The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1903-07-09
MADE A GOOD Tx
Booker Washington Says Lynchiag
is Not Sectional
SPEECH BEFORE MICRO tpiIOPS
Noted Negro Educator Addresses An
Immense Audience aud CounselS
Ills People TO Patience.

Louisville. Special-B fore an i'm.
mense audience Booker Z. Washing
ton. head of the Tuskeege> Institute.
Thursday night delivered an address.
He said that recent regrcttable events
In connection with the race question
went to show that lynch law is not
confined TO any one section Of the
country. Those events. he said, lead
TO sympathy with the race problem
by making il national. lie appealed 10
the negro TO be calm and exercise
selfcontrol.
Among the other speakers was w.
Ii. Lewis, assistant district attorney
Of Massachusetts. who was appointed
several months ago by President
Roosevelt Principal Washington said
in part:
In the present season of anxiety
and almost OF despair which possesses
an clement of the race there are two
things wish to say as strongly as
may:
First. let no man of the race be
come discouraged or hopeless. There
are in this country. North and South.
men who mean to see that justice Is
meted out to the race. Such a man
| Is Judge Jones, of Alabama. TO whom
more credit should be given for blot
ting out the infamous system of peon-
age than to any other man.
Second, let us keep before us the
| fact that, almost without exception
every race or nation that has ever got
upon it's feet has done so through
struggle and trial and persecution.
mo one should seek to close his
eyes to the fact that the race Is pass
Ing through a very serious and trying
period of it's development. a period
! that calls for the use Of our ripest
thought and sober judgment.
LET nothing lead us into extremes
Of utterance or action. 1t Is in the
long run the race or the individual
that exercises the most patience, for
bearance and self-control in the midst
of trying conditions that wins its
cause. Let nothing induce us TO de-
scend to the level of the mob. In ad-
vocating this policy | am not asking
that the negro act the coward; we
are not towards. The part we have
played In defending the flag Of our
country Is sufficient evidence Of our
courage.
THE outbreak Of the mob EN-
phasiZeS two lessons one for our race
and one for the other citizens Of our
country. South and North for 1t il
to be noted that the work OF the
lyncher is not confined TO one section
OF the country. Tho lesson for us Is
that we should see to 1t that SO far as
the influence OF parent, school or pull
pit Is concerned, no effort be spared
to impress on our own people tha,
idleness and crime should cease. We
should let the world know on al
proper occasions that we consider nc
legal punishment too severe for the
wretch Of any race who attempts tC
outrage woman.
The lesson for the ether portion Oh
the nation to learn is that both in the
making and in the execution The
same laws should be made to appl,
to the negro as the white man.
There should be meted out equa
justice to the black man and II,
white man. Whenever the nation for
gets, or is tempted to forget, its basi,
, principle, the whole fabric Of govern
ment for both the white man and tn,
black man is threatened with destruc
. ton. This is true whether 1t relate
, to conditions in Texas, Indiana o
Delaware. 1t is with q nation as witt
an individual; whatever We SOW, tha
shall We also reap. II we SOW GRIM
We shall reap lawlessness."