Arizona republican., 1921-10-27

full review of some recent literature of this question which MT F. Iugerd presented in a recent Edinburgh re- view, must realize that our race prob lem here in the United States is only a phase of race issue that the whole world confronts. Surely we shall gain nothing by binding the facts, by refusing to give thought to them. That is not the American way of approaching such issues.
 MT. Lugard. in his recent essay, after surveying the worlds problem of races, concludes thus:s
 For Equal Opportunity.
 There then, is the true conception of the inter relation of color-com- plete uniformity in ideals. absolute equality in the paths of knowledge and culture, equal opportunity for those who strive, equal admiration for those who achieve; in matters social and radical a separate path, each pursuing his own inherited tra- dluons, preserving his own race pur- ity, and race pride; equality in things spiritual; agreed divergence in the physical material
 Here, 1t has seemed to me, is sug- geston of the true way out. Politi- cally and economically, there need be
 
 differentiation, for limitations of the individuals opportunity provided that on both sides there shall be rec ognition of the absolute divergence in things social and racial.
 Men of both races may well stand uncompromisingly against every sug- gestion of social equality. Indeed. it would be helpful to have that word equality eliminated from this con sideration; to have 1t accepted on both sides that this is not a question of social equality, but a question of recognizing a fundamental. eternal unacceptable difference.
 Fitness To Govern Vote.
 Take the political aspect. I would say let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote. Es- pecially would l appeal to the self respect of the colored race. 1 would inculcate in it the wish to improve it. self as a distinct race, with a hered- ity, set of traditions. an array of aspirations all its own.
 "On the other hand, I would insist upon equal educational opportunity for both. This does not mean that both would become equally educated within generation or two genera tions or ten generations. But there must be such education among the colored people as will enable them to develop their own leaders. capable of understanding and sympathizing with such a differentiation between the races as I have suggested. Ra- cial amalgamation there cannot be. Partnership of the races in develop ing the highest aims of all humanity there must be if humanity, not only hut !, iG fn nh the ends which we have set for it. q can say to you people of the South, both white and black, that the time has passed when you are en- l titled to assume that this problem of races is peculiarly and particularly your problem. More and more, it is i becoming a problem of the North; 1 more and more it is the problem of 1 Africa, of South America, of the 1 Pacific, of the South seas. of the | world.
 .The one thing we must sedulously 1 avoid is the development of group 1 and class organizations in this coun- l try. There has been times, when we | heard too much about the labor vote. l the business vote, the Irish vote. the | Scandinavian vote, the Italian vote, 1 and so on But the demag ogues who i would array class against class and 1 group against group have fortunate- 1 ly found little to reward their ef- 1 forts. I wish that both the tfadi l ton of solidly Democratic South 1 and the tradition of solidly Repub- l lican black race might be broken l up. Neither political sectionalism 1 nor any system of rigid groupings 1 of the people will in the long run i prosper our country"