Show THE NEGROS negra as PLACE IN 1 HISTORY by prof W boughton Bough fon of ohio state efale university during daring the life of mankind every generation has bas been confronted with one or more mor ie grave social questions the solution of which seemed at the time to be of vital importance to the progress of civilization so too every age has had its alarmists alarmiste alar mists who have preached wars and desolation and the utter destruction of existing institutions institution but civilization has moved onward every age and every generation has indeed proved eq equal td tots its emergencies though the champ champions itous of z a principle be tried tria by the crucial ast of wars though french revolutions and american rebellions enact their bloody scenes the fittest survives the most vigorous principle con iners quers t the world advances in culture only the extreme pessimist will deny that the world is today better than it has ever been before that people are more culture cultured dmore mor humane more christ like the nations of our day are better able to grapple with difficult social problems than were their ancestors under the most threatening portents portent there w is no occasion for undue alarm regulated by the laws of universal progress the right principle will in the end prevail for mankind will riot not rush madly onward to the destruction of cherished institutions honest agitators are necessary to the solution of any social problem but the negro question has been the hobby of the american alarmist ever since the first cargo of bla blade slaves was landed at jamestown there a bright side to the entire history of the american negro the african is brought brouil it to our shores as alrude uncultured savage he is forced into the most intimate social relations wit lra highly civilized class of whits whites jia liy imo ibes anch from contact wib of one of the t enlightened nations ot the world d abw the 1 female m ale becomes the mothers of half whiter white I 1 slay slave e children tho the raw face itself under the nia influence of becu j liar elii iia becomes anew a neej race lighter in ini in culture the aaroa afro Q 4 by th i slavery t Y i our couba suid in the that f itai fil fiali reff loved the whole arf like Y I 1 fit atrens st rens of wor edw aut ep h a ei baia m ft 04 s jaw AM eu t W e WWI sla W 1 laws ar sava eto th mia 0 WWI MR xi d g 9 i 4 N aaa aba rm a WW ml in dunate one talent many individual members of this despised race are accumulating fortunes forbidden to learn to read and write thousands ara are becoming as proficient in those accomplishments as are their white neighbors taught that ahat laws of marriage and of morality had no place in the social creed of the slave there are now thousands ands who are leading pur purer erand and more moral lives than are numbers of our own proud superior race born every one of them bastards bastar 8 percel there is in now not a greater percentage of illegitimate births among the negro population of the black belt of alabama than there is among the inhabitants of the kingdom of bavaria mayo in mohonk conference report 1890 page 44 surely the alarmist must took look elsewhere for material with which to intimidate the thoughtful but pass for a moment into details it may be said without charge of hyperbole that the progress of 4 these negroes during their quarter of a century of freedom has been phenomenal the colored people of the south f says judge tourgee in a recent speech have accomplished more ir in twenty five years from an industrial point of view than any people on the face of the earth ever before achieved under anything like such unfavorable conditions biddle university north carolina I 1 was built under the management of a colored master carpenter though both white and colored laborers were employed he was of all by far the best workman As a penman the negro excels one of the two teachers of penmanship employed in the cincinnati p public bubli schools is is a colored danl man and he is is universally liked and respected by the white pupils who come under his instruction there is a very 8 successful colored physician at nashville in atlanta there is ia a colored dentist many of whose patrons are am prominent white people W E R dubois has not only y won the first oratorical prize but a three hundred dollar scholarship 8 as s well and this too at harvard ds where the contestants are the elite students lents of the white race in that ancient seat of learning but more mom encouraging is the astill astonishing toni shing fact that there is sixteen thousand z legro school teachers elt employed plad in the south in the work their fiel fet tows lows Z these are b only ri ate ey by harbinger hiie the flood thatis that Is to or rather i prove 4 the current abat floars deep jn and v inthe in t the 9 midst of ciuc such y goofs of ahe e progressive tendency X of the jaee ames arises the ques ab on of df th the it 1 g united 4 states i citizenship ne ballot h has unc maon TV ke one t of i ae gri t as fa eat an order i to b ot beree I 1 of q 40 that or th f v 5 A a te 4 A A w s oat er 6 Z it yil rS ARIX IN y ay ahda vennea zal 0 jis WT s pre preparation Drep that fit ah heess aa w me ls ea Z aram A sis S is th e masses as capable ei of ss s s I 1 ort a aia of the black belt 0 of the south to submit to negro n rule than it is for the truly conscientious american citizen in our great cities to realize that his big precinct is controlled by the votes of the vicious from the scum ef european life tle the policy of our government in giving the negro the ballot has not been a mistaken one it was best beat for these colored people to receive at once their freedon and the ballot it is still best for them to remain full fah citizens of our country it will ennoble their future and make them a race of men they are deserving of the full rights of citizenship zen zeus ship bip you cannot find one dynamiter among them you cannot find a single socialist or an anarchist among them nor a secret society of any kind whose object is to undermine our christian institutions you yon have these classes all over your northern country these eight million colored men are loyal to our oar government mohonk conference report 1890 page 17 to be continued |