The Colorado statesman., 1912-08-03
THE NEGRO PROBLEM
AND ITS SOLUTION
BY DR.. G. w. BELL, PINE BLUFF,
ARK, AN Ex-SLAVE AND AN
EX-STATE SENATOR.

claim lnat tnere lb no real prODlem
concerning the negro any more than
that which relates to any other race;
that the application of the golden
rule" will destroy 1t; that If he Is
given a square deal In the struggle of
life and let alone, that he will solve
it. Some advance the idea that wealth
and education are the most potent fac
tors and essential requisites necessary
for its solution. But the one idea which
attracts more attention than all the
others combined is the industrial edu-
cation which makes him "a better
newer of wood and better drawer of
water" and chooses for him the south
in preference to all the other countries
OF the earth. For 40 years past,
more or less these various PROPOSE
tions have been before the American
people and the other civilized nations
of the earth, and it is strange to say,
yet tbs true, that they are as far from
the solution of this problem as they
were when 1t first began. There are
many elements in the formation of
this all absorbing proposition which
have never been discussed in the pub
lie forum heretofore. We therefore
admit the existence of this problem,
which began as we understand it from
the flood and has continued from that
period until the present day. When
Nimrod sought to be independent of
God and conceived within his fertile
Imagination the building of a tower
broad enough and high enough to over
come every known obstacle to his am
bitlon, a shadow indicative of his aw-
full sin and disobedience was reflected
and indelibly imprinted upon the mind
and conscience of the world. Pause
q moment and look with me down
through the archives of the ages and
there we behold the relics of Gods S
awful wrath lying in the valleys, upon
the plains and upon the highest noun
tains. The carcasses of those God had
SO recently destroyed by the flood can
be plainly seen and the stencil of
their decay is still fresh in the nos
trils of Nimrod. the great-grandson of
Noah and the grandson of Ham and
the son of Cush, the first born of Ham
instead of becoming awed and i'm
pressed as he gazed upon these great
and mighty deeds of God, his indig-
nation was fired to burning desire to
be revenged on God He therefore
planned to build a tower with base
deeply riveted in the bowels of the
earth and its topmost parts reaching
the heavens. At this particular pc
rtod there was no division in the
family of Noah. Nimrod then was the
ruler of all the inhabitants of the
earth, He undertook the most gigan-
q tic and heroic scheme that has ever
entered the brain of mankind.
God only could comprehend and
overthrow his fragrant and contemp-
tible scheme. There never has exist
ed in the history of all the world since
that eventful time such unity of mind
and purpose as was concocted and
cemented into people as was match
lessly manifested by this wonderful
and mighty one before the Lord Be-
hold his audacity! After God had
confused their languages, overthrow
ing and checking the building of the
Tower of Babel, Nimrod remained
there and organized the first govern
ment upon the face of the earth aft
er the flood He planned and built
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handed down the plans that enabled
Asshur, the son of Shem, to build Min
eveh on the River Tigris. How long
he reigned and when he died we have
no history. Centuries must have
elapsed before the all conquering and
naughty Hamatic family marched west
ward over the plains of Shinor and
planting their great cities of Sidon,
Sodom and Gomorrah upon the west
bank of the Mediterranean sea- 1t
was from these centers that Europe,
Asia and Africa were colonized. 1t
was here that the world learned its
first lessons in shipbuilding and COM
mercial enterprise Here the Phoeni-
clans, the Canaanites, the Philistines,
constituting three branches of the
Homitic family, conducted and carried
on the most prosperous commercial
supremacy that the world had ever
seen. They held the keys of COM
merce with the whole worldl Should
any one ask what the negroes have
done in history answer them by point
ing to these achievements. If they are
still ignorant of the facts, call their
attention to Misraine, the second son
of Ham, who was the founder of
Egypt, and whose name means Egypt
He with his sons, Pathrusim, Luz
dim and Lehabim, migrated from Asia
and settled, colonized and founded the
garden spot of the earth. He was
soon followed by Cush and Phut, the
first and third sons of Ham. 1t was
here in this rich and fertile country
all the inventions and scientific dis
coveries were bornl 1t Is here we
find the greatest wonders of the world!
1t was here that the worlds greatest
leader was reared and educated. Here
God manifested himself to the Hamit-
&c family in most practical manner