The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-05-17
"WHITE MAN RULES
Says Bourke Cochran In Speech
Before Southern Society.
FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT IS DEAD
New Yorker Receives . Great Ovation at
The Convention Held In Mont
gomery, Ala.

Bourke Cochran received an ovation
when he was introduced to make an
address on the negro problem before
the southern society convention in
Montgomery, Ala, the applause last.
ing for Eve minutes. He boldly sd-s
vocated the repeal Of the fifteenth
amendment to the Federal constitu-,
ticn. He argued that it was . bad
limb on the tree; that it had been nul-,
lifed by the states; that it had bean
lynched, so to speak, by the people Of
the south. He declared that the re-
cancellation of the theoretical status OF
the negro, under the constitutions.
should be reconciliation with his set
nal status in the public opinion ofithe.
country.
He maintained that this repeal WAS
best for the negro as we'll % for the
white man, since both races had to
live together, to prosper together o..
90 down together. Every source Of
irritation between the two should be
removed and the fifteenth. Amendments
was the greatest. he asserted thxt
the path Of the negro to politicAl and
social rights lay Through their deport-|
ment.
He asserted that the path Of the ne-s
gro to political and social rights lay
through the development Of the units
the individual, and chat the only
means was by industrial education.
He lauded the generosity OF the aouth'
for spending thirty-fiye years aftef IT,:
devastation, and out of its posertys
over one hundred millions OF dolisrs
for negro.education, and pointed ont
that it was the duty Of the federal gov
ernment to assist in preparing IT.
wards for the duties,of citizenship.
He said that it would be far more:
defensible for the county to spend
ten or twenty millions year il hsap-
ing upiift the black men OF the south
instead of one hundred millions fns
putting down the brown man Of thu
east. He believed that the estsblish-
ment of Tuskegee school IN every
county in the sonth and the-muitiplis
cation Of Booker Wsshingtons was the
duty Of national government; that the
white and black man are here and.
must live here and work out their Own,
salvation; that the intelligence Of the
white man will always triumph and
the black man must be content 70, take
second place; that the interests ct
both races are identical and when
.one prospers both prosper; that e s
possible for the two races TO live To-
gether aud prosper and that the negro
furnishes the best labor for the sonths
that the question of suffrage should be
left solely to the states, but they
should see that the negro should hare
absolute protection to life and proper
ty. Rape cannot bestoppsd bylynchz;
ing and the records show that where;
the lynchings are rssorted to the cfime.
of rape becomes more frequent W.
must help tho black man to become =
good citizen.
Mr.. Cochran closed the meeting aud
the audience rose to their feet and toe
ten minutes applause continued. No
such ovation was given speaker a;
the conference.
john Temple Graves Of Georgia in
q ten minutes speech, captured the
crowd by saying after all that hsd'
been said, one fact was patent that
when rape was committed there would
be Iynching." 8;