Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-02-08


a unit for the Union. where the Ne
gro is refused admittance. He is
/ told 10 move on He Is what the
/ President described the other day as
an undesirable citizen Turn South
ward; plenty both Of work and wag-
es for all who bring tranquil minds
and willing hands. Bad people.
slothful people. get on nowhere: but
nowhere on the habitable globe has
the liberated slave Jared so we'll, no.
where has he so fair an outlook, as
In the Southern States of North A
morica."
Speaking from an industrial stand
point. Mr.. Watterson is correct. II
is only when he steps of that plank
to the political one that he finds
"cob-webs in his throat" and imped-
iments in his speech.
He tells wholesome truths though
when ne says;
why? Because we know one a.
mother and because. no matter what
anybody may say TO the contrary.
there is a common bond OF associa-
ton between u.s. Never can the
white man Of the South forget what
the black man did during a war wag-
ed for his freedom. and what he
might have done. Never should the
black man OF the South forget that
ne is the weaker I'm the race and for
long time must look to the white
man for help of many kinds IL is
through these reciprocal obligations
and interests that the two races will
reach some Institutional system OF liv
ing and doing entirely satisfactory
To both.
Nothing is 20 be expected from
the rushing hot-house process or
from any artificial arrangement: ev-
erything is 10 bee hoped from nature
left 20 herself-unvexed by misdirect
ed political considerations. uninnu-
enced by outsiders teaching false
philosouh justice and
Kindness presiding over the ordinary
laws OF common honesty and COM
mon sense.
The Negro FRI Africa has scarce
ly burst the chrysalis OF the print
tive state OF man. Tn America ne rs
yet I'm "a state Of racial childhood.
AS ne realizes this. the faster he will
grow. the quicker he Will learn. the
sooner he viii reach his racial man
hood. In less than half n century
he has achieved wonders. Before
the century We have just begun lis
half over, ne win have achieved great
er still He has yet and upon an ,
offensive scale tO learn habits OF |
method and order, habits OF tenacity /
and acquisition habits OF sustained I
Cd ~ ~. Har a...Hn
no racc-whitc. red. brown or black /
or any individual man-can get /
on and prosper
What citizen 90 color Who IS perl
meatei by right principles will take /
issue With what this distinguished /
Kentuckian has said? II is 1.-THE /
truth. the whole truth and nothing /
but the truth. AS We have read lnei
after line OF this truly remarkable
address. we have wondered how Il /
could Dee possible for gentleman OF
Hon. Henry Watterson's type, hail
ing too from Kentucky 90 give voice
90 such sentiments
But then we remembered that
Kentucky had but recently elected a
Republican governor and chat new f.
leas were predominant even en- the
Negro-haung State OF other DAYS.
Here are utterances that colored peo-
pile iu th.s section Will applaud with
"a loud 'amen:"
"He is 81 bad white man who VIII
not help h's ncighbor black man
when that neighbor black man shows
The spirit tO help himself lie is a
bad black man who chcrishcs hatred /
in his heart against the white man
because Dec BIS a white man. He is a
foolish black man who thinks be-
cause the mirage Of social equality
which would prove q curse rather
than "a blessing. SIS denied him. that
tho white man hates him. Social |
questions the world over create their
own laws and settle themselves.
They cannot be forced lt is idle
anywhere for anybody 20 contest or
quarrel with them. 30 man should |
wish 90 go where he IS not wanted l
true. self-rospecting men dismiss the
very thought OF it. going their own
way. hoeing their own row. and Civ
Ing praise 20 God that their happ-
ness is within themselves and beyond /
the reach OF any man, be he white.
or black, king or vassal.i"
This distinguished Kentuckian
concluded as follows:
And now. my friends, have
said my say. / beg you to so hence
this night believing these imperfect
thoughts and poor words the hon
est emanations Of one who has jour
neyed much. and far and wide in
this great land Of ours. was born
and grew mp in the National Capt.
tai, contemporary with the veXed
slavery agitation. I saw the Union
severed and made whole again.
Since then I have been In every State
and Territory of that Union and I
nave yet 10 come away from one Of
them, North. South. East or West.
where ! had not found something to
make me proud of my country.
Il know that the provincials Of
Firth Avenue like the boulevardiers
of Paris fhfnlr fhaunco1voc ovco,fFov