The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16

Must Maintain Race Purity.
New York, Special.-As the guest
o. honor at the Lincoln dinner of the
Republican Club in this city Monday
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-
tons for which she is not alone re-
sponsible," declared that the heartiest
acknowledgements are due to the min
listers, law officers, grand juries, pub
lie men and great daily newspapers
in the South who have recently done
such effective work in leading the cru
SADIE against lynching," and said that
the problem was to $50 adjust the re-
lations 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 ace is enabled to pre-
serve unframed the high civilization
wrought out by its forefathers."
Among other things the President
said:
The Presidents 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; - 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 DC
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, n 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 I<have strivcn and shall strive to
avoid placing any obstacle in the
way. So long as 1 have been here 1
lave not willingly planted a thorn in
any mans BOSOM. While ! am deeply
sensible to the high compliment of
a reelection, and duly grateful. as l
trust, to Almighty God for having di-
rected my countrymen to a right con-
clusion, DIS think, for their own good,
1t adds nothing 20 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 amt
spirit toward those who nave?"
VICE NEGRO'S ARCH ENEMY.
Laziness and shiftlessness, these, and
above all. vice and criminality Of
every kind, are evils more potent for
harm to the black rae than all acts
of oppression of white men put to-
gether. The colored man who fails to
condemn crime in another colored man,
who fails to cooperate in all lawful
ways to bringing colored criminals to
justice, is the worst enemy of his own
people, as well as an enemy to all the
people. Law-abiding men should, for
the sake of their race, be foremost in
relentless and ~unceasing warfare
against law-breaking black men. If
the standards of private morality and
industrial efficiency can be raised high
enough among the black race, then it's
future on this continent is secur The
stability and purity of the home is
vital to the welfare of the black race,
as it is to the welfare of every race.
NEIGHBORS CAN HELP MOST.
In the next place, the white man,
who, if only he is willing. can help the
colored man 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 finching, and if that duty is
national it must be done in accord
ance with the principles above laid
down. But in endeavoring each to be
his brothers keeper it is wise to re-
member that each can normally do
most for the brother who is his i'm
mediate neighbor. If we are sincere
friends of the negro let each in his
W locality show it by his action
therein, and let us each show it also
by upholding 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
for such a shield is great.
CRUSADE AGAINST LYNCHING.
The heartiest acknowledgements are
due 20 the ministers, the judges and
law officers, the grand jurors, the pub
lie men and the great daily news