| Show U r rv IS S HIGHER FOR I THE NEGRO HOPELESS Lu It is 11 a tastier It ot of to me met t that hat tile a article rUeI b by C Charles Dudl Dudley Warner on the of the negro should bould have havi to so much atten aHen lion says Paul Lawrence Doe Dunbar In Inthe inthe the Chicago Tribune for tor It le so 10 11 dently the work ot of one who speaks without It might be called an essay founded upon ot of the South lOuth from a atar tar ear window it I Is a somewhat n new vi view of the sue cue cueto sueto to note Dot the negro po considered u on one ot of tb the I less sensitive rac races Hereto Heretofore fo fore w we have been ld ud aad believed not without reason that Jat h his character wu was decidedly tb the yielding sensitive to impression good or bad The argument h iota been made w 10 frequently that It has bu almost be become M come coIn that this thle was al the cau cause ot of Iq maUl many of his ot of UI the that rude mad him ape pe the vices and all tb the foibles of the white rice race Passing this however howver I as a minor matter Metter another statement made mad by the writer that tb the higher education applied to 10 tIM the ne nitro JO In hI his present development bas haa operated against hi his value as al a worker and lId pr Is III not borne out by the h facts Every Eyer graduate from a anero I nero negro college coHee It I U true does dOP not M be become come com a Moe Moses tn In the cou where h be le II settled but on the other hand handin In every evry section where when a nero negro college is II located and nd where there are negro graduate It le I proven beyond dispute detractors may 18 say to the contra contrary that thai the moral social and industrial tone ton of lla the people has hAil been raised The They have bae gone n Into wh where the peopled eople not even know how bow to live and b by their own example taught the benighted the art of lit life which they have In Ih the schools for hIgher education They ha have md made their own home hom attractive and tt if by byno byno no other power than that of I is prevalent In my own race rAC they have drawn the people boat about them somewhat up to theIr oWn level leve leveI I believe I know my mr own people pret pretty ty thoroughly I kno now them In all cia classes the high anti anAl the 10 low and nd I have yet to see ee man InAn or young oun woman who bad the l spirit of work In them before driven from la Is labor bor by a colle college education Mr Ir Warner Wrner greatest mI mis I take In citing New Orleans as an ex example x ample In the first place In all but butone butone one ot of the schools there for tor higher edu education education cation for the nero negro the moral training of tb the black race I b In the hands handa of the white as 1 h he recommends recommend And In all of them the Industrial l idea la I le Insisted upon strongly and It h he be that the condition ot of these tbell I Is lower than It was before I Iam Iam am at a loo 1011 to kno know how h he cn can rec onelle one lie the growth ot of Industry the wid cuing out of their charitable sad Ih the larger r and Ild purer r social ocIal life lite which blob Is belR being instituted among the eloped people theta Within the last t four for yea year there have been opened two to new lIew drug drill II stores vat pal ron by both racer a hospital and Inti training school for tor nurses hat has been started tArt by the unaided efforts ot of th the ne negro gro fIO people a try has hall been set et for the black children of Ih the eh city who are shut hut out from such lid ad advantages vantages 11 as the white are ra blessed with I hu have had tb the rood good fortune to know also some of the negro neero whom the federal government Ii has imposed upon the intelligent and sensitive peo Urn II pie of New Orleana I hv have found them men ot of high clean cleall morality and nd undisputed abilitY and tacit melt who ho but for tor their rue race wOUld strive tor brand And take place la among Ih the lead leaders anywhere I lIa say this out of no rUn ur or racial feeling but he be CAli cause I know and think that Mr nr ncr does dOft not know or tau has not met thew milD nian It If In the Northern cities eltiN as he says YI the negro has Itu been crowded out of the many occupations by th the more vigorous rac aces was WA It because ot of their vigor vIor ot oe because of the prejudice which pre preferred ferret the alien to the citizen Wall Wa It the vigor ot of the foreign mine miners In 1111 not nol that drove the JI roe tram from their work or the prejudice ot of II a narrow pea peo pl pie which allowed It One more Inore point that Mr lr Warner cites I le easily set Jet aide Ue He brings statistic to prove the increase ot of net us gro criminality If he kit knew much about th this matter I would fancy him smiling behind hl his hand but bot I give v him th the benefit of at believing that he I is Ig I of f the subject Statistics m may prove but In this Ihl case calle especially they are Inadequate No one hat has the right to hue bale any n conclusions about negro criminality u upon On the number or of prisoners In the jails and other places of restraint Even Kven At the North the prejudice the neo negro reverses revener 01 the p precedent of Iw and n l t accused le I looked upon lipen IU as tit h he I b pr proven n In innocent j I South It I le worse Taking 1 In that some IOme ot of the fens a bo buy would lie 11 I released would scud a m n chain gang In or the jail It I IN tr 11 how the percentage ot of soon JI a raised A fight upon the sir 1 I ID lag UP coal with the throwing It oft off the cars can braI r easily rII what with white b boa called childrens lights lite loud r ii boy In jail fall and nd so 0 the p n criminals criminal Increase and th Ih friend of the negro holds hold up UJ n I In dismay at 1 the awful before him Criminals Criminal yes but bUI how many i Southern cities he have 1 offenders and fur for i h p meat of youthful CI I 1 k h caw call In a city nut not M a fl tar e nilson nil 1111 son n and who hl years old wits accused or of till off the cars car arrested cm 1 i i Instead ot of being sent to III U r was Wad placed In Jail with Wilh th I I or felons and with happened that ht he was l r I with willi II a madman scrams were heard from 1 iI h fur for a time were awhile tho tha kep keeper r took his hili I ix through and found the Ih hill I mutilated by till the J JUtI life UtI physically and II I lee I 1 need not go au to 10 an I Iown own race aut and ask for fir ron corn this fact This Thill in III who t r terms A more p development than the h i before hd had offered him Mr Warners amr ill l arts arll Idone I Idone done the negro a ho hll hop I It as a friend h Ian f harm hann really than III h kan kit I i thin thing J I I served badly or n 11 I until he I is able to tl strike to III at the heart of things It wear I 1 H f him to return to III his ea easy chu h II |
