The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-01-02
NO RACE settlement POSSIBLE


we may or may not have, giving .
man credit for what he can do and
what he is, is necessary to the best
interests of both white and black.
Finally the negro must be consid-
cred, both as to his future develop
ment and his present standing. We
must try to help the negro to become
a better worker and citizen. It 10
true that training may spoil a negro.
It may spoil a white man. Perhaps
it is nearer the truth to say that
training may make a spoiled man
more conspicuous. Yet whether it be
horse or a dog, or a white man or
black man, intelligence makes itS
possessor more useful to himself and
to others. Part of our task is to en-
courage the development of those ne
groes who desire to become better
men and women and be better equip
ped to meet the tasks and problems
Of life. This may seem like a long
tedious task, but all real improve
ment comes after a long tedious ef-
fort.
While we must do what we can to
develop the negro into a more useful
citizen, yet we dare not overlook the
need of the hour. This is especially
true in the North, where we have
thousands of negroes hardly accus-
toned to the new conditions they
have found in the North, while the
Northern whites are not even awake
to situation for which they have no
experience to meet. Here are vast
numbers Of voters, the number about
doubled by woman suffrage, who have
never been trained to think for them
selves, who are unfamiliar with the
problems of government, and yet
each one has the same voting power
as the most intelligent person among
US.
These people may become better
trained for citizenship but we must
not sit idly by until that time comes
or act as if it was here. The negro
question, always a serious problem
has become more serious since the
coming of the Khan. Until then they
were used only by unrelated, crooked
political machines. Today the ne
groes are becoming a prominent part
of a powerful combination.
Evil doors, criminals, and crooks
of all kinds naturally come together
since there is bitterness against the
Khan.
But on the other hand, not all ne
groes are lining up with the forces of
unrighteousness. If the good people
who believe in civic Righteousness are
split up, then the demagogue and po-
litical tricksters are sure to ride into
power.
Strange as it may seem, the most
important work in the solution of the
negro question, not among the ne
groes, but among the white people, is
to get as many good white people as
possible to open their eyes wide
enough that they do not line up with
the enemies of good government who
for a time are sure to control most
of the negro vote. Whether a person
likes the Khan or not, this much is
evident, that such a wonderful per
cent of the friends of good govern
ment have gone into it that the enc
mics of good government are left in
control of the opposing combination,
whatever that may be.
To any wide-awake, thinking per-
son the Klan offers the only remedy
for the race question, not by mis-
using the negro in any way, but by
so uniting the friends of public de-
cency that those opposed to public de-
cency cannot get into power, either
with or without the negro vote.-The
Kluxer.