The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-07
Bears on Pendiag ProbIems.

Bears on Pending Problems.
 This work at Tuskegee has to do di- rectly with several pending problems chief among them being the labor prob lem and the problem of the races Every section of the country Is en- gagged in the solution of a labor prob lem. and every section is coming to have an increasing interest in the treat ment of the problem of the races. To the South especially each of these problems comes with an insistence which cannot be evaded or deferred Alike to both races do they clamor so inseparably bound together that it is practically impossible to consider them as distinct propositions. The time may come. though it seems now will be possible. In this section, for the present at least the labor problem, is largely race problem; and. for the same reasons. the trace race problem is
 With the heavy and constantly in creasing influx of people. from other nations, the problem of labor s 1t af- @ fleets ths whole c0un5py rsS iations of capital and labor. of employer and employe, has long perplexed the mind of man. Labor and capital seem to be destined to the wag- ing of an intending contest. At times the fierceness of the conflict shakes the very foundations of government, causes civilization to halt in the march of pro- gress. and presents an appalling spec tacle of mans inhumanity to man. Stu dents of government lovers of justice, friends of humanity. followers of the cross, all. have been shocked and dis mayed.
 The South's labor problem is peculiar to the section and grows out of the oc- cupancy of the same territory by two under involuntary servitudc to the other It would be a useless, If not an inappropriate expenditure of time and burden of blame for the existence of slavery Suffice It to say that the sec tions were jointly responsible. and that neither section. so long as slav- questioned the wisdom of it's continu- ance. While It's abolition was accom- plished by the most stupendous expend- iture of blood and treasure known to the South no less than of the North, re- joice that human slavery no longer ex- ists-that it has gone. gone to come no more.
 Negro Benefited B~ Slavery.
 The negro was benefited by slavery. He got more from bondage than the white man. What did the negro get? He got release from barbarian. physl cal development industrial training. the lesson of obedience, the habit of work. the example of the master, the founda- tion of the home, the lntroouction to civilization. and the elevating influen- ces of the Christian religion. What did the white man get? He got freedom from physical labor and mental effort. the result of which always Is tempta- tion to drift into habits of ease. leis- ure, idleness, dissipation, weakness, and helplessness. Of course. there were many notable exceptions in each race. Some negroes received no benefits from bondage because they would not accept them: some whites received but little in- jury from slavery. because they would not yield to It's demoralizing influences
 The effect of slavery upon labor was to degrade tito degrade 1t in the cs- timation of each race. To the white man, labor especially manual or phy- sical exertion, came to be regarded as