The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, August 25, 1905, Image 8
booker Washington :
And The Negro'
(t/ontinued from 1st page.)
TIIK DANOKR OK A NATION WITHIN A
?S NATION.
The trouble with Mr. Booker T.
Wasington's work is that he is silently
preparing us for tlic future
heaven of Amalgamation?or he is
doing something equally dangerous,
nalhely, he is attempting to build a !
nation inside a nation of two hostile '
races. In this event he is storing
dynamite beneath the pathway of
our children?the end at last can
only Is- in bloodshed.
Mr. Washington is not training
negroes to take their place in any
industrial system of the South in
which the white man can direct or
control him. He is not training
his students to be servants and come
at the beck and call of any man.
He is training them all to be masters
of men, to be independent, to
own and operate their own industries,
plant their owji fields, buy
ami sell their own g<x>ds, and in
every shape and form destroy the
last vestige of dependence on the
white man for anything.
1 do not say this is not laudable
?I do not say that it is not noble.
I only ask wliat will be its end for
the Negro when the work is perfect?
Every pupil who passes through
Mr. Washington'8 hands ceases forever
to work under a white man.
Not ohly so, but he goes forth trained
as an evangelist to preach the
doctrine of separation and independence.
The m gro remains on this Continent
for one reason only. The
Southern white man has needed his
labor, and therefore' has fought ev
cry suggestion of his removal, But
when he refuses longer to worl^for
the white man, then what?
Mr. Booker T. Washington says
on page Go of his book:
"Tho negro must live for all time
Inside the Southern white man."
Oil what sort of terms are they to
live together? As hanker and borrower?
Hardly, if the negro is the
banker. Even now, with the white
man still hugging the hoary delusion
that he can't get along without
the negro, he is being forced to
look to the Old World for labor.
The simple truth is, the South will
lag behind the world industrially in
just so far as she depends on negro
labor* The idea that a white man
cannot work in the fields of the
South is exploded. Only one-third
of the cotton crop is to-day raised
by negro lalior. Even now the relations
of the races, with the negro
an integral part of the white man's
industrial scheme, lieeome more and
more difficult.
A ttl'LF THAT CHOWS WIDK.
Professor Kelly Miller says: "It
is a matter of common observation
that the races are growing further
and further apart.''
Mr. Washington says on this
point: "For the sake of the Negro
and the Southern white man there
are many things in tike relations of
the two races that must soon be
changed" (page 65). The point I
raise is that education necessarilv
^
drives the races further and further
apart, and Mr. Washington's hrand
' of education makes the gulf bc
tween them if anything a little
deeper. If there is one thing a
Southern white man cannot endure
it is an educated Negro. What's to
he the end of it if the two races are
to live forever side by side in the
South?
Mr. Washington says: "Give the
black man so much skill and brains
that he can cut oats like the white
man?then he can compete with
him."
And then the real tragedy will
lngin. Does any sane man believe
that when the Negro ceases to work
under the direction of the Southern
white man, this "arrogant," "rapacious"
and "intolerant" race
will allow the Negro to master his
industrial system, take the bread
* from Ins mouth, crowd him to the
wall and place a mortgage on his
nousc'f competition is war?the
most fierce ami brutal of all its
forms. Could fatuity reach a
suhlimcr height than the idea that
the white man will stand idly by
and see this performance? What
will he do when put to the test? ,
He will do exactly what his white ,
neighbor in the North does when
the Negro threatens his bread?kill
him!
Abraham Lincoln foresaw this 1
tragedy when he wrote his Emanci- I
pation Proclamation, and he asked 1
Congress for an appropriation of a <
billion dollars to colonize the whole 1
Negro race. He never believed it i
possible to assimilate the Negro into ]
our n;U^onal life. This nation will ,
yet como back to Lincoln's plan,
still so eloquently advocated by the
Negro Bishop, Henry M. Turner.
It is curious how the haldheaded
assertion of a lie can l>e repeated 1
and repeated until millions of sane
people will accept the bare assertion (,
!\s an established fact. At the close
of the Wrvr, Mr. Lincoln, brooding
over the insoluble problem of the
Negro's future which his proclamation
had ereated, , asked General
Benjamin F. Butler to devise and
report to liim immediately a plan
to colonize the Negroes. General
Butler, naturally hostile to the idea,
made at once his famous, false and
facetious report, "that ships could
not be found to carry tho Negro
babies to Africa as fast as they are
born!" The President was assassinated
a few days later. This lie is
now forty odd years old,- and Mr.
Booker T. Washington actually repents
it as a verbal inspiration
though entirely unconscious of its
historic origin.
We have spent about $800,000,000
on Negro education since the
war. One-half of this sum would
have been sufficient to have made
Liberia a rich and powerful Negro
state. Liberia is capable of supporting
every Negro in America. Why
not face this question squarely?
Wo are temporizing and playing
with it,. All our odiiontinnnl snlmmna
arc compromises and tempororay
makeshifts. Mr. Booker T. Washington's
work is one of nohle aims.
A branch of it sho ' l>e immediately
established in . .onrovia, the
capital of Lilxwia. A gift of ten
millions would do this, and establish
a colony of half a million Negroes
within two years. They
could lay the foundations of a free
black republic which within twenty-five
years would solve our race
problem on the only rational Imsis
within human power. Colonization
i > not a failure. It has never been
tried. We owe this to the Negro.
At present we are deceiving him
and allowing him to deceive himself.
He hopes and dreams of
amalgamation, forgetting that selfpreservation
is the first law of Nature.
Our present attitude of hypocrisy
is inhuman toward a weaker
race brought to our shores by the
sins of our fathers. We owe him a
square deal, and we will never give
it to him on this Continent.
LIGHTNING AND
ITS DANGERS.
Law First Established by
Franklin Still Holds
Good.
Violent discharges of atmoppherlc
electricity generally follow a law
which was first established by Benjamin
Franklin, and which suggested
the dt-vice of the lightning rod.
Sometimes there were apparent variations
from the rale, bat not of a
character necessarily to prove an exception
or impair the force of the
general law. The experience and
observation of a hundred years, the
advance of scientific knowledge and
the practical exploitation of the field
of electrical energy all go to strength
en in a general way the truth of the
old theory, and the shocking fatilities
from lightning on the Long Island
shore below New York city Sunday
afternoon are, like so many others of
the kind, in full harmony with that
theory.
The five persons killed by a single
bolt at the Parkway baths. Brighton
Beach, stood in immediate proximity
to a flagstaff feet high, sunk deeply
Into a damp soil, thus making the
besf kind of a lightning conductor
short of a metal nolo. H?/l i.Ii#
been of metal, possibly the discharge
might have passed off quietly and
harmlessly, except for persons actually
in contact with it. As it was,
the dry wood gave resistance enongh
to cause a violent discharge of the
accumulated energy and divert some
of it to the better conductors formed
by damp human bodies clothed in
wet bathing dress, stauding by the
foot of the pole. The persons who
sought shelter there courted what
befell them?death to five and injuries
to nine others. Had they ever
paid any attention to the results of
human experience in relation to the
lightning, a knowledge available to
all who read the newspapers, that
would have been the very last place
they would have fled to>for refuge.
At about the same time one man
was killed and three injured at Qravesend
Beach, near by. But they had
also taken refuge where they should
not?under a tree, which, true to the
theory of the lightning rod, forms an
excellent conductor for bringing together
the electricities of the earth
and cloud. Every few days during
bhesummer we read of fatilities from
lightning to persons standing under
trees to esoape the drenching rain.
In one of the Brooklyn parks only the
>ther day several persons were thrown
riolently to the ground and injured
From the striking of a tree which
;hey had chosen for shelter. One
nan was killed and another severally
turned in South Carolina a week or
10 ago in the same way.
If yon hear of a death frpm lightning
oat of doora, it will be found
that the rhanoes'are the pers-io was
tinder a tree; If pot there, then the
likelihood in that he was by a wire
fence or reaching up to a wire olothes
line, or holding a plow with metal
sinking Into the damp earth, or In
touch with the large damp bodies of
horses or cattle. If in the house or
barn, the victim will usually prove
to have been by an open door or
window, where pass ourrents of damp
air, forming an electrical conductor
nearly as good sometimes as one of
more substantial character, or by a
chimney sinking to the earth and
rising above the building, and full of
dampness usually in summer; or
near a sweating haymow or load?
which does much to explain why so
many barns are struck. Out in Ohio
last week the news records the killing
of a man and serious injury of a
child from lightning when tbey were
within the shelter of the house. But
it appeared frofa a more detailed ac
count that they were sitting by an
open window Occasionally we read
ot deaths from lightning where the
person was cl.arof trees and currents
of Air nnd other conditions of danger
mentioned, but these cases aro very
rare; we seldom hear of such
On the other had, and.in further
exemplification of the truth of the
lightning-red theory take the experience
we are huving with the electric
car. These vehicles, with thnir
metatto equipments and trolley pole
reaching upward, are now running nil
oyer the country and seem to invite
particularly the destructive wrath of
the lightning; but we huve yet to
hear of an authenticated case of
death from the electric stroke to any
one on them. They aro frequently
struck, but just as frequently the
disuhnrge passes (IT through the pole
' with no more effect, at the worst.,
than to produce a blinding Hash and
a shock which sometimes is violent
enough to throw people out of the
car. One car was struck Sunday
near tho scene of the Coney Island
disasters, and two or three people
thrown out, hut without injury, except
from the fail. Another car was
struck in Manhattan borough, producing
a flash which frightened
several passengers into jumping
This frequently happens, but never
anything worse, so far as we have
beeu able to observe.
Danger from lightning is small in
any case. It causes more terror to
humankind, with less reason, than
all other powers of earth and air put
together; but danger is reduced to a
negligible quantity by simple avoid*
ance during a severe storm of the
points of a possible danger which
have been Indicated.
Meantime, danger or no danger,
there remains a vast body of weak
and timorous humanity, unublo to
explain its terrors, but none the less
experiencing them with every appearance
of an electrically-charged atmosphere,
which anxiously awaits
such a possible development of applied
electrical science as will enable
man to harness and lead quietly and
harmlessly to earth for his own help
ful uses the energy carried about in
the thunder cloud.?Springfield Republican
BOOKER ROASTED
BY ALABAMANS.
In Dining With Daughter
of Wanamaker, the
Negro is Strongly Condemned.
Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 17.?The
men of Birmingham, of high or low
degroe, have been almost unanimous
in their condemnation of the action
of Booker Washfngtbv in dining with
the daughter of Mr. Wanamaker at
Saratoga. Expressions - gathered at
random here today from among the
best known men of the community
were, many of them, well nigh unfit
to print, so violent were they in their
denunciations 01 tne man formerly
the most popular and most respected
negro in Alabama. The general trend
of publio sentiment here is to the
effect that the Degro president of
Tnskegee institute has destroyed his
usefulness.
Among those who have come out
in violent condemnation of the negro
are Lieut. Gov. R. M. Cunningham,
Dr. J. W. Stagg, who delivered the
noted address at Auburn university,
Alabama, in which Washington was
held up to the world as "the greatest
fraud that ever lived:" L. P. Hill,
the well known editor, ex-Mayor A.
O. Lane, Aetlng Sheriff Albert Stradford.
Frank Deedmeyer and John
London, two of the beat known attorneys
of the local bar, and others
too numerous to mention.
Booker T. Washington has lectured
in Birmingham on numerous previous
I occasions and has always had a goodly
proportion Of white hearers. Some
of the beet known conservative men
in the Oity are unanimous in the
opinion that he will not again be allowed
to come to Birmingham and
that he had made up his mind to
leave Alabama before he ever dined
with Mrs. Washburton.?Atlanta
Journal.
RAILROADS KUJLED
THOUSANDS IN YEAR
Records for 1904 Shows
That 10,046 Perished
in Accidents on Roil.
Washington, Special: The Inter
btate Commerce Commission gave
oat on Aog. 17th very interesting
statistics in reference to tho railroadf
of the United States.
The casualties during the jenr end
log June 80, 1901, numbered 91 201
The persons killed numbered 10,010
and the injured 84 155 There wen
2,114 trainmen killed and 29,276 in
jured; switch tenders, crossing tend
ers and watchmen, 229 kill?d, 86 721
injured; casualties to em|.l'>ycs coup
ling and uncoupling cars are assignee
as follows: Trainmen klllpd, 209
injured, 8,500; switch tenders, cross
ing tenders and watchmen, 28 killed
120 injured ; other employes, 15 kill
ed, 98 Injured.
Passengers killed in 1901, 411; in
jured, 94111. In the previous yea:
865 passengers were killed and 9,28
injured.-. Of these, 2.622 were killer
and 4,978 injured because of oollislot
and derailments. The number o
persons other than employes aui
passengers killed, was 5,973. and in
jured 7,977.
In 1904 one passenger was killer
I lor every i ozo.viw persons carried
and one injured for every 78,">23 car
ried. For 190)3 the figures show tha
1,057(441 passengers wore carried fo
one killed and 81 424 passengers fo
OD6injured.
During the year' 715,410.682 pas
sengers were carried, an increase o
20,529,147 for the year. The pass^n
ger mileage, or the number of pas
sengers carried one mile, was 21,026,
218,596, having inoreased 1,007,440,
>65,
The Life; Worth Living
"The life which is truly worth llv
ing," says Tom Watson in his mag
azlne for August, "has not alway
led to ease, worldly succeess, happi
ness and earthly honors.
"Too often the man who conse
cratos h'mself to the nobler purposi
has been what the world oalled i
failure, has been led away into cap
tivity by pitiless foes, has died at th<
stake amid tortures.
? t Ti ? 4. Ill-- Al T_ -
cut, use tne inaian Drave, sucr
a warrior has never feared the staki
nor the tortures.
"Like the Indian brave, such i
warrior despises those who torment
him, and amid the flames in whicl
he dies his death song rises to thril
the world.
41 *1' have fought a good figtyt
Never once did I lower my flag. T<
the right, as Qod gave me to see it, ]
was always trne. Not once did ]
bend the knee to the wrong, con
soiously.
4 4 4 AU my life I fought for the bet
terment of humanity. Here are th<
scars to show it. Defeat has rollec
over me, but no dishonor.
4 4 4 To no man or woman have 1
knowingly done hurt. If I have nol
done some good it is not because 1
failed to try.
44 *On millions of my fellow men
I found the chains of.a bondage more
galling than slavery. I did my utmost
to show them how to be free.
44 'Millions I found hungry, naked,
homeless. I did my best to point
the way out of poverty into plenty.
44 4 I found the old foes of the human
race winning ground day by day;
iL. .UL ?- ? i 1? 4L. * * -
liid noil inbu Knuuiug wit) men 01 tne
poor; the tyrant using law and government
to rob the people; the priest
again spreading the eloud of ignorant
fhlth over the sunny fields of Godgiven
reason; the churoh and the
state once more uniting to plunder
the human race and to divide the
spoil.
" 'Against these ancient devourers
of men, against these relentless foes
-of the fredom and development of
humanity, I raised the cry of defiance,
fought them with ail the power that
was within me, doing what man
might do to arouse my fellow man to
a sense of the peril whloh was comlog
upon him.
" 'Yea! I hare fought a good
fight. Here are the wounds, No
white flag flew over my citadel. It J ;
held out to the last. j
" 'Loneliness pained, but did not ,
subdue me; persecution saddened
hut did not conquer me; friends deserted
me and foes multiplied, but I
was not utterly cast down. The sacrod
torch of human progress I held
aloft, even as better men had done
' In the ages of the past.
" 'Its light will not fall. Others
. will seize upon it and bear it on. I
Some day the night will pass and the
human race will no longer grope in
gloom.
! " 'In that my faith Is strong. For
that I have never ceased to watch
i and pray and work.
| " 'And now my part is done. The
shadows gather about me?but I am
not afraid. The voices from the
. darkness call for me?-and without
. regret I go.
, " 'Duty grants me her honorable
, discharge; conscience acquits me of
her service; the boon of peace within
. settles upon mo with the caress of
Infinite calm?and so I pass down
into tho turning of the darkened road,
? with no pang of remorse in ray heart
. and no chill of doubt or fear on my
. ?onl.' ,
> * * * *
"Thus ono will havo lived the life
j worth living, whether he dwells In
log hut or stately mansion.
"While It is yet day and he can
work he works, unhasting and un'
resting At the loom of timo he
toils persistently, weaving into his
life-garment threads of gold.
r "The creed of such a man is an inl
spiration; his life a call to duty.
I His tomb becomes an altar; his death
l a song of triumph. Neither rust nor
f time shall dim the splendor of his
j effort, and the influence of his thought
and his example shall not be lost
upon the world as long as duty has a
j devotee and truth a holy shrine."
, Is It Rigrht?
Ih it right that a property-owner
t should lose 14.20 to let a dollar make
50 cents? A dealer makes 50 cents
more on fourteen gallons of rendy-forr
use paint, at $1.50 per gallon, than our
agent does on eight gallons of L. & M.
paint and six gallons of linseed oil,
which make fourteen gallons of the
f best paint in the world, at $1.20 per
gallon ; the property-owner losses just
$4.20. Is it right?
It only requires 4 gallons of L. & M.
. and 3 gallons linseed oil to paint a
moderate sized house.
Ten Thousand Churches painted
with Longman & Martinez L. A M.
Paint.
Liberal quanity given to to churches
when bought from Union Hardware
Company, Union, S. C.
! Union & Glenn Springs
s Railroad Co.
Time Table Effective Aug. 1, 1905.
Leave Union 7. a. m. 1.00, 4.00 and
0 $8.10 p. m.
1 Arrive Buffalo 7.15 a. m. 1.15, 4.15
and $8.25 p. m.
Leave Buffalo 8.15 a. m. 1.45, 5.00 and
0 $8.30 p. m.
Arrive Union 8.30 a. m. 2.00, 5.15 and
$ 8.45 p. m.
Leave Union 9.00 a. m. and 5.25 p. 111.
9 Pass Neal Shoals 9.50 a. in. and
6.10 p. m. Arrive Pride 10.15 a. m.
and 6.35 p. m.
1 Leave Pride 10.35 a.'in. and 6.50 p. m.
t Pass Neal Shoals 11.00 a. ni. and
l 7.10 p.m. Arrive Union 11.50 a.
m. and 8.00 p, in.
All trains daily unless otherwise
noted. Week days only.
$ Saturdays and Sundays only.
) Connection made at Pride with Sca[
board Air Line through trains South
r l>ound in the morning and North bound
1 in the evening.
Interchangeable mileage sold by the
Seaboard Air Line will be honored bv
the U. A G. S. It. R.
M. B. SUMMER,
) Gen. Pas*. Agent.
I
Agonizing Burns
[ arc instantly relieved, and perfectly
healed, by Bucklen's Arnica Salve.
' C. Rivenbark, Jr., of Norfolk, Va.,
[ writes: "I burnt my knee dreadfully ;
that it blistered all over. Bucklen's
Arnica Salve stopped the pain, and
1 healed it without a scar." Also heals
t all wounds and sores. 25c at Dr. F. 0.
Duke's, druggist.
Notice of Meeting of
Stock Holders.
Notice is hereby given that a meeting
' of the stockholders of Union & Glenn
Springs Railroad Company will be h6ld
, at the oflice of said company in the
town of Union, South Carolina on the
6th day of September, A. P. 1905 at 10
, o'clock a. m. That the purpose of said
stockholders meeting is to increase the
capital fltock or tbe said Union & Glenn
Springs Railroad Company, three hundred
and tifty thousand dollars, so that
the capital stock of said Union & Glenn
Springs Railroad Company shall be
i four hundred thousand dollars.
Ry order of theRoard of Directors.
T. C. Duncan, President,
Gbo. M. Wrioiit, Secretary. 31*6t.
SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE,
1805-1905.
Four Schools: Arts, Law Sclenoes
and Teachers System of
Wide Election.
Expenses Moderate. Opens September
27th, 1905.
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The latest patterns of our 10c
Lawns at 8c.
*
A selection of 6, 7, 8 and 10c
Embroidery to be sold at
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2 spools sewing machine cotton
for 5c.
i Nice
grade of Needles, per
package, lc.
Mennen's Borated Talcum
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New Goods arriving every ^ .
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