The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-07-21
BOOKER WASHINGTON
His Dream OF Racial Civilization an I'M
possibility-'I'he Superior Will Dom
mate the Inferior

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In lis issue OF July 10 the New Or
leans States says editorially: 1t seems
that Booker Washington's earnestncss
IN urging negroes to remain i'll the
Sout instead OF distributing themselves,
as IS best for them, throughout the 9TH
er sections OF the country, is due to the
fact that there are millions of acres of
cheap and unmproved lands i'll the
South capable of supporting millions of
people Upon these lands he has based
| the hope he entertains for his race. he
tact is he dreams of building up ne
gro civilization in the South. and there
fore breaches to the negroes to remain
here, to become skillful farmers and
artisans, and to buy large bodies of land
while it is cheap, his idea being that III
time when they become large landown
ers and possess other kinds of property
there will be established a negro civil
cation i'll the South.
But Booker Washington is dreaming
dreams, Aside from the fact that the
South is white mans country and is
gong to remain So the history of the
world records no instance of two diff
ferent races of people having separate
civilization in the same country at the
same time. Such thing has never hap
pened in all history. and will never hap
pen, Where there are two races living
i'll one country the civilization of the
superior must be accepted by the in
ferlor unless the latter is strong enough
to destroy the former and dominate the
country. The Spur! does not object to
the negroes having 4 civilization of their
own, but it must be i'll some country set
apart for them. Negro civilization in
the South is impossible as long as a
white civilization exists, and Booker
Washington has enjoyed sufficient edu-
cational advantages to be able to realize
that fact quite clearly.
The South is the country of the white
man and white civilization will prevail
iii it however much Booker Washington
may plan and dream impossible dreams.
The lands he would have the negroes
own are held by the white man and THEY
will remain in his keeping The deter
to maintain and strengthen the |
white Civilization of the South is the
inspiration OF the movements the South
ern States have instituted to secure inn
migration from the overcrowde1 States |
of the North and from Europe The |
millions of acres of land which Booker |
hopes will come into the
possession of negroes will be reserved |
to become the property of the white inn
migrants who must inevitably pour into
the South in the near future
There is no room in the South, and |
there never will be any, for negro civ
lization, but there is need and desire
for greater and more complete white
The Charleston News and
Courier realizes this need and says !:
Every white settler who COMES to the
South is a protection to those who are
1ere now, and the white mans civiliza-
ion will not be safe until the white pop
llation is SO large that the negroes can
lot compete with it in the ars and in
lustries."
The South vii be ruled in the future
IS it has ken il the past by one race
'nly, and That race will be the one to
which the unt4 man belongs If Booker
hopes to build TIP civiiza-
ion for his race he must select some
ther country as the scene of his effort