Evening star., 1901-10-30
GOV. AYCocK ON SOCIAL EQUALITY
He Advises North Carolina Negroes
Not to Hone for IT.

A dispatch from Raleigh, N c., yester-
day says: Gov Aycock today opened the
negro state fair in address in which he
urged the negro to build up society among
themselves, founded on culture, inteligence
and virtue. In the course Of the address
he referred to the incident Of President
Roosevelt dining Booker T. Washington
In telling the negroes that their best friends
lived In the south, he told them they did
not need recognition by the President, as
1t would avail nothing In the south. He
said:
1T may not be inappropriate for me upon
thls occasion to express to you the hope
that recent events occurring in the nation
may not unduly excite you, and that you
Will still remember that your best friends
are those who live in your state. What
yoa wish, what you need more than recogni-
tion by the President or other people In au-
thority, Is the establishment among your
selves of a society founded upon culture, in
telligence and virtue, and In no wise de-
pendent upon those Of a different race.
The law which separates you from the
Wnlte people In the state socially always
has been and always will be inexorable
and 1t need not concern you nor me wheth-
er that law Is violated elsewhere, it will
never be violated in the south. Its viola
ton would be to your destruction, as well
as to the injury Of the white. No thought
ful, conservative and upright Nsoutherner
FEELING, and we are willing and anxious to
see You grow into the highest citizenship
OF which you are capable and we are will
Ing to give our energies and best thought to
AID you In the great work necessary to make
you what you are capable of. and to assist
you In that elevation of character and of
virtue, which tends to the strengthening
of the state.
But to do this 1t Is absolutely necessary
that each race should remain distinct and
nave society OF its own. Inside of your
own race you can grow as large and broad
ana nigh as God permits with the aid, the
sympathy and the encouragement Of your
white neighbors. If you can equal the
Wn1te race In achievements, in scholarship
In literature. In art, in industry and COM
merce, 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 shall accomplish this high end
without social intermingling, and this is
well for you. 1t Is well for u.s. 1t is neces-
sary for the peace of our section. IT is es-
sential to the education of your children
that there should be no misunderstanding
upon this point.
Il am sure that you agree with me in
what have said. and in the spirit of one
who is the governor of the whole people.
without regard to race. I bid you godspeed
In the great work Of upbuilding our state.
or multiplying her industries of fncreas-
ing her commerce. of educating all her chill
dren. l find no little encouragement In the
friendly cooperation Of the men and wo-
men OF your race in the task which we
nave undertaken to do. that Of educating
all the children. and pray you that in this
great work We shall not be retarded by mis-
understandings"
negro minister Of the Methodist Church.
said that the negroes did not want social
equality and did not indorse Booker WASH
lngton He said that neither Booker WASH
table of the whites and that they were
not In sympathy with any such idea,