The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-01-18

artltciai arrangement; everything is 70
| be hoped from nature left 20 herself
invoked by INSTRUCTED political consider
atoms, uninfiuenced by outsiders teach
ing false philosophers simple justice and
kindness presiding over the ordinary laws
OF common honesty and common sense.
The negro In Africa has scarcely burst
the ehrysalis Of the primitive state Of
man. In America he IS vet in a state
OF racial childhood As he realizes this
the faster he Will grow. the quicker he
viii learn, the sooner he will reach his
racial manhood. In less than half a
century he has achieved wonders Before
the century we have just begun is half
over he will have achieved greater still
lie has yet and upon an extensive scale
, TO learn habits of method and order
/ habits Of tenacity and acquisition; habits
OF sustained industry and sobriety, with
out which no race-white, red, brown or
black-or any individual man can get on
and prosper.
The Religion of brotherhood.
He is a bad white man who viii not
help his neighbor black man when that
neighbor black man shows the spirit 20
help himself lie is a bad black man
who cherisheS hatred In his heart against
the white man because he is a white man
He is foolish black man who thinks be-
cause the mirage OF social equality. which
would prove a curse rather than q bless
ing, is denied him. that the white man
hates him. Social questions the world
over create their own laws and settle
Themselves. They cannot be forced, II
Is idle anywhere for anybody 20 contest
or quarrel with them No man should
wish 10 go where be is not wanted. true.
self-respecting men dismiss the very
thought Of ii. going their own way. hoe
ing their own row. and giving praise 10
God that their happiness is within them
selves and beyond the reach Of any man,
De he white or black king or vassal,
And now, my friends, 1 have said my
say ] beg you 10 go hence this night be-
heving these imperfect thoughts and poor
words the honest emanations OF one who
has iourneyed much. and far and wide.
in this great land Of ours ! was born
and grew up IN the National Capital. con
temporary with the vexed slavery agii
ton I saw the Union severed and n.
whole again. Since then I have been in
every State and Territory OF that Union,
and / have yet 10 come away from one
OF them. North. South. East, or West.
where / had not found something 10 make
me proud OF my country.
Narrow in Their views.
7 know that the provincials OF Fifth
avenue like the boulevard'ers OF Paris.
think themselves exceptional They are
as a matter OF fact chiefly exceptional IN
their ignorance Of everything outside the
great white way Their boosted super
iority IS largely the idiosyncrasy Of
clothes. They should study geography
and learn that New Yorks western ex.
tremity is not New Jersey They need 20
travel Isore on this side and less on the
other side Of the Atlantic Ocean. 10
learn something Of their own people
the most homogeneous people on EARTH
differing only in externals, in local condi-
lions, and habits. Massachusetts and Mis-
sissippi as 20 every blood essential con-
vertlble terms, six months, and a change
Of raiment, readily converting a typical
Vermonter into a typical Texan.
Forty years have 7 been preaching
this gospel, sustained by the best in
telligence and manhood OF the South. Il
commit ID TO your intelligence and your
manhood unreservedly and whole-hearted-
~. 1t embraces the one resCript BY which
bll hHet Nbiltd4H can At permanently
welded together. insructing each OF its
sections to respect the others, 10 love the
others, and 10 leave the others 70 keep
house for themselves ready 10 help the
needy only in case OF need Thus and
thus alone shall we escape the pitfalls OF
the Dark Ages. and come forth no less a
blessed than an irresistible world power,
black men and white men. equally stand
ing behind the guns. one God and one
flag and one law for all
Among the letters read from guests I'M
able 10 attend was one from Cardinal
Gibbons. Ambassador Bryce. who had
been invited to speak. wrote:
Booker Washington said that the ques-
ton for the American people 10 decide
was whether the negro was 70 remain
here and get the least out of the soil OF
whether by education and industrial
training he was TO be permitted TO get
the most out Of the soil. Within gen
Grafton, he predicted, there would be
u, COS, 000."