The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1910-12-08
New Race ! \ !.
Pr'ot!!e d.
SEEN IN BlAITINIORE z M.-
TION AND Com 4
SPEECH by DUB g y
Making IN Imp j
At The South Almost EquallinG,Th That
of Advocate OF nstrialispA
Noted SocioIogist and Leax3ef or
Niagara Movement. ~ Sss fS

memphis, Tenn, Dec. 5-Tha. .1e&d-
ing editorial Of the Nashville Bauiaef.s,
OF. Wednesday evening, Novembsr 8O
mas renewed the interest Of TennS
seeans in w. E. B. Dubois. 5t I5ia
connection with The Moon, pubuSf.
ed here some time ago by n.
simon and Co., is still fresh in, the.
minds of the most intelligent oeo-
pie of the State. The Banner Seii.
tor1al was as foliows:i ~ !
The New Race Problem. ID & IL 4
William Edward Burghardt nu,.
nols' Professor in The. Atlanta
University, author Of The Souls of
blackfolk" and critic Of Booker
washington concerning the nneAbod$
of Negro education, has canaasiIisSil i.f
cation In the New York WoTl NEaf.
IS or interest. The proposed sBaISf4
more ordinance that seeks to seRFsas.
ate Negro residents Of the city and
Mr. Samuel Gompers' expresseds an. :.
position to Negroes as members snf
laDor unions have brought frofin. D,I4s 4
hols protest in which he SAYS IsiS,$
What does this all mean,1 IA
seems to me perfectly clear. Mf4Ssr
'he successful assault on the iahlaSnk al;sSk
mans political rights there te coming;
To-Day an attempt all along thesainss
TO curtail his right to work AMI fSx
acquire property. Just as the Nesra3
was largely disfranchised before. f,.5 fI,Ss hIasf
practioe was translated into law NJ
To-Day the unions have, with, a$s fsa. fessass.
exceptions, largely kept black anSEsa
out OF work, and the labor Gust tiDs
ol southern states have stoien NM
wages. Now gradually hut eufyss
the attempt is. made to p,tt
customs into law, =, .'T:Ss4. IA s5EES Fs
What is to be done about II d sfss
'ne black man again to, be- advssFs ts
TO make no protest, to. take M sx9,S..
lehslVe action? While he was, .a,a4;ss !,
stripped of political rights he way way
peremptorily told by his 7frteesn,tta tes,
10 keep still and look pleasant. W.,
were told that to take the vote fto;; frtoi;,,
tne Negro would settle the t,Y4.ea.s Ya5.ss
n0Oiem' Are We to be informed
now that stopping him from ,,s,ss -yvf,r1Fss
'ns, buying property and usinp sits
Will complete his apotheosis?
is 1t not rather high time fs fnrs..ssf,2 ~ o
long silent champions OF tecanxs,y,,-
ana talr play in the race problem II,
voice mighty protest against ffGsiss fff,ssssas
iatest manifestations of race r,nra...
judice?" : - ~ :.
DUBOIS was born In Maesachns
se''' ana educated att HafIyta RI
'nousn classed as "colored,. d,.i >Aa ia.
as the late John J. Ingalls, aa3tf Ss
rreoer1ck Douglass, strong iii sst{Sss
caucasian reinforcement" He \ makes.s 51
vsorous use Of the English larsgnase.
"nu MS writings indicate a. hSS1b,.5
lesentment at the fate that savs,, h,,,xs
Negro blood" .lu - II.
But he should leave out hfaFra,,.
lug at the South In the complains. he.
les TO make against the BalfyfSor.s5
orolnance and Mr. Gompers paI{4. 7.
'nore IS more Eastern than So,+hor.,.
a"a southern cities properly have
'0I attempted to enforce Nbgrn
segregation. Gompers is q na4iysssnss,
"neland and since he came n, 49,
Iou"'ry mas lived in the North. Taera
mas not been any Discrimination Si,,
'ne South against the Nspr, ~ US e;
laoorer, and what Dufaota Jsss.ssssss
anent the' labor customs oySSs.I
southern States stealing the n5a.,s..IYs..
| truth. 10 ~ ~ -fss1 ~ u
me new, race problem THAI, 3a.r 3ks,a.r
aroused his resentment is ontaid ~
ana extraneous to anything e,t,,,tI
eIn and should be discussed withonA
special reference to Southern s,o,,,.
ditions." >' -. '''s - sEs'ysss Spy'
IL IS interesting to any news ~ cs,,. y, /
respondent and to any pera,,, =, 49, SssISs.s;
engaged In gathering informatio,n, n''t1 q
IoIe nN, no" thoroughly the spirit OF DIR
oofs mas stamped itself unon ~.
'oe'o race and what a wontsaaTsbs
,"''uence the spirit Of Booker Wslsh,.
nston has in the every day 1iss 1,s
Cue colored people of the sn,7sE +
"eh again, 1t Is matter of .brA,,
( Hunor and pathos to obesarves "A
: spirit OF both Dubois and 'wassb.
'"s'on trmly rooted in every corr.
"un'1y or Negroes in the south TTx
Is fact IN spite of anything to- bs
SAID by the critics of either maS +
The two characters ltve,iH Shs
"SS"''S ana homes Of all Negro baaa
CONTINUED ON RA-s TyRo. IT55yF7r