The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-09-05
SCISSORS AND PASTE.
The Truth From Byrnes.
columbia State)


Whenever the professional friends"
of the negroes wish to tell of the mer-
it's Of that race, they say exactly
what Representative Byrnes, of the
Second South Carolina District, said
last Monday, which The State has
been saying time and again year after
year, that the negro in the South sis
accommodating money, he is purchas-
ing land and through the assistance
OF the white man daily bettering his
conditions" OF course they omit ac-
acknowledgements of assistance by white
men.
The world furnishes no parallel
to the rapid progress of the negro
race In the Southland the indispens-
able foundation for this progress was
made, by the assistance of the white
man, in the period of the negro's
I slavery.
The negroes were brought out Of
the junles of Africa. most of them
from state of slavery to savage
masters. and here, in condition of
benign slavery. they multiplied at
tremendous rate, they were taughts
the essentials of civilization, they re-
! ceived as rule intelligent care, they
| were given better treatment than
white industrial workers in most parts
of the world were receiving at tho
same time and their servitude was.
except in name, little more real than
was the Industrial servitude that pre-
vailed all over Europe until the mid
die of the nineteenth century.
History records nothing compare BILE !
with the benefits bestowed upon the
millions of people snatched from
Africa and brought to the English
colonies and the United States, nor is '
there anything comparable in folly
and stupidity with the efforts of
bigots, doctrinaries, fanatics and fools
who dwell elsewhere to force them
suddenly to plane of equality with
the white people of the South. their
former masters, their instructors,
their protectors, the Givers to them
of every sign and evidence of civiliZa-
tion that they possess. That the :
motive of the masters was to gain
wealth is aside from the question,
disturbing not in the least the truth
that the great profit of slavery went
10 the black, not to the white race /
Never did judgement wrapped by fana-
tlcal zeal and base political ambition
proceed upon crazier assumption
than was that of Il minority of the
Northern people that a race. because
1t had been emancipated from slavery,
was fit, therefore. to share in govern
ment and the reconstruction gov
ernments in the Southern States set
up in 1868 were the most dismal. dis
graceful and vicious experiments that
have been seen on this continent.
The evolution of the negro race can
not be accelerated by force of arms.
If in five or six centuries it should at
/ tain to the position that it's mad
champions claim that it should have
now IT would make remarkable rec
ord for speed in development.
Meantime, in the South. because IL /
is land not crowded. where the com
petition for homes and farms is not
sharp; because in the South negro I!
labor is useful TO intelligent mana
gers and property owners; the ne
! Sroes are making tremendous prog
ress-a progress that will be checked
! If the stream of white immigrati ton
should be turned Southwark
/ The danger to the negroes as a
race is not from the white Southern
ers, however crimes be done against
/ them that are inexcusable (the critics
OF the South studiously forget that
criminality is naturally more common
! in the more ignorant race in the
South and that, despite lynchers, the
whites suffer more from negro than
/ negroes from white crime) but from
the white men who will surely come
to the South in the approaching years
t SO far the negro has not had to meet
industrial competition of white men
/ on Southern farms, but the day
swiftly draws near when he will be
put to that test.