The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-10-17


lating. encouraging and making him
the most useful and Intelligent citi-
Ien- Enorts or means 50 invested
These efforts will be twice blessed
blessing him that gives and him tha,
takea.'
There 10 DO escape through Law o!
man or God from the inevitable:
rhe iaws Of chsnsele. justice bind
Oppre1or With eppressed,
And close n Gin and suffering Joined
We march TO fate abreast"
~Nearly sixteen millions Of hands
will aid you pulling the load upward
or they will pull against you the load
downward. We shall constitute one
third and much more of the ignorance
and crime OF the South or one-third
Of its intelligence and progress; We
shall contribute one-third to the busi-
ness and industrial prosperity Of the
south, or We shall prove . veritable
body Of death, stagnating. depressing
every effort to advance the body poll
tic.
"Gentlemen Of the Expedition As
We present to you our humble effort
at an exhibition Of our progress, you
must aot expect bvermuch. Starting
thirty years ago with the ownership
here and there in q few quilts and
pumpkins and chickens gathered from
miscellaneous sources), remember that
the patht hat has led US from these to the
invention and production of agricul-
tural implements, buggies, steam en-
gines, newspapers. books, statuary
carving, painting, the management OF
drugstOres and banks has not been
trOdden without contact with thOrns
and thistles. While We take just pride
in what we exhibit As q result Of our
Independent efforts, We do not for a
moment forget that our part in tn. Q ex-
hibition would fall far short of your
expectations but for the constant help
that has come to our educational life
not only from the southern states, but
especially from northern philant hrOp-
lists who have made their gifts a con-
slant stream of blessing and encour-
agement.
LABOR's SOCIAL EQUALITY.
"The wisest among my race under
stand that the agitation Of questions
of social equality is the EXTREMIST fol-
ly, and that progress in the enjoyment
of all the privileges that will come tO
Us must be the result of severe and
constant struggle, rather than of arti-
fetal forcing. No race that has any
thing to contribute to the markets Of
| the world is long in any degree Ostra-
cised. 1t is right and important that
all privileges of the law be ours, but
it is vastly more important that we be
prepared for the exercise of these
privileges. The opportunity to earn
dollar in q factory just now is worth
infinitely more than the opportunity
to spend a dollar in an opera house.
TN conclusion, may | repeat that
nothing in thirty years has given Us
more hope and encouragement, and
nothing has drawn US so near 20 you
of the white race, as the opportunity
offered by this exposition; and here
bending as it were, over the altar that
| represents the struggles of your race
and mine, both starting practically
empty handed three decades ago,
pledge that in your effort to work Ou,
the great and intricate problem which
| God has laid at the doors of the south
you shall have at all times the patient
sympathetic help of my race /; only lei
this be constantly in mind-that while
from representations in these build
ings of the product of field, of forest
of mine, of factory, letters and art
much good will come, yet far above
and beyond material benefits will b,
that higher good that, let US pray God
will come in blotting out of sectiona
differences and facial animOsities ant
suspicious, and in a determination
even in the remotest corner, to admin
lister absolute justice, in a willing ODE
dience among all classes to the man
dates of law and a spirit that will
moderate nothing but the highes
equity in the enforcement of law. This
this, coupled with our material pros
perity, will bring into our beloved
south a new heaven and a new earth.