Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-03-07
THE RACE PROBLEM.
As Reviewed by Men OF Thought and
Experience North and South.

The discharge by President Roose-
welt OF the negro soldiers at Browns
vile, Texas, and the subsequent inves-
tigation by Congress have had the eff
feet to bring the negro question more
than aver into prominence at the North.
! Most of the Northern newspapers, and
many of the Northern magazines, are
devoting a great deal of space to its
discussion. In the March number Of
McClure's there is an article on the
subject by Thomas Nelson Page, of
Virginia., and the Van Norden Maya
zine, of New York, for the same month,
has a symposium by Southern college
and bank presidents, with an appeal
for the black man. by Booker t.
Washington. The contributors are
| President William w. Smith, of Ran
dolph-Macon Woman's College; Presi-
lege, Alabama; President Benjamin
Sloan, of the University Of South Caro-
lima; President George L. Winston, OF
| the North Carolina College of Agri-
| culture and Mechanical Arts; President
r. E. Blackwell, tof Randolph-Macon
| College; President William G. Frost. of
| Berea College, kentucky; President
P. B. Guernsey, of Roger Williams
| University, Tennessee; President B. Y.
Mullins, of the Southern Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary; President E. M. Po-
| teat, of Furman University, South
| Carolina; President L.. L.. Hobbs, of
Guilfsrd College, North Carolina, and
a number of banbers.
It would be impossible, of course, to
give even a synopsis Of these various
discourses; but, as a rule, the writer's
are far from hopeful, and some Of them
take a respondent view of the situa-
ton. The most hopeful note, perhaps,
ig from President Blackwell, of Ran
| do1ph-Macon, who says that it is the
| bad negro who makes trouble, and
that, after all, he is largely in the
minority. DIR, Blackwell's remedy is
| education. He thinks that we should
| do everything that is possible to make
/ the negro as good a citizen as he is
l SoPdOIO vi 0AN bAAoc CHS wv
way to do this is to take the negro
| child rem in hand and train them.
Booker Washington insists that the
kind of education hat the negro is
| receiving at his school, the Normal
| School at Hampton, and other sue in
situations, is taking the negro out OF
| the criminal class and making a better
citizen Of him.. IT have made a search
ing investigation, says he, "bu l have
not been able to find that a single
graduate of Tuskegee, Hampton, or
any of the negro colleges, can now be
found in the prisons of the South. Last
summer a special and very thorough
investigation was made among the
graduates and ex-students of Tuske-
gee, who are living in Montgo merry
county, in which the city of Mont
gomery is located. Of 101 students OF
whom we could get definite informa-
ton, 80 per cent had work. either as
farmers, or, in the case OF the women
who had married las housekeepers, Oh
at trades in which they were trained
Of the others, five were employed in
the post-ofice department., three were
employed in the stores in the city O.
Montgomery, one was in the real es'
tate business, n in a barber shop
and one a waiter in a restaurant. o
this number 81 have already acquired
homes of their own"