The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-19
LET NEGRO TOTE
 HIS OWN SKILLET
Charles Aycock Makes Strong
 Speech on Color Question
MUST DISFRANCHISE HIM
Three Hundred Guests Inaueurate the First Annual Dinner of North Caro-
 lima Society in Baltimore.
 Some Pointed Paragraphs.

Baltimore December 1S.--Three hun dred guests tonight inaugurated the first annual dinner of the North Carolina So- cety of Baltimore in the banquet hall of the New Carrollton hotel. Following IS the address of welcome given Chairman Charles Aycock of North Carolina:
 T am proud of my state, because there we have solved the negro problem which recently seems to have given you some trouble. We have taken him out of poll itics and have thereby secured good gov ernment under any party and laid foun- dations for the future development of both races. We have secured peace and rendered prosperity a certainty. l am in- clined to give to you our solution Of this problem.
 Tt is, first, as far as possible under the fifteenth amendment, to disfranchise him; after that, let him alone; quit writ ing about him; quit talking about him; quit making him the white mans bur den; let him tote his own skillet; 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 tol; that what ever his future may be the present has in it for him nothing that is not the pro- duct of industry, thrift, obedience to law and uprightness; that he cannot by res olution of council or league accomplish anything; that he can do much work; that violence may gratify his passions but it cannot accomplish his ambition; that he may rarely eat of the cooking equality. but he will always find when he does there is death in the pot.
 Unending Separation.
 Let the negro learn once for all that there is intending separation of the races; that the two peoples may develop side by side to the fullest, but that they cannot intermingle. Let the white man determine that no man shall by act or thought or speech cross this line and the race problem will be at an end.
 These things are not said in enmity to the negro but in regard for him. He constitutes one-third of the popula- tion of my state; he has always been my personal friend. As a lawyer, l have often defended him, and as govern or, have frequently protected him. But there flows in my veins the blood of the dominant race-that race has conquered the earth and seeks out the mysteries of the heights and depths. If manifest des- tiny 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 I would not have the white people forget their duty to the negro. We must seek truth and pursue 1t.
 We Owe an Obligation.
 "We owe an obligation to the man in black. We brought him here He served us we'll He is patient and teachable. We owe him gratitude. Above all, we owe him justice We cannot forget his fidel- fty and we ought not to magnify his faults. We cannot change his color, neith- CT can we ignore his service. No individ- ual ever rose on stepping stones of death of others to higher things and no people can. We must rise by ourselves, we must execute judgment in righteousness. We must educate not only ourselves. but see to it that the negro has an opportunity for education. As a white, 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. The first duty of every man is to develop himself to the uttermost, and the only limitation upon this duty Is that he shall take pains to see that in his own development he does no injury to those beneath him. This is true of races as well as of individuals.
 Considered properly it is not a limita- tion but a condition of development The white man in the south can't attain to his fullest growth until he does justice to the negro race. If he is doing that now it is well for him. If he is not doing it he must seek to know the ways of truth and pursue them"
 Congressman Edward w. Pou of North Carolina. Dr. Charles G. Hill, M. J. Nol- ley of Baltimore. and other after-dinner takers also spoke.