The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-11-22
BOOKER WESTINGHOUSE PLAN VS.
THE DUBOIS DEMANDS.

There lived until recently In Atianta
a negro by the name of Dubois VIII,
was a professor Of a negro college in
that city. He was chiefly known be-
cause he took issue with cooker
washington as to the best way for the
negro to find his place in the world.
The Alabama educator urged his race
to seek his work by industrial educa-
ton, industry, thrift and saving; the
Atlanta educator out Washing
tons practical plan and advised the
negro to seek it by demanding social
and all other equality with the white
race.
Washington. approved by both the
North and h South, has q largely en-
dOWed institution where he is teaching
the colored youths to read, to write,
to farm, to teach, to become nurses.
DOCTORS, and skilled mechanics. He
urges them to remain in the South,
tells them it is the best place for them,
and ounsel them to cultivate friendly
relations with their white neighbors.
Dubois has left the South and gone to
New York What for? The Globe and
Commercial Advertiser Of November
18th. has a tWo-colunln interview with
the Atlanta educator. He tells thar
p that the reason he left the
South and moved to New York was to
tell the North the truth about the way
the South treats the negro, and then
he proceeded to declare that the South
stu keeps the negroes in slavery and
that they have no chance. He says that
rhen a negro works for a white man,
he is paid no money but is allowed to
trade at the store, that the farmer
charges him exorbitant prices for all
he buys, and always keeps the negro
in his debt and secures the passage Of
laws so that the negro cannot work
elsewhere. He tells a blood and
story of cruelty and oppression prac-
tised upon one negro by an Arkansas
farmer as if it illustrated the condition
of all negroes in the South. The state
ment hat negroes on Southern farms
are slaves or are Systematically robbed
will be news to the negroes who go as
they please, work as they please. buy
where they please, and have no re-
straint put upon them or their locomo-
ton Shiftless negroes do get in debt
and under their own contract must
work to pay their debts but there is
not an industrious negro in the South
<and there are very many such) who
is subjected to the conditions describ-
ed by Dubois. There are many negroes
who own their farms and they are
nearly everywhere treated kindly, and
there is no sentiment in the South that
would tolerate any such conditions as
the Atlanta professor would have New
York believe exists generally in the
South. To show the spirit of Dubois,
the following is given from his inter-
view:
Concerning a Remedy.
isn't the remedy for race dlscrlm-
ination also a matter of dollars and
cents?' DR.. Dubois was asked. Isn't
the best thing the negro can do, as
Booker Washington to WORK
hard, make money, and keep as quiet
as possible about race discrimina-
ton
His eyes struck fire.
"NO,' he said; THAT'S not the rem
edy. That's no remedy; that's q cow
ardly way Of lodging the whole diff
Guilty. We can't do good work. we
cant show what we're worth until we
are given the chance.
The only manly thing for us to do
Is to demand that chance. We must
protest against the injustice that is be-
ing done us. That is Why / have lett
Atlanta University and come to New
York this ALTO help tell the people
OF the North about the conditions that
are crushing the negro.
You people here don't know. You
are told about the ignorance OF the
negro, but YOU aren't told about his
bitter fight to get schools. You read
about negro crimes, but you know no
thing about the social injustice that
breeds them. You see the vast major
ity Of negroes in inferior positions,