The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-05-07

No greater wonder has happened on
earth than the conquests of peace SEN
timent during the last century, 1t
has ridden over jousting war-lords
till, eXtricating themselves from their
Don QuiXotic misfortunes, they have
come ambling in on warehouses turned
to palfreys; it has sent battle-ships,
like merchantmen to carry grain to
the famished of sister nations; it
has set sanguinary soldiery to pitch
ing hospital tents for the plague
stricken; it has lifted the red cross
above the red field and made litters
of crossed muskets; it has made con-
quering generals refuse a Caesarian
triumph, and cry from the highest
civic seat, "Let us have peace!" But
no glory has been greater than the re-
.flex influence this international move
ment has exerted in abating race and
class hate among the factions and
sections of a common country.
We find our situation as to the
Negro race element caused by the
initial inconsistency of engrafting slav-
cry upon free institutions, and of franz
ing a constitution recognizing human
servitude in the face of declaration
that all men are entitled to life, liber-
ty and the pursuit of happiness.
The way out is by retracing our
steps, and this we have begun indeed,
we have gone long way on the back
uyo nd trocIy o1roodU opd oro now rnodU
to start right once more By general
education and the doctrine of human
brotherhood, we shall arrive. Laggards
there may be and reluctant travellers in
the way, but our guides are true and
the lettering is plain "This way out" "
Is there any evidence, you ask, that
an awakened conscience is making for
racial peace? | think so. 1t was the
sense of our inconsistency in founding
a land of liberty and then binding mil
lions to slavery in it that brought
emancipation; it was the standing re-
buke of our Declaration of Independ-
ence to the prevailing thought that
some men had no rights that others
were bound to respect, that enacted
laws respecting those rights. In our
own day we see the workings of the
worlds conscience in many ways; The
Congo Free State atrocities are every
where denounced; there is a. growing
boldness in denouncing internal law
lessness in any country; greater will
ingness to educate the underman; a
stronger disposition to administer laws
in their true spirit of impartiality
1t is to be seen in our gratuitous
chaperoning of Cuba; our friendly
guidance of the San Dominican fnan-
ces; the review of the black soldiers
case in equity; the increased appropria-
tions for both primary and secondary
schools for Negroes; the acceptance by
a representative Southern educator Of
the management of the Jeanes Fund;
the cooperation of patriotic Southern
men with the Southern Education
Board; and in a score of other instan-
ces. Tennessee has just appropriated
$4,000 for a Negro Normal and Indus
trial school; Kansas has given S67 900
to a college under Negro management;
Alabama appropriates public funds to
three Negro Normal schools. Every
where are to be found men in the
south to stand against the reactiona-
ries. Mississippi has it's Galloway;
louisiana its Quincy Ewing, Georgia,
its Chancellor Hill; Alabama, its Hob
son; Virginia, its Mitchell. Almost