New-York tribune., 1905-02-14

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race than to the community as whole The
| eolored mans self-respect entities him to do
| that share I'm the political work of the country
| which is warranted by his individual ability and
| integrity and the position he has won for him
| self. But the prime requisite of the race is
moral and industrial uplifting
Laziness and shiftlessness. these, and, above
ALL vice and crinlinality of every kind are evils
more potent for harm to the black race than all
acts of oppression of white men put together.
The colored man who fails to condemn crime in
another colored man, who fails TO cooperate in
all lawful ways in bringing colored criminals
TO justice. is the worst enemy of his own peo-
pie, well enemy 70 all the people. Law
abiding black men should, for the sake OF their
race, be foremost In relentless and unceasing
warfare against lawbreakng black men. If the
standards of private morality and industrial eff
hciency can be raised high enough among the
black race, then its future this continent is
secure. The stability and purity of the home
are vital to the welfare Of the black race as they
are to the welfare OF every race
DUTY OF THE WHITE NEIGHBoR.
In the next place the white man who, If only
he is willing, can help the colored man more
than all other white put together is the
white man who is his neighbor, North or South.
Each Of must do his whole duty without
fiinching. and If that duty is national II must
be done in accordance with the principles above
laid down. But in endeavoring each to be his
brothers keeper il is wise to remember that
each can normally do most for the brother who
is his immediate neighbor. If sincere
friends Of the negro, let each in his own local
ity show it by his action therein, and let each
show it also by upholdng the hands of the
white man. in whatever locality. who is striv-
ing to do Justice TO the poor and the helpless,
to be shield to those whose need for such
shield is great.
The heartiest acknowledgements are due to the
minister's the judges and law officers, the grand
juries, the public men, and the great daily news
papers in the South. who have recently done
such effective work in leading the crusade
against Iynching in the South; and I glad
TO say that during the last three months the re-
turns, as far as they can be gathered show
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 striving to
do all their work in this spirit. 1 about to
quote from the address of the Right Rev. Rob
ert Strange Bishop Coadjutor Of North Carolina.
as given in The Southern Churchman" of Oc-
tober s, 1904
SOUTHERN CLERGYMANS VIEWS.
The bishop first enters emphatic plea
against any social intermingling of the races,
a question which must of course. be left to the
people Of each community to settle for them
selves, as in such a matter no one community
and indeed no one indiyidual-can dictate to any
other: always provided that in each locality
men keep in mind the fact that there must be
no confusing of civil privileges with social in
tercourSe. Civil law cannot regulate social prac-
uces. Society, as such, is law unto Itself,
and will always regulate its own practices and
habits Full recognition of the fundamental
fact that all men should stand on equal foot
ing as regards civil privileges in way in
terferes with recognition Of the further fact
that all rejecting men of both races united
IN feeling that race purity must be maintained.
The bishop continues:
=. What should the white men of the South do for
The The negro? They must give him free hand fair
toeethnr for tba iG bt ene "o d IaGSS F S &
velOpment Of our country. He must have
earn his bread to build his home He must have
Justice equal rights. and protection before the
the suffrage should be based on character and in
the same public advantages of education the public
schools are for ali the people whatever their color
give hearty and respectful consideration to the ex
h n 1F m @ at Ggro ara race & 10 those " who have
yers, physicians. teachers preachers, leaders of
women We should give them cheer and DO oppor- 55i
sHnlty ua TO crafty every audabe ambition and to
people Finally, the best white men OF the South
colored men. where, in frank. earnest and sympa-
befa discussion they might understand each other
courage the weaker race.
Surely we all OF us join in expressing our
SUI substantial agreement with the principles thus
representative of the Christian thought of the
South.
WORK IN LINCOLNS SPIRrr
am speaking on the occasion Of the ceiebra-
ton of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. and
to men who count it their peculiar privilege
that they have the right to hold Lincoln's men,
ory dear and the duty to strive to work along
the lines that he laid down. We can pay most
lifting homage to his memory by doing the tasks
allotted to us in the spirit in which he did the
innnltely create" and more terrible tasks al
lotted To him.
Let us be steadfast for the right but let us
err on the side of generosity rather than on tha
side of viHdictivenesF toward those who differ
from us as to the method of attaining the right.
Let us never forget duty to help in up
lifting the lowly, to shield from wrong the
humble, and let us likewise act in a spirit of
the broadest and frankest generosity toward all
our brothers, all our fellow countrymen; in a
spirit proceeding not from weakness, but from
strength, spirit which takes no more account
OF locality than 1t does of class or of creed a
spirit which is resolutely bent on seeing that
the Union which Washington founded and which
Lincoln saved from destruction shall grow no.
pler and greater throughout the ages.
L believe in this country with all my heart
and soul. l believe that people will in the
triumph over every difficulty that rises before
them. could not have such confident faith in
the destiny of this mighty people if 1 had it
merely as regards portion of that people
Throughout land things on the whole have
grown better and not worse. and this is as true
or one part of the country it is of another
Northerner l claim the right to feel pride in
his great qualities and in his great deeds ex-
actly as l feel pride in the gEeat qualities and
deeds or every other American. For veal or
Tor woe we are knit together, and we shall go
up or go down together, and believe that we
snail go up and not down, that shall go
forward instead of hating and falling back
because have abiding faith in the gener-
osity, the courage. the resolution and the COM
mon sense of all my countrymen
The Southern States face difficult problems
ana SO do the Northern States. Some of the
problems are the for the entire country
Others exist in greater intensity in one section
and yet others exist in greater intensity in an
other section But in the end they will all be
solved. for fundamentally people are the
same throughout this land, the same in the quail
ties of heart and brain and hand which have
made this Republic what it is in the great to-
day; which will make it what 1t is TO be in the
infinitely greater tomorrow admire and re-
spect and believe in and have faith in the men
and women OF the South as admire and resnect
and believe in and have faith in the mon ana
W. m n fhp Mort Of off