Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-10-18

the negro, nine times out of ten, will
take the silver and leave the bill. A
white thief would pocket both. We
Southern people know this failing and
often condone small thefts, as we
make that allowance in employing SER
wants. But there are also honest and
trustworthy negroes. Even during
slavery days, my mother never locked
her closets, having every coincidence
in her black domestics and she was
never mistaken or had her trust be-
trayed.
The negro has commendable am
bition to educate his children, ana
will make any sacrifice, and feed them
on blaclSerries, crust of bread IN Or
der to send them to school. This zeal
is doubtless attributed to the fact that
in slavery days education was forbid
den fruit to blacks. And the negro
is an apt pupil and makes rapid ad-
yances in his studies. But he Is an
imitatot. and whatever he builds or
does is transient and temporary. You
might today remove every negro from
the American continent and in nan
century or less not single evidence
would remain that the race had ever
been brought here, unless it be some
washed field or gully where they till
ed the land. The negro never looks
TO the future for his creed is "Suffi-
cient unto the day is the evil thereof.
With full stomach he never gives
thought of tomorrow.
If northern politicians after eman-
cipation had left the negro to the con-
troll and guidance of their former
owners, there would never have been
any race issue to solve, and these peo-
ple would have been far advanced over
their present condition. Unquestion-
ably. the SOUTHERN people best UNDER
stand negro nature, are their true
friends. They would have been safe
and trustworthy guides for their for-
mer slaves. Old negroes and their
former owners would have lived to-
gether in peace and kindliness ana
their children been trained in the way
they should be. But with each sue
ceeding generation of blacks the lines
dividing the two races are each day
widening, and what the end VIII DC
no one can predict. Some writers as
sert that the only solution of the rad
ical problem will be one OF three
things. Emigration, determination or
amalgamation. Neither OF these Is
possible or at all probable. The negro
10 here to remain and increase. Hfs
numbersiare too great to move or ex-
terminate, even did humanity sanction
the latter alternative. AS to amalga-
nation abhorrence to such a ming
ling of races is taking deeper root ev-
cry year, even in the North. But the
South has solved the race problem SO
far as this section is concerned The
negro will never be permitted to nave
anv deciding voice in controlling this
country. While there may be race
riots and outbreaks. Southern man.
hood will always keep the blacks IN
check and in their place. The idea or
amalgamation Is too abhorrent to con-
slider for a moment.
But one benefit, and n very great
one, the negro has been to the South:
His presence among us in such num-
bers has always kept from our section
that flood tide of foreign immigration,
for these newcomers did not care to
compete with such cheap labor. The
result is that in the South you find
pure -blooded one hundred per cent.
Americans and when the civilization
and purity of our great republic Is
poisoned or imperialed by Old World
scum, the South will be I'M a position
to save the nation confidently be-
lieve that day will come when our
country must rely on the white people
of the South to rescue their land from
a peril that threatens it by mixture
blending of so many races and peoples.
Such mixtures destroyed Rome and
Greece, and today imperils our great
American Republic. But there VIII
ever remain in the South one spot
where pure Americans are found.