Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-01-30

Tuskegee Institute, addressed the
FIRST negro race conference ever held
in South Carolina.
Washington spoke in the after
noon at Allen University, a negro n
s::itution o. this city. and at night al
dressed a lalge audience at the Co.
lumbia Theatre. The first floor OF
the house was reserved for white
people. Seated on the stage were
several prominent white citizens, to-
gether with a large number Of negro
leaders from this and other States.
Washington, after praising the
work of Rev. Richard Carroll, thu
moving spirit Of the conference, said
that the holding Of this conference III
South Carolina was, in his opinion.
evidence that the friendly feeling be-
tween the races was steadily grow
ing. Washington said in part:
II was born here in the South, my
early boyhood was spent in slavery
here in the South and there is no
spot on earth so dear to me as the
soil Of our Southern States, where.
we of both races for so many years
have lived and toiled.
William e. Gonzales, editor Of The
State, spoke TO the conference at
the noon session, expressing g~ratifi-
cation at the meeting being held in
Columbia. Observance Of law by
both races was the surest guarantee
Of harmony in the South. 1t is the
province of white leaders to impress
the necessity Of the laws observance
on the whites, and Of the negro lead
ers to teach their race the vital i'm
portance Of being la~w-abiding.
Races to Remain Together.
eve Of both races are to live here
in the South side by side for all
time, no matter what theories may
be advanced and emphasized. This
to any sensible nan is seems to NE,
is the fact which we must face.
Since we are to remain together, the
question which we should constantly
consider is how can we do it in
peace, in harmony, and in a way that
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ests Of the other, in a way that each
race will be made more happy, more
prosperous because Of the presence
Of the other. 1t is the extreme of
folly, and almost a crime, for any in
dividual, or group of individuals, to
pursue a course which will encourage
racial strife when two peoples are
to remain together for all time.
II was glad to see that a brave,
strong white man from Mississippi a
few days ago at the Southern Cot
ton Convention held in Birmingham
stood up and said that he had got
ten to the point where he was tired
of hearing the negro continually
abused. That opinion represents the
attitude of thousands Of our best
Southern white people.
"The negro race is given a free
opportunity to enter the educational
and professional field and can sue
coed as many are doing in the city
of Columbia.
"But we must not rest satisfied
with what we have achieved in the
past. | want to emuhasize with YOU
tonight a few matters that directly
concern our future in this communi-
ty and throughout the State. In the
first place, We must face the fact that
that the negro be happy, that peace
exist between the races, because
there can be no satisfactory labor
when the white man and the black
mar are at daggers' points. The
more the laborer is satisfied, the bet
ter service will he render.
II have referred to the subject of
making negro lager reliable. One
way to do it land that is what the
Tuskegee Institute has been driving
at among other things) in the first
place is to teach the negro laborer
the dignity of labor.
81 am glad to see that in South
Carolina these lessons are being, in
stilled into u people. There is not
a white family in South Carolina
considerable criticism is constantly
brought against US as a people, he
cause it is said hat 'the negro is
not reliable as a laborer.' The lead
ers and teachers of our people must
see to it that there is a change in
this respect.
"No section of the South is more
interested from a financial point Of
view in the success Of the negro than
is true of this State. In the first
place, it is tremendously important
that should not be vitality interested
in the Improvement of then egro
womnn-especially in the improve
ment Of the negro nurse.
"Right here in Columbia there
should be a large central train
ing school for the training Of domes-
tic servants. Such a school should
be in every large city in the South.
We could furnish the teachers for
these communities.
"Tbe food that goes into the
bodies of the majority Of the white
| families in South Carolina is pre-