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Show x 28 129 N 07111. Carolina reported as speaking out bravely for the native and expressing faith in his future. Nor is this tendency confined to the case of the black man; no such pent-up Utica should contract our vision in this matter. China was protected from partition and spoliation by Caucasian people; Japan receives full honor for its progressiveness from white nations; Filipinos are sustained in their efforts to attain self-government and given participation in local affairs; restricted suffrage is given to some of the natives of South Africa. Do not these things mean better race conditions? If not, what do they mean? I know, as regards our own country and our own problems, there are some of both races who lose sight of the good to rail at the bad. But is this wise? Is it helpful? Is it in the spirit of love? It is never wise to make it hard for a man to do one right thing because he does not agree to do all things right. Nations must Negro taxes .......... . . .......................... $429,197 Negro appropriation ............................... 402,658 Tax excess ................................... f8 26,539 Georgia Negro taxes .......... .. .. .. ... .....‘5647852 Negro appropriation ............................... 306,170 Tax excess ................................... $141,692 \mfill‘lom" mum Such figures as these will go a long way to prevent the separation of taxes on race lines, as has been proposed. The individual instances of the increasing friendliness between races are numerous. Just two weeks ago the agent of the Carnegie Hero Fund was called to a Southern town by its white citizens to investigate the claims of a Negro to a medal for heroic action. In Nashville last week a Negro was followed to the grave by a company of Confederate Veterans who fired a military salute over his body as it was lowered to its last restingr place. \Vhat think you of these words: "Mr. Speaker, I saw blael' men on San Juan Hill. I have seen them before Manila. A black man took my father, wounded, from the field of Chancellorsville. Black men remained on my father's plantation after the proclama- tion of emancipation and took care of my mother and grand- mother. The white man is supreme in this country; he will remain supreme. That makes it only the more imperative that he should give absolute justice to the black man, and we ought not to make a party measure of this," This is the deliverance of a southern congressman on the floor of Congress amid the applause of his fellows. ,lut why multiply instances, In the midst of much that is to he deprc~ eated. the significant fact is that the good is growing and the had is waning. Viut best of all, this race peace is a universal tendency. Sir Henry Johnson, English governor of a colony in \Vest Africa, and Lord Selborne, commissioner in South Africa, are have time to grow in grace, There will always be pessimists who gaze gloomily at the hole in the doughnut; but there will be also optimists to fix their gratified eyes on the doughnut itself. It is well so. As with us, so with others. Every nation has its ethnic problems, but the time, by extirpation of war between nations will hasten the quickening the desire, for brotherhood among races. In the days to come, when the old man of Russia, now garbed boat, as a peasant and sitting by the bank waiting for the last that men shall be crowned with laurel and olive for teaching wrought, should not fight; and when, of all that money has ever of one the Temple of Peace raised in Holland by the muniticencc iron to who has caught the long-sought secret of transmitting other fane gold and gold to true glory, shall tower above every peace; then on earth, because men love each other and worship deeds of their shall sons stir un‘asily as they hear the war-like but we twilight, the in wrought "They say, shall and sires recited, in the full day." the apostasy of Then shall the American nation, forgetting eagle on lofty Dantean mighty a like prey, for struggles barnyard of earth and wings, hover above all the weak and defenseless their foes. drop the white plumes of peace among them and |
