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Show NEGRp PROBLEM IN NEW DRESS. - For over a month past the Chicago Tribune employed em-ployed an attache of its staff to move about from 1 one place to another in the southern states.. To this writer was assigned a special task. H6 was bidden to observe closely the present conditions iu southern life,. Especially was he directed to take note of the4hegro and give his impression of the black man as he found him on the plantation on the steamboat levee, at hs prayers and at his play. The correspondent's letters made interesting .reading, .read-ing, and inasmuch as they were directed toward discovering some means of reconciliation between the races, some solution of the. negro problem, they were not wholly without value. - " The correspondent's last letter is addressed from Washington, D. C. . The knowledge he picked up in his travels is summarized in one para-graph. para-graph. ."Apparently the only , way to prevent all danger of negro, domination in the south." he says, to educnte, educate, educate." The same stale argument. Meantime the situati.M5 The correspondent admits tluif tiftv-' "1'!'riV'; r elapse before .the.ifliterary of ,,. (.' ,' ' n.t-. out. What happens in fifty yC.;ir, Is time most of the Indians have ., , i ''Ur o-. 11 Kil b,j civilization; the rest are cooped : " In the last decade the llawnii;,;,. 'f'i-from 'f'i-from a nation to a comparative Mnil' '''''H timid dependants. ''""'''rr,,- It would naturally mm in j,.,. who -has lived all his life aim..!,, ,. ' "T:i tilted to confront social coti,ljt;im ,i ' oi , n, tPpp j, man from the north ever rca!.v t , ,rr n but never willing to give the t s"''- in his own social circle her.-. j,,, ', ' '"i;if much more lenient to the i,e-,, :. ,. '!!rr ? petty faults than northern pe., ),!,. I i, '(. "' his houses, tries to teach him .,, " a;''r gives him better clothes. j j (M"a:'-l'a!. aftera fashion supervi.-e hi m-.i-iU j "''.a:' to educating the negro and he , " '"J'''"; First is. that education de.-in., t '. . "" the negro as a laborer, mm,-,.. ;, , '""rally makes him a menace to the eomiiiiiniiv ' . mclit does not. hold good a- ;mm!', ,i , 3::' . . ' 1 " il !1 y . and we are certain all south. m ,.,,,.! ""' tertatu it. But the seeon.l r,.j, ,n ' it presents a fact ami ait owi;,. i, , ; '3'i; ' " I fin;.,:, in this query: Why h..uM ;! , vr. south tax themselves t educate 1.,,,., j.'' among southern white the faeii;.;,.. .-, , school education come m whr-,. ,i joyed by children living in the !i,,nh. p,(.fn, .." civil war the sons of planter- -,(vr,. f., colleges; the children of the weil-i.,.,),. '., ,'; . ill.. ai'"!l.V private schools. and academies. ''tl. , Iif-4 war found no really wealthy men n , very few are millionaires living in i,;it j,Hrt country. Why should the fb-M-en.lant ..I'nirv' i poverished by war tax themselves t,. elii,.i,tP H outnumbering them in some section.-, tun ,,,,1,1 and four to one? The south ha a wzm popu ,.. of 8,000,01.10. Right here is where the Tribune eonT.-pn,!r.. appears with a plan, novel as it is direct. ,. poses to tax the entire country for the rilul.a!;ll, of the blacks in the south. He ets up the om. argument that if the nation is justified ;n ing a tax to stamp out yellow fever, it may imp,,, a tax to wipe out the illiteracy of the sourhrri blacks, because, he reasons, both are evil-, and j menace to the whole country. How the imrtlicrr champion of the black man will regard a prop,;, tion which touches his pocket, remains tr k What queer ideas govern the American jxojy concerning the justice and equity of taxation Under the system of public education, the Catho!:-: is taxed. to pay for the education of his Protestant neighbor's child in a godless school, while at the ; same time the Catholic is supporting a parochial pa-rochial school for the Christian education of his own children. The Catholic lias ;ikr for an equitable distribution of the -iir! moneys, but his request is turned dm wit'i the charge that he is an enemy of the j'a! of a condition of society founded upon publi'-fh-cation. Should the plan proposed by the Chica; Tribune writer be seriously entertained and anally an-ally .become operative, the Protestant t a -.payer begin to feel how it is to be whipsawed by theirs gro, using the same methods inflicted upon tht Catholic. We live to learn the injustice and inequity in-equity of 'a great many things in what is ea!' 1 popular government; but we fail to recognize tin: importance until we first discover whose ox ia gor.i |