The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-18
FORAKER ON RACE ISSUES He Eakes Usual Negro .< Talk. <
 HOT ABOUT THE LYNCHINGS Says Southerners Are Not Alone
 to Be Blamed. Declares that Blacks Have Made Won derful Progress, aaa That This Progress Causes Ennity sf
 White People.
HOT ABOUT THE LYNCHlNGS

Society of the Army of the Cumberland met In Chattanooga today for its fourth annual reunion. This city has been de- clared its permanent annual meeting place.
 Senator Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio was the orator of the day. Three thousand people heard him speak in the Auditorium. The 18th cavalry band of Fort Oglethorpe escorted Senator Foraker and members of the society to the Auditorium.
 Gen. Gates P. Thurston. President of the society. introduced MT. Foraker. referring to him as a political hero The audience frequently applauded Senator Foraker's speech. which deftly dealt with political and racial ques- tions growing out of the Civil War. The sessions of the society will close Thursday evening with a banquet. Off, ficers arc to be named at a morning business session and tho afternoon is to be spent in an automobile tour of tChickamauga Park, which will concluds : with an entertainment at Fort Ogle- thorpe. including . review of the troops in the 18th cavalry.
 Fsraksr oa Negro ouestfon. Senator Foraker reviewed at some length the great struggles of the civil war and some of the results growing out of that conflict. He then con tinued:
 Tt seems incredible that the Govern ment that is all powerful to accomp- fish the long list of splendid achieve ments mentioned-that is all powerful to do the works that have been wrought at home and abroad-is yet nevertheless, incapable of protecting at home, on our own soil. under our own flag, in the enjoyment of all his con- stitutional and political right. our hum blest citizen.
 "It Is our boast and has been for forty years that we abolished slavery and lifted the negro up out of his deg ity with all othsr citizens in the pres encs of our constitution and our laws with the encouragement and in- spiration. thus given, him the black man has during these forty years made . great deal of progress. The four and a half millions of negroes of 1880 practically owned nothing. Nearly all of them were owned by somebody else without any preparation for free dom and the assumption of their re- responsibilities of citizenship they might be expected to make but little advance ment, even with everybody lending them a helping hand; but particularly SO, having to contend as they al against all the prejudices and hatreds porn or InelT pTcVlOuo COuuitlOA
 And yet while we have seen their population barely double, we have seen them accumulate property which they today own in their own right. to the amount of more than &5o0.o00. 900 [. We have seen them. while struggling up out of poverty, yet seeking and finding education until where probably not one man in a thousand could then read or write today less than half of hava them establish schools and colleges and uni- versailles of their own and successfully conduct them.
 Have Their Bad Glasses.
 "They have their bad classes as ev cry other people have and many more probably than they should have; all of whom must be rigidly dealt with under the law just as other criminals; but as a people they have ever been loyal to American institutions and loyal to the American flag. In every war through which the country has passed they have so far as we have permitted them to do so. borne an hon. orable part.
 And yet 1t would seem as though this very loyalty and patriotism and progress they are making are today initiating against their happiness and their security, not alone in one section. but everywhere throughout the whole country, North as well as South.
 Almost every day we read of un- lawful outbreaks against them. for which there does not seem to be any adeauate power of other prevention or punishment lodged anywhere except only in local authorities who too fre- ouently are either unable or unwilling to exercise 1t. If this violence were aimed at only the guilty 1t would be A great crime against society and that law and order upon which the safety of our institutions depends. but too freouently 1t strikes down the inno- cent and takes on the hideous form of brutal and indiscriminate murder that shocks and deadens the moral sensibilities of the whole nation.
 Remedy Is Not Clear.
 While it Is not clear what the rem edv should he it Is clear that many Of the remedies that have been suggested will not be tolerated or would not nrove availing if they should be. To talk about eliminating the black man bv deporting him to Africa or some other country to be acquired by us for inc purpose of the veriest nonsense.
 "No such thing is within human pos s,bility and it would not be desirable if if were. The thought of extermi hating him Is a thousand times worse and mere talk about 1t no matter how