Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-10-19
FRIDAY EVENING. OCT. 10. 1906.

In SPEECH last week in New York
before the Afro American Council, Mr.
Oswald Garrison Willard, editor Of the
New York Evening Post, said:
Ssch man as Hoke Smith. John Tenn
pIe Graves, Vardamsn aud Tillmsn ought
never TO be able to obtain any service
from colored man. No negro should
think of contributing as much as one
cent to the support OF the anti-negro
newspapers n Georgia. The negro should
organize. and band together for his de-
Tense and to fight for his rights. The
time is ripe for serving notice on the
country. that further efforts in any sec
ton of the land to degrade the negro to
a seryile position, TO create that impos-
sible thing-a republic with millions Of
persons taxed, but not represented-shall
be fought from now on. Leave the MUIR
dering in cold blood to the race that
proudly calls itself the superior, the bet
ter civilized.
In contrast with this inAammatory
harappue was the speech of Booker
Washington a leader of his race. His
address. made later before the same as
sociation, was OF character to rebuke
the uuwise statements of Mr.. Willard
He said:
To the members of my race who re-
side in the northern States, let me utter
the caution that in your enthusiastic de-
sire to be of service to your brethren 10
the South you do not make their pain
more thorny and difficult by rash and In
temperate uttersnces. Before giving ad-
vice to the negro in the South the negro
in the North should be very sure that
what he advises is that which he himself
would be willing to take into the hesrt OF
the South and put into practice. be
careful not to assist In lighting q nre
which YOU will have no ability toput out.
Some may think that the problems with
which we are graphing will be better
solved by inducing millions of our people
to leave the South for residence in the
North. but / warn you that instead OF
this being a solution. it will but add TO
the complications of the problem.
The Christian Advocate Of Nashville,
Tenn, organ of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, has the following to say
ON the lesson of the tragedy in Atlanta,
which, as says the Lexington Gazette
is in strong contrast to Mr.. Wizards
views:
A very small percentage of them
(negroes) are criminal idlers, but tits this
small class alone which furnishes the
criminals, more especially the perpetra-
tors of that particular form OF bestlal
sayagery which rouses the blood OF the
cslmest white man to fury and makes
even a Iaw-abidipg, Christian citizen al
most an apologist of swift vengeance.
Let the decent whites and the self-respect-
inc uegroes-two classes who think quite
kindly of each other, despite all ISLANDERS
and misuuderstandings-band together
20 nut down with relentless hand these
diseraceful outbreaks which dishonor
both races. The black rapist should
have as lille tolerance among decent
negroes as the white lyncher has among
law-abiding white people.
Mr.. Wizards paper has quite an ex-
tensiye circulation through the South, as
the southern people heretofore believed
him to be safe, sane and fair, but it will
not. have this circulation much longer,
that is if these people treat him as be
advises the negroes to treat the south
ern papers.