The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-02-24
RACE 7FOBLEM
Discussed by President Roose.
velt at Lincoln Banquet.
GIVES SOUTH ADVICE

sade. After All the Negro
Must Learn to Depend
on Himself.
AS the guest OF honor at the Lin.
coin dinner Of the Republican Club in
New York last week, President
Roosevelt made q speech on the race
problem. He appealed to the north
to make It's friendship for the south
all the greater because Of the "em-
barrassment OF conditions for which
she is not alone responsible," and said
that the problem was to $50 adjust
the relations betwe en- two races Of diff.
ferent ethnlc 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
preserve unharmed the high civil'za.
tion wrought out by Its forefathers. +"
The dinner was held in the main
banquet hall OF the Waldorf Astoria,
and In the number of guests and
elaborateness Of decorations Is be.
heved to have exceeded any furction
OF It's character ever held in New
York. The guests numbered more
than l. 800, including 275 women,
who dined In the Astor gallery.
THE PRESIDENTS srEECu.
The president said in part:
In his second inaugural, in a
speech which will be read as long as
the memory Of this na5lon endures,
Abraham Lincoln closed by saying:
With malice toward none; with
charity for all; with iirmness In the
right, as God gives US to see the right,
let US strive on to finish the work we
are in; to Go all which may
achieve and cherish q just and last
ing peace among ourselves, and with
>all nations
.stNCOLN OF SOUTHERN BIRTH.
Ibis Is the spirit in which mighty
Lincoln Sought to bind up the ma
tlons "ouil9s when its soul was Yet
see1nlHR With fierce hatred, r:t,'
"fatn, win rsnccr, With lii The evil
and dreadful pass; unS provoke d by civil
war. Surely this Is the spirit which
all Americans should show now, when
there Is so little excuse for malice or
rancor or hatred, when there is so lit
tie of vital consequence to divide
brother from brother.
Lincoln, himself a man Of south
ern birth, did not hesitate TO appeal
to the sword when he became satlslit d
that In no other way could the union
be saved, for high though he put peace
he put righteousness still higher He
warred for the uniJD; he ware d to free
the slave; and when he warred he wor-
red In carn:st, for it is q
sign OF weakness to be halt.
hearted when blows must be
struck. But lie felt only love, a love
as deep as the tenderness OF bis great
and sad heart, FOR all his countrymen
alike IN the north and in the SC nth,
and he longed above everything for
the dav when they should once more
be knit together in the unbreakable
bonds OF eternal friendship.
SPIRIT CT LINCOLN COMMENDED.
We Of today, in dealing with all
our fellow citizens, white or colored,
north or south, should strive to show
just the qualities that Lincoln showed:
His stcadilstness in striving after the
right, and his infinite patiienGGe-a
forbearancaLwttteh those wNo saw that
right less clearly than he did; bis
earnest endeavor to do what was best,
and yet his readiness to accept the
best that was practicable when the
ideal best was unattairable; his un-
ceasing effort to cure what was evil;
coupled with his refusal TO make
bad situation worse by any ill-judged
or ill-timed effort to make 1t better.
The gr3at civil war In which Lin.
coin toW0rad as the loft5cst figure left
us not only a reunited country, but
country which has the proud right to
claim as It's own the glory won alike
by those who wore tie blue and by
these vic wore the gray, by those
who followed Grant and by those who
followed Lee; for beth fought With
equal bravery and with equal sincer
ty OF conviction, each striving for the
light as 1t was given him to sec the
light; the Ugh it is now clear to all
that the triumph OF the cause Of free
dom and OF the union was essential to
the welfare or mankind. We are now
one people, people with failings
which We must not blink, but a peo
pie with great qualities In which we
have the right to feel just pride.
FRIENDSHIP FOR SOUTH.
III good Americans who dwell In
the north must, because they are good
Americans, feel the most earnest
friendship for their fellow country
men who dwell in the south, friend |
ship all the greater because it is In the |
south that we find in is most acute |
phase one Of the graveSt problems be.
fore our people; the problem OF so
dealing With the man or one color as
to secure HIM the rights that 10 one
would grudge hlm if he were Of an.
other color. To solve this problem
1t Is, OF course necessary to educate
him to perform the duties, failure
to perform which will render him a
curse to Himself and TO all around
him.
DIFFICULTY OF NEGoR PROBLEM.
Most certainly all cledr-sighted
and generous men In the north an.
preciate the difficulty and perplexity
Of this problem, sympathiZc with the
south In the embarrassment OF condl-
tions for which she Is not alone re.
Bponsible, feel an honest wish to help
her where help is practicable, and
have the heartiest respect for those
brave and earnest men of the south
who, In the face OF fearful difficulties,
are doing all that men can do for the
betterment alike OF white and black.
The attitude Of the north toward the
negro 10 far from what it should he