The St. Louis Republic., 1903-12-20
ONE SOLUTION
OF RACE PROBLEM,
Governor .Aycock of North Caro-
lima Tells How His State
Has Secured Peace.
NEGRO is OUT OF POLITICS.
Then Quit Talking About Him
and Coddling Him, and Teach
Him He Must Work Out
His Own Salvation.

Baltimore. Nd. Dec. 1a.-Cotton balls,
pine trees and the flags OF Maryland and
North Carolina were the principal dec
orations at the first annual dinner Of the
North Carolina Society Of Baltimore. last
night. in the banquet hall Of the new Car
rollton Hotel.
Three hundred persons sat at the table,
guests Of the new society. Governor-elect
Edwin warfield was the first speaker and
welcomed the guests. He was followed by
governor Charles Z. Aycock of North
Carolina. who spoke. in part, as follows:
II am proud OF my State because there
VIC have solved the negro problem. which
recently seems to have given you some
trouble. We have taken him out of pol
itics and have thereby secured good gov
ernment under any party and laid founda-
tions for the future development of both
races. We have secured peace and rem
dered prosperity certainty.
DISFRANCHISEMENT.
Il am inclined to give to you our solu-
Hon OF this problem. It is first, as far as
possible under the fifteenth amendment,
to disfranchise him. After that let him
alone; quit writing about him. quit talking
about him: quit making him the white
mans burden: let him tote his own skill
let; 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 sacrifice
and worth is the result Of toll: that what
ever his future may be. the present has in
II Tor him nothing that is not the product
OF industry, thrift, obedience to law and
uprightness; that he cannot, by reason
OF council or league, accomplish anything:
that he can do much by work; that vlo-
not accomplish his ambition; that he may
eat rarely Of the cooking Of equality, but
he will always find, when he does, that
there Is death in the pot.
UNENDING SEPARATION.
Let tho negro learn, once for all, that
there is an unending separation Of the
races: that the two peoples may develop
side by side to the fullest. but that they
cannot fntermingie. Let the white man
determine that no man shall. by act or
thought or speech. cross this line. and
the race problem viii be at an end:
the negro. but in regard for him He con-
stftutes one-thfrd Of the population OF my
state: he has always been my personal
friend. As a lawyer have often defended
protected him.
But there flows In, my veins the blood
of the dominant race-that race that has
mysteries OF the heights and depths
.Tf manifest destiny leads to the seizure
OF Panama. It is certain that it likewise
leads to the dominance of the Caucasian.
When the negro recognizes 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 the truth and pursue It We owe an
obligation to the man in black We
brought him here. He served us we'll He
IS pa.Aent and teachable. We owe him
gratitude. Above all, We owe him justice.
"As a white man, I am afraid of but
one thing for my race, and that Is that
we shall become afraid to give the negro
a fair chance"