Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-01-14
WHAT A WOMAN THINKS
PROBLEM AS IT TODAY INVOLVES THE SOUTH
 AND WHAT SHE THINKS TO BE TIE ONLY REMEDY
for the 5hic

| can We elevate the negro IT ICfl. a years? I don't know what this in :. aginary elevation is, but l don't thin l. We can elevate him in two thousan' ! years by educattion if forty year
 did not bring him up a notch or two
 It occurs to lie We are on the wron: load to elevation. The post-bellun , negro has deoenerated from the ante
 bellum mentally, morally and yer! : much so physically. I do not mea1
 to say he cannot read, write and holG
 government position better, but
 the ante-bellum Is very superior
 along industr al lines. and has more
 good common sense. You seliom sec
 the ante-bellum negro on trial fol
 crime. The post-bellum negro has
 dagenerated from the ante-bellum
 morally and physically for the red
 son he is free to debauch himself as
 he likes The last census of the
 United States shows marked de
 crease in the negro race. Mr Roose-
 welt says, It is in the interest and for
 tthe protection of the white man to
 see that the negro is educated,' We
 of the south are realizing the fact
 every day that our interest has gone
 down with the negro's usefulness.
 The majority of the farms of the old
 south are today in the hands of syn
 dicates because of the negro who
 has carried the owners of these
 farms in sight of the poorhouse and
 left him there to get away the best
 he can. The chain gang, penitenti-
 aries, county farms and the records of
 increasing crime tell the tale of our
 protection by education. The peo-
 pie of the south are learning it takes
 something with more force than edu- cation of the negro for their protec
 tion. Education does not change their character or their nature When the federal authorities undertook to
 handle the planters of the south for
 peonage, they in their efforts to in. jure the planter, learned him not to trust the negro and to let him work for what he receives, which will make it hard on the negro and better on the planter. When Gen. Lee surren. dered at Appomattox, we of the south, transferred our right and responsibili- ties of the negro to the people of the north, and they are trying to do their
 duty to them at our expense. With the constantly increasing immigrant ion O. the negro north reveals the fact | that the north will have chance to | put this theory to practice. This is right, for if they can dictate to us from afar what is best for the negro race it is reasonable to suppose they can do better part by the negro in the north I believe the negro will
 in the future flock north in greater numbers than ever before because
 he Bible says, With what measure 1ou mete it will be meted to you.'
 They created the negro problem have 'iven it forty years instruction and hey should receive compensation. . would be selfish, indeed, for us to eceive the whole benefit of their in. tructions. The "old time darkey" will not be in this migration north, !. ecause he never received his forty !, cres and 3 mule which makes him :. atisfed to live and die among the c 'hite people of the south. The ante I, ellum negro is the link connecting i; he old south with the new south I h m always glad to see and meet these s eminders of glorious past, for the i Id south is becoming so obliterated r rely land of memories. A good f umber of the old slaves have proven f rue to their "white folks" and we r lave never knowingly allowed one { o suffer, fact eternity will tell f hey are fast passing type, I am e orry to say, and when the "old time " arkey' has passed to the reward Of t
 faithful servant, the race will face r he condition as it really exists. What f his condition will be remains to be o cen, but coming events cast their " 'ladows before and judging from the emarks of some of their educated f aaders We can see the shadows of f his condition very plainly. When Q le negro Griggs made the following f. tatement before the national conven- f. on of negro Baptists in Chicago, he f oiced the sentiment of the so-called I lucated negro: If the white man of r le south. said GrigGs, will do as h resident Roosevelt has done, give n le negro a chance in the race of life h .e negro will out-distance the white {; an so far that the white man could is )t see the negro for dust" If this Ii