The Washington bee., 1908-01-04
AN INFAMOUS LIE
DEGRADING THE COLORED
RACE

Savannah, Ga, December 3I-Judge
Thomas NJ. Norwood, former United
States Senator from Georgia. delivered
a remarkable address on the Negro here
today, on the eve of his retiremnt from
tn bench He has tried probably twelve
thousand Negroes since he had been
a Judge, and had made study of the
race In his address he reviewed the
history of the Negroes from their lives
in Africa, into slavery, and out again.
He reaches the conclusion that the Ne
gro is not capable of higher education,
| that illicit relations between the races
! is the curse of the South, and that the
| nulatto is the cause of much Of he
! trouble Judge Norwood said, in part:
81 have said that examining the head
is not education, and that the Negro
cannot originate / have said that the
Negro IS an imitator, and nothing more.
He can handle tools crudely when in
structed by the white race, but he cam
not invent tools.
KHo7Us Only Rnis by Force
"In.-Africa no labor made the Negro
'|1azv He had never worked In Africa
the Negro knew no government but
physical force Here ne recognizes no
form of government when not restraint
ed by resort to force. In Africa, the
Negro having no morals, lies and steals
with no sense of moral wrong.
Charles Sumner was wont to rise III
the Senate and roll abe name of Tous-
saint rOuverture on his tongue as a
sweet morsel, holding htm up to the
country as an example of what the Ne
gro would do when free. LOWerurs
was bright mulatto.
Fred Douglass is cited as an ex-
ception to the barrier nature has set
to the Negro's progress. Douglass was
- one-half or three-quarters Indian blood.
- And, still, he left no mark.
/ ''When Mr. Carnegie, foreigner, as
ignorant of the Negro as he is of ST
' Pauls theology, the receiver of half
= Lillion dollars stolen from the Amer
{ team white people by the tariff, on see
I ing Booker Washington, is thrown into
: connption fit and gives out hs opn-
ion, reinforced and indorsed by the au-
thority ad power Of FIVE hundred mill
ion dollars, that Booker Washington IS
greater man than George Washing
ton, and throws to Booker nearly three
quarters of a million dollars, the Negro
thinks Booker Washington is the great
! est man in America.
Bishop Potter 'GGve InyHI."
when Bishop Potter, an honored
= guest in Richmond, Va, violates the
simplest rules of hospitality and insults
his host by inviting a Negro to dine
with him, the Negro believes the South
ern white man is denying him his con-
: stitutional right to dine with a white
! race.
- "The Republican press throughout the
North for forty years has persistently
poured oil on the fame
y "The intelligent Negro is not the At
rican. Every prominent man Of Negro
blood in America, so far as l have beer
- able to learn, has either white or Indian
blood.
: Booker Washington IS not a full
blooded Negro. Still. he has shown
: no originality"
- The Judge says that there should b
law providing for the hanging Of
man guilty of miscegenation, and th'
putting of the woman in the peniten
= tiary for life.
> A DESERVING CHARITY.
} "The Home for Frendless Girls,
y" otherwise known as the Erie Stree
- Home" has been successfully carried OF
" for several years through voluntar
- contributions from several Of on
churches, and from a few of our peo
" pie who are charitably inclined. 1t i
great responsibility, however and en-
II tails upon a few well-known and faith
ful ladies of this city much hard wori
II aund constant anxiety. The Home"
u constantly in need of funds, and mani
- devices are necessary to ensure them il
81 order that this most deserving charit.
may be permanent. These faithful Ia
dies gave "a Christmas Cheer Social
last Friday evening at the residence O
E Mrs Sophia Hawkins, PEA, Iwelftl
street northwest. The affair was YER
to literally patronized, We are glad to an
nd nounce. and consisted Of an acceptabi
n musical program. Refreshments wsr
lr- sold, and several donations were receiY
ct. ed. The following named ladies com
a posed the committee of arrangements
ell Mrs. s. Hawkins, chairman; Mrs. A
re- aBiley, Mrs. John H. Paynter and Mr.
to Carrie Peirre. q
nd KILLED HIMSELF.
w. o. Outlaw, formerly of North "a
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