The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-08
NEGRO INITIATES
VICES OF WHITES
THE PROBLEM OF THE RACES
WOULD BE SMPLIFIED III THE
WHITES WE'RE MORE UPRIGHT.

''The White Mans Burden" Dis
cussed by Rev. DIR. George Solo
mon in First of a Series of Lee
tures-kipIinR's Famous Poem
Furnished Basis for Lecture-rhe
Analysis of Present Day COndi-
lions of Business and Politics
The Need of Church and Syna-
gOgue InstructiOn-An Indictment
of Our CiviIixntiOn-Need of civic
Righteousness.
THE White Mans Burden" was the
subject of the first of a series of lee
lures to be delivered on successive
Friday night by Rev. DR.. George Solo
mon, pastor of the Synagogue Mickva
Israel.
Taking as his text Kipling's famous
poem DR.. Solomon called attention to its
searching analysis of the conditions
which are to-day confronting the
Anglo-SaXon race in America. BY our
broad conquest, by our ambitious to be-
come world power through our TAX
ing under our protection the peoples of
other nations, he claimed. we have as
stunned the burden of leadership, that
leadership which, not content with
reaching the nights, must then stoop
and reach down a helping hand to the
struggling millions below us.
Growth of the Country.
Step by step he traced the growth
of this country. With each new power
that we put on we assumed a new
burden. a new responsibility. To-day
we have under our protection, new
caught sullen peoples" that are half
devil and half child" and we must
guide them over the rough paths that
we have trod. The duty has been as
sumed, the responsibility must be met.
I'VE have before u.s. said DR.. Solo
mon, 1.-The task of ordering common
things properly. and as in the case
of Moses who led the Israelites from
Egypt and prepared them for the
promised hand, God ordained that he
must die on the very borders of Pal
estine, while another was to complete
the work. So now God speaks to us
through the voice of the poet:
The ports We shall not enter, the
roads We shall not tread,
Go make them with your living and
mark them with your dead.
Take up the white mans burden and
reap his old reward
The blame of them we better, the hate
of those We guard.
The cry of hosts we humoT, ah slow
ly-toward the light
Why brought you us from bondage,
our loved Egyptian night %
Indictment of Civilization.
The speaker then entered a strong
plea for old-fashioned, sturdy honesty
in business, politics. and in daily life.
The church and the synagogue, he
claimed, were the necessary forces that
must bring about the defeat of insin-
certify and hypocrisy. Continuing, he
said:
1T is we'll known that the savage
| races, such as the Indian, the South
Sea Islanders and the African, are
dwindling away and are becoming
physically weaker through contact with
the white race. From them they learn
the vices that kill them. 1t is my
honest conviction that we would not
have to worry so much over the ne
gro problem were it not for the vi
cious traits which the negro initiates
from examples shown him by the
whites"
Negro Follows Our Example.
Weaker and inferior classes set up
the example of the stronger and supe-
rior as their standard and we must
be blind indeed if we cannot realize
that many of the failngs of the young
men of to-day are the results of the
principles he sees held by his father
and sanctioned by his mother by her
silence, principles holding sway in
the conduct of business and political
affairs
For the good Of the inferior race in
our midst for the benefit of the chill
dren whom you love. take UP the
White Mans Burden. Heed more the
voice of God which speaks through re-
ligion's teachings and bring more
honesty and more of sound, unbending
righteousness into our lives
The lecture was listened to by large
audience and the discussion from a
non-partisan standpoint of the morals
of the day was followed with the clos
est attention.