The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-01

te submit to during the period of re- construction following on the victory of the Worth. It was impossibie that the domination of the negro could be suffered to continue: and slowly. palm fully. through more than thirty years, the white men of the South have fought to restore order out of chaos and to gather into their own hands--the only hands competent to manage them--tne ordering of their own affairs. Tho rec ord of that light has not always made pleasant reading: but those who blame the men of the South most are those which they had to contend.
 This is the problem with which MT. Murphy deals, writing as Southerner to men Of the South: and the path which He points out 10 the only patn which not only justice and Christian feeling, but sanity and self-interest. make possible. The pity is that the Southern mind has become so perplexei, the Southern sight so dImmed, by all the terrors and conflicts of the last forty years that many os the element ary truths which MT. Murphy advances should need SO much as stating. much less reiterating with almost passion ate insistence. What confronts the South now is not a. theory but situa- tion; the stark obvious fact of the ex- Istence of the negro population, aireauy some s,000,000 persons and constantly increasing in number, which somehow has to be governed and lived with. And the two immediate certainties are first. that the negro cannot be extermi- mated; and, second. that he cannot pc made into white man. The negro, Tn his multitudin ousness must continue to exist. and to exist as negro. How does the south propose to treat him!
 The London Daily News.
 The London Daily News Is the ofhciai organ of the Liberal party. now repre- scented by the majority In Parliament. It's extended review Is. in part, as fol- lows:
 This book cannot but leave the read CT with an enlarged outlook upon one of the most far-reaching questions Tn contemporary politics--the position. SO cial and economic. of the negro in the United States. It Is indeed so momen- tous and profound a question that It IS not to be wondered at if public opinion in general expresses Itself in violent, pugnacious terms. and If the public Tall or have hitherto failed. to see the larg- CT issues of the problem and its larger bearing. We have travelled over the continent of America and heard the ne- gro problem discussed by many people
  Southerners and Northerners. And now in England we open book--by an American. 1t Is true-which throws a happy interpreting light upon all we heard and saw. The Basis of Ascen- dency" is in no sense of the word a partisan plea, neither is 1t an appeal to humanitarian fnstincts- Rather is It dispassionate statement of the inevita- bleness and the necessity of q hnsl ad-. justment and settlement of the race problems---primariiy in the interests not of the blacks, but of the whites them selves.
 "Mr. Murphy is a Southerner: he writes as a Soatherner. addressing the men of the South; and with the Soutn- cru States the final settlement or this grave matter rests
 The London Morning Post.
 The London Morning Post says: |
 ''The recent discussion in Parliament, respecting the position of the native races under the Constitution for Uni- ted South Africa illustrated one speciai aspect of that complicated color ques- ton which constitutes one Of the moSl important. interesting and insistent problems which confront the moaern politician Mir. Murphy's book deals with another side of the same ques- ton. the status of the negro In the United States. and particularly in those portions of that community where. un. til generation ago. he dwelt In con. ditien of servitude. That circumstance has contributed. of course. to aggra- yate the. difiiculties of regulating the rights and relations of the white and colored races iIy$eAnierica. The whites ,cap1at forget the tsaditiorsn Of thstr former supremacy nor have their n, grained racial preJudfces been quite re- moved by the issue of the war of se- cession. The negroes. on the other hand, are hereditarily ernbittered by the recollections of slavery; while that section of public opinion in the North which has succeeded to the inheritance of Abolitionism is not apparently dis- posed to recognize that the impeachment to be disposed of before final settle ment can be reached is no longer repre- sented by a conflict between legal priv. iiege and ethical principle. but may rather be described as matter of so- cial sentiment. resting. however, upon A hi sis of solid economic fact.