Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-01-30

The evidences are many and graf.
wing that the people Of the new
.outh are realizing and meeting in
a very high degree the obligation and
duty they owe to the negro.
The negro problem is the south's
greatest problem. It has passed
through the era Of passion. and is
passing safely through the era of rae
tal prejudices.
The idea which SO long a time had
currency in the south was that the
negro had no qualification for living
and competing with the dominant and
superior race-that he complicated all
their problems of industry and soci-
ETY., and that the wise thing to do
was to help him to enter another
country, where, after 200 years of con-
tact with this people, he might work
out his own destiny by their counsel
and cooperation, but with absolute ia
dependence and in his own right.
That idea has entirely passed away.
Every thinking man now believes that
so long as our republic endures the
white and black races will dwell side
by side in the south.
It was therefore both logical and
humane that the more advanced and
better developed race must, as mat
ter of policy and prudence, help the
negro and develop him along the best
lines, and cooperate with him in every
worthy measure, with helpfulness and
consideration. They must build up
the negro to the higher conceptions of
his duty to himself and to them, and
establish the understanding that
since they must live with him, the
white race must help him to be the
worthier of citizenship and associa-
ton.
More and more the northern people,
whose philanthropy has been lavish
and we'll directed, are holding off
their hands and their money in the
development Of the negro, and are
coming to trust the south more and
more completely in dealing with prob
lens looking to his welfare.
This feeling and spirit are entering
the minds of both races, and 1t is safe
to say that the relation between the
two races of the south have never
been more friendly and safer than
now.
From, April rs to 20 of the present
year. in Atlanta, the southern socio-
logical congress, made up of leading
university presidents, with other
noted publicists and thinkers of the
south, discussed with rare courage,
great moderation and remarkable abil-
ity the religious, educational, hygien-
ic, economic and civic conditions OF
the negro of the south and the white
mans relation to him
The speeches at the congress were
epoch making because of the accuracy
and abundance of data, and because OF
the startling frankness of stating the
deficiencies disclosed in the program
of the whites of the south in dealing
with the negro problem.
An especially striking feature OF the
congress was the fact that the negro
delegates were invited as body, for
the first time in the history OF any
program of similar character to
seats on the floor in each of the sew
en- conferences held simultaneously IN
seven different white churches OF the
capital of the south.-Editorial In the
Chicago American.
The new money-washing machine
has been installed in the Philadelphia
mint by Burgess Smith, it's inventor.
1t weighs $500 pounds, has a capacity
of 5000 notes an hour, and has two
parts-one scrubs the note, the second
gives it a cold-water bath.
Large deposits Of sulphur have oeen
found in southern Texas and are to pe
developed in a similar manner to the
development of the Louisiana sulphur
fields.
The Trade and Labor council OF
Danville, Ill.,, had about 700 negro
noonohore in tho Miners union and ~