The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-19
FOR JUSTICE
 13 THE BLACK 4 sock of North Carolina Il Speaks. sEGRo PROBLEM SOLVED In His State. He says. All Are at Peace. - Justice should Be Given Freed Man By Those Who By Mature and
 Nature Are His superiors.

Baltimore, Dec. ls.--Three hundred guests tonight inangurated the first sn- nual dinner of the North Carolina Society of Baltimore in the banquet han Of the New Carrollton Hotel, Governor Charles B. Aycock of North Carolina satd3
 T am proud of my s.a.e because there we have solved the negro problem which recently seems to have given you some trouble. We have taken him out of poii- ties and have thereby secured good gov- ernment under any party and laid foun- dations for the future developments < both races. We have secured peace and rendered prosperity a certainly. l am inclined to give to you our solution of this problem.
 Tt Is first. as far as possible under the Fifteenth Amendment, to diafrauchise him; after that let him alone; quit writ ing about him; quit talking about him: quit making him the white mans bur den::s let him tote his own skillet
 Cult Coddling the Negro.
 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 outcome of sacri- flee; and worth is the result of toll: that whatever his future may be. the present has in 1t for him nothing that is not the product of industry, thrift. obedience Co law and uprightness; that he cannot, by resolution of council or league, accom- plish anything; that he can do much work: that violence may gratify his pas sions, but 1t cannot accomplish his ann bition; that he may rarely eat of the cooking 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 is intending separation of the races; that the two peoples may develop side by side to the fullest, but that they cam not interminglA
 Let the white man determine that no man shall by act or thought or speech cross this Inc and the rs'ce pEphietn vssIE
 Said in All Kindness. "Thsss things are not said tn snrnltY 't6 tho negro, but In regard for him. THh constitutes one-third of the population of my State: he has always been nv per- sonal friend. As a lawyer, I have often defended him, and as Governor have ffe- quently D ~tected him. But there flows in my veins the blood of the dominant race that race that has conquered the earth and seeks out the mysteries of the heights and depths. .
 If manifest destiny leads to the seizure of Panama. 1t is certain that it likewise leads to the dominance of the Caucasian. When the negro recognises 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 truth and pursue 1t. We owe an obligation to the man in black We brought him here. He served ua we'll. He Is patient and teachable We owe him gratitude. Above all. we owe him Justice
 We cannot forget his fidelity and we ought not to magnify his faults. We cannot change his color, neither can we ignore his service.
 Rights of the Black. NO individual ever rose on stepping stones of death of others to hiRher things and no people can We must rIaa Dy ourselves. w0 must execute tudxrnent In righteousness. We must educate not only ourselves but see to it that negro has an opportunity for education. As a white. am afraid of but one thing for my race and that is that wa shaIl become afraid to give the negro a iair chance. The first duty of every man IS to develop himself to the uttermost and the only limitation on this duty ia That he shall take pains to see that in I,is o-er s.Sr development he does no injury to tl,oaa beneath him His is true of races as well as of individuals.
 considered properly 1t is not a firnika. tion but a condition of development. m, white man in the South cannot attain his fullest growth until he does justice to the negro race. If he is doing that now 1t is well for him. If he is not donig if ne must seek to know the ways of truth and pursue them"
 Congressman Edward W. Ppm oS NTorth Carolina. Dr. Charles C.. HiIl. M II Ma,- ley of Baltimore and other after-dinner takers also spoke.