The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-12
PROBLEM OF SOUTH 4
FAST BEING SOLVED
Governor Hayward Sees Hope in
Efforts to Settle Race
Question.

Nashville, Nov. 1.-THE second an.
ton. and quarantine conference was
called to order today at the capitol.
The conference was organized a. year
ago at Chattanooga, and its efforts re-
suited indirectly in the enactment Of
better quarantine regulations by the
federal government. s--.t-e ~
This year the immigration, question
Will be considered. The real purpose
of the conference is to bring about
more equitable distribution Of the i'm
migrants who reach the United States
from foreign shores. Various plans are
suggested for Kidding the south Of it's
worthless negroes, and the race uues-
ton, therefore, was early injected into
the discussion. -
May Solve Race Problem.
Governor Hayward said the coming
of immigrants to the south is bearing
of the race problem. There had been
too. much theorizihg, 1t was time for
action. He said:
without precedent in the history
OF the world to be guided by, nearly
always misunderstood that misiudged,
the people Of the south have for more
than forty years sought to reconcile
differences which were bound to arise
between n, two races living upon the same
soil. These races differ widely in in
telllgence and moral responsibility, one
being distinstly inferior to the other.
Only till a few years ago the inferior
race was in servitude to the superior
race, and, with no preparation what
ever, was given equal civil and polit-
zeal rights under the constitution. 1
:r.- = Sees Homo in Progress So :
"Unler such adverse circumstances
no other people upon this earth could
have succeeded as well as the southern
people have. done in meeting existing
conditions; and this fact alone should
not only give US courage and hope for
the future. but should entitle us to the
trust and confidence Of the world.
Sectional feeling fortunately is
passing away and our people under
stand each other better. Problems
winch were at one time peculiarly
southern are becoming national. We
Americans are more and more mutually
carrying the white man s burden We
have been seeking for some time to
economic systems which will affect the
negro alone and which will, at the same
time. aid in solving our problems.
II do not think that conditions
which are the result of years can be
changed in a day by the adoption of
any rule or the enactment of any spe-
cial legislation: To solve the race ques.
tion will require. not. only time, but
patience and Judgment on the part Of
| the white men and upon the part of the
I negro, it will call for: the exercise of
! more common sense and a@far greater
appreciation of his moral responsible
ity.". r., -. 49, =. -, ,0D.
Deportation Unsafe. ~ /.
Governor Hayward then enumerated
the solutions Of the problems which had
been suggested and tried from time to
time, and all Of which had failed.
In speaking of the plan to deport
negroes; Governor Hayward said the de-
port sscohld&no be attempted IN
less it became national and not a
southern movement. Such a move
ment, he saidnweuld not be attempted
until the negro problem is better un-
derstood and more acute at the north
than il. is now.
&"In the course Of time,' he con.
tinued,. the negro, who is now rapidly
| increasing in certain cities of the north,
may, by his failure to meet the expecta.
tions Of the people of the north and his
own consequent responsibility, become
| such hindrance and menace that our
| northern friends will be ready to do
something more than simply give advice
to the sOuth.,,