The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-28
A POLITICAL PARIAH
is THE NEGRO. SAYS EX-CONGRESS-
MAN GEORGE IL. WHITE.
NEGRO SPEAKER TO NEGROES
DECLARES THAT HIS PEOPLE
HAVE NO PARTY.

White, Who Formerly Represented
North Carolina in Congress, says
He Will Probably Vote for ROOse-
welt, but That He Is Not Enthus-
instic-Says the Solution of the
Negro Problem Is for the Negro to
Color in "a GreenbaeIS," He Says.
By R. NJ. Larner.
Washington, D. c., May 27.-T will
probably vote for President Roosevelt,
but 1 am not enthusiastic"
This declaration was made at a
negro meeting here last night by
George H. White "a negro, who was
formerly a member of Congress from
North Carolina. He was the orator at
the meeting of the Historical Associa-
ton in the Metropolitan African
Methodist Church. His subject was
Trend of the Times" and his remarks
were devoted to the race problem from
the viewpoint of an ex-Congressman,
with a grievance for not obtaining
recognition by the present administra-
ton after he lost his congressional
job.
He drew a doleful picture of the
future for the BLACK and tan" au-
dience. He did not think the trend
hopeful from the negros point of
view.
White spoke of the comparatively
insignificant problems confronting the
negro prior to the act of emancipation.
He referred to the activity of the
colored man since then, especially
along commercial lines, and his loyal
ty to the American flag, and gave
considerable data relative to what he
has accomplished in business fields.
Become a People of Wealth.
Whatever solution there may be to
the colored mans problem" said
White, none will come through moral
lines OF right, but, instead, as a
will weigh as heavily upon the white
man as upon the negro. am able to say
the negroes necessities are for them to
advance all they can commercially.
Open stores of your own. Become
proprietors of your own theaters, your
own hotels. Run them for yourselves
as you now run your churches. Own
your own railroads. Buy stock in
railroad lines, obtain controlling in
terests. and make the policy of those
roads to suit yourselves in accordance
with your own views. Becomese self
reliant.
There is no hope for the negro in
party politics. We must create indus
tries for ourselves, become employers
of our own people. l, myself. in New
Jersey, am employing twenty colored
men, artisans, and work such as this,
now being started on a small scale
great proportions.
White criticised the recent speech of
Senator Simmons in regard to education
of the negro. and added:
Negro Must Get Control.
1.-The trend of the times is against
the negro, and the time has come when
he must carve out his own destiny. He
must wait no longer for his forty acres
and mule, but must get control of
business interests. however small. He
must become a land-holder. There is
no color in a greenback. No question
of race is there in land. a forest or a
farm. The man who. in these days,
gets gold and property is the man who
succeeds, irrespective of his color.
1.-THE negro has nothing to hope for
llOIil lnG INSpuDliCdH par OlIC6 kI6
bred Scot decision there has not been
handed down from the Supreme Court
of the United States a decision that l
can call TO mind in favor of the negro.
1.-THE cutting down of negro repre-
sentation in the South has not been
proposed by Democrats, but our So
called Republican friends. I am not
Democrat, and there is no place in the
Democratic party for the self-respect-
ing negro. The negro to-day is with
out a party. He has but few friends
in the Republican party, the party
which he helped to put in power.
Letters of Roosevelt.
ITO the letter of President Roose-
welt with reference to keeping ajar the
doors of opportunity for deserving col
ored men, I take off my hat. That
subsequent letter of the President to
Mr.. Clark Howell, at Atlanta, and his
act turning down Samuel Wick as post
master at Wilson, N. c.. made me
weak
81 will probably vote for President
Roosevelt He will be nominated and
I will have to vote for him. But 1 am
not enthusiastic"