Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-04-14
LECTURES ON
 FIRE" AT CAPITAL Principal Isaac Fisher, Of Branch Normal College, This City, Delivered Ad- dress at Arkansas Baptist College.
DISCUSS THE RACES
Declares Race Hatred Should Be Bur- jed - Comparisons of 'PhosphOr- Ous'' Booker Washington Says
 Pine Bluff Negro Has Him Rested.

Last night Principal Isaac Fisher 0; the Branch Normal college at Pine :! Bluff lectured in the chapel of the 1 Arkansas Baptist college of this city on the subject, Fire says yester- days Little Rock Democrat. The lec- ture was under the auspices and for the benefit Of Bethel A. M E. church of Little Rock. and was in many re- spects a remarkable address, abound ing not only in wit and humor but al so, in lofty and earnest flights of real eloquence and power such as is not often heard on the platform, and there were those in the audience who felt that Booker T. Washington was not altogether joking when lie said on one occasion, The only thing l ever had against Isaac Fisher was that he could always beat me making 8 speech.
 While every thought advanced was given close attention by the audience it may be said that the interest reach ed it's highest point when Professor Fisher paused suddenly in his address and asked the audience to watch I simple chemical experiment which be would make. Turning to a table al- ready prepared, he took from a bottle filled with water a small piece of phosphorus, and, placing this in a test tube filled with more water and some other chemical caused the phospho- rus to burst into flame under the Wa ter. The experiment. concluded, Pro- 1 lessor Fisher said:
 The substance which you have seel l burn under water, and which is one of the most dangerous kiiowD to chem ] ists, is called phosphorus or .light 1 beafef, l caused it to take fire un-- der water by making chlorate Of pot ash give up it's oxygen where that gas could come into contact with the phos~ phorus down in the water,
 The old alchemists used to cail 1 has the property of being so inflam- mable that it will set itself on fire if 1 left in the air. When it touches hu- man flesh, it leaves dangerous burn, and it is so poisonous that it's vapors produce alterations in the jaw bones 1 of the workmen who handle it from 1 day to day. For this reason it has 1 to be kept under water and lifted about with tongs. And yet that young lady has enough phosphorus in ] her blood, bones and brain to make more than thousand boxes of the common matches with which we light our fires.
 Today in every land and cline where dwel two or more races which differ widely in their ethnic characteristics, there lives a substance every whit as dangerous to the peace, progress and humanitarianism of the world as is phosphorus to the permanence of things material | refer to the curse of all times-the hatred of one race for another. Like phosphorus. it will take fire itself and it's burns are deep and dangerous. Bring it into contact with a hated race, and it needs no match to ignite it---it will burn until everything of that despised race is consumed. It's yapors, too, are pois- onous, and they will ulcerate, not the ! jawbone, but the beautiful heart which an all-wise Creator gave to every man. Iike phosphorus, it must be kept finder the water of determined wills. and still there will be danger. stated that phosphorus must be kept under water to keep it from burning, but you have seen in this presence that it can be made to burn under wa ter by the potash and snlphuric acid method, and there is still another way
 If it had been convenient, I would have warmed some water, and after having prepared me bottle of oXy- 1.-the oxygen down to the phosphorus through a glass tube and it would have iburned under the water just the same.
 'So it is with race hatred A
 simple determination not to permit
 oneself to hate any one because Of his race, will prevent a conhagra
 tion under ordinary circumstances;
 but once let the blood get warm.
 and let some act of brutality or ot l arrogant injustice send a current oI
 passion and excitement to our
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