Show THE FUTURE OF THE NEGRO of 0 the fisk university nashville tenn has contributed an article to the press entitled the future 0 of the negro which was ws reproduced in the herald of this chii city saturday april ath and in the short comment on the paper the editor of the herald as usual displays his malice and hatred of all negroes who well not grin and bow and bend bead their bodies if the editor of that paper who could not eke out an existence by practicing his profession carelessly nod on them he conveys the idea in unmistakable language that no negro should denounce white men for the alleged debauchery of the negro race in other words this great luminary of the herald would have hare the negro believe edat he should consider it a great honor to permit white men to demoralize the raw race but we will refrain at this time from entering into a controversy with him on that subject but we do take exceptions to the position wl which lich he has assumed in relation to the fact that prof webber entertains the same opinions which we are advanced by most of the negro race in reference to the negroes eschewing politics this is absolutely false fake and without foundation the only advocates of the theory that the negro should not be permitted to participate in politics are profs pros kelly miller booker T washington mid and webber and it is very eay easy to account for their conversion to this erroneous and fallacious idea if they do not do so like othello their occupations will be gone the howard university wax was founded by part of the W which the negro was cheated out of by those who established the saving bank it is controlled by white gen gentlemen demens and if professor idler or any other professor desires to earn his hia bread and bai batter tt i and hold a professorship p in that institution they write waite and talk to suit auk their white rn masters if they do not they will simply have lowak to walk the plank sprol if prof miller should be called upon to write an article 9 or a BMW adries aeries of article to prove that the negro represents 1 the missing link between the baboon ad the 6 white m I 1 man he woold cheer folly doo rather than 3 icae hi position y rt ahi iam tj largely ea of of A stites whose law W P fasy a la 11 their wealth by drtad 7 spa hm ta P bj ai kr h ss sv which A were i J agacid Brod acad I 1 b by ss if vl TM 0 W aar apr WV W V me leff fish mongers bongers will dippl displace trat webber and put some other negro in his chair who will trill conf conform ta their ideas prof washington needs mo e to run his institution sua and dvir W controlled and dominated over ove by the same power and influx influence these three exponents of the policy that the negro must withdraw from politics overlook the mo most at vita part of that proposition or at I 1 least they lack the moral courage refer to it namely if the negro is to be stripped of his political rights then he should not be compelled com belled to pay one cent of taxation hi he should not be called upon to raise rai his hand or gun in defense of the land of his nativity he should not be expected to manifest th the a slightest interest in anything per to good citizenship he should become a cipher as it were in in all things he should b become like the indian who pays no taxes who cares nothing for the despou responsibilities ties of life who is without hope and ambition in addition to this if the negro is to be eliminated from politics or his political rights curtailed then it would necessitate the reduction in the congressional representation from 27 to 80 30 which was based on the vote what we mean is this if the negro is to be denied the right of suffrage then 27 to 3 SO congressmen should be ousted frd from in their seats or positions and the same number of electoral votes rotes which are east cast in the electoral ibo college should be reduced or cut down if the advocates of this theory are willing to have the representation in the electoral college and in congress red reduced need to the number referred to and the vote only based upon the actual white vote cast and if they are am or would be willing to exempt the negro from taxation of eve every wy kind then there would be sonie some sense or logic in favoring the proposal of eliminating the negro from politics stand up profs pros washington miller and webber and set forth your views along these lines |