The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-28
NEGRO PROBLEM GAN NOT NOW BE SOLVED Dr. A. J. Dickinson Talks of the
 Race Question NEGRO MUST 60 OR DIE Neither Is racticabIe-Ravages Made hy Disease Upon Neeroes-6ooker Washington's Usefulness Ended.
 Humane Peonage Advocated.
NEGRO MUST GO OR DIE

The Rev. Dr. A. J. Dickinson, pastor of the First Baptist church of Blr- mingham in commenting recently on the negro problem or race question in the United States, made this informing and Illuminating statement:
 "Of course, 1 have thought much on this problem, as every southerner Is forceed to do who would meet the issues of life Tn his own day and time.
 'The problem is at present to my mind insouble l cannot think that any solu- tion suggested Is at all practicable or pos slble The deportation of nine millions of men and women is both physically and legally impossible. We might colonize some of them and do some good in reliev- ing the stress for season, but the situa. tion would speedily return to a condi- tlon of stress and strain again.
 "The negro Is here and here to stay, and must be counted as a factor in the future of society. This will always give to society in the south an element pecu- liar to itself which will differentiate us from the north and east until they have this some problem in their midst.
 "Now, I believe American society should be homogeneous, and since we cannot get rid of the negro in the south and so come to the conditions prevailing hitherto in the north, l favor the encouraging of our surplus negroes to go north and bring them to our condition. This will tend to keep the negro from making q schism in American society. Let us serve notice on our northern friends now that we propose to divide our white mans burden with them Then we will see this race question alike and can meet it's problems with something of concert of action This will put something of sanity in the people of the north in dealing with this problem But so long as they disregard the condi- tons of peace between the races in the south and among themselves against Us in our programme for dealing with this pressing problem, union, political and ecclesiastical, between the two sections fig impossible.
 Mischievous White Man.
 Mine times out of ten there has been some mischievous white man instigating race trouble whenever trouble has coma The northern white man who disregards the natural differences between the races has been the negroes worst enemy. Book CT Washington ought to have known this and been above allowing himself to be patronizngly used by these mischief makers in our relations as two separ- ate and distinct races. I think his use fulness at the south Is ended and the best thing he can do now Is to move his institution to Philadelphia. The new turn he has taken to foster notions of social equality into the negro's head means woe untold to his fellows of both races As just reward for his thoughtlessness In disregarding what he must know Is one oi the laws of social peace under the prevailing conditions of the south. Our people should not only drop him but give him passage out of the country.
 But 1T he is going to live in the south ne must not become the emissary of mis- chlef rom thoughtless and antagonistic white men of the north, whose only inter- est In this race problem Is to use 1t to our uhdoins. The negroes of the south ought to be the first to repudiate this new apostle of social equality, for as cer- taln as fate his course means distress 10 them. For 1t has been decreed by both races that amalgamation shall not be the solution of this question in the south The southern white man has decided that his own greatest heritage is the Anglo Saxon blood in his veins and has decreod that his children's children shall inherit this same blessing unpoluted and uncon- tamnated.
 Our BreastWorks.
 Hence the two races must live sepa- rate. Social separation Is the breastworks which we have thrown up to protect ra- cial integrity and the man, white or black, who dares to make a breech in our breastworks can but be counted our enemy Any man with any sympathy with this effort to protect the purity of the Ango-Saxon blood of children yet un- born should cooperate with us in this effort whether he lives north or south
 "Ihe thing that puzzles me is that northern white men should try to destroy their own race in the south. It implies a malice against us hard to explain I be- lieye this thing Is coming home to them l recently spent month In the city of Chicago and could but observe the large proportion of mulattoes among the north ern negroes. Here in the south the mulat- to is decreasing rapidly. In the north he Is increasing. I predict that unless the north changes it's attitude towards this matter of social equality between the i races that it is destined to have such an condemnation that f. will be impossible to tell who is white and who is not. 1 am in favor of thrusting this problem on them as speedily as possible, and in as acute form as may be by sending them negroes by the thousands, and then they will have their eyes opened to the se- rlougness of this situation and we will come to cooperate with and not oppose each other in solving how two races may live together separate and distinct, and yet in mutual ,1elpfulness.
 For the solution must be found along