New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-28
LILLE NOTIFIES RACE TROERLES.

More than ordinary significance attaches to
the amenities exchanged the other day IN Al
lanta by Governor John u. Gambler of Georgia
aud Professor Booker r. Washington the head
of the Negro Industrial Institute n Tuskegee.
Governor Gambler is widely known a. Southern
politician of force and character. who desires to
readlust in a spirit of fairness and liberality
the unfortunate relations which the white and
black races have long sustained toward each
other in the South His personal excrtions to
prevent and discourage mob violence ana 10
secure TO negroes charged with crime the rights
guaranteed them under the law have Only re-
Gently been reCOunted and commended in these
columns Professor Washington is recognized
as the foremost leader of his race in Americana
thinker and worker whose influence promises 10
give unique and wholesome impetus to the
negros development in education and industry.
That two such admirable representatives OF the
rival races whose antagOnisms have been the
handspring of Southern politics for over thirty
years could meet on the same platform and ma
ground for mutual commentator and encour-
agement argues at least a reasonable hope that
the frictlons and passions Of the present may
some time be alayed and n truce struck In the
South which will leave each race to achieve IN
peace and order its own natural industrial and
social destiny.
Your work" said Governor Gambler to Pro-
fess0r Washington at the Atlanta meeting, will
aid me in putting down the mob in the South.
| No sincerer or more effective compliment could
have been paid to the spirit and purpose which
| undcrlie Professor WashngtOns work as an
educator than this cordial admission of their
entire sympathy with the aims which the fair
| est and broadest minded white Southern leaders
have at heart. TO put down reckless violence,
! to foster federation. TO establish confidence IN
the negrO's worth as a laborer. an artisan and
citZen-these are objects which enlightened
whites as well as blacks can hold, and do hold,
in common, and by rational cooperation VIII
ultimately carry into practical effect sad FRO
| lessor Washington TO his hearers in Atlanta:
Almost the whole problem of the negro in the
South rests itself upon the fact as To whether
the negro can make of himself such valuable
factor in the life of the South that he will not
lin any large degree seek privileges, nut they
will be conferred on him. There never
was time when the negro needed 10 give
more attention to the matter of making MN
| self intelligent Industrious, law-abiding. anu
| Ito the cultivation of high morals ana habits
| This is the side Of the work OF re-establlShing
| race relations on humane and solid basis To
| which the head of the Tuskegee school ana his
| followers are directing their efforts. 10 the
other part of the task-that of enforcing respec'
for law by putting down the mob '-GoYerhoi
| Gambler and representative SouthernerS OF MS
stamp seem ready and eager to apply them
| selves Professor Washington. on behalf OF tht
colored people of the South, thanked Mr.. 'ah
dlcr on Monday for the manly and courageous
manner in which he had enforced the laws IL
Georgia for the protection OF human lie. Shoui'
the Governor ana those who sympathize VIII
| him continue TO cooperate with the most lntell
gent negro opinion along the lines suggested Dl
| Mondays exchange of compliments. the end or
puzzling problem might be said TO be in sign
| and racial difficulties would soon cease to exer
else the acutely disturbing influence they nave
| ACQUIRED in Southern life.