THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
dancing and shouts of laughter, of which
the refrain was :
"I'd rather be a nigger than a poor white man."
When emancipation came, the negro's
first feeling was of joy over freedom. To
be free meant first to leave 4 'old master"
and make a new start with somebody
else, who could he called "mister" in
stead. Second to leave off manual labor
as far as possible. Third to imitate the
wealthier class of whites in every possi
ble way, especially in education, in dress
and in the enjoyment of leisure. Had
these emancipated slaves continued in the
habits of industry, frugality, temperance
and economy which they had followed
from necessity as slaves, and to which
they had become accustomed ; had they
themselves kept up these habits and
transmitted them to their grandchildren,
they would now he the owners of most
of the land in the south.
That they failed to do so was both
natural and necessary. The very master
who taught them to labor with skill and
cunning, shrank from labor himself as
disgraceful and degrading. No wonder
the negro, on emancipation, failed to
comprehend, much less to use, the great
power which he possessed.
The measures taken by the government
and the northern philanthropists, after
emancipation, were needless, and their
effect upon the negro was most unhappy.
The issuing of rations to them encour
aged habits of laziness. The conferring
of political rights and pushing them for
ward in the political arena, and the inter
ference of the Freedmen's Bureaus,
aroused antagonism between the races.
Then came the attempt to establish by
law the civil and semi-social equality of
the races. The entire white population
would have preferred death, liace wars
were avoided only by the submissiveness
of the blacks.
Northern philanthropy was scarcely
more fortunate in its attempt to aid the
negro. It worked chietly through edu
cation and religion, with visionary, radi
cal and hurtful attempts at social equality
and social regeneration. In the many
colleges which were established, manual
labor departments were rather to furnish
pupils a means of finishing their educa
tion than to train them for skilled trades.
The negro regarded education less as a
preparation for labor, than as a means of
escaping labor. He was inspired with
a desire only for political leadership or
for professional power. The best evi
dence of the real greatness of Booker
Washington is that he did not yield to
this temptation.
The real struggle of the negro race is
industrial. It is a struggle for bettor
living for better food, better clothing, a
better home, for skill in labor, for thrift,
economy and industry, for opportunity
and ability to earn $2.00, or $3.00, or
$4.00 a day instead of ten cents, or thirty
cents, or fifty cents. It was the real
struggle on emancipation; it will remain
the real struggle until the negro wins it,
and through victory rises to a higher in
tellectual, moral, religious, social and
political life ; or, until he fails and slowly
passes out of life, an incompetent.
The remedy, it seems to me, is to do
the things that should have been done on
emancipations
First Let government and philanthropy
unite in giving the race industrial train
ing and stimulating them to industrial
achievement. The whole field of skilled
labor is open to them in the south, but
unless they occupy it soon the oppor
tunity will be gone.
Second Let them be encouraged as
much as possible to agriculture. I am
inclined to believe that the negro is not
far enough from nature to live in cities
and towns. He is a child of nature and
his home is in the country.
Third The race should let alone po
litical matters, leaving them to be settled
by the whites, whose sense of justice and
self-interest, as soon as the irritation of
the past is allayed, will not only protect
the negro in his rights, but will also in
vite him and assist him to larger develop
ment. Fourth The friendly relations so long
existing between the negroes and the
whites in the south should be restored.
Between the new generations of each
race there is little personal sympathy,
helpfulness or affection. The result is
that different standards of morality for
the two races are established in almost
every community. The two races have
drifted away from one another, separated
by the chasm of reconstruction, with its
political and social nightmares.
The supreme need of the south to-day
for both races, is industrial education,
without which the whites are doomed to
industrial inferiority and isolation, and
the negroes to gradual decay and extinc
tion, or to a permanent condition more
degrading than slavery.
DR. WINSTON RECEIVES.
Dr. Winston was the guest of Resident
General Manager and Mrs. T. B. Cotter,
at The Carolina, during his stay, and fol
lowing the concert, Sunday evening, met
a large number of guests informally in
the hotel parlor. For an hour and a half
he held the company willing captives
with delightful stories of personal expe
rience, mostly of childhood. The picture
which Doctor Winston drew of actual
conditions in the best class of southern
homes, few northerners have ever been
privileged to look upon, and its sweet
fragrance will linger long in the memory
of all present.
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