The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-04-12
A Clear View of 1t.

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some time in the southern states and
has embodied his Impressions in an
article vhcih appears in recent is
sue OF McClure's Magazine.
It was. Of course. impossible for
Bir. Archer to arrive at an intimate
knowledge Of conditions and tendon.
cies duriag a comparatively snort stay
in a country with which he was but
little familiar. but he at least came
without prejudice ana attempted to
set forth his views on the race ques-
ton with impartialily
This article-or at least sogle Of
the conclusions which Mr. Archer has
drawn in the course Of his article
are made the basis of an editorial in
recent number of Golfers Weekly
which takes the ground that the
south us gaining powerful friends"
Qualifying the phrase, Golfers says
IT is perhaps mot so much friends,
whose motive Is avowed sympathy,
as merely cleaT-eyed observers who
are just and have courage" and that
"by the multiplication of these will
her way be made smooth"
Mr. Archer is quoted as saying:
"The south is in the main actu-
ated by just and farreaching, if
not farseeing instinct. ] believe that
the problem, far from being unreal,
is SO real and so dishearteningly diff
ficult that nothing but an almost SUI
perhuman wisdom, energy and cour-
age will ever effectually deal with
it,"
In continuing its comment, Col
lier's expressed the wish that these
were in the heart of ev-
cry New Englander who hastily calls
a meeting TO pass resolutions on the
negro problem, and every northern
editor who has formula, long con.
yentionali2ed. In which he writes
scolding for the south.
The Outlook the other day spoke OF
is sympathy with the intense feelings
OF the southern white, his "strong con
of the enlightened views Of
President Eliot about the souths ulti-
mate problem To these names may
be added that Of Thomas Wentworth
lligginson, survivor OF the generation
of abolition leaders and commander
of colored regiment during the Civil
War In declining an invitation to at
tend conference on the status of the
negro, he deplored all such agitation,
which makes the problem of the south
only more difficult. The day may yet
come when the north will formally
that the south's stubborn
refusal, since the Civil War, to yield
an inch of it's stand IN the matter of
the relations of the races was an
epochal contribution to the white race
in America, which. under the outrag
eous difficulties which the north press
ed down upon the south. could not
have been done differently. Probably it
would be impossible to prophesy
day more unhappy for this continent
than the ono on which tho southern
white should abate one iota of his
II has occasionally been charged
that Golfers was unfriendly TO the
south, but the attitude 1t takes in
the article which we reproduce in part
would indicate that it has undergone
q change of heart. for 1t speaks the
words OF truth and soberness.
1T has taken the country as
whole a long time to come to reali-
cation of the genuine service which
the south has rendered in maintain,
ing steadlast stand for white SUI
premacy. but gradually the clouds
are lifting and it is being recognized
just as Golfers recognizes, that this
determination was an epochal contri-
button TO the white race in Amer
lea"