The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1900-07-01
PROF. COUNCILS GREAT SPEECH
TO THE PEOPLE OF BRUNSWICK
Noted Orator Delivered mpssOnd Address That Thrilled all
Hearers, Irrespective Of Color

highest order. That Prof. Council
outrAnks BOokerT. Washington when
delivering an address Is generally cOn-
ceded BY those who heard him yester-
day and be would have even larger
audience III be we're to speak here to-
morrow.
The Times has CulIsd some extracts
from his speech and while they are
his sentiments they cannot be convey
ed in type with anything like the
force that he delivered them from the
speakers stand. lie said:
TALK LEss-woRK MORE.
ThewOrk Of building people from primi-
tive state to superior conditions requires CEN
tures. The process Is mot only slow but full of
error, jastas error Ia found in any other hui
nan EFFORT. There is no one way, or QUE thing,
but requires many things, many experiments,
failures and triumphA in she growth Of a peo-
pie asit does In she growth OF an Individual.
There should % no serious alarm at failures IN
andlhg : sui ath. There are asmany asure
patha's IS thefc are men and women hoIding
Opinions on 1aco huilding--aa many asurs
pathsn IS there are theoretical builders. But
thank God, the great mass Of Negroes, and the
great mass of white men in the south, are hard
at work, each in his own way doing The best
that hs can. They never hear 81 the many theo-
ries of the so-calIsd solutions. Nearly ten
millions Of Negroes and nearly fifteen millions
whites in the South are too busy doing some
thing useful to spend one moment in serious
consideration q the many Impractical theories
q solutions Of race problems. The problems,
Ike their solutions, are nearly all whimsical
creations, and Il they could reach the masses
Of both races, they would he most powerful
dissolutions Of tie peAee and happiness,
While men talk, the Negro builds lie is work
ias in every Kind q industry ls lsFAssinxoos.
ton. corn, and the white man il giving him -
| opportunity to publish, through such exhibi.
tions az This, iuss what he is doing. Letus CON
tinuO to build. TAX less-work more.
THE FRANCHISE NOISE.
While politicsis always source Of misunder-
standing between neighbors, stiII tho negro is
not the real cause Of nppisaAantness bstween
the races in the sonth. do not think il wius
for the negro to engage in politics. There is mo
good in politics fer bin, littls for anybody. Tho
common professional pontielan does not repre-
sent the higher sids Of American life The
men who control affairs are the substantial
farmers and business men Of tho nation They
control the politicians as masters do their
slaves. The negro by cuitivating his industrial
capacities thus associates himselfwlth the best
element in American life. But the negro vote
is not really in this friction that we talk 80
much about, for the negro does not vote. He
has not voted for many years. His right has
been cancelled in many ways. Not franchise,
but ignorance, intolerance, lAwlessness, politi-
cal trickery and ambition lie and tester at the
bottom Of our troubles. Educate the masses
tone up our citizenship, then men will honor
right and justice and there will be no noise
about franchise.
SALVATION THROUGH NEGRO WOMEN
OF the negro women he said:
We complain too much Of lack Of honor
among our youth when we do not exert our
selves to give them proper encouragement
We complain Of the hardships OF our women
when we never do one thing to relieve them.
Our female element, under mother influence,
Confined on page four.