The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-28

mills, great or small owned by the negro?
| Tell me of the counties he owns.
"Why go around and whine, because
/, somebody else is controlling what he
owns? Talk about controlling part OF
the business world. you cannot be lords
over some ones else heritage. The negro
might IS we'll understand. once for all,
that he never will rule until he has
something over which to rule.
THE NEGRO HIS OWN ENEMY.
"The negro as q rule is his own and
worst enemy. He has done and is doing
more to tear down and destroy his own
race then anyone else. Time has proved
that many of the negroes are enVlohs Oh
| prosperity existing among any OF the
members of their race. He cannot bear
to see him 1--we in good house or to
make creditable appearance on the
| streets. They say all manner of evil
things about each other and this, in the
presence OF the other race. who con-
| cludes that it must be true, since the
man who is doing the talking is mem
| Der OF the race of which he speaks The
| time VIII come when the best men and
| women of our race will not be judged by
this class OF the race. nor by what they
| say or the best people of the race, but
| every man and women will be looked
! upon and judged in his or her own order.
1t IS not lair to say that all negroes will
steal because some of them do. Let the
man who steals be branded as a thief and
! not his race Everybody knows that
there are thieves in the other races. and
yet the negro never says all the people
in the other races will steal Let the
negro stop fighting himself, then others
will stop fighting him; let him respect
himself, then others will respect him;
let him understand that it is respect that
begets respect.
THE negro above all other people can
not afford to commit crime. This is the
thing that has degraded him more than
anything else That some negroes COM
nit crime is fact that we admit with
sorrow. / know that he is not the only
one that commits crime, but he above all
the rest cannot afford to commit crime,
nor should he offer an asylum to any who
are guilty Of such. 1t is the plain duty
of all the good people to help catch and
punish the guilty. Let us show to the
world that we are eternally and uncom-
promisingly opposed to crime and crime
Commuters, be they black or white; furth-
ermore that we will furnish no refuge for
a criminal, nor provide him means of
escape; it matters not against whom
the crime NAV have been committed.
This done the world will see us in a bet
ter light than it sees us now
IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION.
81 feel that l need not say very much
about education. for our people are
awakening to the great Importance of
education as never before. They see that
it is one of the great means that lifts UP
a people. This fact is known, to all,
therefore no parent can afford to neglect
the education OF his or her child.
Education makes better citizens. This
being true, no State can afford to neglect
the education of its people. | have this
to say however, that we must not educate
the head alone. but the heart and the
hand as well. Our people must not be
taught that they are being educated to
keep from work, but to teach them how
to work. Therefore, it is very essential
to train the hand along side with the
head and the heart: one is Just as i'm
portant IS the other.
"The question of labor for the South is
being discussed possibly all over the
South today Some are saying that it
will be a good idea to try to get rid of
negro labor and introduce other labor.
If this is done l believe that it will ag-
gravate the case. This step will spring
up new troubles, for any other than
negro labor is liable to bring about
strikes. History has shown that the ne
gro as n mass never strikes for higher
wages. Tell him how much you will give
him and he will go to work and, in almost
all cases will stick to it until it is done,
never stopping to consider how much is
to be done. He is always looking to the
pay which has been promised. Another
reason WHY it is best is that the negro
laborer will never seek social equality--a
thing that very few employers would like
to accord to their employees"
NO GOOD TO COME FROM AN EXODUS.
Touching the question of the negroes
leaving the State. the speaker declared
that the thought it would be a mistake
on the part of the negroes and a mis-
fortune to the white people.
81 think that if it is possible for us to
get any assurance, of the good feelings
that have existed and that now exist
being continued. it would be we'll for us
to issue an address to our people in the
State, and let them know of such an
assurance. Our people leaving the State
in large numbers will, to some extent
effect the State. Thousands and thous
ands of dollars that are now circulated
through the State will cease to get into
the business of the State. AS little as
this idea may be thought Of, this will be
the condition of things, and all will feel
its woful effect. l. for one, feel that
there is no need of any great exodus from
the State. If the negro means to do
right he can live here as well as else
where. Let him attend to his own bust
ness end let others alone. and he can, in
my opinion, live here as well as anywhere.
think the races of the South can come
to an understanding as to each others
rights and we can live here in peace as
we'll as we can live elsewhere. I think
we might try it at least. Let us stay
here and make it: if we cannot make 1t
here, doubt very much that we can make