The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-12-16

been introduced into a Mississippi
legislature for ten years.
But suppose that as a result Of ten
years labor in a state where he was
best known, among people most in
terested he had secured the passage
of such a resolution by the legisla-
ture; proceeding at the same rapi9
rate Of progress among the other
thirty-one states, for it is necessary
to secure action by the legislatures
of thirty-two states, it would take
him three hundred and ten years
to call his convention. Don't You be
lieve that we had better rely upou
our own efforts in handling his may
ter? But if the convention should b.
called tomorrow, there isn't a sane
statesman in the South who
not shrink back appalled, from ;ht.
proposition that the South, with her
thirteen states, go into a convention
of forty-eight states. and submit 20
such a convention the settlement ot
the race question. 1t will be less m
act of insanity to stick your head in p
lions mouth and twist the lion rat;
to make him roar. We can't secure
[ such a convention. and We wouia
dread the action OF it If assembled.
: They have said. and yon will hear X
said again. that l claim there e 40
| race problem. Would to God mat (
: could say It. But the mar who does
not see that there is a race problem ;
+ blind. and he who shrinks from tel
I Ing his people of it IS a coward. RUa
: that problem is best described in tho
language of Henry Grady. Georgia's
" richest contribution to the South,
THE problem for the South ia 70
carry within her body polite two di'-
ferent races with equal civil and 20
y litioal rights. She must carry them
Z in peace. for discord meas ruin. SIRE
/ must carry them seperateiy, Cor a.
y similation means debaspment. She
g. must carry them With equal %iiseirt
lie to each, for to this she IS bound IA
te honor and gratitude. She mnst ear
IT ~ them ever unto the end. for 10
re human probability she will never be
~ quit OF either"
It Is a problem. one great enough
to stagger the highest type of AnglF-
ne Saxon civilization. How are we GO
ing to meet it? How have Missis-
ne slppians ever met every peril thas
confronted them in the past? Rely
ue ing upon their own courage, the.-
own manhood. their own patriotism
nr and trusting IN that God which
be shapes the destinies of nations. The
handling of this problem Is not going
lse to be rendered easier by agitatiou
IN The agitation of the question by tht
no South is senseless, because Of its all
~ solute futility; It is vicious because
r. of the evil consequences attendaAi
upon such agitation. Such agitation
'nE IL taken seriously by the country
IN would lire ~ the balance OF the In
~ ion against re South, leaving her /.
40 a hopeless minority, once more Z
tread the w~ine-press alone. helpless
Ill and voiceless in the councils OF tn
III nation. Taken as il Is the mere fax
!oh of a ~demagosue. it exposes us to ria
Ia icule and derision from abroad. The,
RAJ wonder what kind OF people ther-
are in Mississippi who. alone OF al
the white people in the United State
fear negro domination. What KIN
of ignorance exists there which ca
d. BE caught by such political ehaN
They wonder again IL the white me
II Mississippi. while all the balanc
ri the country is engaged In tryin
I..ta solve the great industrial pros
ieu, Of the 9 facing the living 7:
sues Of the day, are going to SIT hR
-. old women in a dark room, VII
their faces turned 10 the past, mu'
,ering Tor ever. Niger, Niger, n,
ger"