The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-05-04
HATRED
IS DEPLORED
BY Mr.. stowe
Believes 1t Best for the Coun-
try for White Man to
Aid the Black.
NEGRO HERE TO STAY
Not the Problem Of the South
But Of the Whole Coun-
try He Says.

BOSTON, April 2S-At the Fisk
University Day OF Tie World in
Boston Missionary Exposition, p
Charles Edward Stowe, son OF Har-
riet Beecher Stowe. lmmortal!zed as
the author Of Uncle Toms Cabin,
lspoke in behalf Of the higher edu-
cation Of the negro. In part he
said:
Shortly after the close of the
Civil war, General c. C. Howard
was addressing a Freedmen's school
at Atlanta, and asked the pupils
what message he should take to the
North from their school. Tell EN-
ives risin' massa, called out one
little negro
ut was true then, but still more
manifestly true today that the negro
is rising. Day by day is this fact
more apparent. The negro is gain
ing in wealth. in education, in intel
ligence, and in all that pertains to
a more abundant life. There is no
mere effective witness to this fac.
than the cries Of alarm, almost hys-
terical "A intensity, that come from
those who oppose negro education.
The industrial education of the nc.
SO, we are tod. is rapidly bringing
him in competition with the skilled
labor or the white man, and that
II he tries to get the white mans
job the white man will kill him.
The higher educate on of the negroi
maks him Imagine himself the social
equal of the white man, and 1T is
held to be self-eyident proposition
that when a negro adds to the
enormity OF being born with black
skin the crime OF appearing as in
telligent, as cultivated, and as re.
fined as the white man he begins 10
be peril to the white mans SUI
premacy and should be promtly ex-
terminated. The boosted suprem-
acy OF the white man, apparently
resting on 50 precarious and insecure
a foundation as to be threatened by
every upward step taken by the col
ored race. 1t must therefore be sus-
tanned by threats OF blood and VIC
ience, and drastic measures to keep
the negro in a position of industrial,
social, political and intellectual in.
fericr,:y End subserviency. The
much waited superiority of the
white man is then according to these
noisy oracles rather feeble affair
that is likely to perish from the
earth unless the negro is vigorously
suppressed, and denied all opportu-
nifty for Improvement.
III It is true that the negro is
rising it is equally true that among
the ten millions OF negroes in this
country there are black bogs, and
swamps OF barbarism, ignorance and
viciousness which are threat and a
menace to civilized society. 1t is
far from these welter:ng masses Of
moral rottenness that the miasma
of crime arises to poison whole COM
munities. From these dark spots
come the negro rapist with his
crime OF unimaginable brutality and
horror which stir up the white man
TO al the ferocities OF the lynch law.
This in turn is avenged upon tae
white man for in the long run the
life OF tho white man will be no
/ more sacred than that OF the poor
negro. The property of the white
man no more secure than the prop
erty of the poor negro. So If the
white man does not raise the negro
the negro drags the white man
down. If the white man permits
the negro to grow up in ignorance
and vice the negro reven res that
ignorance and vice on the white
man and his wife and children
Then II the white maa 10 punish
the negro gives himself up to the
promptings of savage brutality he
sinks 10 the level Of the negro and
/ perhaps below. For what is vice In
he negro IS crime in the white
man.
Not only justice but self-interest
demand the education of the negro.
To shut the door OF opportunity on
the negro to relegate him to the
lowest place and shut the door of
hope upon him is to make him des-
perate. The man who has intelli-
gence, property and social position
is manifestly less likely to develop
criminal instincts than the poor
wretch who lives mere animal ex.
istence.
In the last forty years the negro
III nnnutotfnO n rho TV1J4nl $780,