The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-09-04
SEP AR ALTON
ONLY ! CURE:
.JohMTernple Graves Talks on
Race Question. \.
THERE is NO OTHER HOPE
Other Suggested Remedies Are bu
Futile MISUNDERSTANDING Not
Impossible Nor lmpractlcablc.
Before Chicago University
(By Associated 1ress.)

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(By Associated Press) n
a CHICAGO. I'LL, September 8--J ohm
Temple Graves, OF Georgia. delivered an
address on "The Problem OF the Races
this morning before the forty-cighth con-
vocation Of the University OF Chicago.
co M Sa y me sf nvo e to
t Ike great ru p work OF the the universlty,
launched at once into hts subject. which,
ionged to tie whole country, ana e the
people OF every section of 1t. .He said:
, The. Civil War Of the sixties was the
r TesYse Cause 6, dafed
conflict over the nature Of the compact
framed by the fathers. Its provoking
INCIDENT, its preclpitatins cause was
A republic Of white men. Lying in a
country developed and established by
sturdy colonists OF the Anglo.SSaxon race q, a
BY white mentor the author Of the Dec
laration was slayeholder-flourlsh
magninoently under institutions nodded ed
common blood. and sanctified by their
common patriotlsm-fell at outs over,
black man brought from savage Africa
and sod from trading shps s9aoagS
afterwards in the South.
From the unequal contest one section
emerged victorious. and the other sec
- q SLAVES FREED. #
The first act OF the, victor was to free
W hs s to Thu 9 Ssek a man q
haste master. Ther f we're ere four million black
men then. There are nine million now.
Here. then, the equations start:
Two opposite, unequal and antagonistic
races are set side BY side for govern
mens and DESTINY One Of these by ne
On eartI One, eigse Whose achievements
make in large part the history Of the lie
annals has written no history, builded no
monuments. made no books, and recorded
no achievement, and whose only progre
has Deen from consact th the tonge
dominant and historically free: the other,
a race that came out Of centuries OF say
agery into centuries OF slavery and was
natural night from barbarism and slav-
cry into liberty and full equality. One,
live. vital. twentieth century race, puis-
g ths hope aaa o. eee
developed, unframed, but lately slaves,
and at the utmost seventh century civ
ilizatIon. 11 ll5
ilized and half-civilized, strong and weak,
conuuering and servile. twentieth CEN
fury and seventh century-thirteen hun.
incomprehensible edict Of statesmanship
or Of passion. set by the Cons Tuition
land the law. the weakest race on earth
and the strongest race on earth side by
part in the conduct and responsibility
Of the greatest government the world
ey Il vas Sa" an expetjment without = prece-
dent in history and without promise in
the annals OF man. TX;
!. FURTHER APART. F5
v After dwelling on the irnpossibility OF
are further apart now than they were
in 1865.
He said there is less Of sympathy and
more OF tension than the races have
struotion made chaos in the South. The
Fifteenth Amendment is practically re-
pealed. In nearly every State OF his
numerical habitation the negro Is disiran-
States where his ballot Is a menace. to
white supremacy, 1t IS restrained. With
all these years and all these forces at
his back. there has been an utter failure
ana self-reiiant position under the law.
Four decades after his emancipation he
Is In point of fact less freeman and In
flnitely less a. citizen than ne was IN 1863
The tumult of the times about US pro-
reconciled equations of the problem that
he makes; and In the common judgment
Of mankind the legend failure Is written
large and lowering above the tottering
fabric H G1 a15 sFxs' EMPLOYMENT V1s;
1t is a problem Of moral decay. It de-
moraiizes politics. Whenever black 81.
premacy Is threatened through a black
without reserve In the black hands thai
This is wrong. It is illegal It Is mon
strous. But 1t IS true. 1t Is true IN
Georgia It Is true IN ms SCUM N Garot I'M,
sets and liz lllinois. Put yoursen mel
Of Illinois. In the place OF the people y1,
perhaps condemn. Suppose that ny "a;
steady drift Of en,gratloh the meE nr}t ni if
eVary CONGRESSIONAL district, In every leg
isla.tiye precinct and In every municipal
ward of Illinois, Suppose that, reallzlnt
this majority he had Grgand7enf or 70 Uni
the next election, not only to me prop
ability but to the absolute Germany ina
the next governor OF Illinois would pc
that you woald senate to- to aks tn
niac c Of Hopkins and of Cullom; tina
y YOU Would have a solid negro delegation
IN Congress; a legislature at Springfield
j juSaas on t the bench; negro solicitors i
Your courts; negro mayors In, you
chairs; and negro policemen on you
streets-let me ask you, man Of Illinois
viii your pride in the past glor!es an,
voIlr confidence In the future achieve
ments Of your historic state-let me as
YOU, If, In the shadow Of this threa
and danger, the streets Of Springfield an
Chicago, and the woods and prairles 0
illinois, would not be filled with cage
white men asking how the South suppress
ed the negro vote?
And will you answer that frank ques
ton. man OF Illinois, or man Of Massa
chusetts, like an honest Caucasian an
! like an Anglo Saxon gentleman
THE POISON OF THE BALLOT.
But the stern and solemn necessity doe
not cure the moral STAIN The deadlies
eminent is in the decay OF the spirl
| that hedges the ballot With sanctlty, 'Th
ballot Is the palladium Of our libertIe!
The ballot is sacred. A crime against tn
| the necessity which makes the ballot til
sport of conditions must be removed
| the republic shall survive. And yet tn
ptirrobiem shows no promise on this line
We might as we'll be honest here. "