The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-10

whites. He has made little progress in the
arts of self-government either North or
South. because of the agitation which has
with no healthful public opinion to mod
crate Ii, and has been made the sport and
prey of political exigency, always selfish,
and with respect to him more or less vision
ary and needless.
1.-THE negro can never become in any
Deneficent, or genuine sense, an integral
and recognized part of the body polite ex-
cept through the forces of evolution. which
are undoubtedly at work. but which in the
nature of the case needs go exceedingly
slow. Where there is one negro fit for citi-
zenship there are myriads of negroes
wholly unfit. The hothouse process has
been tried and it has failed. If, invested
with every right enjoyed by the whites, the
blacks gaining in all things else, have
brought corruption into the suffrage and
discredit upon themselves, Is 1t not a kind
of madness further to press artificial meth
DDS, which, however justified theoretically
from educational look-outs I'm Michigan,
Iowa and Wisconsin, fall helpless to the
ground in their practical application to the
semi-barbarous toilers in the cotton fields
and corn lands of Alabama, Georgia and
South Carolina?
IL appeal to you equally in what / con-
ceive the true interest of the black people
along with the white people of the South;
nay, and of the North as well, for all our
interests are indissoluble, interchangeable.
and that can never be good or bad for one
section which is not good or bad for the
other section. Modern invention, which
has already annihilated time and space. is
surely erasing sectional lines. 1t ought not
tional strife. If that dread spirit should
come again, it's evil winds will not blow be-
tween the North and the South, but be-
tween the East and the West; the horns OF
the dilemma presented by extremism in
volving new irrepressible conflict between
capital and labor. May that day never
come, but in case il does the conservatism
of the North will need the conservatism of
the South The law-lOying forces of the
North will need the law-breeding instincts
of the South. The Americanism of the
North will need the Americanism of the
South. Then, ineed, shall both sections
learn what racial homogeneity means and
know for certain that blood is thicker than
water.
Mr. Hamilton in closing his address, said:
mo community and no nation liveth unto
itself now Instantaneous communication
makes all the reading world think of the
same things now at the same time. and the
psychology of thought transferrence acts
and reacts upon the minds of men so that
there has come to be not only a national
but an international public opinion before
the bar of which men and nations must
stand trial and give reasons for what they
do or do not do.
There are still some people who believe
there is no use studying astronomy. geog-
ra ply and political economy, and that we
might as well get along with what we
have for the time being, because there is
to be a new heaven and a new earth. But
it occurs to me that If there is to be a new
heaven and a new earth they are likely to
be built, in part, at least, of realized
thoughts, ideals and aspirations, glorified
and tranSfgured
wrong, as we hold high the standard of
manhood and womanhood, we hold high
the traits of truth and honor, we not only
demonstrate the power of men to govern
themselves, but we set an example for the
betterment of mankind. And If we fail we
put back human progress immeasurably"