Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-12-16

been intrOQuctH lHtO ~ NifhHlbnllut
Legislature for ten years,
But suppose that as d result Of ter
years labor In a state where he was
best known, among people most I'M
terested he had secured the passage
Of such resolution by the iegisIa
ture; proceeding At the same rapid
rate of progress among the other
thirty-one states. for 1t Is necessarF
I 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-
Ilieye that we had better rely upon
our own efforts in handling this mpr-
ter? But II the convention should be
called tomorrow, there isn't sane
Statesman in the South who wousG
not shrink back appalled, from the
proposition that the South, with her
thirteen states, go into convention
.of forty-eight states, and submit 20
such convention the settlement os
the race question. 1t will be less an
act OF insanity to stick your head in p
lions mouth and twist the lions tail
to make him roar. We can't secure
such convention, and we would
dread the action Of 1t If assembled.
They have said. and you win hear u
said again. that | claim there is no
race problem. Would to God that J
could say 1t. But the man who does
not see that there is race problem fs
blind, and he who shrinks from telI-
ing his people Of it IS coward, But
that problem is best described in the
Language OF Henry Grady, Georgia's
richest contribution TO the, South
1.-THE problem for the South is 10
carry within her body polite two dit
Iferent races with equal civil ana po-.
llitical rights. Hhe must carry them
A ID peace, for discord means ruin. she
must carry them seperateiy,, for as
Sanitation means lebase pept. She
must carry them with equal justice
Ito each, for to this she is bound IL
honor and gratitude. She must car
dpy them even unto THE end, for, irs
human probability she win never be
quit of either" ~,
4. 1T il a problem, ione great enough
Ito stagger the highest type of Angl2-
\ saxon civilization. How are We go
ling ID meet tn How have Missis-
lsippians ever met every peril that
confronted them In the past? Rely.
ling upon their own courage, their
own manhood, 9their own patriotism.
:, land trusting IN that God which
shapes thesdesanies Of nations, The
handling IL tits problem = not going
! I'd be rendered easier by agitatiop
The agitation Of the Question by the
south is senseless. because Or its, AZ,
'asolute futnty; 1t is vicious because
Of TIE evif consequences attendaSt
upon such agitation. Such agitation,
'fif taken seriously by the country,
Would line N the balance OF the I'm
! ion against tie South, leaving her il
y 4 hopeless minority, once more p e
} tread the wine press alone, HELPLESS
r1and voiceiess in the councils of this
: nation, Taken as It is the mere FAD
! of a demagogue, II exposes US 70 rid
: icule and derision from abroad, They
J wohder What kind OF people there
, are in Mississippi who, alone Of al
y TIE white people in the United States
dfear negro domination. What kind
, og ignorance exists there Witch can
: be caught By such political ehan,
They wonder again II the white men
! Of Mississippi. while ali tie balance
ot the country is engaged ~ trying
Ito solve the great Industrial prob
yaLle.ns 81 the age. facing tie living is,
! sues ii the day. are going to ST IKE
\ old women in a. dark room, win
|, their faces turned to the past, nut
! |tering for ever, Niger, niger mig
! Iger." sfa 4ie4 IA
THE TRUE Duty OF WHITE sU'
PREMAcY. 81
Il And at home itfbreods discord and
: lidissension between these two races
: which under the fiat OF an Almighty
, God have 10 work out their common