The Basis of Ascendancy; a Discussion of Certain Principles of Public Policy Involved in the Development of the Southern States
The book The Basis of Ascendancy; a Discussion of Certain Principles of Public Policy Involved in the Development of the Southern States was written by author Murphy, Edgar Gardner, 1869-1913 Here you can read free online of The Basis of Ascendancy; a Discussion of Certain Principles of Public Policy Involved in the Development of the Southern States book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Basis of Ascendancy; a Discussion of Certain Principles of Public Policy Involved in the Development of the Southern States a good or bad book?
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The negro laborer should have the bracing competition of white labor. It will increase his moral steadiness and deepen his sense of responsibility. "While the prevalence of higher standards will help the white employer, the new labor will also enable the employer to become familiar with other workers besides the negro. He will find that many of the negro's faults are not the faults of the negro as a negro, but that they belong to other labor also. Some of the negro's failings are peculiar to hi...mself, but many of them belong to every race in the same industrial position. The man on a dollar a day is not necessarily 148 THE BASIS OF ASCENDANCY chap. and yet that to the fact that he is a negro is due much of the abundance and tranquillity of our agricultural pro- duction. Upon the other hand, the negroes themselves will find that many of their grievances against the South are grievances which have their basis — in so far as they are real — in nothing peculiar to the South, nor in any- thing peculiar to the white man as a white man, but in the temperamental and habitual tendencies of the employer as an employer, particularly under simple agricultural conditions.
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