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infidels in their day. foresaw the COM
ing baptism of fire and blood C61 to
500 over the negro slave, they attempt
ed to destroy the slave trade and
abolish slavery. My friend can find
his very words in the answers Of their
opponents Let the future take care
of itself! The slaves are here and
here to stay. Greater evils await their
freedom. We need their labor. Let
the question alone. There Is no dan
ger in 1t unless you stir It,"
The truth which is gradually forcing
itself upon thoughtful students Of our
national life is that no scheme Of edu-
cation or religion can solve the race
problem, and that Mr.. Booker T. Wash
ington's plan, however high and noble,
can only intensity its difficulties.
This conviction Is based on q few
big fundamental facts, which no pooh
pooling, ostrich -dodging, weak-mind-
ed philanthropy or political rant can
obscure.
The first one Is that no amount Of
education of any kind, industrial, clas-
sical or religious. can make a negro
a white man or bridge the chasm Of
the centuries which separate him from
the white man in the evolution Of hu-
man civilization.
Expressed even In the most brutal
terms Of Anglo Saxon superiority there
Is here an irreducible fact. 1t is pos
sibly true, as the negro, Professor Kelly
Miller claims, that the Anglo Saxon Is
the most arrogant and rapacious, the
most exclusive and intolerant race in
history" Even so, what answer can be
given to his coldblooded proposition:
Can you change the color Of the ne
gro's skin the kink Of his hair, the
bulge Of his lip or the beat Of his heart
with a spelling book or a machine?"
What Abraham Lincoln Said.
No man has expressed this idea more
clearly than Abraham Lincoln when
he said: There Is q physical differ
ence between the white and black races
which, I believe. will forever forbid
them living together on terms Of social
and political equality"
Whence this physical difference?
It's secret lies in the gulf Of thousands
Of years Of inherited progress which
separates the child Of the Aryan from
the child of the African.
Buckle In his History Of Civilization
says: 1.-The actions Of bad men produce
only temporary good. The discoveries
Of genius alone remain: II Is to 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 es-
sentially cumulative"
Judged by this supreme test, what
contribution to human progress have
the millions Of Africans who inhabit
this planet made during the past four
thousand years? Absolutely nothing.
And yet, Mr.. Booker T. Washington
In a recent burst Of eloquence over
his educational work boldly declares:
1.-THE negro race has developed more
rapidly in the thirty years Of its free
dom than the Latin race has In one
thousand years of freedom"
Think for a moment Of the pltiful
puerility of this statement falling from
the lips Of the greatest and wisest lead
er the negro has yet produced!
Italy Is the mother Of genius, the
inspiration of the ages, the creator OF
architecture, agriculture, manufactures,
commerce, law, science, philosophy,
finance, church organization, sculpture,
music, painting and literature, and yet
the American negro in thirty years has
outstripped 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 white man
showed to him its light. His land
swarmed with powerful and docile an
imals, yet he never built a harness,
cart or sled A hunter by necessity,
he never made an axe spear or arrow
head worth preserving beyond the mo-
ment Of its use. In a land Of stone
hn
sawed foot of lumber or built house
save Of broken sticks and mud, and
for four thousand years he gazed up
on the sea yet never dreamed a sail.
Who is the greatest negro that ever
lived according to Mr.. Booker T. Wash
ington? Through all his books he
speaks this mans name with bated
breath and uncovered head-"Fred-
erick Douglass Of sainted memory"
And what did Saint Frederick do?
Spent a life in bombastic vituperation
of the men whose genius created the
American Republic, wore himself out
finally drawing his salary as Fed
eral office-holder, and at last achieved
the climax Of negro sainthood by mar
rying a white woman!
What Education Cannot Do.
Says the author Of Napoleon. Hon
orable Thomas E. Watson: Education
Is a good thing, but it 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 a rascal record of four
thousand years of incapacity, half
child, half-animal, the sport OF I'M
pulse. whim and conceit, pleased with
a rattle, tickled with a 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 passions once aroused are as the
tigers-equality is the law Of our life!
when he is educated and ceases to
fill his useful sphere as servant and
peasant, what are you going to do with
him?
The second big fact which confronts
the thoughtful, patriotic American Is