New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-06
REAL EMANCIPATION A
MYTH, SAYS DR.. WISE
Tells Free Synagogue Negroes
Still Suffer SIavery'S Hard
ships by Isolation.
NORTH'S ATTITUDE UNFAIR
Rabbi Says We Should Not
Criticise South's Injustices
While We Compel
Segregation.

DR.. Stephen S. Wise. rabbi OF the Free
Synagogue. In Carnegie Hall, in his SER
mon. Abolition and Fifty Years Ago"
yesterday morning. declared that wh'ie
slavery among the negroes had peen
abolished the race had not been emanci-
pated into perfect freedom. If the SOUTH
ern States find the case of the negro TOO
burdensome, he said. then the nation
should step in and assume portion Oh
that burden. DR.. Wise said the North
should not criticise the inJustlces OF the
South to the negro, because the negro is
| compelled TO live In utter isolation In
Northern cities. During hfs sermon DR..
| Wise said:
III 1865 and emancipation were not WORTH
while, neither was Lao and IT'S Declaratioh
OF Independence, nor yet Magma Cnar Ia
The American democracy ana negro siaN
cry could not permanently co-eXlst. our
nation cannot forever exist II the WHITE
race be half enslaved by its pre)uolceh
and partisanships and the negro race oiiS
half freed from its yoke.
Have We really emancipated the hegro
or merely abolished slavery? II Is one
thing to help a race TO throw OH ne
| shacllles. and another to emancipate ~
into perfect freedom. We have no more
tried emancipation as yet than Cnrlstians
have ever tried Christianity. or Jews eA-
perlmented in the art OF living by Juda-
ism. Who will essay to Judge the wisdom
OF emancipation AFTER the brief term oil
fifty years? In denying TO the black race
| more than a 1.-THE Of the educational OPP
portunities which is the daily portion OF
the white race we vet presume 10 judge
IT, newly emerged people. by the most
rigorous of white mans standards, ior-
getting. as a gifted teacher OF his own
has said. that the negro began az the zero
point with nothing TO his credit but the
crude physical discipline OF slavery. Edu-
cation has not demoralized the negro. lie
has shown veritable passion for II. as
witnessed by the extraordinary decrease
In negro illiteracy within half a century
The states have not fairly and adequately
provided educational opportunities Tor tne
negro. The education which has moral
tied the negro has untitled him solely Tor
a life of servitude.
We may deny justice 10 the negro. we
may withhold from him elementary po-
litical rights. We may scourge ana suipe
him. we may hang and burn him. but In
the end the white race VIII suner most
No race can violate the moral law with
impunlty: no race can for years and gen
erations pursue courses that arc unjust
without mutllating its own moral nature
and sinking TO a lowered level OF life.
The Democratic party has always been
ready 10 treat the political disabilities OF
the negro as n vote-Betting opportunity,
and the Republican party no less Wiling
TO utilize him as an always dependable
asset The third party may mean to be
iust TO the negro. but Is II just to treat
him well I'm the Northern States and 10
treat him i'll. virtually TO disable him, IN
the Southern States?
Emancipation came az a war measure
and rightly so-a measure or war upon
slavery Pity did not free the negro. but
war did Pity and charity will not solve
the negro problem OF to-day. IL is upon
the higher grounds OF justice and de-
mocracy that the question must be met.