Some have a smattering of education while others, who have been subjected to little training or discipline, are indolent and shiftless.

The thoughtless, however, are likely to include in this classification the industrious, intelligent negro who orders his conduct along the same lines as the white man.
This last type, it is true, is sometimes regarded with suspicion.

Many men and women in the South fear the progress of the negro.

They do not realize that the South cannot really make satisfactory progress while any great proportion of the population is relatively inefficient.

Some fear the negro's demand to be treated as a man.