The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1905-09-16
BOOKER 7. WASHINGTON
AND The NEGRO.
BY THOMAS DIXON, JR.,
Author of 1.-THE Leopard's Spots. "
Some Dangerous Aspects Of
the Work Of Tuskegee.
Reprinted from the saturday Evening Post. of
Philadelphia. Ia. Copyright 1875 by Curtis
Publishing Company

! For Mr. Booker T. Washington as a man
/ and leader Of his race have always had the
/ warmest admiration. | have for lhe negro
4 race only pity and sympathy.
! have been intimately associated with ne
crues since the morning of my birth during
/ the Civil War. Ny household servants are
l all negroes. took them to Boston with me,
/ moved them to New York, and they now have
entire charge Of my Virginia home. The first
I row | ever had on the negro problem WAS
/ when moved tn Boston from the south to
/ take charge of fashionable church al the
| Hub. | attempted to import my baby Negro
nurse iuto = Boston hotel. The proprietor
I informed me that no coon could occupy a
\ room in his house IN any capacity, either as
/ guest or servant. | gave him u piece ot my
I mind aud left within an hour
I 4 2 friend OF the negro race claim that
I he should have the opportunity for the high
/ est. uublest and ireest development Of bis full,
I rounded manhood. He has never had this
I opportunity in America, either north or south,
[ and he never can have 1t. The forces against
[ him are overwhelming.
/ The Civil War abolished chartel slavery.
/ Il i'd not settle the negro problem. ltSettled
Z the union question aud created the negro prob
I lem Frederic Harrison. the English philos-
which clouds the future OF the American re
( pubiic is the approaching tragedy OF the lrrec.
uncilab.e conflict between the negro sud white
niAu iu the development Of cur society. Mr.
Z James Bryce recently made similar state.
mcul.
The Argument os' tho Ostrich Man.
Ii allowed 10 remain here the negro race IN
the nited States will number 90. 600 900 at
T the esd uf this century by their present rate
/ Of INCREASE Ihiuk Of shat this means for q
momsut auI you face the grayest problem
/ which ever puzzled the brain OF statesman or
l philosopher Ne such problem ever before
z confronted the white man IN his recorded his
I tory II cannot BE- wbistirl dowu by oPpor
{ tggssts. politicians, weak minded opsimIsis OF
{ iriaalc n,en. Il must b. .guarely mcl and
tJsght Ga = huisb-
( Several ela<srs Of people al present ohsirnct
ans srrioas consideration ~ tins question:
the rot house pojiiiciass, the ostrich IHan. the
I l,t.oh pooh uaf,, and thr benevolent old maid
I The politician IS still busy over the black
.tan vote 5u doub,fs states, The pooh pooh
I man needs no defnition--he WAS q born fool.
. The benevolent old maid contributes every
I iius. the hat Is passed and Is pretty sure Ia do
Z .. much harm a. good iB the long ran 20 any
cause. E4s ostrich man - the funniest Ut Ali
. ia5s group a' ohstYuctioaisis, for be IS a man
ct hraiDs and capacity.
have a friend ui thss Kind IN Nes YORK.
II~ SO' after Hle the other day somewhat IN
ihia fssh3os,
What do you want 80 keep agi,aiing lhss
internal question cor ? There's 80 danger ~
il naI~ss vou STIR IT, Let Il alone. | grant
yua ,h1i the ncero race is = paor, worthless
parasite. whose criminal and animal instincts
threaten society. hut The negro y here TO
slay. VI. gnust tram hiui. Il d the only
thiaz We ran Do. 80 whats ihe use TO waste
yoar breath
..Bus shat Alaat ihe fainre wheu yuu have
sIaca,ri ,he negro o. asked t,mlily.
"I-i lhr futar. tsk~ car- OF iIs-ift the
ostrich man sunr,rd. We live IA the pres
puf. WhAts the use 30 werry about bell 1t
I can scramble ,hruash this world successfully
i'fs take nv chances W;th the hell problem
~ frsrnd sorKels thas ibis VAS precisely the
Z line of afsafsrui of our fathers over the CUES
tlaa uf negro slavery. When the constructive
.sals,mea ot Nlrg,u.A called pess,mssts and
,uhd.l. ir ihrlr DAY loFssaN thv coming bag
il.m af fr,. Aud blood i'6l 10 65l over the
urzr5 slave. they attempted 10 destroy the
slavr irs.ie aai abolish slavery. My friend
can dnJ hts very words IA the answer OF their
opponents. lat the lgtarc take care ot itself
I TIE -sayes ar, here aud here 10 stay. Greater
evils a~als ihe3r ireejom. We u~rd their
IAlftFH 4fft +Af htaf'ftAa--' sNA'tt+ --'''N ~
{ danger ie Il unless yJa slly u.
The traih which !. gradually iorcIug itself
{ ur.sa ,hausbllal student, oi our nat,oual lie
! i. ihas as schem. of s.ducatius or religion can
{ ,.siys the rave problem. and that NJ BOOKER
( T. Washiust0u's plan, h0Sever high and
( ruh.s. can only iaivusity its dlalcuigies-
I Thi, cluvictiou Is based On lev big fun
B Itnsuial facts. Whirb no pooh pUohing.
p>,r:ea 1aIging. weak minded Philanlhropy
Oh political rant csn obscure.
{ The hfst oee tS that nu amount Of educailnn
( al sns Kind. industrial. classical or religious,
can make q Negro white msn or bridge 'le
/ eh.ssa uf The centuries which separate nm
,rum The white mau ia the evolution OF human
I civilization,
+ Expressed even in The most brutal terms Of
I ArgIa saxon -upenoriIy there is herr an ire
Iaeibl- fact; ID is possibly true. as the negro,
Professor Kelly Miller. claims. that the Angie
/ SaNeu /, .'the most arrogant and Tapueious,
I the mast exclusive aHd lntoleran' race ~ his
I tory Even so. what answer can be gwen
I 10 his cold hiooi=d proposition Can you
/ change The color Of the negro skin, the kink
/ OF his hair. the bulge OF bis lip or the beat OF
his heart with a spelling book or maehIue2
! what Abraham Lincoln said.
/ Ne man has expressed this idea more clearly
I than Abraham Lincoln when he said There
( j. a physical difference between the white and
black races which, | believe, will forever for
bad them living together on terms Of social
I and political equality.
/ Whence this physical difference! lis secret
/ lies Ia the gulf OF thousands of years OF lnher.
! tied progress which separates the child OF the
Aryan from the child OF the African.
Buckle in his History Of Civilization says
The actions OF bad seu produce only TEN
II. Of mar IA 4
/ Temporary good. The discoveries OF genius
atone remain it i 10 them We owe all that
we now have; they are for all ages and for all
[ times: never Young and never old, they bear
the seeds OF their own lives; they are essen
TALLY cumulative.
Judged by this supreme test, what coniribu
7 iion 10 human progress have the millions oi
| Africans who inhabit this planet made during
/ the past four thousand years Absolutely
nothing. And yet, Mr.. Booker I. Washing
ton rn !. recent burst Of eioquence over his
educational work boldly declares
The negro race has developed more rapidly
/ in the thirty wears Of its freedom than the
l.afia race has in one thousand years OF free
dom.
Think for moment of the pitiful pueriliiy
of this statement falling from the lips of the
4 greatest aud wiseS leader the negro race has
yet produced
Italy is the mother of genius, the inspiration
of the ages the creator OF architecture, agr'
/ culture, manufactures commerce, Law, science,
philosophy, finance. church organization,
sculpture. music, painting and literature, and
vet the American negro in thirty years has
oustrippcd her thousands of years OF priceless
| achievement
Education is the development OF that which
is. The negro has held the continent OF
| Africa since the dawn of history, crunching
acres of diamonds beneath his feet. Yet he
never picked one up from the dust until a
white man showed to him its light His land
swarmed with powerful and docile animals,
| vet he never built "A harness. cart or sled.
hunter by necessity, he never made AN AK,
spear or arrowhead worth preserving beyond
the moment of its use. In land OF stone
and timber. he never carved block, sawed a
foot of lumber or built house save OF broken
sticks and mud, and for four thousand years
he gazed upon the sea yet never dreamed a
| sail.
Who is the greatest negro that ever lived
according Ia Mr.. Booker /. Washington
Through all his books he speaks this man s
name with bated breath and uncovered head
'Frederick Douglass of sainted memory !!
! And what did Saint Frederick do? Spent a
! life in bombastic vituperation OF the men