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Show As to t lz!iz a Kcro's Lzi. We do not seem to be getting any nearer' the solution of the negro prohl em. Here we 'find, in one newspaper, the picture of Lulu Spen.ce, who has received over a thousand dollars because she refused re-fused to make up the bed of Booker. T.'Washington and in another newspaper, the "picture of Ber.' Newell Dwight Hillis of Plymouth Pulpit who says: "1 have askeoV Mr. Washington to speak in my church soon, and if he does not wish to go to a hotel or cannot find-one and will accept entertainment from me, and any one in my home shrinks from making up a bed for the educator, I will gladly, make it up myself. I do not know what manner of men and women, continued Dr. j Hillis, 'fthose were at a public dinner who sent first f 1000. and then 2500 to that chambermaid as a reward for insulting a great educator and a noble citizen whom God has given a black skin, but I affirm, that they represented the worst element in American life. All. those who are. talking with such contempt con-tempt about the 'nigger and counting him the beggar beg-gar that lies at fhe gate may awaken out of their ignorance some time to find that what Jesus Christ said about the chasm immeasurable that was digged between the character of Dives and poor Lazarus may have some personal application and more meaning than they had supposed.' And thus the contention goes on. Reason and Christianity seeinto have nothing to do with it on the part of some Southerners. The Spence woman represents those who do not believe in the lowly spirit of the Master, nor even in the primal principle of the Declaration Dec-laration of Independence. The Brooklyn clergyman clergy-man represents those who believe a man's soul and character are not affected by his skin, and who believe "all men are born free and equal." Not until these irreconcilables can be reconciled, will the negro problem be settled. |