The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-20
EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL
SUBSTANCE OF JUDGE sPEER's RE-
MARKS ON THE RACE PROBLEM.
LAW EQUITABLY ENFORCED
THE BALM FOR CRIME PRODUCING
JEALOUSY BETWEEN RACES.

Well as Eloquent Charges Ever
Delivered TO Jury in savannah.
characterized Advocates of De-
portntion as "Gifted Dreamers."
At the Conclusion of the Charge
to the Jury the Docket Was Called
and Cases Set for Trial.
The November term of the United
States courts for the Southern dis
trict was convened by Judge Emory
Speer at noon yesterday,
The Judge delivered his charge 10
the grand jury, made up as follows;
Charles r. Heron, Savannah, fore
man; John J. Gaudry. Savannah;
Henry c. Lang. Taylor's Creek; E. S.
sirmans, Dupont; ]. c. Jones, Val
dosta; Warren L. Courson, Pearson;
Julius NJ. Smith. Ellabelle; r. E. L.
Munro. cambridge; Henry Hyers, Pat
erson; A G. Horton, Card; ]. w.
Jeter. Climax; William b. Metzger,
Savannah; 1. E. Stephens, Homer
Vile; William S. Delk, Johnston Sta
ton: John ]. Carolan, Savannah;
Charles Haverson, Brunswick Jacob
f. Howard, Johnson Station; James
H. Emanuel, Fowltown; T. B. Hodge,
Valdosta: Hosea Maxwell. (colored),
Savannah. The docket was then call
ed and the cases now pending were set
for trial. This was concluded at 2
O'Clock, and a recess was taken until
this morning.
Judge Speer's charge to the grand
jury was one of the most entertaining
that the able Jurist have ever deliv-
cred here. Rather out of the ordinary,
he touched on question close to the
interest of every one in the South
the race problem, characterizing those
who advocated deportation as gifted
dreamers.
After a dissertation on the respon-
sibilities reposing on the shoulders OF
judge and jury, Judge Speer spoke, as
the jurst, as follows on a question
that has been much discussed:
A Duty 10 he Met.
II it be true that judges of long
experience must at times nerve them
selves and muster all of their re-
sources to attain a rigid impartiality,
which may seem merciless to the indi-
vidual, but which is merciful to the
many, how memorable must be the for
titude of the jury man fresh from his
home, familiar with the short and sim
pie annals of the poor, moved by kindly
and neighborly impulses, and yet who
if he approaches the ideals of citizen
ship, must lay aside all of these consid-
erations and be guided solely by the
weight of the evidence and by those
l. III.
good of the greatest number. And /
dare assert that never in the history
of mankind was there a people to
whom these considerations are so in
dispensable as to the American citi-
zenship of these Southern states.
Never was there people
where even-handed, consistent i'm
perturbable and rigorous enforce
ment of law was more vital.
it would be idle, and here inappropri-
ate to discuss. They are accomplished
facts. Millions of our citizenship are
incapable, from ignorance, and a SER
vile past, of even the slightest appre-
citation of civic duty. In the main it
is kindly and docile people.
Who Commit Crimes.
while individuals at times commit
crime. atrocious; to stir
fever in the blood of age
or make the infant sinews
strong as steel, while shocking and in
furiating beyond measure, it will be
found that these are generally COM
mitted by the pariahs of the race. The
millions of these dark men inoffensive-
ly and with all respect to law and
with not unkindly Difference to their
white neighbors, pursue the even tenor
of their humble lives. They indeed
make strong claims on our forbearance.
Their labors largely contribute to the
production of that mafinificent crop,
the value of whose snowy fieeces, bring
annually many hundreds of millions TO
the Southern people, and which indeed
has damned the torrent of many a
panic which otherwise might have
swept away the commercial stability
of the nation.
IF the impossible should hap
pen and If these toilers should be
deported as some gifted dreamers argue
should be done the child is yet un-
born who could witness the resuscita-
ton of these Southern states from the
almost universal bankruptcy which
would ensue.
Solution of Problem
And is the destiny of the Southern
people to be darkened on account of
these people. Was this probable
would lose my pride in descent from
that imperial race, which mas borne
in triumph the meteor flag of our
mother country in every quarter of the
globe, which won this continent from
another dark-skinned people and
transformed it from forbid
ding wilderness into the home
for more than S0,000,000 of
free and happy people a strain whose
slender force in British India easily
governs 260, 100000 of other dark and
once warlike races of that ancient and
renowned land, and whose magnificent
system of Jurisprudence for justice and
civilization is the marvel of the phil
osopher and jurist. l should fear that
We are not worthy brethren or sons
of that far flung battle line of gray
which stretched from the tide water
or Virginia to the western boundary
OF Texas and the dame of whose BAN
ner, though conquered will live in
song and story to the latest times.
Solve the problem we will, and the
manly, the Christian, the effective. the
only method of its solution Is by the
even handed righteous, rigid and
never varying enforcement of our
laws not alone against the black. but