The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-16
GOVERNOR CONFER IN FIRST MESSAGE
 OUTLINES POLICY OF ADMINISTRATION

for the negro the United States gov crnment by it's then ministers made the negroes of the South. the rulers made n 9fSn the face Sf the hepsss fact that ike experiments had never succeeded. The experiment. was made at the dictation of men .whose descendants still in the control of the federal government have rightly sent the American army q. higher order of this class of men from accomplishing just what our ne- groes were, by the federal government, State. The descendants of these men have sent 10000 troops, one-third of the United States army. across the and md ten soussnd niles far der of men from accomplishing the same thing in a country that they have owned for a thousand years, a that class of men the same people made the ruling factors In the South, The thirteenth. fourteenth and fifteenth States army were thrust under the negro of our State and. over our ctti- gems for the purpose of giving the negro a status that from the very nature of the case was impossible for him to fill. Experiments can be made in' hot house. exotics under forced botiGi but it must 'b be as an individuai, it ean never be done as a genus or a race. Stalks of cotton can be grown in Mas sachusetts, Ia field of cotton canpot' will be the intellectual and moral equal of anyone, but the race to which the exception belongs has not yet climbed that ladder.
 The experiment made by the federal government with the negro as a politi- cal factor and governor of the South was a failure, the cost of this experi- ment to the South cannot be calculated; xryh uyh them from political mower, they have given them along with the other peo- pie of the Sate stable and respecta- ble government. The whites have. out of their poverty. contributed millions to the education and uphuildinE of the negro youth. In this work they have been constant and patient and have while bearing this great burden they are hopefully looking to the future for solution to the race problem. so- called. and if successful in helping the negro to attain a high moral. indus trial and educational position they will have accomplished that which has to say that this difficult task will be impossible unless the entire co-opera- tion of the negro himself is secured. Instead of cultivating habits of fric- ton. good disposition of one to the other should be encouraged: instead of living lives of vagrancy. industry must supplant it: instead of violating. every
  tained. Time is the only true orator of economies and of conditions of peo- pie, and any law which tries to en- soil of underlying hardpan through which and over which nothing prospers. sentimertal leMslation and fanatical establishment of false conditions are from the very nature of the case ephe- neral and impossible.
 For the State of Alabama I can as- sure that race rights and kindness. the lPnienCV of government along protective and upbuilding lines believe that the law should deal the pardoning power shall be stretched in their favor rather than drawn taut against them, but I will again caution them that the practice of friction against the whites can accomplish no possible good and can only eventuate ih serious results.
 The question of social rights has fourteenth and fifteenth amendment of the constitution of the United States were adopted: were settled by a higher south. or ali the white people of the North: 1t was settled by the Anglo Sax on race. The color line is older. long CT: broader; nor more comprehensive n3sr, and and DIxon-God Himself established the
 notes and bounds of 1t. and 1t is is
 viii unite whether. they be from the North or South, East or West. the prophetic scroll of all time will forever | rewrite the principle that the Anglo l Saxon race whether they cut off the head of Charles the First today, wheth- CT they hang the dead body of a Crom- 1 well tomorrow, whether as Puritan. | Quaker, or Cavalier. they will unite | and stand together, and what is the use of discussing and fighting over | these things in this good year of 1907? | There is one method for the negro | to climb in life, and only one, and that | Is the same to every nation. and that 1 is, up the ladder of successful. unaid- ] ed accomplishment. All the laws ever enacted cannot make a nation. The l unwritten law of every age is that you
 must succeed by your own merit. The | law can give and should give. the weak and helpless a chance, but this is all | the law can do--that chance or oppor- 1 tunity so given must be availed of by those to whom 1t is extended. We can