Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1890 — ON THE RACE PROBLEM. [ARTICLE]

ON THE RACE PROBLEM.

Senator Jones, of Arkansas, Says (lie Colored Man Should Learn that l’eace and Moral Elevation Afford tile Only Hope ts Bette ing His Condition. [Washington special.] If the leading negioes could have heard an address delivered in the Senate by Mr. Jones, of Arkausas, during a discus sion of Mr. Blair’s educat onal bill they would have received considerable enlightenment as to the Southern views ol tbe race problem. Mr. Jones said ihe question of tbe passage of the bill was not one of principle, but of expediency. He hrd hoped that leading negroes might be led to think soberly, to reason in s dispassionate way, not as the result ol going to school, but as the result of seeing that the white people of the South wished to do for the colored people the very best they could. Schools and schoolbooks would help to solve the race question, but there would have to be a mom! uplifting of the negro; and this woulr be, of necessity, a slow work. For tha there would have to be peace, but ii seemed that the pretended friends of the negro did not intend that there should be Eeace. It would bo well for the negro if e would learn that when be \yas moderate and conservative bis white neighbors were with him; that those who undertook to incite him to murder and arson were his worst enemies; that his best friends were those who employed him but would not be ruled by him, and that the intelligence of the country must govern it. When the negio had been taught that a great kindness would have been done him and he would be shown the only practicil way of working out the interests of both races at the South.