The Colorado statesman., 1912-04-06

eral view of race prejudice against the
negro in the south, believing it to be
due to natural and proper desire of
the whites to keep their racial stock
pure"
Governors and other leaders from
several southern states recently con-
ferred in Baltimore on labor and in
dustrial conditions in that section. The
reawakened south, industrially and ag-
riculturally expanding at a rate un-
known since the Civil war, needs Ia
Dor. There is insistent demand that
European immigrants be steered to
the south to supply this demand.
"The negro is almost ignored in this
demand for immigration. He is set
down as hopeless, trifling, futile, i'm
possible. But is it safe to rush to
that conclusion?
Though the white population of the
south is increasing more rapidly than
the black, and though every decennial
census makes it more clear that there
is no possible danger of the black, as
once was feared. coming to predomi-
nate-despite all this, the fact remains
that there are some eleven millions of
colored people in the country, and that
they cannot be got rid of. There
stands the hard fact.
1T may be that the negro is not
SO desirable a worker in factory or
field as the immigrant; but If the i'm
migrant takes his place the negro
will be left on the hands of society,
demanding the means of livelihood,
a menace to the community In greater
and greater degree just in proportion
as the hopelessness of his condition is
made more apparent.
'If the south's eleven million ne
groes could be traded off for eleven
millions of whites, that would be a
solution. But they cannot be. The
negroes are there and will stay there.
They must be provided for; made as
useful as possible; made to support
themselves.
ITO make the most, the best, OF its
negro workers is the first big duty Of
the south. 1t is the most difficult prob
lem before the nation.
1T cannot be solved by the effort
to drive the negro out; he will not be
driven out. He must be looked after,
educated in the right way, given a
chance to be self-respecting, encour-
aged to improve his condition.
Hamptons Magazine.
There's a man in the world who Is
never turned down, wherever he
chances to stray; he gets the glad
hand in the populous town, or out
where the farmers make hay; he's
greeted with pleasure on deserts of
sand, and deep in the aisles of the
woods; wherever he goes there's the
welcoming hand-Hes the Man Who
Delivers the Goods.
The failures of life sit around and
complain; the gods haven't treated
them white; they've lost their umbrel-
las whenever there's rain; and they
haven't their lanterns at night; men
tire of the failures who fill with their
signs the air of their own neighbor-
hoods; there's the man who is greeted
with love-lighted eyes-he's The Man
Who Delivers the Goods.
One fellow is lazy, and watches the
clock, and waits for the whistle to
blow; one has hammer, with which
he will knock, and one tells the story
of woe; and one. If requested to travel
a mile, will measure the perches and
roods; but one does his stunt with a
whistle or smile-he's The Man Who
Delivers the Goods.
One man is afraid hell labor too
hard-the world isn't yearning for
such; and one man is ever alert, on his
guard, lest he put in a minute too
| Nd hna
per that's bad, and one is a creature of
moods, SO it's hey for the joyous and
rollicking lad-for The One Who De-
livers the Goods!-Old Hickory.
In an editorial on French Exclu.
sion Law" the Washington Post en-
deavors to show that when a nation
becomes exclusive it ceases to grow.
but strangely closes with this para.
graph:
1t is to the benefit of the United
States, certainly, to keep her doors
open to all healthy white immigrants,
of good character"
The Post ought not be SO exclusive
as to use the word white" Perhaps
some day the people of the United
States will awaken to the fact that
color prejudice has been of incalcula-
BILE injury to the Countrywide Ap-
peal
There are 25,ooO,OOo negroes in the
new world, distributed as follows:
Thirty thousand in the Dominion of
Canada; 100000 In the United
States; 5,756,O00 in the West Indies;
117,000 in Central America; 10000 in
Venezuela and Colombia; 225, 900 in
the Guineas; 100000 In Brazil and