The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-08-26

reach the nlRueS pOSlLlOuS ID W pre-
pare himself to fill well at the present
the basic occupations"-independent
industries, of courSe-fOr, mark you,
"Tuskegee Institute is not a servant
training school.
Again on pages S3 and IS we are
told: There is an unmistakable ln-
fiuence that comes owe q white man
when he e a black man living in a
two-story brick house that has been
paid for. | need not stop to explain.
Just in so far as we can place rich ne
groes in the South, who can loan mon
ey to white men, this race question
will disappear"
Why?
The conclusion is obvious: The ne
gro who holds a mortgage on a white
mans house will ultimately demand
and receive social recognition from
him.
On page sc of his Future Of the
American Negro he says: The Jew,
who was once ia about the same pO-
Sition 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 pathet-
ic ignorance Of history it displays but
for the revelation of the writer's secret
hopes and dreams.
The Jew has not been aSSimilated
Into Il civil and social life because OF
his money-hut for a very different
reason. The Jew belongs to our race,
the same great division of humanity.
The Semetic group of the white race
is, all in all, the greatest evolved IN
history. Their children have ever led
the vanguard of human progress and
achievements. A great historian and
philosopher once said: Show me a
man of transcendant genius at any
period of the worlds history and III
show you mar with Hebrew blood in
his VEINS" Our prejudice against
the Jew is not because of his inferior
ity, 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 civilization -had his poets,
prophets, priests and kingS-when our
Germanic ancestors were still in the
woods cracking cocoanutS and hick-
DRY nuts with monkeys We have as
ISimilated the Jew because his daugh-
ter is beautiful and his son strong in
mind and body!
The trouble with Mr.. Booker L.
| WaShington'S work is that he is ST.
lently 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-the end at last a only be
in bluodShed.
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 nan He is training
them all to be masters Of men, to be
independent, to own and operate their
own industries, plant their W fields,
buy and sell their OWL goods, and in
every shape and form destroy the last
veStige of dependence on the white
man for anything.
/ do not say this is not laudible-l
do not say that it is not noble. | on
ly ask what will be it's end for the ne
gro when the work is perfect? Every
pupil who passes through Mr.. Wash
ingtOn'S hand ceases forever to work
under a white man. Not only SO, but
he goes forth trained as ar evangelist
to preach the doctrine of separation
and independence.
The negro remains on this Cont
nent for n reason only. The South
ern white man has needed his labor,
and therefore has fought every Sug.
gestiOn of his removal. But when he
refuses longer to work for the white
man, then what?
Mr.. Booker. II. Washington says on
page 65 of his book: THE negro
must live for all time beside the Sou
them white man."
On what sort Of terms are they tC
live together? AS banker and Dor.
rover? 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 tt
the Old World for labor. The idea
that a white man cannot work in the
fields of the South is exploded. Only
one-third of the cotton 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.
Professor Kelley Miller says, III
is a matter of common observation
that the races are growing further and
further apart"
NJ. Woca;putoo cavc on this nOinf,