The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-02-24
RACE fiiilOBLEM
Discussed by President Roose.
velt at Lincoln Banquet.
GIVES SOUTH ADVICE
And Pays Tribute to this Section and
commends the Anti.Lynching Cru.
sade. After All the Negro
Must Learn to Depend
on Himself.


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 Its 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 so adjust
the relations betwt en- two races Of diff.
ferent ethnic type, that the backward
race be trained so that it may enter
into the possession OF true freedom,
while the forward race Is enabled tC
preserve unharmed the high civil'za.
tion wrought out by It's forefathers. u
The dinner was held in the main
banquet hall Of the Waldorf Astoria,
and in the number Of guests and
elabOratenes Of decorations is be,
lieved to have exceeded any furctior
OF It's character ever held in New
York. The guests numbered more
than 1900, including 275 women,
who dined In the Astor gallery.
THE PRESIDENTS SrEECK.
The president said in part:
In his second inaugural, in q
speech which will be read as long as
the memory Of this ma lion endureS
Abraham Lincoln closed by saying:
With malice toward none; With
charity for all; with Hrmness 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 just and last
ing peace among ourselves, aud with
all nations
5INCOLN OF SOUTHERN BIRTH.
'TbiSfs the spirit in which mighty
Lincoln sought to bind up the ma
tion's wounds when its soul was ye.
seethirg With fierce hatred, VIII
wrath, with fancor, with p, 2m the evi
and dreadful pass>SGt,niss CHS provoked by clvi
war. Surely this Is the spirit whicf
all Americans should show now, whel
there is so little excuse for malice Of
rancor or hatred, when there is so lit
tie Of vital consequence to divide
brother from brother.
Lincoln, himself man Of south
ern birth, did not hesitate TO arpaa
to the sword when he became satlst,t
that in no other way could the unior
be saved, for high though he put peace
he put righteousness still higher Hi
warred for the uniJp; he ware to fIet
the slave; and when he warred he wor
red In earn.st, for 1T is 6
sign OF weakness to be halt
hearted when blows must bt
struck. But lie felt only love, love
as deep as the tenderness or his great
and sad heart, for all his couptrymer
alike In the north and in the sc nth
and he longed above everything fol
the dav when they should once more
be knit together in the unbreakablt
bonds of eternal friendship.
SPIRIT CT LINCOLN COMMENDED.
we Of today, in dealing with al
our fellow citizens, white or colored
north or south, should strive to stoa
just the qualities that Lincoln showed
His stcadfastness In striving after the
right, and bis infinite patience anu
forbearapca With those wNo saw that
right less clearly than he did; his
earnest endeavor to do what was best,
and yet his readiness to accept the
best that was practicable when the
ideal best was unattairab his un-
ceaslng effort to cure what was evil;
coupled with his refusal 10 make q
bad situation worse by any ill-judged
or ill-timed effort to make 1t better.
THE graat civil war in which Lin.
coin toWere I'd as the loftlcst figure left
us not only a reunited country, but q
country which has the proud right 10
claim as It's own the glory won alike
by those who wore tie. blue and by
these wlc wore the gray, by those
who followed Grant and by those who
followed Lee; for beth fought With
equal bravery and with equal snceri.
ty OF conviction, each striving for the
light as 1T was given him to see the
light; tho 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 OF mankind. We are now
one people. people With failinys
which we must not blink, but peo.
pie with great qualities In which we
have the right to feel Just pride.
FRIENDSHIP FOR SOUTH.
AN 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 bcca lsc it Is In the
south that we find in is most acute
phase one OF the grayeSt problems be-
fore our people; the problem OF so
dealing with the man OF one color as
to secure him the rights that no 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 duJies, a failure
to perform which will render him
curse to himself and 10 all around
him.
DIFFICULTY OF NEGOR PROBLEM.
Most certainly all clear-sIghted
and generous men In the north ap-
preciate the difficulty and perplexity
Of this problem, sympathiZe with the
south In the embarrassment OF condi-
tions for which she Is not alone re.
sponSlble, feel an honest wish to help
her where help Is practicable, and
have the hcartiest respect for those
brave and earnest men of the south
who, In the face OF fearful ditlicultes,
are doing all that men can do for the
betterment alike OF white and black.
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