Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1905-10-06

M cry, My friend can find his very words
In the answer OF their opponents, LET
the future take care OF itself Tho
slaves are here and here to stay. Great-
er evils await their freedom. We need
their labor Let the question alone
, 'rhere Is no danger in 1t unless you
I. stir It."
10 the truth which is gradually forcing
itself upon thoughtful students OF our
national life Is that no scheme of edu-
g cation or religion can solve the race
problem, and that Mt. Booker T. Wash
ingtons plan, however high and noble
can only intensity sits. difficulties.
This conviction 81 based on few big
n fundankntal facts.~ which no pooh
II pooling ostrich-dodging weak-minded
philanthropy or political rant can OBJ
scure
The Erst one n that no amount Of
a education OF any kind. Industrial. clas-
= steal or religious, can make q negro a
ID white man or bridge the chasm of the
- centuries which separate him from the
y white man In the evolution OF human
" civilization.
~ Expressed even In the most brutal
/ terms Of Anglo-Saxon superiority there
VI Is here an irreducible fact. II Ia posi-
l. bly, true, as the negro, Professor Kelly
= Miller, claims. that the Anglo-Sax Is
i the most arrogant and rapacious, the
u most exclusive and intolerant race In
history" Even 80, what answer can
! BIO given to his cold-blooded PROPOSE
!, ton: Can you change the color Of the
u Negroes skin, the kink OF HIS hair, the
i bulge OF his lip or the beat of his heart
i with spelling-book or machine?"
What Abraham Lincoln eaId. ,.Ae
No man has expressed this idea more
clearly than Abraham Lincoln when he
: said; There is 4 physical difference
between the white and black races
which, believe. will forever forbid
I them living together on terms Of social
and political equality
l Whence this physical dlfferenceY Its
secret lies in the gulf OF thousands Of
years OF Inherited progress which sep
arates the child Of the Aryan from tho
child OF the African.
: Buckle in his History OF Civilization
says: "The actions OF bad men produce
only temporary evil. the actions OF good
men only temporary good. The discov-
cries OF genius alone remain: Il Ia 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 |
essentially cumulative" &
Judged by this supreme test, what
contribution to human progress have |
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this planet made during the past four
thousand yearsf Absolutely nothing.
And yet Mr.. Booker T. Washington in
recent burst OF eloQuence over his
educational work boldly declares:
The negro race has developed moro
rapidly in the thirty years of its free
dom than the Latin race haa IN one
thousand years Of freedom"
er tiiep kkegff6S Face fXsf Yet apr6aacedsis
Italy Is the mother Of genius. the in
SEPARATION 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 con-
tinent OF Africa since the dawn OF his
tory. crunching acres OF diamonds be-
meath HIS feet. Yet he never picked
one up from the dust until a white man
showed 10 him Its light His land
swarmed with powerful and docile ami
mails, yet he never built harness. cart
or sled. hunter by necessity, he
never made an AK. spear or arrowhead
worth preserving beyond the moment
OF its use In a land OF stone and tim
Der, he never carved block, sawed q
foot OF lumber or built house save Of
broken sticks and mud. and for four
thousand years he gazed upon the sea
| yet never dreamed n sail
| Who Is the greatest negro that ever
lived according to Mr.. Booker r. Wash
ingtonf Through all his books he
speaks this mans name with bated
breath and uncovered head--"Frederick
Douglass Of sainted memory" And
what did Saint Frederick dor Spent
| life in bombastic vituperatlon OF tho
men whose genius created the Ameri-
can republic. wore himself out finally
drawing his salary Ms a federal Office
holder, and at last achieved tho climax
| Of negro salnthood by marrying q white
womani
What Education Cannot DO.
Says the author OF Napoleon, Hon
orable Thomas Il. Watson: Education
10 a good thing. but II never did and
never will alter the essential character
OF any man or race Of men"
repeat, education In the develop
msnt of that which IL. Behold the man
whom the rags OF slavery once con-
cealed-nine millions strong! This
creature, with a racial record OF four
thousand years OF lncapacity. half-child,
half-animal, the sport Of impulse, within
and conceit. pleased with a rattle
tickled with q straw. a being who. left
TO his will, roams at night and sleeps
in tho day, whose native tongue has
framed no word OF love, whose pas
sions once aroused are as the tigers
equality Ia the law OF our lifel-when
he IL educated and ceases 10 Ill his use
full sphere as servant and peasant. what
are you going to do with him7
The second big fact which confronts
tho thoughtful. patriotic American IL
that the greatest calamity which could
possibly befall this republic would be
the corruption Of our national char
acter by the assimilation Of the negro
race. have never seen white man
Of any brains who disputes this fact.
I have never seen a negro OF any ca
pacity who did not deny It.
One thought would burn into the
soul Of every young American land
who thinks Of a negro when he says
"Americanr)-this Our republic Ia
great not by reason OF the amount OF
| dirt we pOARaaa or the nlZe Of Onr con- |