Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-18
UNNECESSARY AGITATION.

icalS that comes 10 our LaDle,
In its teachings the BEACON finds so much to
please and instruct, and so much that is admirably
calculated to make life on the farm richly worth
living and the home on the plantation the dearest
SPOT on earth-so much to add to the comforts of
the old people and the pleasures Of the young and
to make the boys content to stay on the farm, and
the girls content and happy when welded to a
neighbor's son, we are reluctant to indulge in any
adverse criticism of the conduct of the progressive
publication.
And yet it seems proper to US to call atten-
ton to a department under a management which
carries at its masthead, as an exponent of that
for which it stands, a banner bearing the device:
Education, cooperation, legislation 1)
Education to Develop Power, GU Cooperation to
Multiply 1t, and (3) Legislation and Good Govern
ment to Promote Equal Rights and Human Prog
ress-Plain Talk About Men, Measures and Moye-
ments Involved. By Clarence Poe"
The objects there expressed are admirable,
and if the manager, in conducting his columns,
would live up to the letter and spirit of what is
there proposed, his department could not fail to
achieve, righteously for the South's commonweal
today and build wisely for its domestic peace and
tranquility in the future.
In the issue of June 5 there is an article
under the caption, Booker Washington as Dicta-
tor" that, in the opinion of the BEACON, is an
illogical, far-fetched appeal to race prejudice which
finds no justification from any standpoint of Chris
tian charity, saving common sense or the common
justice which Jesus had in mind when giving to
the twelve chosen Apostles the Golden Rule, he
said
"And as we would that men should do to
you, do we also to them likewise"
Taking the author of the articles own state
ment of the case, we can find no just ground for
the offensive filings he makes at Booker Washing
ton, for in doing what he charges Washington
with having done, the latter, if he is really guilty
of any wrong doing which we do not admit-did
only what is being taught by the author of the
article as the proper thing for people who wish to
improve their condition in life to do.
We are sorry to see the Progressive Farmer so
far yield to prejudice and the hate born of race
prejudice as to put itself in the inconsistent
attitude as the Booker Washington as Dictator
article places it. The position it has assumed with
reference to the negro is illogical, ungenerous. UNI
just.
We know not how it elsewhere is, but in Nox.
ubee county the two races are getting along so
well that neither is making any loud-mouthed
complaints of the other.
Among neither race is to be found in this COM
munity any one willing or DESTROYS of stirring up
strife between the whites and blacks.
No one here wishes to become a breeder of i'll
feeling between the white man and the negro.
Here every decent man of intelligence and
well-wisher of the country wants to see the era
of peace and goodwill now existing between the
races in! Noxubee county continue and grow, for
in the exercise. on the part of the intelligent, edu-
Gated, liberty-oving white man, of patience, JUS
tice, kindness and charity toward the inferior race,
whose lot and destiny is not in their own hands, to
be worked out by them alone, but is largely with
us-largely dependent upon the example we set
them in Righteousness, largely dependent upon the
helping hand we extend to them and the treat
ment we accord to them in our dealings with them.
The BEACON is not of those who look with en-
vious eyes or feelings of apprehension at any
effort on the part of the negro to improve his con-
dition in life-to lift himself by honest worth, by
industry and economy and education to a higher
and better scale of humanity,
We believe in the wisdom of the teachings and
practices of Lamar, George and Walthall, and of
YAK dbiCS hlCli VI VIC NViSSI u NtilC Vic IdIuelIl-
ed bishop, DR.. Galloway, was a high type, as Ia
the negro, and it was their opinion, unhesitatingly
declared, that both duty and policy demanded of
us our best efforts to meet the race problem and
solve it by dealing with the inferior race in JUS
tice, kindness and such Cancellation as to bring out
and develop the best that is in them as individuals
and as a race.
Omniscience and Omnipotence, for purposes
of His own, planned to put the two races in Mis-
sissippi. to here work out together their own des-
tiny.
They have a destiny that looks now to be
largely a common destiny, and they must prosper
- c,,ffor 10 tha race NAV no toCothor