The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-13
IMMIGRATION ADVANCED AS
 SOLUTION OF RACE PROBL LEg

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 soil These races differ widet sHin in telligence and moral rcsponsy <sty, one being distinctly inferior to xS other l Only until a few years %o the ln- ferior race was in seryits to the su perior, ard with no preparation wnats ever was given equal civil and poll IT cal rights under the Constitution. Gn- | der such adverse circumstances. no other people upon this earth could have succeeded swell as the southern peo- pie have done Ia meeting existing con ditions. and this fact alone should not only give us courage and hope for the future. hut should entitle us 10 the trust and confidence of the world.
 ''Seetional feeling fortunately IS passing away. and our people under- stand each other better. Problems which were at one tine mutually southern are becoming national We Americans are more and more mutual iy carrying the white mans burden We have been seeking for some time to make change in ouF political and economical system which Will affect the negro problem alone, and which will, at the same lime, aid In solving our problem.
 Solution Requires Time.
 T do not think that conditions which are the result of years can be changed In a day by the adoption of any rule
 
 1 fslation. TO solve the race question will require not only time, but patience and Judgment on the part of the white man; and upon the part of the negro 1t will call for the exercise of more com- l mon sense, and a far greater appre- ciation of hts moral responsibility, and we should protect him when he needs protection. but at the same time we should make him understand that as citizen he has duties and responsibili- i ties as well as fhe white man. and the degree in which he measures up to l these will determine his rise or fall."
 Governor Heyward then enumerated been suggeatei and tried from time to time, all Of which had failed.
 Speaking of the plan to deport Tie- groes, Governor Hayward said the de- l portaticn could not be attempted un- less it became q national and not a Southern movement. Such movement he saids would not be attempted until the negro problem Is better understood I and more acute in the North than 1t is now.
 Tn the course of time" he continued, the negro. who is now rapidly in- creasing in certain cities of the North. l may, by his failure to meet the ex- pectations of the people of the North and his own consequent responsibilities become such hindrance and menace that our Northern friends will be ready to do something more than simply give advice to the south."
 Governor Howard did not believe the 1 antagonism between the races in the South was as bad as had been report 1 ed.
 That conditions are far from satis- factor2SI will admit he said. but I do not believe the Southern people are standiHg on a volcano and that we are not far removed from a race war. One race riot in the city Of Atlanta, con demned by the people and press of At lanta and the south, dooa not maun a I race war any more than a similar riot Tn Ohio is a forerunner cf q massacre throHgb0ut the North
 Reports are Exaggerated.
 T will admit that during the past year. on account of numerous and atro- cious crimes committed by certain class of negroes. followed by swift and sum mary punishment by the whites on ac- count of the unwise and mistaken pol- l Icy pursued by the great majority of tne negro race in not condeRning these | crimes; the foolish and malicious at- | titude assumed by certain Northern newspapers, aided and abetted, I regret 10 say, by a few sensational papera in the South, and lastly as if these were not enough within themselves to work our undofng. the indiscreet utterances of those who should know better, have all ccnspired to stir up strife and make conditions appear far worse than they l really are.
 The great danger in the present situation Is that when people make un their minds that trouble is brewing and SC out to find 1t, they are apt to get just what they are locking fer. On the other hand when they keep their heads, things are apt to work out right in the long run
 Any solution of our race problem In the South lies as much with the ne- gro as with the white man, but one ot the greatest barriers to any ad- vancement of the negro Is hls natural incidence. This explains his failure to use his opportunity and In this. he alone. Is responsible for the disastrous results which follow. An innate sense of Responsibility lies at the bottom of the negro's lack of respect for the law, this lack of respect being in contra . diction to a certain fear of the laws penalties which he, may sometimes feel. If there were neither murder, arson nor criminal assaults, 1t can be safely said there would be no lynchIng. These primes do not receive anything like their just measure of condemnation from the nego race. The white man must help the negro, but 1t Is abso- lutely necessary that the negro must help himself
 White Man VIII Determine.
 The white race is the predominant race, and the negro must understand once and for all that the bounds of the social and political questions will be determined by the white man alone md by the white mans code. He has n right to expect that his civil status should be the same in every respect as that of the white man. 4 propef mn derstanding of these fundamental prin- ciples by the negro, and there is no reason why he should not understand. would be long step in the right di- l rection. If he refuses to adjust him. self to these infiexible conditions. then the negro will have to go.
 '"The first step we should take Is a strict enforcement of our vagrancv laws. It is the duty of the white man to uphold his own laws When a mob. for any reason whatever takes the law into its own hands, a blow is struck at the very root of our own civilization
 The mob spirit is ruled entirely by a desire for revenge. and Q total disrs gard for all the forms of established law. This being true, the very basis l of all laws Is endangered"
 M. V. Richards, Land and inmlgfH. ton Commissioner or the SOutherP Railway. was the first speaker at the afternoon session. He showed that the tide of immigration which has iioN
 ed for years to the West 'iy-.
 west. had turned Southward