Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I City of Union and Suburbs Has rrVff-T T fTl T ilC 1 City ?f Union and Suburbs Has Flvtf Large Cotton MiUs. ./no Knitting I l_l Bj I < < I ^ | K*1 \ 11 | M /| 1 i Vfv Five Graded Schools, Water Works, and Spinning Mill with Dye Plant; Qil -. . B-B 1 . fl W B fl fl - t; '^fli I I B B 1 Sewerage System, Electric Lights, Three Mill, Furniture Manufacturing And -. B fl.- ^fl fl I J B fl B fl W . J^jfl fl fl fl fl fl ' i L j hanks with aggregate capital of $250,000, -flL JL JL w B ? Klectric Kail way. 1'' >pulatfon f Wm. A. Nicholson & | Union, South I PAY INTER! I Time Certificates a fBoSwAS I AND Tl t SOME DAN8ER0US A! t WORK OF TU! " ^ * f A True Picture of the N ? and Will Ever bell the Only Soluti j| Problen ? ? (By THOMAS DIXON, JR., Author c For Mr. Booker T. Washington noi as a man and leader of his race I- Vii 1 . i i ii i i nave always naa tne warmest aa- ev< miration. His life is a romance wa which appeals to the heart of frc univeral humanity* The story of a * a little ragged, barefpoted picaniny who lifted his eyes from a <j?h cabin in the hills of Virginia, saw no a vision and followed it, until at in last he presides over the richest eifc and most powerful institution of j* ^ learning in the South, and sits L down with crowned heads and I c Presidents, has no parallel even op] in the Tales of the Arabian Jjle ' Ni?hts- hi The spirit of the man, too, has always impressed me with its an< nranapAaifir onrl wio^Atvi fftT MA VMUV11) ^VliVA VUAVJ (Alivl If lUvtVAlt* ava The aim of his work is noble and w*j inspiring. As I understand it re* # from his own words, it is "to ja|. ^ make Negroes producers, lovers on< of labor, honest, independent, est good." His plan for doing this Cr , is to lead the Negro to the goal through the development of sol- Ur T id character, intelligent industry Ne WW and material acquisition. ris Only a fool or a knave can find fault with such an ideal. It rests the squarely on the eternal verities. pr< And yet it will not solve the Ne- coi gro problem nor bring us within Ne sight of its solution. Upon the J? other hand, it will only intensify sin that problem's dangerous features, complicate and make more difficult its ultimate sentiment. j Olt is this tragic fact to which I Ne am trying to call the attention of wi the nation. of t?oj I have for the Negro race only ^ pity and sympathy, though every y0 large convention of Negroes wl since the appearance of my first historical novel on the race prob- |U( lem, has gone out of its way to denounce me and declare my wj books caricatures and libels on po their people. Their mistake is a mi natural one. My books are hard ^ reading for a Negro, and yet the Negroes, in denouncing them, pr are unwittingly denouncing one sic of their best friends. P? I have been intimately associ- [Je ated with Negroes since the tic morning of my birth during the mi Civil War. My household ser- T1 vants are all negroes. I took them to Boston with me, moved ut them to New York, and they ar # * KB /^uAmnin(> . Son, Bankers, Caroline, - ' \ 'wm :st on ; of Deposit. ?' m$r\ IE NEGRn: SPECTS OF THE % SKEGEE. $ legro as They Are % --Colonization ? on of the A ii. * f "The Leopard's Spots.") ^ iv have entire charge of my rginia home. The first row I jr had on the Negro problem 3 when I moved to Boston >m the South to take charge of ashionable church at the Hub. ttempted to import my baby's jro nurse into a Boston hotel, e proprietor informed me that "coon" could occupy fa room his house in any capacity, her as guest or servant. I ve him a piece of my mind and t within an hour. \.s a friend of the Negro race laim that he should have the aortunity for the highest, nost and freest development on full, rounded manhood. He j never had this opportunity in lerica, either North or South, i he never can have it. The ces against him are overelming. ^fy books are simply merciless :ords of conditions as they ex, conditions that can have but i ending if they are not honly and fearlessly faced. The /il War abolished chattel slary. It did not settle the Ne> problem. It settled the lion question and created the igro problem. Frederic Haron, the English philosopher, ^1 1 i.L.1 it 1- -l- - J ;iureu tnat tae one great snaawhich clouds the future of ; American Republic is the apjaching tragedy of the irrelcilable conflict between the igro and White Man in the delopment of our society. Mr. mes Bryce recently made a lilar statement. rHE ARGUMENT OF THE OSTRICH MAN. [f allowed to remain here the igro race in the United States 11 number 60,000,000 at the end this century by their present te of increase. Think of what is means for a moment and u face the gravest problem rich ever puzzled the brain of itesman or philosopher. No ch problem ever before con>nted the white man in his rerded history. It cannot be J u.. ? l?!.i. uatieu uuwn uy opportunists, liticians, weak-minded optists or female men. It must squarely met and fought to a ish. Several classes of people at esent obstruct any serious conleration of this question?the t-house politician, the ostrich an, the pooh-pooh man, and the nevolent old maid. The poli;ian is still busy over the black an's vote in doubtful States, le pooh-pooh man needs no finition?he was born a fool, le benevolent old maid contribes every time the hat is passed id is pretty sure to do as much1 0 any cause. The ostlicci man As , tlie funniest of ail this grdwftfr obstructionists, for of ^braihs and ca^acity^ j fashion: 'What do you want to agi&ting this infernal questtiM fnff ?/? J? ivi i xucic o uu uiuiger in u unless you stir it. Let it alone. I grant you that the is a poor, worthless parasite* whose criminal and animal iimincta threaten society.^ But the Negra is here .to stay. We' Tnust him. Tt is the only thing Wfe can do. So what's the use to waste your breath?" "But what about the future when you have educated the Negro?" I asked timidly. "Let the future take care of itself!" the ostrich man snorted. "We live in the present. What's the use to worry about Hell? If I can scramble through this world successfully I'll take my chances with the Hell problem!" My friend forgets that this was precisely the line, of argument of our fathers over the question of Negro slavery. When the .constructive statesmen of Virginia (called pessimists and infidels in* their day) foresaw the coming baptism of fire and blood ('61 to '65) over the negro slave, they attempted to destroy the slave trade and abolish slavery. My friend can find his very words in the answers of their opponents "Let the future take care of itself! The slaves are here and here to stay. Greater evils awaittheir freedom. We need their labor. Let the question alone. There is no danger in it unless^ you stir it." The truth which is gradually forcing itself upon thoughtful students of our. national, life is that no scheme of religion <*an solve tlunfiwn5ffot?" lem, and that Mr. Booker T. Washington's plan, however high ana noble, can only-intensify its difficulties. This conviction is based on a few big fundamental facts,which no pooh-poohing, ostrich-dodging weak-minded philanthropy or political rant can obscure. The first one is that no amount of education of any kind, industrial, classical or religious, can make a negro a white man or bridge the chasm of the centuries which separate him from the white man in the evolution of human civilization. WHAT ABRAHAM LINCOLN SAID. No man has expressed this idea more clearly than Abraham Lincoln when he said: "There is a physical difference, between the white and black races which, I believe, will forever forbid them living together on terms of social and political equality." Whence this physical difference? Its secret lies in the gulf of thousands of years of inherited progress which separates the child of the Aryan from the child ?f the African. Buckle in his History of Civilization says: "The actions of bad men produce only temporary !1 i.1 a! * 1 evii, uie actions 01 good men only temporary good. The discoveries of genius alone remain; it is to them we owe all that we now have; they are for all ages and for all times; never young and never old, they bear the seeds of their own lives; they are essentially cumulative." Judged by this supreme test, what contribution to human progress have the millions of Africans who inhabit this planet made during the past four thousand years? Absolutely nothing. Ana yet, Mr. Booker T. Washington in a recent burst of eloquence over his educational work boldly declares: "The Negro race has developed more rapidly in the thirty years of its # freedom than the Latin race has in one thousand years of freedom." Think for a moment of the pitiful puerility of this statement falling from the lips of the greatest and wisest leader the negro race has yet produced! Italy is the mother of genius, the inspiration of the ages, the creator of architecture, agricul1 tvure, manufactures, commerce, * * . * philosophy, finan |3 Ruftranization, sculpt u Wfintin^ and literatu BI|1Kk American Negro I fes has outstripped 1 ear^ * of pricel< is. The Negrro 1 smcd"fHtipawn of history, crun< ing' acylEpf ^iamonds bene? ht$ feeJP-Y^t he never picP on^iAfifom the oust until showed to him [is land swarmed wi poweajpi and docile animals, j neiWja: built a harness, cart nltintjft hunter by necessity, rt<MSMe an ax, spear or i rtfKMfep worth preserving 1 yoWe moment of its use. a stone and timber, nev^Uhrved a block, sawec footsjH&mber or built a hot save?broken st^c^s an(* mu and fflnour thousand years gazed?pon the sea yet ne\ dreamed a sail. Whd if?the greatest negro tl everJJyed according to Mr. Boc er T. ' Washington? Through his books he speaks this mai name With bated breath and t covered head?"Frederick Dot lass of sainted memory!" A what did Saint Frederick d Spent a life in bombastic vil peration of the men whose geni created the American Republ wore himself out finally drawi his salary as a Federal offii holder, and at last achieved t climax of Negro sainthood marrying a white woman! WHAT EDUCATION CANNOT Say&L the author of Napolec Honorable Thomas E. Watsc I "Ed&cation is a good thing, t titi never did and never will aft [the essential character of a j man or race of men.'' I'repeat, education is the c v$lppment of that which is. I man tnlinm fko, ******* ??Hum tu^ ia^o Slavery once concealed?ni millions strong! This creatu with a racial record of fc thousand years of incapacii half-child, half-animal, the spc of impulse, whim and conce pleased with a rattle, tick! with a straw, a being who, U to his will, roams at night a sleeps in the day, whose nati tongue has framed no word love, whose passions once arous are as the tiger's?equality is t law of our life!?when he is < ucated and ceases to fill his ui ful sphere as servant and pei ant, what are you going to with him? I, The second big fact which c< fronts the thoughtful, patrio Amprinan is thnf orrout< calamity which could possil befall this Republic would be t corruption of our national chj acter by the assimilation of t Negro race. I have never se a white man of any brains w disputes this fact. I have nev seen a negro of any capacity w did not deny it. | One thought I would bum ir the soul of every young Ame can (and who thinks of a nee when he says "Americap?") this: Our Republic is great i ' by reason of the amount of d we possess, or the size of c census roll, but because of t genius of the race of pion< white freemen who settled t continent, dared the might kings, and blazed the w through our wilderness for t frntnKlinrr fnof nf 1 iKnvfir vuin/iiiig xyvt V/A aiuv^i i/j A distinguished Negro colle professor recently expressed hii self as to the future Americ in one of our great periodicals follows; "All race prejudice will eradicated. Physically, the n< race will be much the strong It will be endowed with a hig er intelligence and clearer c( ception of God than the whi of the West have ever had. Will be much less material th the American white of to-di It will be especially concerc with the things of the mind, a moral excellence will become ( dominant factor in the life of t new nation. The new race is gain more from the Black c ment than from the White." We have here an accur; statement of the passionate fa of ninety-nine negroes out of < ery hundred. Professor Du B( author of The Souls of Bk Bolk, undoubtedly believes tl re, F. M. FARR, President. r& * = ess ' Merchants and Pla jnt Successfully Doing Bus ias jca is the OLDEST Dunk i , has a capital unri surpl ;h- is the only NATION A .fi. has pai<l dividends si I pays FOUR per cent. ;o(] Is the only liank in Uii has IIurxlar-Proof van & pays more taxes than. its 1 ith WE EARNESTLY SOL ret or he *r>e m* 11 ^ % Did You Ever >at t famous Authoi aii McCUTCHEON? 1 tBREWSTER ius t Stands Head ng ? Above Even th< he ? Fiction Succes I { BEGINS IN >n, >n: !ut His book is a remarkable contri'er bution to the literature of our ny race problem. In it for the first , time we see the naked soul of a le~ negro beating itself to death against the bars in which Aryan society has caged him! No white ne man with a soul can read this ' book without a tear. Mr. Chas. >Ur W PJlDCnnff +V.- 1--' L TV* VUVkJUUtli) KIIC UTKLU Iiuveilbl believes in amalgamation, fbr h* told me so. Professor Kelly !JJs Miller, the distinguished negro fj} teacher of Washington, believes ' 5 it. In a recent article he declares: "It is, of course, impossible to conceive of two races occupying the same area, speaking the J same language, worshipping according to the same ritual, and endowed with the same political f" and civil privileges without ultimately fusing. Social equality is not an individual matter, as tip many contend, but is rigorously ? under the control of public sentiSJ ment." hp * commend the solid logic of 'Pj~ these sentiments from a thoughtiV ful negro to the illustrious Society of pooh-poohs. Gil fin . j _ ? ' * * * i wnat is tne attitude ot Mr. Booker T. Washington on this ^ vital issue? You will search his books and listen to his lectures . in vain for any direct answer. J? Why? Because, if he dared to " say what he really in his soul of souls believes, it would end his . great career, both North and irt South. In no other way has he >ur sh?wn his talent as an organizer VJJ and leader of his people with such consummate skill as in the y dexterity with which he has for of twenty years dodged this issue, holding steadily the good will of K the Southern white man and the ne xt?TT_ i/iici it (jiuiaiiuiiupiM. ne la the greatest diplomat his race has ever produced. an Yet he who reads between the as lines of his written and spoken words will find the same purpose be a"d the same faith which his Bw more blunt and fearless brethren er have honestly and boldly prorjjl claimed. He shows this in his )n- worship of Frederick Douglass. tes In his book, The Future of the It American Negro, we find this ian careful sentence: ay. "To state in detail just what led place the black man will occupy ind m the South as a citizen when :he he has developed in the direction :he named is beyond the wisdom of i to anyone." ;le- Yet on page GO he says: "The surest way for the negro ate to reach the highest positions is ith to prepare himself to fill well at ev- the present the basic occupa)is, tions"- independent industries, ack I of course?for, mark you, "Tuslis. i kegee Institute is not a servant ? J. D. ARTHUR, Cashier. ET E nters National Bank, iness at the "Old Stand." n Union, us of tltU.OOO. L Hunk in Union, nounlitur to $200,400. interest on deposits, lion inspected by an olHecr. lit, and Safe with Time I.ock, MiL the Uanks in Union combined. JCIT YOUR BUSINESS^I Wrm\ Read After the t r, GEORGE BARR J His New Novel ? S MILLIONS \ and Shoulders 4 z Most Talked of $ ses of the day. * THIS ISSUE. $ I training school!" Again on pages 83 and 85 we are told: "There is an unmistakable influence that comes over a white man when he sees a black man living in a two-story brick house that has been paid for. I need not stop to explain. Just in so far as we can place rich negroes in the South who <*?i* k*"" ninnpy to white men, this race question wfH?4iaaj> pear." Why? The conclusion is obvious: The negro who holds a mortgage on a white man's house will ultimately demand and receive social recognition from him. On page 66 of his Future of the American Negro he says: "The I Jpw urVin "int. - -L * *1 > vvti ) ?* iiv/ w ao uiiV/C 111 ctUUUL II1G same position as the negro is today, has now recognition because he has entwined himself about America in a business and industrial way." i Again his conclusion is obvious: The absurdity of the comparison, however, is the important point in this sentence, not 1 only for the pathetic ignorance of history it displays but for the revelation of the writer's secret hopes and dreams. I The Jew has not been assimili ated into our civil and social life because of money?but for a very different reason. The Jew belongs to our race, the same great division of humanity. The Semitic group of the white race is, all in all, the greatest evolved in history. Their children have ever led the vanguard of human progress and achievements. A great historian and philosopher | once said: * 'Show me a man of | transcendent genius at any period of the world's history and I'll show you a man with Hebrew blood in his veins." Our prejudice against the Jew is not because of his inferiority, but ' because of his genius. We are afraid of him, we Gentiles who meet him in the arena of life,get licked and then make faces at I him. The truth is the Jew had achieved a noble civilizationhad his poets, prophets, priests and kings?when our Germanic ancestors were still in the woods cracking cocoanuts and hickorynuts with monkeys. We have assimilated the Jew because his daughter is beautiful and his son strong in mind and body. (Continued on 8th page.}