Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-02-15

night, President Roosevelt made a
speech on the race problem. He ap-
pealed to the North to make it's friend
ship for the South all the greater be-
cause of the embarrassment of condi-
lions for which she is not alone re-
spcnsible," declared that the heartiest
acknowledgements are due to the min
listers, law officers, grand juries, pub
lie men and great daily newspapers
III the South Who have recently done
such effective work in leading the cru
SADIE against lynching," and said that
the problem was to so adjust the re-
laticns between two races of different
ethnic type, that the backward race
be trained so that it may enter into
the possession of true freedom, while
the forward race is enabled to pre-
serve unframed the high civilization
wrought out by it's forefathers."
Among other things the President
said:
The resident Address.
In his second inaugural, in a speech
which will be read as long as the mem
DRY of this nation endures, Abraham
Lincoln closed by saying:
with malice toward none; with
charity for all; with firmness in the
right, as God gives us to see the right,
let us strive on to finish the work
we are in; * s. to do all which may
achieve and cherish a just and lasting
peace among ourselves, and with all
nations"
Immediately after his reelection he
had already spoken thus:
THE strife of the election is but
human nature practically applied to
the facts of the case. What mas oc-
CURED in this case must EVER recur in
similar cases Human nature will not
change. In any future great national
trial, compared with the men Of this,
We shall have as weak and as strong,
as silly and as wise, as bad and as
good. Let us, therefore, STUDY the in.
cidents of this as philosophy to learn
wisdom from, and none Of them as
wrongs to be %revenged. = * * May
rot all having a common interest re-
unite in a common effort to (serve)
our common country? For my own
Part l have strivcn and shall strive to
avoid placing any obstacle in the
way. So long as l have been here !
Eave not willingly planted a thorn in
any mans bosom. While | am deeply
sensible to the high compliment OF
a reelection, and duly grateful, as ]
trust, to Almighty God for having di.
rected my countrymen to a right con
c%lusion, DIS l think, for their W good
it adds nothing TO my satisfaction that
any other man may be disappointed
or panied by the result.
May l ask those who have not diff
fercd with me to join me in this same
spirit toward those who have?"
VICE NEGROES ARCH ENEMY.
Laziness and shiftlessness, these, and
above all. vice and criminality Of
every kind, are evils more potent fo1
harm to the black race than all acts
of oppression Of white. men put to-
gether. The colored man who fails tc
condemn crime in another colored man
who fails to cooperate in all lawful
ways to bringing colored criminals tc
Justice, is the worst enemy of his own
people, as we'll as al { envy to all the
people. ~Law-abiding men should, fol
the sake of their race, be foremost in
relentless and %unceasing warfare
against law-breaking black men. II
the standards of private morality anG
industrial efficiency can be raised high
enough among the black race. then its
future on this continent is secure. The
stability and purity of the home is
vital to the welfare of the black race
as it is to the welfare of every rae
NEIGHBORS CAN HELP MOST.
In the next place. the white man
who. if only he is willing, can help the
colored mar more than all other white
men put together, is the white man
who is his neighbor, North or South
Each of us must do his whole duty
without 1inching, and if that duty is
national it must be done in accord
ance with the principles above laid
down. But in e~ndeavoring each to be
his brothers keeper it is wise to re-
member that each can normally dc
most for the brother who is his i'm
mediate neighbor. If we are sincere
friends of the negro let each in his
own locality show it by his action
therein, and let us each show it also
by UNFOLDING the hands Of the white
man, in whatever locality who is striv-
ing to do justice to the poor and the
helpless, to be a shield to those whose
need for such a shield is great.
CRUSADE AGAINST LYNCHING.
The heartiest acknowledgements are
due to the ministers, the judges and
law officers, the grand jurors, the pub
lie men and the great daily news
papers in the South, who have recent
ly done such effective work in leading
the crusade against l%ynching in the
South; and I am glad to say that dur
ing the last three months the returns
as far as they can be gathered, show
a smaller number of lynchings than for
any other two months during the last
twenty years. Let us uphold in every
way the hands of the men who have
led in this work, who are striving to dc
all their work in this spirit. 1 am
! about to quote from the address of the