The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-23
Social Separation is
 Wise Policy.
EDUCATION FOR THE BLACK
South's Industrial Development
 Must Remain With Whites.
In His Speech. Dr. AIderman Took Southern History as HaekErsuna Fer Picture of Present Day
 Conditions.

| New York. March 22.--An optimistic view of conditions and affairs in the Southern States was taken by presi- versity of Virginia. who addressed the
 Civic Forum at Carnegie Hall today. President Alderman's topic was "The | Growing South," and he traced the | progress of education and the impress sive self reliant effort of the Southern States to transform the economic and social life to master the weapons Of
 an industrial civilization and to breathe easily the spirit of twentieth century Amertcanism. without sHcrif1cing their ! deepest political and social instincts.~ In discussing the negro question. the ! speaker cited John Morley, who eafd | that the problem could not De solved and admitted that Morley might be right but insisted that 1t was d prob- lem that practical men must face. It
 was an American question. he said in
 a very concrete sense. He defended | suffrage restrictions, adding: When all of It's ragged edges and
 incidental injustices have been worn away, the suffrage regulations of the South in the last decade will be seen
 to have been w.se and philosophical" pr. Alderman took Southern hfs- tory as a background for his picture of present day conditions and traced
 its developments through it's sevaral periods of marked characteristfcs---fha imperial South. with continental out look: the South. conscious of the ne- gro. with provincial outiopk: the South. militant for ite social constitution and ideals: the South. submerged beneath the immediate problems of defeat. and the South. eTnergent in spiritual ana
 industrial triumph--having recovefed from tho losses which no other country has sustained and survived ana having maintained its sanity and integrity ln spite of the presence In large numbars of backward and ignorant race sur denly invested with citizenship and economy free agency,
 Viewing the u0building forces at
 work In the South. he said. pregnant readjustments are taking place in ag-< riculture. the largest single intereats The plantation is giving place to the small farm occupied by tenants, while plantation or extensive farming gives place steadily to diversity of product ion under intensive methods demanding the trained mind and the trained hand. The ante-bellum Southern voter. he continued. was perhaps the best in formed man in America on national politics and decidedly careless as to the needs of his own township. He knew all about Kansas and Nebraska bills and did not poster himself about the local school house. Now Kansas is the plainest sort of Kansas to him, and Nebraska is chiefly interesting as aav- ing him the trouble every now and then of deciding for whom to vote for President Now hts interest in the Phil- ippines or even the Presidency ia mild as compared 10 his zeal for the school and roads of his country. It is my be- lief that this Southern detachment from national affairs has been a good and necessary thing for the era just pass- Ing. It is a strange happening that. by absolute reversal of social emphasis the Southerner should again Ind him. self. not only defending metaphysicaf- ly his old, best loved dogma of self government as the very core of Democ- racy, but re-rootlng it in the popular heart as a form of efficient machinery for beautifying and enriching the State"
 The Race ProbIem.
 The race problem received candid if optimistic treatment in spirit dictated by the facts involved Certain things in regard to 1t, said President Alder man. are settled.
 'The political developments of the South is to remain in white hands, ab- solute social separation Is a policy wise for the nation and just to the negro: the education of the negro must be along the lines of industrial and man. ual arts and his training for citizenship Is to be resoiutely cared for. but the South will exercise the determining influence on the character of the traln- ing, to the end that the negro may not be detached in sympathy from hts en- vironment.
 q wonder" pr. Alderman said. if this American negro ever thinks of the relative care bestowed by human so- ciety upon him and the S,0o0ooo white men who inhabit the thin soil of the coast plain, the Piedmont hills and the Appalachian mountainsg For the ne- gro rivers of blood have flowed. mil- lions of treasure have been spent pa tient lives have been dedicated. and in virtue of all this expenditure of energy, genius and consecratfon, ais- tance has been created by him and hin grandfathers equal to the distance be- tween the 1ungles and the university The lot of the Piedmont and Appala- chian white man has been forgetful- ness. ignorance and neglect. The world might as we'll understand that the southerner Is done with this neglect forever. He sees that the redenptiou of his community lies primarily in the restoration and development Of the white population." aIe