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


men, this race question will disappear.
Why?
The conclusion is obvious: The ne
gro who holds mortgage on a white
mans house will ultimately demand
and receive social recognition from
him.
On page 66 Of his Future of the
American Negro he says: "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 it 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-bat 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 ir
history Their children have ever led
the vanguard of human progress and
achievements. A great historian and
philosopher once said: SHOW me
man of transcendert genius at any
period Of the worlds history and I'll
show you man with Hebrew blood in
his veins" Our =. eJudice 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 a noble civiliza-
tion-had his poets, prophets, priests
and kings-when our Germanic ances-
tors were still in tie woods cracking
cocoanuts and hickorynuts with mon
keys. We have assimilated the Jew be-
cause his daughter is beautiful and his
son strong in mind and body!
The Danger of Nation Within
Nation.
The trouble with Mr.. Booker T.
Washington's work is that he is silent
ly preparing us for the future heaven
of amalgamation-or he is doing some
thing equally dangerous, namely, he is
attempting to build nation inside a
nation of two hostile races. In this
event he is storing dynamite beneath
the pathway of our children-the end
at last can only be in bloodshed.
Mr.. Washington is not training ne
groes to take their place in any indus
trial system of the south in which the
white man can direct or control him.
He is not training his students to be
servants and come at the beck and call
of any man. He is training them all to
be masters of men, to be Independent,
to own and operate their own indus
tries. plant their own fields, buy and
sell their own goods, and in every shape
and form destroy the last vestige of
dependence on the white man for any,
thing.
do not say this is not laudable-I
do not say that it is not noble. l only
ask what will be its end for the negro
when the work is perfect? Every pupil
who passes through Mr.. Washingtons
hand ceases forever to work under a
white man. Not only so, but he goes
forth trained as an evangelist to preach
the doctrine of separation and inde-
pendence.
The negro remains on this continent
for one reason only. The southern
white man has needed his labor, ain
therefore has fought every suggestion
of his removal. But when he refuses
longer to work for the white man, then
what?
Mr.. Booker T. Washington says on
page 65 Of his book: "The negro must
live for all time beside the southern
white man."
On what sort of terms are they to
live together? AS banker and borrower?
Hardly, If the negro is the banker.
Even now, with the white man still
hugging the hoary delusion that he
can't get along without the negro, he is
being forced to look to the Old World
for his labor. The simple truth is, the
south will lag behind the world indus
trially in just so far as she depends on
negro labor. The idea that a white man
cannot work in the fields of the south
is exploded. Only one-third of the cot
ton crop is today raised by negro labor.
Even now the relations of the races,
with the negro an integral part of the
white mans industrial scheme, become
more and more difficult.
A Gulf That Grows Wide.
Professor Kelly Miller says: at is a
matter of common observation that the
races are growing further and further
apart"
Mr.. Washington says on this point:
"for the sake of the negro and the
southern white man there are many
things in the relations of the two races
that must soon be changed" (page 65).
The point l raise is that education
necessarily drives the races further and
further apart, and Mr.. Washington's
brand of education makes the gulf be-
tween them if anything little deeper.
If there is one thing southern white
man cannot endure 1t is an educated
negro. What's to be the end of it If the
two races are to live forever side by
side in the south?
Mr. Washington says: "Give the
black man so much skill and brains
that he can cut oats like the white
man-then he can compete with him"