The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1906-11-22
The Race Question
Discussed by the Southern Immigra-
ton Conference Problem Must
be Settled by the South, Says
Gov. Haywood Leading Men
Talk Plainly of the Duty Of
Both Races.

At the Southern Immigration and
Quarantine Conference held in Nash
vile, Tenn, last week the race ques-
! ton cIaimed attention in consider
ing the labor problem of the South.
The sentiment OF the delegates was
manifested early in the opening duy
ofthe session by the burst of fapplause
which greeted the statement OF Gov.
John |. Cox, of Tennessee, who pre-
sided. He declared that the South
must deal with the negro; that
| the negro must be protected and his
rights preserved; that political
rights must be taken away from the
! low and vicious of the race. This
/ sentiment was further endorsed wher,
Governor Hayward, OF South Caro-
lima, who made the principal speech
of the day, and was given an ovation,
declared that immigration would
| yet solve the negro problem.
Governor Cox, in the course OF his
remarks, said:
The problem must b.. settled by
! the South, but the aid and sympathy Y
OF the North is essential. If they
will not help us, continued the Gov
ernor, ''if they will not repeal the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments to the Constitution, then let
us here resolve that we write in the
fundamental law of every Southern
State a guarantee to the negro for
protection OF life, liberty and the
pursuit Of happiness, but forever de-
nying to the vicious and ignorant
all political rights" (Applause.)
Governor d. G. Hayward of Soutl
Carolina, delivered an address in
which he said the coming immigrants
to the South had bearing upon tho
practical and direct solution of the
race problem. There had been toe
much theOrizing: it was time for &C
tion. He said:
"WithOut precedent in the his
tory OF the world to be guided by
nearly always misconstrued anC
misunderstood, the people Of the
South have for forty years sough,
to reconcile differences which were
! bound to arise between two races
living upon the-same soil. The races
differ widely in intelligence and mora
responsibility, one being distinctly
inferior to the other. Only till few
years ago the inferior. race was ii
servitude to the superior, and, will
no preparation whatever, was givel
equal civil and political rights unde
the Constitution.
"under such adverse circumstances
10 other people upon this earth coul(
have succeeded as we'll as the South
ern people have done in meeting ex
isting conditions, and this fact,alon
should not only give us courage ant
hope Tor the future, but should ell
title Us to the trust and confdeuc
of the world.
Sectional feeling fortunately i
passing away and our people under
stand each other better. Problem
which were at one time peculiarl,
Southern, are becoming national
We Americans are more and NOR
mutually carrying the white man
burden We have been seeking TO
some time to make some change i
our political and economic system
which will affect the negro alone an
which will, at the same time, aid i
solving our problem.
The white race is the predominant
race, and the negro must understan
once for all that the bounds Of th
social and political question will b
determined by the white man alo Il