The Washington times., 1903-09-03
Hon. John Temple GraVes
Declares That God Did
Not Intend Negroes and
Whites to Lfve Together.
HITS AT CRUMPACKER
BLACKS Lynched in Indiana
on SIiehter PoVocation
Than in Georgia - HIS
tory of Race Prejudice.

CHICAGO, Sept. S.-"The Problem of
the Races" was the subject of an address
delivered this morning before the forty
eighth convocation of the University of
Chicago, by the Hon. John Temple
Graves, of Georgia Mr. Graves said, in
part:
TWO opposite. unequal and antagonis-
Tic races are set side BY side for govern
lnent and destiny. One OF these, by the
record, is the strongest race on earth:
the other. by the record, is the weakest
race on earth.
One. a race whose achievements make
In large part the history OF the world:
the other, a race which in all its annals
has written no history. builded no monu-
ments, made no books, and recorded no
achievements. and whose only progress
has been from contact with the stronger
race. One. a race. proud. progressive.
dominant and historically free; the
other. race that came out of centuries
of savagery into centuries of slavery
and was transplanted in one tropical and
unnatural night from barbarism and
slavery into liberty and fun equality.
One live, vital, twentieth century race,
palsing the hope and progress of the
world; the other, a race without
record, undeveloped. unframed, but late
ly slaves. and at the utmost a seventh
century civilization
Master and Slave.
There they are-master and slave,
civilized and half civilized, strong and
weak. conquering and servile, twentieth
century and seventh century-thirteen
hundred years apart-set by a strange
and incomprehensible edict of states
manship or of passion. set by the CON
stitution and the law, the weakest race
on earth and the strongest race on earth
side by side on equal terms TO bear an
equal part in the conduct and response
bility of the greatest government the
world ever saw!
1t was an experiment without a pre-
cedent in history and without promise
IN the annals OF man
An Impracticable Experiment.
Impraeticable IN abstract form, the
proposition IS rendered impossible by its
complications. The master race keenly
resent the sudden elevation and the
forced equality OF their slaves. The vic
torious section eagerly demands the
trial. and desires the success OF its ex-
pertinent. The master race. from long
contact and close association, carries
the ineradicable conviction OF the inher-
ant frg
capacity OF the black man.
The victor section, reasoning from alb
stract philanthropy at the distance OF q
thousand miles, cherishes a fixed faith
in the unity OF race and the equality OF
man. Sectional jealousies compass the
experiment with bitterness. Partisan
politics complicate IL with selfish
schemes. Frequent crimes and recurring
violence distort it with passion. And
behind it all, openly confessed in one
section, and only half denied in the
other section. there lives and breathes
IN both races and in all sections. the
deep. uncircumscribed and apparently
ineradicable prejudice OF opposite races,
which renders uniop and sympathy and
fail cooperation HOPELESS and out OF the
question forever
Race Prejudice.
This is from first 10 last race prob
lem. II is an issue OF race and not OF
politics. II is a thing OF skin and type.
and not OF section or condition. 1t is q
part OF the universal problem. The his
terry OF man has been written in race
sntagonism and in race separation. The
Hebrew and Egyptian, the Jew and the
Gentle. the Turk and the Christian,
Magyar and Hungarian. Venetian and
Moor, Mexican and Texan, negro AMI
Chinaman. white man and Indian-the
repulsion is the same
A thousand years have not removed
the prejudice against the Jew, who is
the aristocrat OF history. How, then.
shall the negro hope to conquer where
the Jew has failed? This race prejudice
has no sectional lines. 1t is held in no
geograp phical boundaries. Every issue of
the leading negro papers published III
the North, reek with protest against the
discrimination exercised throughout
the North against the negro race.
Negro in the North.
FDDSAOuf NAt metz OpOilS Dl ABOLITION,
wll not employ negroes in the depart
ment stores. Nor will Chicago. The
Boston Globe" received a formal social
protest against the employment of a
regro reporter on its local stan. The
son OF Wendell Phillips sister. rich with
the blood OF emancipation, refused TO as
sociate with q negro IN Harvard Uni !
versity. Fred Douglas in his last speech |
declared that only one white man in all I
the ranks OF the abolitionists had ever
permitted him 10 forget in his presence |
that he was a negro.
There are 400 900 negroes in Ohio. /
Pennsylvania. and New York. Where IS /
the Office that they hold, or the station /
OF trust and profit that they MI? In /
Mr.. Crumpacker's State of Indiana they !
lynch negroes almost as frequently and |
upon much less provOcation than in |
Georgia. riot raised on race prejudice /
redeemed the central avenues Of New l
York. Chicago citizens chased a negro |
through the central streets. ready With |
. rope TO visit capital punishment for