The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-07

fit only for the slave. To the negro, 1t come to be looked upon as one of the attributes of slavery, and therefore 10 de desplsed and evaded. IS lt any hoth races industrial confusion, and al most complete economic disaster! The negro regarded it as freedom from work: the white man, as subJection 10 an ignobie existence. The natural and Inevitable result was many mistakes upon the part of each. Each IS suner- ing today from those mistakes. thousn many of them were committed forty years ago.
 Rut the Southern whites and the ne groes were not the only people who bIundered in the beginning Of freedom The greatest of all the mistakes made in that exciting period was committed by those who administered the affairs of the national government The sud den enfranchisement Of race coihpris, ing over three millions or people, ana
 without even day of special prepara,
 ton for citizenship. was the collossal
 mistake of the times: It produced a
 was cruel to the former master. It
 made possible the rule and ruin of the
 carpet-bagger. It drove dagger 10
 the heart of the white south. ana mas mas
 retarded for all time the civic growth and the educational development or
 the negro race. It complicated, if Tn
 deed if did not create the race prop
 lem. The disasterous effects of that
 stupendous error will long be visible ana burdensome For forty years those
 effects have obscured the visions or men. .-..
 There iH q Race Problem.
 And there is d race problem. Close our eyest to it IS we may, try to eVdd' it as we will, the problem remains. TO teach two wholly olssl'itinr lnnIe soil in harmony and mutual hflp- fulness. to develop without trltclon a race within race. to establish a c'E sr..- in riN lnn-tnlS ! the problem of the races There has been nothing like it in history hels @ is no lamp of experience to suI1e oui footsteps. Though neither is respon- sible solely for it's existence. il IS the bounden duty of each race to pend every energy towards the solution or the problem. Unfortnnateiy' Ine WofS aS of solution is aggIravated Sometiines S,n'stinn hv those who. with good intentions, would render assistance. . ;.,,,,,,,
 The problem is not open 70 li,ts in1inesoI- ato definite. and complete Solutlon IT if is ever solved the solution will come from cooperative efforts upon the part of intelligent. honest and patriotic members 1t oon m rSgs Great intei Iigence. unswerving honesty. unfalter- ing patriotism. unttring consecratlon, and wisest discretion VIII De necessary There will be needed also much of tol- .cration, patience, confidence. courage. earncstness and true religion.
 In other words. outside of education, thprO no SOlulIpIl LOl llt IdCe pIOb- lem. This education must be. of the right kind and it must be universally anniied. If the continued inaction of the National Government renders 1t ceive meagre educational advantages. if is hest for he negro that, for sea son. the advantage should go to the dominant race Why? Because the hest wav tn -.rure universal educa ton for negro f.. to give universal educa- tion to thc white man. The more you educate people in the right way, the more anxious do they become to give