themselves to a form of society in keep ing with the facts as they are and live on side by side each the better for the other. This will take time to work itself out and in the meantime much suffering will come from mischief making meddlers. but every man should see that he has tens and not flinders that day of peace and progress. So Instead of solving the negro problem that problem will solve for us our duty in life We are not here to solve problems any way, but the prob lems are here 10 give our lives meaning.
 "The negro's school of progress will be In the future where 1t has been in the past, viz: in the white womans kitchen and the white mans plantation and shop which educate and train for life in this land more negroes each year than thousand Tuskegee institutes could GO in century and do it more effectively. In these schools the negro problem Is des- tined to be sanely and surely solved. Let us be careful not to disturb It's work If the TusSegee school Is to encourage fiic- ton between the races in this state, thereby lessening the educational work of the white man for his negro neighbor it VIII prove a curse to both races It Is time for the negro president of that school to let his policy be known Tn plain Eng fish, for he that Is not for us is against Us In this matter and he that gatherith not with HIS scatterth
 First. let HIS recognize and appreciate the facts as they are. namely:
 That we have here two different races widely separated by everything that goes into the nature of men and which can never amaiEamate except at the cost of the degrading of society.
 Secondly. let us recognize that If these races are to live here side by side their modus vlvandi must be decided by their relative natures. The negro does not want. and cannot maintain. the social life of the white man. but each must have it's own according to it's own peculiar so- cial instincts
 Thirdly the white man, being the su- perior race by birth and training, will rule and be the guide of the inferior race and that thia Is for the best for both.
 "Fourthly. the changing and varying condition in the progress of life must be leavened by the Christian religion. the great solvent of all problems that relate to right and wholesome life
 ''I confess that this last contains in my tudgment, the only adequate ground for hope for happy solution of the prob lem If will teach all men how to live In The most wholesome way and In mutual helpfulness."