The next generation is not bound to respect our wishes. And the word "always" ought never to be used in reference to the American race conditions, especially where the Negro is concerned. What the slave-owners of 1849 called perpetual, the people of 1909 call ancient. But for the present we are two races, and all of us who are now living can feel sure that we shall die and leave two races. The claim for "natural antipathy" between the races is not well founded. An instinctive antipathy would at least be consistent. And I do not need to point out to you the inconsistencies in the so-called natural antipathy of the races, especially when it comes to the "bad intercourse." In some courts where legal sexual intercourse between the races has been declared a statutory crime, immoral sexual intercourse is hardly punished as a misdemeanor. A strange reversal of the laws of God and nature.

"Social equality" is a phrase to conjure with, it is the one invisible god to whom almost all heads bow. It even dominates to an extent the thinking of the Negro, whenever a Negro begins to speak for the rights of his race he feels it necessary to tell the world that he is not an aspirant after "social equality" or a defender thereof.

And I would not abate one whit from the white man's pride of race. I would add to it.

I would make him so proud of his own race that he would scorn to do injustice to any other race. I would make him so proud of his own family that he would honor the very name of family in all races and classes, so fond of his own children that he would concede a black boy a chance for life.

The Negro's presence in this country has certainly created certain opportunities for both races. I am not discussing the question as to whether it was a good thing on the whole, or a bad thing for both races, that the Negro was brought here. That is a very foolish question,for whether it be answered in the affirmative or in the negative, the fact remains the same that the NEGRO IS HERE NOW. That would have been a profitable question to discuss previous to 1619. But now that the Negro is here, the only thing worth considering is, how can we make the best of it, of a bad bargain, if you will? Time is worse than wasted in foolish wailing about the fact that the Negro was brought here. Spilt milk can sooner be gathered from sand into the pail again than the Negro race of the United States can ever be gathered again into its fatherland, or rather into its MOTHERland, for the FATHERland of a large part of the race is Europe.

The presence of the Negro in the South offers

to Southern industries a better supply of labor suited to those industries than has any other country of similar industries anywhere else in the world. We have heard much talk of immigration but there is no immigration from anywhere that will soon take the Negro's place in the South. To the Negro is offered the best opportunity he has anywhere in the world for a high degree of industrial efficiency. To the Christian Church is offered an unsurpassed opportunity for practical versus theoretic BROTHERHOOD,-or to prove that the

whole thing is all talk.

To the American Government is offered the best test of the principles that underlie its foundation. Or is that all talk?

The Negro race is strong and will grow stronger in this country, thus offering to the white race its best chance to measure its strength by the strength of another, and not by the weakness of another, a chance to be the strongest of the strong, and not merely the least weak of the weak, a real chance to prove the white man's real superiority. Or is that all talk?

WM. PICKENS,

Talladega College, Talladega, Ala.

ECONOMIC LAW DEMANDS FREE-
DOM OF MARRIAGE

BY JAMES E. MCGIRT

Scholar, Author, Editor of McGirt's Magazine.

You ask that I write you a paper on the subject: "Do you believe that the illicit mixing of the races ought to be abolished, and a legal marriage provision take its place in the entire country?" and "Do you believe that intermarriage, instead of illicit mixing, would improve the morals of both races?

While you ask me to do this, I must state that it comes in a most inopportune time, therefore it is impossible for me to write on them at length; however, I shall state my position in a few words. I shall approach the subject fairly and squarely without expressing the opinion or caring for the prejudices of black or white men and from the viewpoint of the student of society.

The science of economy teaches that economic freedom is absolutely necessary for the highest development of any people, and that a nation which does not give the highest economic freedom, or tries to interfere with that freedom, may succeed for a time but eventually must fail of its highest development.

There are seven kinds of economic freedom which are accepted by the leading countries, and

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