The Brunswick news., 1917-05-26
THE NEGRO PReRlsM.

confront themselves and their racia
brothers as result of the changes
conditions brought about by nearlJ
three years of war should receive
from those white men who have the
constructive vision and the sense OF
community responsibility the fullest
cooperation and aid says the Macon
Telegraph.
The southern negro. aud that
means the negro race in America
faces today two great problems which
are taxing his powers of initiative
and intelligence to where he is not
trying to solve them but just drifting
with the tide One is the radically
changed farm copditions and methods
OF farming made compulsory by the
arrival of the boil weevil and the
other is the question as to whether
he shall follow the Turing call of the
labor agent TO temporarily good
wages in crowded and labor-hungry
eastern and northern centers or whe-
ther he shall ignore IL and apply him
self to the in the end larger future
and greater opportunity afforded by
the south. On his deciding these
things rightly depends more of the fu-
ture prosperity and security of the
south as its economic, industrial and
sociological structure is embodied
than many of MS like to admit.
There Is every reason why the ne.
gro should be left In the south. why
he should come to look on II as a
permanent and continuing habit for
him and the richest field for his pecu-
liar activities and fashion of work
ing and applying himself. There Is
no appreciabe race trouble in the
south, and never will be again be-
cause both white and black under
stand usch other today on tolcrablc
and usefully workable basis to an
extent far exceeding whatever has
existed IN this respect In the past
The climate and general attributes
of the country are almost indigenous
TO the negro. Here in this aemi-trop-
iCal country he works best and most
hcalthily, lives more naturally and
happily and Is more useful to himself,
his community and the country at
large. Also he is the most efficient,
II not the only efficient labor the
south can ever hope to get.
lie farms we'll, considering his linn
itations. both on his own and rented
land better than he does anything
else. Today his labor and his appli-
cation supplies half our crops and
this does not apply at all to negro day
labor on white farms. but To negro
tenants and freeholders. We have
to have him as large and vital part
OF our agricultural structure, az hui
hIan elements make 1t up, and whore
he is most needed there by economic
law Is bound to be his greatest op-
his most profound perma'
nent advantage.
Those negro leaders who met last
night in n local conference, who viii
take part tonight in tho statewide
sense these problems and
seek TO solve them and solve them
to tho best interests of both negro
and white men AS II is now. both
are suffering and due to suffer even
more later on If a change is not
brought about. They cannot work
out their salvation nor develop their
opportunity alone They must have
honest and constructive
white help and have il continually
ut their elbows. available TO their
call Men who have proved them
selves worthy and helpful leaders OF
the negro race In Georgia will be
here. In many respects their meeting
tonight is the most important of any
that has been held in the entire state
in years. II is the white mans con
eern fully as much as the neSso So
let there be no mistake about that
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