The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-11-22

'OAih SiiS OF D-XOn : line Put on
the whole there is less Injustice in mo
North than in the South.
The South has become Gallons IT,
"afd the negro. Centuries Of slavery
nave mace the men and women who
are courteous and honorable in other
respects blind to their injustice toward
the negro. They need to lock at the
he5io through new eyes. One Of their
own p@opie-sonne mar whose sense Of
justice isn't warped by the habltual in
Justce-should arise and tell them
the truth about themselves. And the
people Of the North should investi-
gate the Southerner's treatment of the
negro and tell the South what it IS
really doing.
When the South sees itself as 9TH
ers see 1T it Will reform. 1t will enlan-
clpate the negro. And in emancf0at-
ing n negro, it viii emancipate itself.
South Not EGnancipated.
for the south today IS not enamel
pated. It's the most narrow-minded
and i'll beral section OF the country
Inc great movements for human bet
terment that are stirring the rest or
the country and the rest of the world
md little response in the South. In
suIgency hasn't touched it's borders.
The movement can't get q foot
mold there, for the laborers are ne
Sroes. When Portugal established a
repuDIc a month ago the South could
not join the rest Of the enlightened
world in rejoicing. For true republi-.
canlsm would require the enfranch'se-
ment Of the negro. Every reform
movement split on the rock OF that one
problem. The negro IS keeping the
south III chains. The only way the
South can free itself is to do justice
to the nesro-to treat him as q politi-
cal and evil equal"
"A social equal, too?"
VIII NOT oh I know fho+ Co,,+I
erners often say that social equality
would be followed by --intermarriage
and amalgamation, and that injustice
10 the negro is the only way - safe.
guard the purity Of the white race.
Eut that's not true. On the contrary,
the caste system causes ama1agmatiOn
IN the South. AmaIEamation went on
most rapidly when the caste system
was most rigorous-fn slavery DAYS.
The late Mr.. Baldwin, president of the
Long Island Railroad. once said that
Lincoln's emancipation proclamation
was the only thing that kept the South
from becoming mulatto.
Give the negro the same rights as
the white man and You reduce the OPP
portunity for the same sort Of ANAL
gamation that went on before the
war. Increase his -self-respect and you
take away his desire to intermarry.
To-day a black skin is treated as a
badge of disgrace by the white race.
50 he negro naturally would like to
bleach his skin. The way to avert the
black peril is to make it possible for
a man to be black and at the same
time respected and Se1f-reSpecting.'
Those negro leaders who really wish
to help their race are remaining in
the South and helping them to help
themselves-the only way any people
can be helped. They are seeking to
secure the cooperation Of White men
to end all evils, and they secure it.
They teach their race that morality,
industry, thrift, and practical educa-
ton alone Will develop the race. Such
is the course of leaders Who will ac-
complish anything good for their race
or their country. Men like Dubois,
who antagonize these practical plans
that call for working and waiting, and
go to New York to demand social
equality and a national crusade against
supposed evils in the South, are the
worst enemies OF their race. The time
was Whe1l their pratings deceived the
North. but intelligent Northern people
have learned thai the negro canno De
helped by coddling and petting and
making him a national ward, but by
the practical and slow ways that men
like Booker Washington are carrying
out. Washington talks, but he doas
better-he has q place where indus
trial education is carried on. His eff
forts and his plans will not revolution
lie the negro or his place, but it is the
only way hat the Negroes condition
can be improved. Dubois does moth
ing for the negro but talk of his griev-
ances and misrepresent the Southern
attitude. Washington is constructive
and helpful. Dubois is an agitator
and hurts instead Of helps.
How much does it cos to raise
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