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There is little trouble between the negro and the white man as to 

 matters of education, and when it comes to the negro's business de- 

 velopment the black man has implicit faith in the advice of the 

 Southern white man. When the negro gets into trouble in the 

 courts, which require a bond to be given, in nine cases out of ten 

 he goes to a Southern white man for advice and assistance. Every 

 one who has lived in the South knows that in many of the church 

 troubles among the colored people the ministers and other church 

 officers apply to the nearest white minister for assistance and instruc- 

 tion. As soon as we have grown to the point where we shall con- 

 sult the Southern white man about our politics as we now consult 

 him about our business, legal, and religious matters, there will be 

 a change for the better in the situation. 



The object lesson of a thousand negroes in every county in the 

 South owning neat and comfortable homes, possessing skill, industry, 

 and thrift, with money in the bank, wdio are large taxpayers and 

 co-operate with the white men in the South in every manly way 

 for the development of their own communities and counties, will go 

 a long way in a few years toward changing the present status of 

 the negro as a citizen as well as the attitude of the whites toward 

 the blacks. 



In proportion as the negro grows along industrial and business 

 lines he will divide in his politics on economic issues, just as the white 

 man in other parts of the country now divides his vote. 



In proportion as the South grows in business prosperity the 

 whole South will divide its vote on economic issues, just as other 

 portions of the country divide their vote. ^Vhen Ave can enact laws 

 that result in honestly cutting off the large ignorant and nontax- 

 paying vote, and when we can bring both races to the point where 

 they will co-operate with each other in politics in matters of business, 

 religion, and education, the problem will be in a large measure 

 solved, and political outbreaks will cease. 



Colonel George Earl Chx^rch, speaking of the Indians of the country 

 of the Amazons, relates of the chief of a horde of Yocare savages whom he 

 met among the falls of the Madeira, a young fellow twenty- five years old, 

 that "he appeared to know everything that was going on around him. He 

 seemed to have eyes in the back of his head, so acute were his senses. His 

 hearing appeared to indicate, and his mind to define, the thousand things 

 which were occurring in the tropical forest around us. Instinctively, he 

 classified and estimated them at their true value as if they were under close 

 and accurate analysis. As he sat dining with me at my camp table, in the 

 simplicity of his nature and modesty of his nakedness, I could not help 

 thinking that, in the evolution of man, many magnificent qualities have 

 been sacrificed upon the altar of civilization."' 



