The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-07-08
WASHINGTON SPEAKS.
Great Negro Educator Delivers Ad-
dress in T,OujSyiIJn

dress in Louisville.
\ dispatch from Louisville Friday
night says: Before an immense au-
dience Booker T. Washington, head
of the Tuskegee Institute, delivered
an address. He said that recent re-
grettable events in connection with
the race question went to show that
the lynch law is not confined to any
one section Of the country. These
events, he said tend to simplify the
race problem by making it national.
He appealed to the negro to be calm
and to exercise self control.
Among the other speakers was w.
H. Lewis, assistant district attorney
Of Massachusetts,, who was appointed
several months ago by President
RooSe velt.
Principal Washington said in part:
I'm the present season Of anxiety and
almost OF despair, which possesses an
element OF the race, there are two
things l wish to say as strongly as l
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 man
is Judge Jones Of Alabama, to whom
more credit should be given for blott-
ing 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 rece or nation that has ever got
upon it's feet has done so through
struggle and trials and persecution.
mo one should seek TO close his
eyes to the fact that the race is pass
ing through very serious and trying
period of it's development, 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, th race or the individual
that exercises the most patience, for
bearance and self-control in:the midst
of trying conditions that wins it's
cause. Let nothing induce US to de-
scend to the level OF the mob. In ad-
vocating this policy I 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 outbreaks Of the mob empha-
size two lessons, one for our race and
one for the other citizens of our coun-
try, south and north; for it is to be
noted that the work Of the lynchers is
not confined to one section OF the
country The lesson for US is that we
should see to it that sossar as influence
Of parent, school or pulpit is concerned
no effort be spared to impress on our
own people that idleness and crime
should cease. We should let the world
know On all proper occasions that we
consider no legal punishment too
severe for the wretch Of any race who
attempts to outrage woman.
''The lesson for the other portion of
the nation to learn is that both in the
making and in the execution the same
law should be made to apply to the
negro as to the white man.
There should be meted out equal
justice to the black man and the
white man. Whenever the nation for
gets, or is tempted to forget, it's basis
principle, the whole fabric Of govern
ment for both the white man and the
black man is threatened with destruc-
ton. This is true whether it relates
to conditions in Texas, in Indiana or
Delaware. It is with nation as with
an individual whatever we SOW, that
shall we also reap. II we SOW crime we
shall reap laWleSSnesS."