The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-28
JELKs. MESSAGE TO RACE.
Governor Tells Negroes What Must He
 Done Fly Them.

Governor Tells Negroes What Must He l Done Fly Them.
 l Prefacing his remarks with few | well expressed sentiments or apprecia- tion of the work done in the prepara- | tion of the Fair, Governor Jelks spoke as follows: y
 This Is @ great Fair which MT. van diver and his aids are giving us n 1 IS | a credit to Alabama and Montgomery | The departments, all or tnsnl. g,ds are Thax a, | furnish an inspiration to our stock raisers. our producers and other farmers our chicken fanciers. our Workers III the fine arts and cur honi9M1Eies yaieSbie to ail the thousands who have been here. and to other thousands who may pniy hear of the exhi6its. It IS rar atons ought to be encouraged by the people of the Capital City. and by the men who make the laws of the state or Ala bama.
 Your particular department is a great pleasure and enjoyed 1t in all It's parts. It gives notice of the progress you gre making along many lines Since emancipation the Afro American has accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars in this country and but TOT the worst element might achieve any amount of success. The baser elc- mcnt of your people, as or other races '
 But the subject of these remarks will not be along lines of congratula- ton for national or other progress you have made, but is intended to be Il brief discussion of how the white man and the black man may live together in Alabama along peaceable lines; and we could not so live indefinitely along other lines. If we would get the best results we must have mutual regard and respect for each other. Little progress can come along commercial. industrial or moral lines If there IS to be continually maintained bitter and .tntagonistic spirit between the races.
 Present Relations Impossible.
 Not only is this true, but we can not live at all together indefinitely on a plane of mutual dlstrust ana oppo, sition and hate. The present strained relations are impossible of continuance. Your speaker yields to no man what ever in his sympathy for you in your struggles for greater progress along all lines and a higher order of living. 1 do not share the peSsimism of many of my race: there is opportunity for you to win the respect or the world. But in some things your speaker shall say he believes he will be considered unkind and possibly unfair. However II may appear he knows that his pur- pose looks only to the good of all of
 We assume that we are to live to- sether here. It would be far better for
 
 and possibly better for your people. Nay, I know it would be better for you to begin government life on your own responsibility. and governed only by your own consciousness of what is right growing in breadth and thick ness by communion with yourselves | atone. The white race will never, and can never aiv" you q full opportunity , as long as you live among them. They | are the superior race and arc here in greater numbers and you can only peek about among them.
 | This is in the nature of things. If | il were practicable, it would be better | for you 10 draw away and begin d civ l ilization ol your own with the start ! furn.shed You could more easily 1 develop self reliance by beginning E | the work of self reliance. 1 take it that l 1t is conceded that if you can win out | in great race for preferment. you l could win out better by living a life of | absolute dependence on a government | of your own. It is a vast pity, speak | ing from your standpoint alone, that | tine opportunity is not presented you to gather your people together as Mo. ses gathered the lsraelites for an es- | cape into q far country.
 | That is not offered you. l know of | no suggestion that is the least practice | able that promises any such end. We are to live here, and together. That is | nXed, or seems so, insofar as we can | read the Divine order.
 | Races at Daggers Points.
 | IT the advancement which has come | to you as people. as marked by the ex- hibits in wonder hall. and as shown in tax digssts and other ways. was in- | hnitely greater than 1t has been. We must remember 1t has been made with comparative peace between the races | we are up against troublous times. such further progress for the next few | years IS not possible : in Alabama un- less there comes to be a. better under standing between our peoples. There ls 1eeIing in the heart and there is eN- cltement in the very air. We had best 1 he plain with each other The races are at daggers' point-in Alabama NC