The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-04-06

that the Negro is lower potentially.
1t is time that the whites emancipated
themselves from mental bondage They
look back to the good old days when
the Negro "knew his place meanwhile
every year the doctrine Of the inherent
potentiality of all races subject to en-
vironment and opportunity, grows
stronger, despite the superficial
writings of Thomas Nelson Page and
others who look through the smoked
glass of the rOutherner. Does not the
Russian prosecute the Jew, once the
chosen people Of the Lord? Does not
the Magyar prosecute the Rumanian
aud Slav?
| \"The white south does not know
/ the Negro although it claims full
knowledge of him. 1t cannot see the
forest for the trees. Who has not
heard the pet Saying of the affection
the masters child held for its Negro
nurse in the old days Of slavery-the
southerner's argument for the good
old slavery days?
Figures on Progress. ;
81 will quote you few statistics
to show you Negro 'retrogressiOn' in
fifty years, from 1856 to 1914 Num-
Der Of Negro homes owned by their
occupants increased from 10000 to
100000; farms owned by Negroes,
100000 to 9S1 900: wealth OF Negroes,
$2O000,OOO to $1OOO0O,O00; percentage
able to read or write, 10, per cent to
rs per cent; number Of Negro colleges
and schools, Is to 500; Negro church
property value increased from $780,
600 to S7G,000,000
The Russian serfs were enamel
pated in 1861 but in fifty years their
wealth only reached $40 per capita
as compared with $40 for the Ameri-
can Negroes and only 80 per cent OF
them can read or write.
There is distinct fancy in the
South that education cannot lift the
; Negro The whites often boast that
they pay taxes to run Negro schools,
but Negroes are not given their just
share of the school tax money. In
Louisiana 80 per capita is paid to edu-
cate Negro children and s4954 to ed
ucate white children. With ludicrous
although pathetic zeal the southerner
often ostracizes you if you call Ne
groes "Mr" or Mrs" He points to
higher death rate among the Negro
peoples in the south. but he can find
that the Negro death rate in Chicago
Is lower than the white death rate.
He clings TO the false doctrine that
the Negro is more unclean morally
than the white and is delaying pro-
gress further by this dogma. It is de-
/ clared that the ruling passion of the
Negro is to despoil white women, but
in the face Of this terrible psychology
! the white man is far more guilty
in his relations toward the Ne
gro women. immortality among the
Negro women is not nearly as wide
as before the war
Negroes Deserve Assistance.
1.-THE freed Negroes are in sore
need of all the aid the other class can
give them. Their efforts challenge all
who closest sympathy. Ten million
Of them are going to dwell with us for
long time and the south should have
realized this and taken different at
titude. In the south, they will tell
you that the reason why they have
juvenile courts, associated charities
and why the chain gang is retained
lies in the race dogma.
"Misregeneration is chiefly the white
mans fault. The discrimination
against Negroes on the southern rail-
ways is inexcusable. They are treat
ed unjustly in the courts. If the
white people themselves can be en-
lightened with the Negroes the solu-
ton of the race question in the south
lies ahead"