New-York tribune., 1906-11-13
SOUTH SEEKS ANSWER.
Rights Promised Negro n tie ~ n
BE Good.

,-o..,.,ua Tenn Nov 12-Nuch attention
given to-day to the Negro problem at tAe hrst ses
sion of the Southern immigration ana quarantine
Conference which is meeting at the Capitol The
o,estion of the distribution of immigrants will
occupy mucn of the rest of the session the quar-
antine question not being as pressing as last year.
when the conference was organized at Chattanooga
In the option of many of the speakers the idle
and vicious Negro class cause some apprehension
in the minds OF desireble immigrants and keeps
them from coming to the South. Various plans
were suggested for Kidding the South of this class
OF Negroes. and the race question almost lmnedi-
atey becane the chief topic Of todays discussion.
Governor Cox the permanent chairman of the
conference. after welcoming the delegates. said In
the opening address,
This problem must be settled by the South. but
the aid and syIao@Sehy @ 01 ' tSv % fe ef TDaai
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the
write in the fundamental law of every Southern
state guarantee TO the Negro for protection OF
forever denying TO the vicious and ignorant all
political rights.
The remarks of Governor Cox met with much ap-
pIause. after which Governor Hayward of South
Carolina spoEe He said that the coming of immi-
grants to the South had direct bearing the
practical solution of the race problem There had
been too much theorziny. he said and the time
had come for action. Continuing. he said. in part
Only until few years ago the inferior race was
held in se-vitude to the Superior. and. with no
preparation whatever. received equal civil and
adverse circumstances M other people upon this
earth could have succeeded we'll the Southern
people have done in meeting existing conditions,
and this fact alone should not only give courage
and hope for the future. but should entitle to
the trust and confidence OF the world.
Sectional feeling Fortunately is passing away, and
our people understand each other better. Problems
which were at one tins peculiarly Southern are
now becoming national. We Americans are more
and more mutually bearing the white mans bur
den" We have been seeking for time TO
make some change in political and economic
systenI which viii affect the Negro alone, and
which will. the same time. aid in solving our
problem
The white race s the predominant one. and the
Negro must understand once and for all that the
bounds of social and political questions will be de-
termned by the white man alone and by the white
mans code. He has a right to expect that his
civil status should be the same In every respect
ing of these fundamental principles by the Negro
and there is no why he should not un-
derstand- would be long step in the right direc-
ton. II he refuses to adjust himself to these in
flexible conditions, then the Negro will have to go
Various committees filled at the afternoon
session. after which NJ. V. Richards. land and i'm
migration commissioner OF the Southern Railway
told how the tide Of immigration was now turning
southwark. ]. c. Hemphill. OF Charleston. s G.
Favored tho strict enforcement OF Vagrancy laws
as one means OF solving the Negro problem and a
step toward the removal of the vicious Negro
colonel +. Y Anderson, OF Brmin CHAM, took issua
with Mr. Hemphll He favored the paving OF
niSher wages TO white immigrants and placing them
above the Negro where they should be-"