The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-02-24
The New kork Southern So
Ciety's Banquet.
The NEGRO'S BtSTFRltNO
Addresses BY Van WICK ard BIZ ,n---h.
Black, Red or yellow Man Shall
Ever Rule Over 'he Anglo
Stxn n.
BY the Associated Pre)

ciety in he banquet hall OF the Waldorf
Astoria. The boxes were oiled with a
brilliant assemblage of the wives AMI
daughters of mcmbors Of the society and
their friends. President Augustus ].
Van Wyck presided AMI at his table wcsc
J. G. Mcknight of the Charleston Society
]. Edward Graybll. o. the Georgia So
cicty; David II. Bates. of The Ohio So
cicty: " W. Fuller. OF the Society OF
North Carolina; Edward G. Stedman. Of
New York Society. Justice Martin j.
Kcogh. A. c. Braxton. Or. J. II Van
Amringer. Of Columbia University; j.
Drummond, Major Edward Owen and Ecy.
DR.. P. \. H. Brown. chaplain Of tho
Southern Society.
President Van Wyck in delivering his
address of welcome said in part:
Mr.. Van Wyck, after reviewing the
South's resources and development at
length. touched upon the race question
in the following words:
What the South needs ard must have
is peace at homo and jointly with the
rest of the nation, international peace.
There is but one unsettled problem pecu-
liar to that section, commonly called the
negro question. The South understands
it, and if left alone it will be settled
rightly and Justly in a Christian spirit.
The natural friendship between whites
and blacks of long standing with no
idea of social equality is well known to
those at all familiar Will the subject.
The best friends of the black race are
the white race of the South. The future
welfare and development of the former
rests upon the absence of conflict be-
u-o1 49, two o~J l0 II, sA.4r0r- an
lessons the amity so existing between
the two is not a friend OF the black man,
but an enemy, Intentionally or unin-
tentionally, to civilization. Let no
American citizen who loves his country
be a party to stimulating a war of races. ;
Continuing. he said:
''Our nation can and must have inter
national peace ard the best assurance of
that is to hold inviolate the Monroe
Doctrine. ! favor it. not from pride Of
its origin. but because it makes for
peace. History records the chief cause
of wars 70 be c-ovetousncss Of nations
for more land. Withdraw from tho in
ternationa1 war market onc-half of the
real estate of the world and military
conflicts viii be 1essened lust in that
ratio. Shakespeare in 'Shylock' sowed
the seed of agit2tion against the collec-
ton Of debt out of mans flesh and blood.
which, continuing for two centuries, re-
suited in the effacemcnt from American
and English law of the right TO imprison
your fellow man for debt, which has been
proclaimed one Of the grandest reforms
of our latest civilization. Yet greater Is
the evil and brutality Of nations going
to war for debt. Mr.. Carnegie has done
more to firmly establish the Monroe Doc
trine than all others since the DAYS of
those who created it and has soWn the
seed of agitation for the elimination
from the international code Of the right
OF nations to so to var for debt, de-
strOying tho natural equilibrium Of ma
tons in peace, when he requested the
two strongest nations Of the Old World
to send him their paltry bills against
Venezuela for settlement. making them
appear as pigmics in comparison with
the smallest OF civilized nations. as
Well as in comparison With IN Amorican
industrial prince. IT was the stroke IL
q master hand with tho weapon of sharD
ridicu!c to call these nations to 2 sense
of propriety belonging to our age Of
progress. which circles around that cen
trial figure of the Old Worlds history,
the great Prince Of Peace. b. this 2ct
Mr.. Carnegie challenges the premiership
of Cervantes IN the mercilcss exposur.
OF the follics Of knight e~rrantry in his
great satire, Don Quixotc. The con
slant fear of the possible infringement
of the Monroe Doctrine perhaps saved
the world from universal war over the
southern American controversy"
A. Caperton BraXtOn, OF Virginia, sooka
OF Washington as a Southern man, from
the point of view Of q southern man. and
said that whoever would understand the
true charter of the qualities OF Wash
ington must know not only the man him
self but the race from which he camc.
'That race. in all OF its noble qualities
OF mind and heart" he said, "is the anne
yesterday, today and forever"
Referring to the question OF trusts. Mr.
Braxton said:
W believe that monopolics arc baHc-
full. particularly in the necessities If life
and should therefore be discouraged.
when impracticablc to prevent their OK
istCnce altogether, We believe that thcy
should be tolerated and they should H.
placed under the strictest supervision
and regulation. to prevent imposition am
abuse. We believe that 10 institution
should be tolerated which the government
is unable TO regulate and control, anf
that the possible existence. in this lar6
of a power greater than tho government
is the doctrine Of anarchy itself"
Much Of Mr.. Bragg's speech was devo.
ted 10 the negro question.
"The southern people entertain not thu
slightest animosity against the negro.
he said. they are the best friends h
ever had.
His condition in tho South todav. "a
far better. his opportunities for mora
and materia! Improvement arc far great
er than in any other country upon tn
} earth: and none Of the rights guarantee
Ito him under the fourteenth amcndmcn
} las it is understood whom adopted. ar
leithcr denied or ~begrudged to him there
. But while all this is truc, still in tn
lSouth, just as every where else in III
Iworld, white men arc unalterably re
solved that come what may, no black, re.