The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-24
SONS OF DIXIE ON
DYKES PROBLEM
The New Nork Southern So
ciety's Banquet.
THE NEGROES BtSTFRIEND
Addresses by Van WICK ard Brsxcn---No
Black, Red or yellow Man Shall
Ever Rule Over The Anglo
Sfxn.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press.)
York Southern Society and their guests to
the number of 700, gathered tonight at
the seventeenth annual dinner of the So
ciety in the banquet hall of the Waldorf
Astoria. The boxes were filled with a
brilliant assemblage of the wives and
daughters of members of the society and
their friends. President Augustus J.
Van Wyck presided and at his table were
j. c. Mcknight OF the Charleston Society;
j. Edward Graybill, OF the Georgia So
ciety; David H. Bates. of the Ohio So
ciety: w. w. Fuller, of the Society of
North Carolina; Edward G. Stedman, OF
New York Society; Justice Martin j.
keogh. A. c. Braxton. DIR. J. II. Van
Amringer, of Columbia University; J.
Drummond, Major Edward Owen and Rev
DR.. p. A. II. Brown. chaplain of the
Southern Society.
President Van Wyck in delivering his
address of welcome said in part:
Mr. Van Wyek, after reviewing the
South's resources and development at
length, touched upon the race question
In the following words:
"Ehat the South needs and must have
is peace at home and jointly with the
rest OF the nation, international peace.
There is but one unsettled problem pecu-
liar to that section. commonly called the
negro question. The South understands
Ii. and if left alone it will be settled
rightly and justly in a Christian spirit.
The natural friendship between whites
and blacks of long standing with no
idea of social equality is well known to
those at all familiar with the subject
The best friends of the black race are
the white race of the South. The future
welfare and development of the former
rests unon the absence of conflict be-
tween the two, and he who destroys or
lessons the amity so existing between
the two is not friend of the black man,
but an enemy, Intentionally or unin-
tentionally, to civilization. Let nc
American citizen who loves his country
be party to stimulating a war of races. .
Continuing. he said:
Our nation can and must have inter-
national peace and The best assurance ct
that Is to hold inyiolate tl Noaf1e
Doctrine I favor Iii. not from pgide III
peace. History records the chief cause
Of wars 70 be eovetousness 81 nations
for more land withdraw from the ~
ternational war market one-half of the
real estate of the world and military
conflicts will be lessened Just in that
ratio. Shakespeare in "Shylock" sowed
the seed of agitation against the collec-
tion of debt out of mans flesh and blood
ftYa..i orr fN. frvr
suited in the effacement from American
and English law of the right to imprisor
your fellow man for debt, which has beer
proclaimed one of the graadest reforms
of our latest civilization. Yet greater is
the evil and brutality of nations going
to war for debt. Mr.. Carnegie has done
more to firmly establish the Monroe Doc
trine than all others since the days OF
those who created it and has sown the
seed of agitation for the elimination
from the international code of the right
of nations to go to war for debt, de-
stroying the natural equilibrium Of ma.
tions in peace. when he requested the
two strongest nations of the Old World
to send him their paItry bills against
Venezuela for settlement, making them
appear as pigmies in comparison with
the smallest of civilized nations as
we'll as in comparison with an American
industrial prince. II was the stroke b;
master hand with the weapon of sharr
ridieule to call these nations to a sense
of propriety belonging to our age o.
progress, which circles around that cen.
trail figure of the Old Worlds history
the great Prince of Peace By this act
Mr. Carnegie challenges the premiership
of Cervantes in the merciless exposur:
of the follies of knight errantry in hi!
great satire, Don Quxote. The con
slant fear of the possible infringement
of the Monroe Doctrine perhaps saved
the world from universal war over the
Southern American controversy"
A. Caperton Braxton, of Virginia, spok,
OF Washington as a Southern man, from
the point of view of a Southern man, and
said that whoever would understand the
true charter of the qualities of Wash
ington must know not only the man him
self but the race from which he came.
THAT race in all of its noble qualities
OF mind and heart he said, lis the same
yesterday, today and forever.
Referring to the question of trusts, Mr.
Braxton said:
1--WE believe that monopolies are bane-
full. particularly in the necessities Cf life