Evening star., 1909-05-21

In the south. ] never had such a dream
But believe We are on the eve Of such
q condition In the south that there shall
be complete tolerance OF opinion, and
that there shall grow into respectable
power an opposition in each state which
shall tend to the betterment Of the gov
ernment as it exists in the state, which
shall give US occasionally, as you have
already given us in North Carolina. a
republican in a crowd Of democrats, in
order that we may have represented in
the Congress at Washington your views
without regard to some past issue, with
out regard to the ghost of an issue that
really ought not to influence you in en-
forcing these particular economic views
that you really entertain.
Il hope you will forgive me for an
apparent reference to political conditions
when I am really only extending to you
cans explaining. possibly by inference.
some of the difhculties Of conducting
this government as its chief executive"
Address to Colored Students.
To the colored students at Biddls Uni
versity the President said, in part:
II am not oblivious to the troublous
times through which you and your ia
theirs and mothers have passed, or of
which circumstances have made it nee
essary for you to bear. But thank
God that those things are passing away,
and the proper place for you to look is
forward and not backward.
There Is growing over the entire
south a feeling due to economic con-
ditions. that you will be g. necessity for
the prosperity of the south If you will
only do what you ought to do to make
your race happy. You can demon
by making yourselves members Of the
community, that it Is as much to their
interest to treat you well as it Is TO
your interest to have them treat you
well.
opments OF the last ten years is the in
terest that your southern white neigh
Dor is taking in your welfare, your
education and your profit.
TT Is easy for us of the north to
criticise both sides and to express SYM
pathy and hope that things are coming
out all right. But the place where the
thing is to be done is here where you
live. And therefore 1t Is with the
whites who are your neighbors that
there is to arise that feeling which Is
you more useful to the community than
you are.
Ground for Hope.
Things are moving on. There is
ground for hope. We are catching up
Now 1 am not going to give you to
understand that don't know the. bur-
den Of race feeling and that often
times there is an agonixed moment
when the negro feels that the whole
world is against him The way to meet
it is to face it; is to recognize 1t, go
on and do your duty. live and labor,
and be prosperous in spite OF It,"
The President ridiculed the idea that
the two races cannot live amfcably in
he h> ~~1.
solve the problem is to send the ne
groes out of the country.
THE time is coming. in my judg-
ment," he went on, when the business
men of the south are going to recog-
nize much more fully than they do to-
day the great advantage the south has
in your presence on the soil. Your race
is adapted to be a race Of farmers, first
last and all the time. You are going
to do more than you have ever done in
that direction as result of the educa-
tion which the industrial schools are
giving YOU"