The Washington bee., 1910-02-05
AS We See IT"


Those Negro Men Who Dare De-
lend the womanhood of their Race
the foreword of which is given be-
low in full, is now in the hands of the
publishers.
Those who are familiar with Mr..
Warnings caustic style of writing and
his grasp of radical questions know
that a very rare treat is in store for
them All book-lovers and persons
interested in the solution of the great
race problems that now confront US
should mail orders for this book at
once, as only limited number of the
Rrst issue will be available
FOreword
Inasmuch as the title to this work,
AS We See It," may be little OBJ
scure, I offer the following explana-
;ion for its adoption
Books upon books have been
written bearing on the Negro ques-
tion, but none have told the story
as I'VE" see it. By 1--WE" l mean
educated Negroes, those of cultured
families of the third and fourth gen
erahOns, that class Of Negroes who
can but see things as other men OF
their mental caliber see them, who
feel the sting of race prejudice most
kcenly, and at whom the damnable
laws of the South are aimed. The
Jim Crow Niger" is always in evi-
denCe in such books and IS always
welcome, a fit companion for those
who father the Jim Crow Law" in
dustry.
This work is intended to reveal
two sides of Southren life, which are
carefully obscured, let alone or delib-
crately misstated by newspapers and
magazine writer's.
Firse, we picture that class of Ne
groes who are doing something,
whose lives, whose homes, and whose
successes are the same as those o.
other men, and who in the aggregate
have accounted more than two hun
dred and fifty millions in fifty years,
starting from zero. That class of
American citizens whom the calamity
howlers are careful to keep in the
background that class whom the
Southern press persists in misrep-
resenting, even to the point of ma
hciously lying
Second, we aim to represent IN
their true charter the other class. low
cr, both morally and mentally than
the Negro, and who marry in and out
families closely conneCted-frst COu-
sin to first cousin, great uncle to niece,
step-brOther to step-sister, brother to
brothers wife, father to step-daugh-
ter. adult men to thirteen-year-Old
girls, etc, etc, (these marriages may
account for their degeneracy more
certainly than the newly discovered
hOokworm). who can boast, and who
do boast of being of the fourth and
fifth generator Of those who can
neither read nor write, and whose ut
Ter disregard for the property rights
or lives of other men is seldom COM
mented upon by writers. The citizen,
the cracker, who is not multiplying as
MS birth rate would indicate, for his
Young die in great numbers in baby
hood, owing to a lack of intelligent
care; his young also dying in large
numbers because Of the lax enforce
ment of the child labor laws; these
people who hold the South today in
political thraldom, and whose uplift
through education or the infusion Of
live blood is the only possible means
left the white people of the South by
which they can hope to keep ahead Of
the progressive Negro, present the
true problem of the South.
So long as the discriminatory laws
remain llllOl Ct III NilC JCutiiJ JCAoI 81
long will the Negroes, as whole,
continue to outstrip the whites, as a
whole. Every intelligent Negro who
is doing something, and who reads
of what his brothers are doing,
knows that he is leaving the South
ern white man for behind. The
.r,-I-o- l-r0y,-r t1,ic olsC
To illustrate: Was there ever a
large business of any character,
store, a bank, an insurance company,
a school. college, or what not, organ
ized, built up, controlled, by man or
woman who sprang from the cracker
element of this country? Hundreds
If such enterprises are owned anc
controlled by Negroes who were
slaves. This non-progressive citizen