The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-14


without hinching, and if that duty is
national it must be done in accord
ance with the principles above laid
down But in endeayoring 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 us each in his
own locality show 1t by his action
therein, and let US each show it also
| by. unfolding 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
need for such a shield is great
The heartiest ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS are due
to the ministers. the judges and law
officers, the grand juries, the public men,
| and the great daily newspapers in the
tive work in leading the crusade against
lynching In the south; and . am glad to
say that during the last three months the
returns, as far as they can be gathered,
show a 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 are striving to do all
quote from the address of the Right Rev
erend Robert Strange. bishop coadjutor
ern Churchman of October 8, 1904:
The bishop first enters an emphatic
plea against any social intermingling of
the races; a question which must, of
course, be left to the people of each COM
munlty to settle 1OE themselves, IN
such matter no one community-and
indeed no one individual-can dictate to
any other; always provided that in each
that there must be no confusing of
civil privileges with social intercourse.
Civil law can not regulate social prac-
tees. Society, as such, is a law unto
itself, and will always regulate its own
practices and habits. Full pycognition of
the fundamental fact that all men should
stand on an equal footing, as regards civil
privileges, in no way interferes with, rec
ognition of the further fact that all re-
fecting men of both races united in
feeling that race purity must be main
tanned. The bishop continues:
What should the white men of the
south do for the negro? They must give
godspeed, the two races working together
for their mutual benefit and for the de-
velopment OF our common country. He
must have liberty, equal opportunity to
build his home. He must have justice,
equal rights, and protection before the
law. He must have the same political
privileges; the suffrage should be based
on character and intelligence for white
and black alike He must have the same
public advantages of education; the pub
lie schools are for all the people, what
ever their color or condition. The white
men of the south should give hearty and
respectful consideration to the exceptional
the character, the ability and the desire to
be lawyers, physicians, teachers, preach
ers, leaders of thought and conduct
among their own men and women. We
should give them cheer and opportunity
to crafty every laudable ambition, and to
seek every innocent satisfaction among
their own people. Finally, the best white
men of the south should have frequent
conferences with the best colored men,
where in frank, earnest and sympathetic
discussion they might understand each
other better, smooth difficulties, and so
guide and encourage the weaker race
Surely we can all of US join in express
ing our substantial agreement with the
principles thus laid down by this North
Carolina bishop, this representative of
the Christian thought of the south.
am crr1r2r fr1cr rrr- -fr,~ Of f1,aa
celebration of the birthday of Abraham
Lincoln, and to men who count it their
peculiar privilege that they have the right
to hold Lincoln's memory dear, and the
duty to strive to work along the lines that
he laid down. We can pay most fitting
homage to his memory by doing the
tasks allotted to US in the spirit in which
he did the infinitely greater and more
terrible tasks allotted to him.
Let us be steadfast for the right; but
let us err on the side Of generosity rather
than on the side of VindictiVeness toward
those who differ from US a. to the method
of attaining the right. Let us never for
get our duty TO help in uplifting the lowly,
to shield from wrong the humble; and let
us likewise act in a spirit of the broadcast
and frankest generosity toward all our
spirit proceeding not from weakness but
from strength, spirit which takes no
more account of locality than it does of
class or of creed; spirit which is reso-
luteiy bent on seeing that the union
W when washington tou1ded ana which
grow nobler and greater throughout the
ages.
I believe in this country with all my
heart and soul 1 believe that our peo-
pie will in the end rise level to every
ened, will in the end triumph over every
difficulty that rises before them. I could
not have such confident faith in the deS-
tiny of this mighty people if I had it
merely regards portion of that
people. Throughout our land things on
the whole have grown better and not
worse, and this is as true of one part of
the country as it is of another. I believe
IN the southerner as l believe in the
northerner. claim the right to feel pride
IN his great qualities and in his great
deeds exactly as I feel pride in the great
qualities and deeds of every other Amer
lean, For veal or for woe we are knit
together, and we shall go up or go down
together; and I believe that we shall go
up and not down, that we shall go for
ward instead of halting and falling back, |
because I have an abiding faith in the
generosity, the courage, the resolution, |
and the common sense of all my coun- |
tEymen.
The southern states face difficult
Some of the problems are the same for
greater intensity in one section; and yet |
others exist in greater intensity in an |
other section. But in the end they will 4
all be solved; for fundamentally our PEG +
pie are the same throughout this land;
the same in the qualities of heart and
brain and hand which have made this
public what it is in the great today; which 4
will make it what it is to be in the in
dnitely greater tomorrow. l admire and ,
respect and believe in and have faith in |
the men and women of the south as l Z
admire and respect and believe in and /
have faith in the men and women of the /
north. All of us alike, northerners and i
fasteners and westerners, I
can best prove our feaIty to the nations I
past by the way in which we do the |
lation's work in the present; for only |
thus can we be sure that our chiIdrens /
children shall inherit Abraham Lincolns !
gle-hearted devotion to the great I'M
creed that righteousness exalt-
eth q nation"
z,Icoant Through Sleeper Service st.
Louis to ST. Augustine.
Repinning January 9th. 1905, the