The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-14


 may enter into the possession Of true
 freedom, while the forward race IS en- abled to preserve unharmed the high civilization wrought out by its fore fathers. The working out of this pro bIem must necessarily be slow; it is
 not possible in off-hand fashion to oD-
 tain or to confer the priceless boons or freedom, industrial efficiency, political capacity and domestic morality. Nor is it only necessary to train the colored
 man; it is quite as necessary to tram the white man, for on his shoulders ] rests a well-nigh unparalleled so elo- logical responsibility. It is problem l demanding the best thought, the ut
 most patience, the most earnest eftort,
 the broadest charity, of the statesman,
 the student, the philanthropist: of the
 leaders of thought in every depart ment of our national life. The church | can be a most important factor in solV- | ing it alright. But above all else we need for it's successful solution the so- ! ber, kindly, steadfast, unselfish perfor- | nance of duty by the average plain i citizen ill his everyday dealings with | his fellows.
 The ideal of elemental justice meted out to every man is the ideal we | should keep ever before us. It will be l many long day before we attain to | it, and unless we show not only devo- | ton to it, but also wisdom and self restraint in the exhibition of that de- | votion, we shall defer the time for it's | realization still further. In striving to attain to so much of it as concerns | dealing with men of different colors, we must remember two things.
 In the first place, it is true of the col- | ored man, as it is true of the white ' man, that in the long run his fate l must depend far more upon his own | effort than upon the efforts of any 1 outside friend. Every vicious, venal or ignorant colored man is an even
 greater foe to his own race than to the | community as whole. The colored | mans self-respect entities him to do | that share in the political work of the country which is warranted by his in- l dividual ability and integrity and the position he has won for himself. But ! the prime requisite of the race is moral | and industrial uplifting. .-.. Laziness and shiftlessness, these. and above all, vice and criminality 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 people, as | well as an enemy to all the people. Law-abiding black men should, for the l sake of their race, be foremost in re- lentless and unceasing warfare against | 1aw-breaking black men. If the stan I dards of private morality and indus | trial efficiency can be raised high enough among the black race, then Its | future on this continent is secure The stability and purity of the home is vi- | tai to the welfare of the black race, as | it is to the welfare of every race. 1 In the next place the white man, who, | if only he is willing, can help the col ored man more than all other white | men put together, is the white man l who is his neighbor, north or south. I Each of us must do his whole duty without flinching, and if that duty is national it must be done in accordance with the principles above laid down. I But in endeavoring each to be his | brothers keeper it is wise to remember
 that each can nonally do most for the l brother who is his immediate neighbor. l 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 1 show it also by upholdirg the hands of l the white man, in whatever locality, 1 who is striving to do justice to the poor l and the helpless, to be shield to those l whose need for such shield is great. The heartiest acknowledgements are | due to the ministers, the judges and
 law officers, the grand juries, the pub
 lie men, and the great daily newspa- pers in the south, who have recently 1 done such effective work in leading the | crusade against lynching in the south | and I am glad to say that during the
 last three months the returns, as far as they can be gathered, show a small CT number of lynchings than for any other two months during the last twen- l ty years. Let us uphold in every way
 the hands of the men who have led in
 this work, who are striving to do all l their work in this spirit. I am about to quote from the address of the Right
 Reverend Robert Strange. Bishop Go.
 adjutor of North Carolina, as given in
 the Southern Churchman of October 8,
 1904:
 The bishop first enters an emphatic
 plea against any social intermingling
 of the races; question which must, of
 course, be left to the people of each
 community to settle for themselves, as
 in such a matter no one community