The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-06-02

/ and will abide with US. what snail our
! future be-wiLh two races Of people oc-
tcupyine the same political area, but dit
ferirg physically, morally and mental.
y: Aye! these physical, moral and
! mental differences are radical and fun
damental, and natural, and are as dis
itinctIy the work of God, as is the df1er'
i ence in the color of their skins.
(: With such differences between the
two races. some say they can occupy the
same political area in peace and pros
iperitv, and others say not.
Hon. Geo. F. Hoar, the late distln-
guished United States Senator from the
State of Massachusetts, in his great ad-
dress before the New England Society
in Charleston in 1898 holds the atfirma-
tive of the proposition Here what he
says:
1t is well known Tor if it be not we'll
known | am willing to make 1T known!
that look with ineNpresslble alarm and
dread upon the prospect OF adding to
our population millions Of persons dwell
ing in tropical climes. aliens in race and
religion. either TO share in our self-gov-
ernment. or what is worse still, to set an
example TO mankind of the subjection
of ore people TO another. we have not
vet solved the problem how men OF dlt-
fereut races can dwell together 10 the
same land in accordance with our prln-
ciDleS OF republican rule and republican
iibe>tr. am not one OF those who de-
snai:.,,i Lhr. suIu!lnu IF that p:u5'e.n IN
Justice and in freedom. do noc look
unou t;:,. dark si,l, when | think Ot the
future Of our beloved iaud. count II
the Que chief good fortune OF my oEn
life that. as 4row older lon!. ont tn
the world with hope AID not despair.
Wehave made wonderful advances Nth
in the lifetime q. The Youngest ot us.
White VIZ hear from time to time OF oc-
cureuceS much 10 be deplored and ut
terlv TO be cnEdem ned. yet on the whole.
we are advancing quite as rapidly as
could be expected TO the time wnen
these races will live together on Amer
icau soil in freed IN, in honor and 10
peace, every man enjoying his just right
wherever the American Constitution
leigns and wherever the American hag
Hoats-when the influence Of lntell-
gence. of courage. OF energy. inspired
bv lofty patriotism and by Il christian
love will have its full and legitimate ef-
feet. not through disorder, or force. or
lawlessnesS. but under the silent and
sure law by which always the superior
leads and the inferior follows. The time
has already come when throus hort large
spaces in our country both races are
dwelling togetherin peace and harmony.
| believe that conditions of things to be
the rule in the South and not the excep-
ton. We have a right to claim that the
country and the South shall be judged
by the rule and not the exception.
The Hon. John Beattie Crozler, MS
torian, political economist and phlloso-
pher, author of the History OF Intel
lectual Development" Civilization
and Progress, ';The Religion Of the
Future and other books holds the neg
ative and he states the question thus:
THE issue is, what amount OF weight
''is to be attached to all attempts for
whatever reason) to mix antagonlstlc
::races, colors, creeds and codes OF So
''cial morality on the same area OF po..
''litical soil. The general opinion OF
s'the world is that these mixtures may
::be safely permitted provided always
';that the government IN power VIII see
:;to it that strict justice is done alike to
sail races and creeds concerned with
tout fear or favor
Now what I venture to affirm on the
contrary is that OF all the politicaf
curses which can befall nation this
mixing of inherently anita gonistic races,
colors. creeds and codes of morality IS
the one which. when once it has been
allowed lit matters not for what reason)
is of all political complications the most
by any and every known
ipstrumerl for the uplifting OF man.
kind, whether by the eNhortatlons OF