The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-30

THEY DO not WANT =
SOCIAL EQUALITY
Negroes in North Carolina Applaud
Governors Speech.
LAWS ABSOLUTELY MEMORABLE
Governor Aycock So Tells Negroes in Address
LAWS ABSOLUTELY MEMORABLE
Governor Aycock So Tells Negroes in Address
at Opening of Their Fair at Raleigh,
and They Reply That They Don't
Want Social Equality.
Especial Dispatch to The Times,

RALEIGH, N. c., Oct. 29.-The negro
fair, which was formally opened here to-
day in an address by Governor Aycock, is
far the most creditable they have ever
given, the exhibits in all departments be-
ing of a high order.
Governor Aycock urged the negroes to
build up society among themselves, found
ed on culture, intelligence and virtue. In
the course of the address, he referred to
the incident of President Roosevelt din
ing Booker T. Washington. He said:
st may not be improper for me upon
this occasion to express to you the hope
that recent event occurring in the ma
ton may not unduly excite you, and that
you will still remember that your best
friends are those who live in your State
What you wish, wnat you need more than
recognition by the PRESIDENT, or other peo-
pie in authority, is the establishment
among yourselves of society, founded
upon culture, intelligence and virtue, and
in no wise dependent upon those OF
different race.
MEMORABLE LAW.
1.-THE law which separates you from the
wh.Le people in the State society always
has been and always will be ineXorable,
whether that law is violated elsewhere,
it will never be violated In the South. Its
violation would be your destruction, as
we'll as the injury of the whites. No
thoroughly conservative and upright
Southerner has for your race ought but
the kindest feeling, and we are willing to
give our energies and best thought to
aid you in the great work NECESSARY to
make you what you are capable of. anG
ct i,, "a oil
acter and of virtue, which tends to the
strengthening of the State But to do
this, it is absolutely necessary that each
race should remain distinct and have
society OF it's own.
'.Insde of your own race you can grow
as large, as broad, as high as God per-
mits, with the aid, the sympathy and the
encoura cement of your white neighbors.
II you can equal the white race in
achievement, in scholarship, in literature,
in art in industry and commerce. you will
find no generous minded white man who
will stand in your way, but all of them in
the South will insist that you sail ac-
complish this high station, and without
social intermingiing, and this is we'll for
you; it is we'll for us; it is necessary for
the peace of our section; it is essential to
the education of your children that there
should be no misunderstanding upon this
point. l am Suresyou agree with me IN
what I have said in the spirit of one who
is the Governor of the whole people, with
out regard to race.
Il bid you Gods speed in the great work
of upbllilding the State. L find no little
encouragement in the friendly co-opera-
ton of the men and women of your race
| in the task which we have undertaken to
| do, that of educating all the children. and
| I pray you that in this great work we
| shall not be retarded by misunderstand-
| ings."
DON'T WANT IT.
In replying to Governor Aycocks adj
| dress Rev. c. A King. D. D.. editor of
| the Advance, a negro paper published at
Durham, and pastor of St. Josephs A. NJ.
| E. Church. said among other things:
1--WE assure you negroes Of North Caro-
| lima understand their places. We don't
| want social equality. If casting my vote
would bring it would not cast it. The
negro is content TO eat his dinner at home
| The recent incident to which You refer is
| known to but few negroes. The great
mass of them will never hear of it. We
are in the South, and we say to those on
the outside, Look on, but hands off.
| During Governor Aycoc!s's speech the
negroes present kept saying: That's So"
good good" as he spoke against social
equality. After Governor Aycock's speech
| the negroes crowded about the platform
! and endorsed what he had said concerning
| the question of social equaiIly.
! AS Dr. King said in his speech, SO said
! they: 1--WE don't want it, and think
| Booker Washington has done a very fool
F! ish thing"
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