The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-08-25
Booker Washington
And The Negro
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THE DANGER OF A NATION WITHIN A
NATION.
The trouble with Mr.. Booker r.
Wasington's work is that he is ST.
lcntly preparing us for the future
heaven of Amalgamation-or he is
doing something equally dangerous,
namely, he is attempting to build a
nation inside a nation of two hostile
races. In this event he is storing
dynamite beneath the pathway of
our children-thc end at last can
only Lc in bloodshed.
Mr.. Washington is not training
negroes to take their place in any
industrial 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 mas
ters 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 vestigc of dependence on the
white man for anything.
l do not say this is not laudablc
Il do not say that it is not noble.
only ask what will be its end for
the Negro when the work is perfect?
Every pupil who passes through
Mr.. Washington's hands ceases for
ever to work under white man
Not only so, but nc goes forth train
ed as an evangelist to preach the
doctrine of separation and indt :
pendencc.
The negro remains on this Con-
tincnt for one reason only. The
Southern white man has needed his
labor, and therefore has fought cv-
cry suggestion of his removal. But
when he refuses longer to work. for
the white man, then what?
Mr.. Booker T. Washington says
OH page G5 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 bor-
rover? Hardly, if the negro is the
banker. Even now, with the white
man still hugging the hoary delu-
sion that he can't get along without
the negro, he is being forced to
look to the Old World for labor.
The simple truth is, the South will
lag behind the world industrially 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 onc-third
of the cotton crop is to-day raised
by negro labor. Even now the re-
lations of the races, with the negro
an integral part of the white mans
industrial scheme, become more and
more difficult.
4 GULF THAT GROWS WIDE.
Professor Kelly Miller says: 1T
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
arc many things in the relations of
the two races that must soon be
changed (page 65). The point
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 a
Southern white man cannot endure
it 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."
And then the real tragedy will
begin. Does any sane man believe
that when the Negro ceases to work
under the direction of the Southern
white man, this arrogant" "ra-
pacious" and 'intolerant" race
will allow the Negro to master his
industrial system, take the bread
from his mouth, crowd him to the
wall and place a mortgage on his
house? Competition is war the
most fierce and brutal of all it's
forms. Could fatuity reach
sublimer height than the idea that
the white man will stand idly by