The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-03

those times, unless we act now and thwart them in this matter, by curpihg the iuseiul spirit in the boy, Wno hoW almost runs wild at will-the empryohlc crlmlndi rowing our streets and aiiies' dives or all kinds who by and by De- comes the full fiedged william to be cureo ohly py the mob, fire and the gatlln gun. In the treatment of this affair whlch our section has allowed to grow upon us' w, we VIII nave to be cautious. We must h'ii crime without making more crlihiiiaiss We must down cruelty without makihs the populace more cruel The inqunsilion Tn It's time begot it's own victims, anu the most crime was committed uulins the reigns of the kings of England "ho were most cruel in their treatment ol crime. Candor in the treatment ol thls subject forces me to say that the wildcat mob which has already put other offehses on par with criminal assault or "iiile women will turn from mobbng negroes to mobbing white men. To that IS siioi' step-a logical and necessary sequence. The negro brute will be displaced by the white brute mob.
 Prophecy for Future.
 "As negroes we must look to the iu- ture of the negro We must pull away from crime and indolence or we will soon find that expulsion from whole comhuh- ties will follow thick and fast, when every mans hand will be turned against us, ana like the wandering Jew of old, none Will take us in, but will raise hands against us and cry, away! This is a hard proph- ecy, but you will live to see it, if we do not check the evils in our race lm- polling us to self-destruction. l speak this of the race as d whole, but when view the million struggling, rising, hdus- trious, God-fearing negroes in this coun- try, l am more encouraged, for God knows they are making a grand record; but what of the 'nine, what are they do1ng ana how are they doing? You cannot answer these warnings by shake of the head or wave of the hand; you cannot answer these prophecies by a cry of misrepresen- tation and prejudice; the answer must come from good heart. well ordered brain and an industrious hand, which will throttle and strike down everything that is ininical to the advancement and suc- cess of this race. It is now up to us. h. dustrious arms, well cultivated brains and hearts full of Godliness must answer. That we have made progress is true Of the best negro: the aspiring negro; tho God fearing negro; the negro who lives, rising against great odds. into the ap- proval of great men and God the negro who makes speed by pressure and is lift ed up by adverse currents.
 Help Struggling Negro.
 
 owes it to itself to help the struggling negro Its forefathers were brave, hon orable and true men-true to their Anglo Saxon progenitors. The south took hold of the negro and raised him up to the view of the world 1t stood by him.it did not try to discourage him, but every where lifted him high. Is the white south of the present day encouraging the wor- thy negro to the extent that it's fore fathers did? Is the white south carrying out the duty which it's fathers transmit ted to 1.-the duty of unselfsh help of the negro in his struggles to rise In the world the proper commemoration of the old south by a proper respect of those who were made useful by the old south In it's development? Shall the grand men who laid out the old south-who leaving their foot prints in blood over the snow cov- cred hills of Virginia followed Lees tat tered banners down to Appomattox be- cause they thought 1t truth, be so soon forgotten by the descendants of both races? Let us stand uncovered before the monuments of the grand white men of the south: let us stand uncovered be- fore the humble graves of the grand black men and black women of the south In whose ebony arms the highest virtue and intelligence of southern Anglo-Saxon men and women were cradled and who told their black mammies and the old uncles to make the most they could of them selves In the world.
 There are new players on the boards, new actors on the stage. but the same drama Is being ienacted-the building of a race. Again, the south is the leading actor-how shall the play end3s The ar gument advanced must not be childish 1t must be manly. But the superior man does the superior thing for the lifting up of mankind to superior condition. Is 1t necessary to the establishment and main tenance of the purity of the Anglo-Saxon race to prove the natural inferiorlty of the negro? If God made the white man my superior. the white man has no credit If God made me inferior to the white man, then I am not to blame. Let us be fair Don't let your claim to superior lty, and to proclaim my inferiority, be the excuse for cruelty