Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-02-22

ing, and IL that duty is national 1t must
be done In accordance with the princi-
Piles above laid down. But In endeavor-
ing each to be bis brothers. keeper It is
wise to remember that each can nor
mally do most for his brother who is his
immediate neighbor. III we are sincere
friends of the negro let us each in his
own locality show it by his action therein,
and let us each show il also by uphold.
ing the hands of the white man, in what
ever locality, who is striving to- do jus
tice to the poor and the helpless, to be a
shield to those whose need for such a
shield is great.
ANTI.LYNCuING CRUSADE.
"The heartiest Acknowledgements are
duo to the ministers, the judges and law
officers, the grand juries, the public
men and the great daily new ,papers in
the South, who have recently done such
effective work in leading the crusade
against lynching in the South; and am
glad to say that during the last three
months the returns, as far as they can be
gathered, show smaller number of
lynchings than for any other two months
during tho last twenty years. Let us up
hold in every way the hands of the men
who have led in this work, who are striv-
ing to do all their work in this spirit.
am about to quote from the address of
the Right Rev. Robert Strange, bishop
coadjutor of North Carolina, as given in
The Southern Churchman of October 8,
1904
SOCIAL EQUALITY QUESTION.
"The bishop first enters an emphatic
plea against any social interningling of
the races; question which must, of
course, be left to the people of each COM
munity to settle for themselves, as in
such matter no one community-and
indeed no one individual-can dictate to
any other; always provided that in each
locality men keep in nina the fact that
there must be no confusing of civil privi-
leges with social intercourse. Civil law
cannot regulate social practices. Society,
as such, is law unto itself, and will
always regulate its own practices and
habits. Full recognition of the funda-
mental fact that all men should stand on
an equal footing, as regards civil privi-
leges, in no way interferes with recogni-
tion of the further fact that all rejecting
men of both races are united in feeling
that race purity must be maint tanned.
WHAT WHITE MAN SHOULD DO
'The bishop continues:
"'What should the white man of the
South do for the negroP They must give
him free hand, fair field and a cordial
the two races working to-
gether for their mutual benefit and for
the development of our common country.
He must have liberty, equal opportunity
to make his living, to earn his bread, to
build his home. He must have Justice,
equal rights, and protection before the
law. He must have the same political
the suffrage should be based
on character and intelligence for white
and black alike. He must have the same
public advantages of education; the pub
lie schools are for all the people. what
ever their color or condition. The white
men of the South should give hearty and
consideration to the excep-
tional men of the negro race, to those
who have the character, the ability and
the desire to be lawyers, physicians,
teachers, preachers, leaders of thought
and conduct among their own men and
women. We should give them cheer and
to crafty every laudable
and should seek every inno-
cent satisfaction among their own people.
Finally, the best white men of the South
should have frequent conferences with
the best colored men, where, in frank,
earnest and sympathetic discussion they
might understand each other better,
smooth difficulties, and so guide and en-
courage the weaker race
'Surely we can all of us join in ex-
pressing our substantial agreement with
the principles thus laid down by this
North Carolina bishop, this representa-
i've of the Christian thought of the
South.
BELIEVES IN THE sOUTHERNER.
"Throughout our land things on the
whole have grown better and not worse,
and this is as true of one part of the
as it is of another. l believe in
The Southerner as believe in the North
erner. L claim the right to feel pride in
MS great qualities and in his great deeds