| Show THE NEGRO QUESTION TN IN the north norta american review for april thomas nelson page a southern man has baa an article on the negro question it seems to have been inspired by one last De december cemper from the pen of prof james bryce of great britain the Br in his article dwelt on OD the seriousness of the negro quest question lop and the general tenor of bis big argument was that the colored man ought to have a fair chance socially politically leally and industrially mr page echoing the Sout southern bern view pays that it is a great race question on the correct solution of which depends not only the present sal aaion of the south but the future ot or the nation ap he quotes the saying of senator hoar that persons persona at present living will see negroes negro esi in the united states he dwells on the utterance to show the obtuseness of men who sie flee the growing power of the and yet want to invest him with political authority let the negro dom dominate pate the south and it is only a question of time when he will also dominate the north the contention an on the pa part rt of the south a against political supremacy for the colored race is partly ethnological and partly social it is claimed that the inferiority of the negro does not arise because h was a slave but because he does not possess the faculties to raise himself above a position of servitude he has not exhibited the qualities of any race which has bag advanced civilization or shown capacity to be greatly advanced since the dawn of history in egypt in phoenicia rome and elsewhere he has been in contact with civilization and for the past years he has been under the inal influence bence of the caucasian race on this continent in new zealand he has had bis big freedom for over one hundred years and yet there to is no perceptible advance in his big character liberia hayti and several of the southern states which for a few years after the war were dominated by negroes degroes sire are taken as illustrations to demonstrate on strate how bow little general political or intellectual ability there is in the negro the trend of mr pages argument is that the colored race was destined by the creator to occupy an inferior position in the social and political economics of civilization |
