Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-08-25

live for all time beside the southern
white man."
On what sort Of terms are they to
live together? AS banker and borrow
er? Hardly, II the negro Is the bank
er. 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 labor. The simple truth Is,
the south will lag behind the world In
dustrially In just so far as she depends
on negro labor The idea that white
man cannot work in the fields Of the
south Is exploded. Only one-third OF
the cotton crop is today raised by ne
gro labor. Even now the relations OF
the races, with the negro an Integral
part Of the white mans industrial
scheme, become more and more diff
ficult
A Gulf That Grows Wide.
Professor Kelly Miller says: 1T Is
matter Of common observation that
the races are growing further and fur
ther 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 $50.
The point raise Is that education nee
essarily drives the races further and
further apart, and Mr. Washington's
brand of education makes the gulf be-
tween them IL anything little deeper.
II there Is one thing a southern white
man cannot endure 1t Is an educated
negro. What's to be the end Of 1t II
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" "rapacious' and "in-
tolerant" race will allow the negro to
master his Industrial system, take the
bread from his mouth. crowd him to
the wall and place mortgage on his
house? Competition Is war-the most
fierce and brutal Of all its forms. Could
faulty reach a sublimer height than
the idea that the white man will stand
idly by and see this performance?
What will he do when put to the test?
He will do exactly what his white
neighbor In the north does when the
negro threatens his bread-kill him!
Abraham Lincoln foresaw this
tragedy when he wrote his Emancipa-
ton Proclamation. and he asked con-
gress for an appropriation Of a billion
dollars to colonize the whole negro
race. He never believed It possible to
assimilate the negro into our national
life. This nation will yet come back
to Lincoln's plan, still so eloquently ad-
vocated by the negro bishop, Henry M.
Turner.
It Is curious how the baldheaded as
sertion Of a lie can be repeated and
repeated until millions Of sane people
will accept the bare assertion as an
established fact. At the close of the
| war, Mr. Lincoln, brooding over the
insoluble problem Of the negro's fu-
ture which his proclamation had Great
ed, asked General Benjamin F. But
ler to devise and report to him imme-
diately a plan to colonize the negroes.
General Butler, naturally hostile to the
idea, made at once his famous, false
and facetious report, that ships could
not be found to carry the negro babies
to African as fast as they are born!
The president was assassinated few
DAYS later. This lie Is now forty odd
years old, and Mr.. Booker T. wash
tngton actually repeats 1t as a verbal
inspiration though entirely unconscious
of its historic origin.
We have spent about $800,0O0,OOO on
negro education since the war. One
half of this sum would have been suf-
fcient to have made Liberia rich and
powerful negro state. Liberia Is cap
able of supporting every negro In
America. Why not face this question
squarely? We are temporizing and
playing with 1t. All our educational
schemes are compromises and tempor-
ary makeshifts. Mr.. Booker T. Wash
ington's work Is one Of noble aims. A
branch of 1t should be Immediately es-
tablished in Monrovia, the capital OF
Liberia. A gift Of ten millions would
do this, and establish a colony Of half
million negroes within two years.
They could lay the fundations OF
free black republic which within twen-
ty-fve years would solve our race
problem on the only rational basis
within human power Colonization Is
not a failure. 1t has never been tried.
We owe this to the negro. At pres
ent we are deceiving him and allow
ing him to deceive himself. He hopes
and dreams of amalgamation forget
ting that self f-preservation Is the first
law Of nature. Our present attitude OF
hypocrisy is inhuman toward a weaker
race brought to our shores by the sins
of our fathers. We owe him square,
deal and we will never give 1t to him
on this continent.
| - - - -