The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-09-22

| yet never dreamed a sail.
Who is the greatest negro that ever
lived according to Mr.. Booker T. Wash
lngton? Through all his books he
speaks this mans name with bated
breath and uncovered head-"Fredericl
Douglass of sainted memory" And
what did Saint Frederick do? Spent a
life in bombastic vituperation of the
men whose genius created the Ameri-
can republic, wore himself out finally
drawing his salary as a federal office
holder, and at last achieved the climax
OF negro sainthood by marrying a white
woman!
What Education Cannot Do.
Says the author of Napoleon, Hon
orable Thomas E. Watson: Education
is a good thing, but 1t never did and
never will alter the essential character
! OF any man or race Of men"
l repeat education is the develop
ment of that which is Behold the man
whom the rags of slavery once con-
cealed-nine millions strong! This
creature, with racial record of four
thousand years of incapacity, half-child.
halr-animal, the sport of impulse, whim
and conceit, pleased with a rattle,
tickled with straw, being who, left
to his will, roams at night and sleeps
in the day, whose native tongue has
framed no word of love, whose pas
stons once aroused are as the ticer's-
equality is the law of our life!-when
he is educated and ceases to fill his use
full 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 national char
acter by the assimilation of the negro
race. have never seen a white man
of any brains who disputes this fact
l have never seen negro of any ca
pacity who did not deny it.
One thought / would burn into the
soul of every young American (and
who thinks of 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 CEN
sus 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 trembling feet
of liberty.
A distinguished negro college pro-
fessor recently expressed himself as to
the future American in one of our great
periodicals as follows:
"All race prejudice will be eradcated.
Physically the new race will be much
the stronger 1t will be endowed with
higher intelligence and clearer con-
ception of God than the whites of the
west have ever had. 1t will be much
less material than the American white
of today. 1t will be especially con-
cerned with the things of the mind, and
moral excellence will become the domi-
nant factor in the life of the new ma
ton. 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 1t for the first time we see the naked
soul of negro beating itself to death
against the bars in which Aryan So
ciety has Gagged him! No white man
with a soul can read this book with
out tear Mr.. Charles w. Chestnut,
the negro novelist, believes in amalga-
nation, for he told me so. Professor
Kelly Miller, the distinguished negro
teacher of Washington, believes it. In
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 man contend, but is
vigorously under the control Of public
sentiment"
1 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, If he dared to say what
he really in his soul of souls believes,
1t would end his great careeer, both
north and south. In no other way has
he shown his talent as an organizer
and leader of his people with such con-
summate skill as in the dexterity with
which he has for 20 years lodged this
issue. holding steadily the goodwill Of
the southern white man and the north
ern 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 fearless
brethren have honestly and boldly pro-
claimed. He shows this in his worship
of Frederick Douglass. In his book,
The Future of the American Negro,
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