Show SOUTHERN PROBLEMS NothIng has been heard of the race war down south for several days It is liable to break out any time and at any place A great many northern negroes are engaged In the manufacture manufac-ture of re prjuHce inflaming the minds oC their fellows In the south and inciting them to uprIsing w111eh Invariably Inva-riably result In disaster to the negroC and which may yet lead to theIr deportation deport-ation or cxterlnlnaUon < Southern negroes when left alone by their lfppolnted c mplons In both racee seem tQget longfalrb well Butnegro aitzltors bdgirf to Portray g agttom porry their wrongs an abuse the white and eoulage resentment and threaten re o VeIs thrtatenedtijIritliXlF a ecre I ga fratee prs metig a murder follows and then a I mob and a lynching and frequently in nenl men are mae to suffer Lynching Is wrong It is an out breall of savagery But aoJg civi ize men savagery doe not crop out wihot excuse without provocation No man can justify lynch law and yet men resort to It in other states than those of theruth and have prctce it In the absence of adequate laws and punishment for nameless offenses and even for petty crimes while laying the corner stone of civilization In the est There Is no fear or the Intelectual domination of the colored race as some absurdly Intimate I 15 the danger ot the domination of an Inferior race by sheer brdte force that the white men of the negro populato distrIcts fear mot The negro who ImagInes that lIe Is dong hIs people a service by counseling counsel-ing rCm nt and advocating rmene may be sincere hut hels mistaken The nero or the white man who urges ne gos to combat race prejudice with force or threats ot fore Is the real enemy of those whom he undertakes to secve The better plan and the only feasIble one 15 to devise some means whereby the interests and the sOcial and political aspiratIons of the two race do not cam camI I In this work that Professor Book erT Washington is engage I is along thIslne that Kelly Miller is working And the reason they arc actually iter eted In theameJorton of their peo pIe In the advancement of their race Is that they ar not politicians orking I for immediate advantage or selShl ends i As a colored paper says Everyone I I familiar with Mr Booker T Washington Washing-ton knows that ho lay no claim to being a politIcian He isan educator of the race anAl he is doing his work well |