The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-05-30
THE TWO RACES
Rev. Carroll Tells Them Some Bold
Truths-Each Race Keep its Place

Rev. Richard Carroll addressed a
large audience in the Auditorium last
night The galleries. which had been
reserved for the negroes. were packed.
The audience in the lower f1oor was
made up of representative people OF
the city.
Rev. Carroll talks huently and has
both wit and elocuence BESIDES peculiar
force In expression which drives the
truths that he sets forth home and
clinches them.
He talked first of his own work
showing why he preferred to remain
mere and conduct a reformatory for
the unfortunate than TO &c north
where he would get more money or
accept a foreign appointment which
had been rendered him.
He spoke of the negro and his work
in this country. how carelessly it was
done. but the white people accepted
most any kind Of service unquesIi0n-
iy and when the cook ruined the din
ner and walked off because she was
reproved and spent half the week on
an excursion. the white woman was
glad to get any kind Of help pack.
after fighting over the cook stove With
a baby on one arm for the few DAYS
she had been away that she nailed her
return with ioy and gladness and the
negro was getting worse and worse
True the white men of the south put
up with the poorest work III the world
but he paid the poorest price in the
world. Let the negro go north and he
would see the difference. He would
get better LAY but he and she would
have to give better work or starve.
The people of the south say they
like a negro. but they like him in his
place and they are right. they do,
they are good friends to the negro,
but the negro. at the same time. liked
the white man. but liked him in his
place. His place was I'd wonder.
above the negro and he ought to stay
there. Trouble came when the white
man would not stay in his place. If
he did the negro would worship him
and serve him all the days Of his life.
He said the negro was losing an op-
portunity, losing his life's chance. for
he saw i'll the future great crowds Of
foreign laborers coming over here and
taking his place because he was get
ting so trifiing. There was really no
reason why the negro should not be
as profitable to the white man now as
in slavery times and he must do bet
,er work and the white man must
use him rightly and both will prosper.
He then pointed out the main trou-
tlC Vi tIlS lSSIo. llIdI liz w NV hi1o"
what home ought to be. 1t was not
politics. social equality. education or
the churches that was going to build
up the negro race. but it would be the
same thing that built up the white
man. What made him? His mother.
grand mother. great grand mother.
1t was the position of the white women
in the Anglo Saxon race that mace II
the greatest race the world ever gave
birth to-. It was the women who made
the home and the nome made the
men. All the white mans schools and
Colleges might be destroyed, but GlSe
the white women the place h holds
in the ace and it would still be a great
Deople.
champion and defender? Who makes
her q queen?
A collection was taken up to cover
the cost Of the Auditorium and lights
and advertising which fully covered
these incidentals.
Everybody was delighted with the
talk which was full Of sparkling wit.
FLORENCE Times.