Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-12-24

ernment under any party, and laid foun-
dations for the future development of both
races. We have secured peace and rem
dered prosperity certainty. am in
cned to give to you our solution Of this
problem.
LET HIM ALONE.
1t ls, as far as possible nder the fifteenth
amendment, TO dsfranchise him; after
that let him alone; quit writing about
him; quit talking about him; quit making
him 1.-The white mans burden;" let him
"tote bis skillet" quit coddling him; let
him learn that no man, no race, ever got
anything worth the having that he did
not himself earn, that character is the out
come of sacrifice, and worth is the result
of toll; that whatever his future may be-
the present has in it for him nothing that
is not the product Uf industry, thrift, obe'
dience to law and uprightness; that he
cannot, by resolution of council or league
accomplish anything; that he can do much
by work; that violence may GRITTY his
passions, but it cannot accomplish bis
ambition; that he may eat rarely of the
cooking of equality, but he will always
find when he does that there is death in
the pot. Let the negro learn once for all
that there 10 unending separation of the
races; that the two peoples may develop
side by side to the fullest, but that they
cannot intermingle. Let the white man
determine that no man shall by act or
thought or speech cross this line, and the
race problem will be at an end.
NOT IN ENMIrY.
These things are not said in enmity to
the negro, but in regard for him.
He constitutes one-third of the populs.
ton of my State. He has always been my
personal friend. AS lawyer have often
defended him, and Governor haye fire.
quently protected him. But there flows
in my veins the blood Of the dominant
race-that race has conquered the earth
and seeks out the mysteries Of the heights
and depths. If manifests destiny leads to
the seizure of Panama it is certain that it
likewise leads to the dominance of the
Caucasian. When the negro recognizes
this fact we shall have peace and good will
between the races.
But would not have the white people
forget their duty to the negro. We must
seek the truth and pursue 1t. We owe an
obligation to "the man in black" We
brought him here. He served us well.
He is patient and teachable. We owe
him gratitude. Above all, We owe him
justice, and we ought not to magnify his
faults. We cannot change bis color,
neither can we ignore his service. No
individual ever rose On stepping stones
OF dead" others, "to higher things" and
no people can. We must rise ourselves;
We must execute judgment in righteous
ness; we must educate not only ourselves,
but see to it that the negro has an oppor-
tuuity for education.
AFRAID OF ONE THING.
AS white man, am afraid Of but one
thing for my race, and that is that we
shall become afraid to give the negro
fair chance. The arst duty Of every man
is to develop himself to the uttermost, and
the only limitation upon this duty s that
he shall take pains to see that in bis own
development he does no injury to those be-
meath him. This ia true of races as well
as of individuals. Considered properly, it
Is not limitation, but crndition of de-
velopment. The white man in the South
can never attain to his fullest growth un.
til he does absolute justice to the negro
race. If he is doing that now, it is well
for him. Il he is not doing it, he must
seek to know the ways Of truth and pur'
sue them,''