The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-12

be--will make it wise for this section
 of the South to dispense with much of the labor it now has. This is the third suggestion I would offer. As our industrial development proceeds, we
 wili--I think-find use for the old la- 1 bor as well as the new. In some fields
 of activity the negroes will be dis
 placed. This displacement is now go- I ing on. But the negro who disappears | at one point in our industrial system | usually reappears at another. He
 adapts himself to the changed condi- tions. If he works peacefully and well the South will continue to have place for him; for even though his labor, l in colder attitudes. may not be espe- cially profitable, 1t is likely that in | this climate he will always be able to do many kinds of work with advan- | tage both to the white man and to
 himself.
 While the South is thus likely to use all her labor. I am inclined to think that marked increase in immi- grafton wills be of decided advantage
 to both races. Both races need more varied labor situation. It is always unfortunate for one whole class to have monopoly as employers and for another totally distinct class to possess monopoly as employees. The negro laborer should have the bracing competition of white labor. It will be a check to occasional insolence and a spur to greater efficiency If he is obliged to meet the tests of higher standard of work. It will increase his moral steadiness and deepen his sense
 of responsibility.
 While the, prevalence of higher standards will help the white employ CT, the new labor will also enable the employer to become familiar with oth- CT workers besides the negro. He will find that many of the negro's faults are not the faults of the negro as negro, but that they belong to other labor also. Some of the negro's fail- ings are peculiar to himself. but many of them belong to every race in the same industrial position. The man on a dollar a day is. not necessarily indus trious, grateful we'll hammered and faithful to his contracts just because he happens to be white. Immigration will give us more varied industrial situation in which the negro will be subjected, to a more rigid economic test but in which his qualities can be judged more fairly in relation to other labor working under the same cli- matic conditions.
 T am conscious. however. that at present the sense of irritation between the races is acute. Some of our negro preachers and teachers-instead of wisely advising their people-seem to be trying to increase the existing ten sion. It is impossible to find words in which adequately to express the folly and wickedn of such course. Our own race, on the other hand. has it's own obligations of wisdom. cour- age and self control No great ques-
 tion can ever be clearly understood or truly settled in an atmosphere or nassion Leaving tc one side every consideration of sentiment or human ity. we may well remember that the increase of racial animosities will em- barrass the very movement or indus- trial progress for which we are all so much concerned. Industrial con
 flicts are always and everywhere pos sible; but industrial conflicts epcum- bered and accentuated by race hatred must make il more difficult than ever to bring to our aid the white labor or other sections and must make wholly futile the development of the best la bor of our negroes. Such labor con- ditions-disturbed by the deepest pas sions and charged with electric an- tagonisms-are so discouraging to the better workmen of both races and to active, steady production that capital itself will at length be alienated. Our people have shown patience, dignity and self restraint under still more seri- ous emergencies and I look again for one of those victories of peace which work so nightly for all that is real and fruitful in the progress of any people"
 Mir Murphy leaves this evening for
 the East in order to make preparations | for another trip to Germany. His
 trouble with the heart was so much | benefitted last year that he will go to | Bad Nauheim again.