The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-31

krowable negro who is farthest down tEe scale. And why I say that is because no white mind q mean developed mind) can or is able to know a black mind tor a dwarfed or degenerate mnD. In order to know any race or people you must be a part of that race, even to put yourself in the position to study their general make up.
 Or you must be touched psychologically with the feelings of their infirmities in order that you can not only draw out of him that which is in him. but you can look into his physiognomy and read there the inmost characteristics of him and thereby you can determine just what is best suited to raise that mans life to a higher standard of industrial manhood. But the most ignorant negro can easily know the general make up of his master or mistress.
 No white man knows the negro, no; not even those who come in daily contact with him every day. With the better class of the Anglo-Saxons. he is a good natured irresponsible mystery. Think for a mo- ment, as I speak to you in this missive, as wish and hope by your financial as- sistance to change the tide of vice and crime in the south. A white man cannot move-can scarcely think-without a ne- gro. A negro maid the first thing in the 1t is time to rise; a negro cook prepares his food; d negro butler waits on him, standing at his elbow listening to the family's conversation; a negro office boy watches him throughout the day; a negro waiter serves him his lunch at noon. At his club his attendants are all negroes, and it is a fact that some negroes known every down sitting and every up rising = they meet and compare notes on their "boss."
 These negro servants change from one | place to another like the wind shifts Today there is little if any ante-bellun l fidelity left. They swap information
 about white folks and the madam's ears
 if possible would very often burn if she | could only hear her ex-cooks and ex-
 maids as they passed judgment on hei
 eccentricities. Again. the negro hears
 the different white folks discuss the race | AGShN anu iSdi Ao JdoL tiiCil VIEWS COIi' corning him and his future. But not st with the white man. He has no sucf
 means Of getting information as to what
 the negro's viewpoints are. As a general | thing the negro will not talk freely witt
 white man. consequently no Caucasian
 knows, or will know, the thoughts an6 l viewpoints of the negro. Remember, am speaking of that class that are filling
 the jails and chaingangs--the farthes ones down the scales of life. Therefore | since it iS a fact that the rank and iilt
 of the negroes will always live in tho
 south, truly believe first, last and al
 ways the uppermost problem with the An | glo-Saxons of tine south should be to de
 velop the negro into a self sustaining
 wealth producing law abiding member oi | society
 | He should be developed to that poin in life that he would know the real value l of those cardinal principles that constitute
 g. man-character industry and econo
 my-that he will be brought to that posi- | tion in life, that when one talks to him whether of his race or of some other race
 ho will have the backbone to look hin in the face and when that is accomplished the white man can know the negro as ht knows his own race.
 The masses of the negroes minds ar'