The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-18
DIR. STAGG SPEAKS
 ON NEGRO PROBLEM
Booker Washington'S Theory of Education Is ErrO-
 neOuS-- Different Ethnic Types.

rights and relations. At the momen, history discovers the Teuton he is bound together by common blood, com mon speech. common desires and com mon aspirations. The price of life l and limb was paid, not by the wrong doer. but by the family or house sof the wrongdoer to the family or house of the wronged. Order and law were thus , made to rest upon each group of peo- pie. and upon the blood which united them together. Every outrage was who were linked by blood to the iwfongdoer. The homestead clustered arond a moot hill, where the whole community assembled and administered justice. where they cut the turf from the soil and delivered 1t from man to man, and thus the difficulties of tribes lwere settled.
 l Under this conception the feudal system arose, but 1t gave to the world an ideal of representative government, | in which the people should take part, such as is seen in England or Germany today. When John Bright plead in the En glish parliament for an extension of the English franchise it was to carry out this great conception. Charles Sum ner took up the arguments of John | Bright and applied them to the con- icrete problem of American slavery and brought to the negro, in emancipation. an evil from which he has never yet recovered by loading him with the franchise. Mir. Gladstone. when he plead for home rule in Ireland, was but seeking to give man his place in gov- ] ernmental affairs, that this racial idea had recognized years and years ago. The Teuton made a distinctive advance on the place occupied oy many in the state conception. and that occupied by him in the priestly chieftain idea. but the feudal system had developed the individual will until a spirit of liberty, whose pent up force made all the na- tions to rest as on a volcano, and the call for the rights of individuals began that urged forward society toward that free and lofty unity. the glorious ob- ject of the wishes of mankind. It was left for the slave to put the finishing touch upon the work of the Greek, and the Roman, the Celt and the Teuton. Russia's Ideal Miscarried. At this period in the history of the world Russia formed a perfect worlds exposition of races, where it was clear ly to be seen that of one blood God had made all people that dwell on the face of the earth. They ought to have taught the doctrine which was a le- gitimate Continuation of all these racial A0CoASs anu tiiot AhC AA6AAto Oh VFCAJ SOhA and the value of every unit should be safeguarded, and that no czar, no king no parliament, no corporations, no trust should shut out any honest toiler who sought for his honest and legitimate living from the world. This means a federation of man. brotherhood of humanity, the fatherhood of God, the end and aim of all governments. Eve ry man on Gods earth has a lawful hartfa0a iu fha f0ffhfnl labor. and that government is doomed forever that does not recognize such to be the law of God. and the end of all governments Is to make it the law of man.
 This great conception the epitome of all civilization. however. was lost in Russia and the most damnable oligar- chy in the history of the race took its place. One man, however, lives to H. lustrate this glorious conception. That man is Tolstoy. who is meek in the sense which Jesus taught meekness; that he Is able to live without the things of this world; he has a spiritual ity which enables him to ignore the temporal; he has reverence for God and man that makes him harmless to all mankind. He needs no government because he is governed from above. He says that English and American gov ernments are the best that humanity has produced, but both are bad be- cause they look upon man as a creature |of government rather than government as the servant of man.
 The Divine Hand.
 This is what I denominate for con- venience the long line of history on which God works. It failed in Rus sia. Then he went back on what I am pleased to call the short line, and he took the people or the various parts of Europe and brought them to these shores. and here in America, began a career looking to the consummation of the great conception Of the Slav.
 Upon this great idea as a founda- tion the hopes of the race are builded. There are many parts of the earth yet to be affected by it, and without in any sense playing the preaching act one may claim the promulgating of this idea makes the clear line of Providence on which the race is to work out its destiny.
 Japanese Appropriation.
 Tn 1868 the Japanese realized that they were nothing. and that they had no ideas that could make a contained and coutented race, and they sent out to the universities of Europe and America picked young men. who were to adopt all that goes to the making of the best civilization. They have adopted so much that they may be termed a veneered people, but their ideas have nevertheless undergone great changes, and while they have the basic principle of their life and relig- ion in patriotism, nevertheless they have learned the great conception of the Slav-that the individual is the something for the benefit of which all governments have their existence, and all peoples their life.
 "In the fiercest war in the history of man, both on land and sea, they have made the means for taking to Russia the schools of America. The con quering of Russia will eventually make the Russian free, for the reason that he will be brought again in contact with this great racial Idea for which all races lived that have taken place in the world.
 The Chinese.
 Suppose the Japanese should go in- to China and wake up the Chinaman and say to him: We have come with out any guns or battleships we have come to teach you the most valuable thing in China is the Chinaman; that the purpose of government is to help man." Then in an instant the yellow plague Is gotten rid of
 Napoleon dreaded them because he was a man of the sword. Four hundred and fifty million untrained people would give a huge task for the sword, but four hundred and fifty million of unlettered people put In the ways of peace would make a task for the loom, and for the factories and for the farm, that would change the face of the earth Forty million bales of cotton