The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1908-05-15
OF RACE PROBLEM
THOSE that MAY NOW BE REGARDED AS The
SETTLED POLICY OF The nation

Van Nordens Magazine has this fair and interesting
comment on the Negro question:
Very slowly, but surely intelligent men and women
in the Northern States beginning think saney the
negro question Only from few hopeless Bourbons
old modify their fixed ideas do now hear that
nauseatng adulaton of the negro as morally superior to
the Southern White man. which by means uncommon
in the days Immediately following the Civil Northern
man and women who still believe that Southern white
families ought give their daughters in marriage to negro
citizens generally keep their opinions to themselves
There yet plenty of Northernes who think that the
negroes ought to be permitted to VOTE but the number
yearly increasing of Norheers who believe that the white
of the South, in disfranchsng the negro with com
paratvely little boodshed downright nhumanity have
displayed political genius and have saved civilization
from destruction in of the ares lands of the
world
If any one doubts the truth of these statements he
should observe how addresses the South and its problems
which President Edwin Anderson Alderman of the Uni
versty of Virginia offers to northern audiences
ceived in centers which twenty years still hot with
determination that the negro vote should be counted as
cast No one has ever stated the Southern view more
unequivocay than President Alderman put before the
Civic Forum at Carnegie Hall few evenings ago. and the
enthusiasm of the Southern people in the audience
was not greater than the sincere respect of Northern bust
and professional including clergymen teachers
and writers who only few years ago would have been moved
by President Aldermans declarations to conecaed in
dgnation.
President Alderman says that six things as to the
American NEGRO have been settled We believe that he
his rightly enumerated the six things and that he right
saying they have been settled One of these six things
that the white shall control the political development
Of the Southern States second that insisting upon
absolute social separateness of blacks from whites the
South pursuing farsghted policy of justice both
the negroes and to the other people that nhab this nation
third that industrial training the most important
influence to bring to bear upon the negro The fourth
is that form of peonage shall be tolerated The fifth
the negro shall be trained for citizenship and that the
South shall be responsible for his training The sixth
that the entire policy Of the South toward the negro shall
be controlled neither by pessism by optimism but
by scientific investigation and by watchfulness.
At present the negro is probably maintaining his
relative place the total population and struggle for
his life almost certain to be harder the future
than has been in the past Nothing kills off inferior
race rapidly its attempt to keep pace with
advanced Give the negro training and opportunity
and hold him up to the standards of white civilization
Such of his progeny will be fit for citizenship and
will present particularly difficult problem for society
struggle with.