The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-29
The Governro's Speech.

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 The Governro's Speech.
 The following is the greater part Of the speech of the governor:
 "This is a great fair which MT. Van diver and his aids are giving us. It IS A credit to Alabama and MontSomerN The departments, all of them, are full with the best the state affords They furnish an inspiration to our stock rals- CTS our produce and other farmeis' our chicken fanciers, our workers in the me arts and our housewives. May 'he ies- son it offers be valuable to all the thou sands who have been here, and to other thousands who may only hear Of the eX- hibjts It is a fair along right lines. Eut,1re similar efforts ought to be en- couraged by the people of the capital City, and by men who make the laws or the state of Alabama.
 Your particular department Is a revelation. It went through it with great nIeasure. and enjoyed it in all it's parts. If gives notice of the progress you are making along many lines. Since enancl- pation the Afro-American has aecumu- lated hundreds of millions of dollars m this country, and but for the worst ele- ment. might achieve any amount or sue cess The baser element of your people. as of other races, is the mill stone that ties you down.
 "But the subject of these remarks will not he along lines of congratulation Tor national or other progress you have made, but is intended to be br1e1 dlScussloh of how the white man and the black man may live together in Alabama along neaceable 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. in dustrial or moral lines if there is 10 be continually maintained bitter and an- taponistfc spirit between the races Not only is this true, but we cannot live at all together indefinitely on plane Of mutual distrust and opposition and hate. The nresent strained relations arr impos- sihle of continuance. Your speaker yields to no man whatever in his synpathy for YOU in your struggles for greater pro- eress along all lines and higher order of living I do not share the pessimism of many of my race; there is opportunity for vou to win the respect of the world. But in some things your speaker shall say he believes he will be considered unl<ind and possibly unfair. However 1t may appear he knows that his purpose looks only to the good Of al Tor our peo- pie.
 Must Live Together.
 eve assume that we are to live togeth- or here It would be far better for the white man If 1t could be otherwise, and possibly better for your people. Nay. l know if would be better for you to begin A government life on your own respon- sibility. and governed only by your own consciousness of what Is right, growing in breadth and thickness by communion with yourselves alone The white race will never, and can never give you fulI opportunity as long as you live among them. They are the superior race and are here in greater numbers. and you can only peek about among them. This is in the nature of things. If 1t were practica- bIe it would be better for you to draw away and begin a civilization of your own with the start furnished. You could more easily develop a self-reliance by beginning the work of self-reliance. l take fl that it is conceded that if you can win out in a great race for preferment you could win out better by living life of absolute dependence of a government of your own. It Is a vast pity. speaking from your standpoint alone, that the op- portunity Is not presented you to gather your people together as Moses gathered the Israelites for an escape into far country.
 That is not. offered you. I know of no suggestion that is the least practicable that promises any such end. We are to live here and together. That is fixed. or seems so in so far we can read the divine order.
 Prosperity in Peace.
 If the advancement which has come to you as people. as marked by the exhi- bits in wonder hall, and as shown in tax digests and other ways was infinitely greater than 1t has been, we must rem nem-