Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-01-14


 followed the northern will Q the
 wisD" of social equali-y. he md d-ne
 10 a area. extent the suDso@ed 2 ol
 h. had acc cmplished as | leader oi
 his race. II he bad been a- c9nzcien
 r.ous leafer of his race h. would have
 acj Il differently. Never heless. he : seems 10 have acquired a higher posi- 'ion-that of chief d!ctztor to the
 throne for the southern states. God
 pity the southern white man who has
 followed the god Of mammon far . erOugh to take position on the rec
 concentration Of a negro. I am afraid
 he is sowing seed among thorns
 that will grow UT and choke him.
 The difference between the lea CT
 ship of Booker Nashiuetsn and
 Joshua is very great. Joshua was
 leading the children of Israel. Gods
 chosen people who were cursed for a
 spec fled time aNd at the end of that
 time they should inherit he land of
 Canaan which God promised 10 the
 seed Of Abraham. Booker Washing.
 ton is leading a race Of Ham. that
 Cod crrsed in the beginning to con-
 tinue with time. \ race without prom
 ise as far as worldly prestige.
 achievements and power are concern-
 ed. The negro has the God-siven right to excel h $ servitade.- Booker Washington is leading his people to an imaginary land Of northern prom ise. While Jcsbua led the Jews to the land God had promis d them When the negro bishop. Arnett. hired Pull man car to take him from Cincinnati to Mobile to keep from riding in the jim crow car he illustrates that the educated negro thinks himself the white mans equal and should ride with the White man and also shows a tendency to disregard the laws of the land when possible. If all the human races were alike and equal one code of international laws would apply to the whole, but so long as the negro continues to be an inferior race they must be treated as such. which will be as long as time lasts because in- ferior.ty is the stamp that God put up- on them. There will never come a rS ce when he will be as free or an time in the existence of the negro equal of the white man for an all wise providence decreed otherwise Now, for the sake of argument, we admit the negro as a race does re- /. ceive an education and become skill ed in the vocation of life. Say he is a fine physician, lawyer, bookeeper. clerk, engineer, master mechanic and all of the higher vacations. Can he take his place beside the white man of the north or south. No, sir, and he never will. The north will give him a position over the white people of the south as far as they have the power, but not north. It is we'll es- Iablished fact that education units him for the humble vocation of life then what are We trying to educate , 1im for? I suppose all the educated { will be school teachers in the course 'f time Education gives the negro
 vain ina gination of future greatness i nd high position in life. We have he words of Griggs before the negro 'aptist convention in Chicago, which iustrates this idea. He said: That le reason Booker Washington had ia. or with the southern white people as because he believed it was not me for the negro to contend for the igher things in this country. sThe lestion of today is not education" lid Griggs. "The question is, shall le negro have part in the govern lg forces of the country.'' Now We ave it in nutshell. One of the rongest characteristics of the negro
 his inability to cover his tracks. e vii let the cat out of the wallet cd expects us to do our possible du- to them and leave the impossibli es to them with whom all things are ossible. believe our main duty to le negro is to give him industrial aiming and make him a better "hew- of wood and drawer of water hich is his natural and normal posi- on in this life. No agitated question emains unsettled and this negro ques- on is as much talked of and Written as it was during the precedino ears of 1860. This question faces le people of the south in worse form lan it did then, for the reason that le greater number of the slaves lov- l their white folks and were true ) them, but now after forty years of lse and malicious teaching by our aducers Of the north. race hatred