The Washington bee., 1901-11-02
BIAS ADVICE,
A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR
LECTURES A NEGRO FAIR.

SOCIAL EQUALITY AN IDLE DREAM.
Raleigh, n. c., Oct. 7e.-Gov. Ay-
cock to-day opened the negro State fair
in an address, in which he urged the
negro 10 build up society amang them
selves, founded on culture, intelligence
and virtue. In the course Of the ad-
dress he referred to the incident of
President Roosevelt dining Booker
7. 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 it
would avail nothing in the South
He said:
at may not be Inappropriate for me
upon this 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 you wish,
what you need more than recognition
by the President or other people in
authority, is the establishment among
yourselves of a society founded upon
culture, intelligence, and virtue, and
in no wise dependent upon those Of q
differentTaCe.
"The law which separates you from
the white people in the State socially
always has been and always will be
inexorab BILE, and it need not concern
you nor me whether that law is Vio-
lated elsewhere, it will never be violst-
ed in the South. Its violation would
be TO your destruction, as well as to
the injury OF the whites. No thought
ful conservative, and upright South
erneT has for your race aught but the
kindeSt feeling, and we are willing and
anxious to see you grow into the high
est citizenship Of which you are cap
able, 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, and to
assist you in that elevation OF Charact-
er and virtue, which tends TO the
strengthening of the State.
"But to do this it is absolutely nsCes-
sary that each race should remain dis
tinct and have a society of its own.
Inside of your own race you can grow
as large and broad and high as God
permits with the air, the sympathy,
and the encouragements OF your white
neighboTs. If you can equal the white
race in achievements, in scholarship,
literature, in art, in industry, and
commerce, you will find no generous
minded white man who will stand in
yoIr way, but all Of them in the South
VIII assist that you shall accomplish
this high end without SoCialinterming-
ling, and this ia we'll for you. II is well
for US, il is necessary for the peace Of
our section, II is essential to the edu-
cation ef your children that there
should be no misunderstanding upon
this point.
81 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, l
bid you God.speed in the great work Of
upbuilding our State, of multiplying her
industries, of increasing her commsree,
Of educating all her children. ind
no little encouragement in the friendly
co operation of the men and women OF
your race in the task which we have
undertaken to do. that of educating all
the children, and / pray you that in
this great work we shall not be retard-
ed by Misunderstanding
In reply, DR.. c. H. King, promin-
ent negro minister OF the Methodist
Church, said that the negroes did not
want social equality and did not in
dorse Booker Washington. He said
that neither he ror his people wanted
to sit down to the dinner table of the
whites and that they were not in sym
pathy with any such idea.