The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-08
Keep Your Eye on Ii.
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Keep Your Eye on 1t.
At recent meeting in New York of the Repub
lican Club, the subject of discussion was rae
nre;,d;ce" The main speakers were Jacob H.
Schin. Judge Mayer Sulzberger OF Phladephia'
IL. r, s. Du Bots of Atlanta University and teiix
Adler.
Mr. sch;ff. who financed the Japanese loans during
the Japanese Russian war, warned the guests WIN
unusual earnestness Of the danger to this country
CT the understanding between Japan, Russia ana
England 10 keep China in state OF vassaage
II hone may be false prophet, said he but
u am sorry to say believe mighty war Is coming.
/ say this as friend Of Japan. helped to finance
Japan during the recent war; ana Japan N''o'y
Is The dangerous thing. W.
MIR Schifi may may not be prophet' we
are not disposed al this time to discuss the yeloW
peril" as war issue. We pass on to notice inc
remarks Of the other speakers on the suo)ec' oi
..racc prejucide, as they called IT.
Indge Sulzberper said that we had in the story
81 aims Punishment the first word about that sort
Of prejudice and he declared that II could not DC
undone by, logic What knits men together
said he SIS the vulgar institution OF commerce,
Logic is not going 10 make the Asiaocs give up INCH
prejudice against lis. :, ,
Then came Professor Du Bots, who is described
Is the reporter a. AN aquiline-ieaturea negro,
and he told the assembly that race prejudice might
BIZ reduced at once, il the white race were i"o'e
3 tolerant. ?
Every politician in the South who gets out OF
d Job tries to climb into power again by an appeal
to face prejudice said he. He pits the white
against the black laborers. Each class OF labor is
rr4r,etisr ether in the Labor market
They follow Inc lead OF every politician who stirs
their prejudice against each other
81 x1Ahat The White race has got 10 realize Is that
most If the worlds population are not white put
cooretl 1t is al very well for you whites TO argue
thar 4 black Is always a black ana yeioW Is al
ways a yellow. But men don always keep WITHIN
the,r taes lines They break through
'sNhen YOU try 10 rcpress human soul that
fryinp to struggle upward, you're handling dyna-
mite You white men haven't time, with your
nol;tics and business to keep any large class down:
& This clb should sec that the tendencies toward
race prejudice which exist in the South today are
stopped,
Banker Schf, who is himself Jew. might have
in,erposed just here TO explain to the assembly why
1t was that the Israelites would not eat bread with
the Egyptians affiliate with Samaritans, or mix
their blood with other raees.-And he might have
said that this thing which the Northern people
speak OF so lightly as race prejudice ~is III TACT,
deep-seated instinct implanted by the creator,
Himself, for His own wise purposes, and that 1t
cannot be eradcated without destroying nature.
And vct Professor Felix Adler professed to have
discovered a remedy. The root OF the evil in
his opinion lies in the South, and education is the
way TO grub il out.
He urged that a committee be appointed to de-
termine whether it would be advisable to have the
public schools in the poorer and more sparsely
settled districts 81 the South subsidized by the
Federal Government He wanted the Blair bill
revived and suggested that the Republican Club
invite the National Democratic Club to appoint
q committee and have the two clubs take up the
matter Jointly rather than make it party affair.
The cool insolence OF that proposition is posi-
lively stunning and the marvel is that there was no
word OF protest in meeting, far the record
shows. Analysed, the proposition this: sub
sidize the common schools OF the South with a
! government appropriation and educate the white
children and the black children together in the
Z same schools. Bring up the children OF the two
y races upon terms OF social equality and when they
4 are grown, there will be no prejudice
That is a question which the whites Of the South
will not discuss OF course. But we have distinct
& purpose in bringing this New York meeting to the
q. attention OF readers. Every and then
somebody proposes Federal aid to public education
Ii is popular measure, but whenever it is proposed
\ hereafter. We hope that every Southern man will
call to mind this saying Of Felix AdIers. Subsidized
& schools mean mixed schools. That's the "nigger
nthe woodpile.'
M Another thing. Ne do not say that every move
u 1ent that originates the North in the interest OF
education in the South contemplates mixed schools
~ hut we do say that every such movement will bear
u watching.
ST. Mary's College.
Ess he announcement that the Catholics going
A build in this city military college for the educa-
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