Arizona republican., 1909-09-23
ANNIVERSARYOF FREEDOM
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ly and wisely until the time was ripe for his work, until the necessities of civil war seemed to justify it, and therefore until the great body of union sympathizers afc supporters. upon
 whom the fate of the nation depended.
 would not be alienated by his act. be- fore penning the immortal document
 which not only liberated a race but saved the union. There is a lesson we may all learn here. and that is that
 we should take a wide outlook when we come to determine the ways and means of uprooting established evils lest we do more harm by our well meant efforts than good; that the methods we employ, the time we choose to employ these methods are cftimes as important as the merits a. the cause itself. Another lesson is that of patience-to wait until we understand the nature and cause of any evil before we attempt to cure it. Nature has no short cuts, but travels by well-beaten paths of fixed laws Reforms are not wrought in a day. A civilization advances through experi- ence, through struggle, through effort. T am not here tonight to preach to this assembly any doctrine which IS not applicable to white and black. l am not here ito say to you that any
 course of action is best for you be-
 cause of your race and color. The laws of social growth, of development, of advancement apply to the Anglo
 Saxon equally as to the man of Afri-
 can descent. I am only here to say
 to you as men that I believe that whatever is. in accord with nature and the laws of nature is right; that all efforts to accomplish social results in any other way than by the well-es- tablished methods of orderly develop ment and growth will end in failure and bitter disappointment.
 '.The emancipation proclamation did not end all the troubles of the negro race. nor. for that matter, did it ter minate the evils suffered by the white race in America because of slavery. Indeed, it has in some respects tended to increase the difficulties, trials and perplexities of both, for there needed to be brought about a new adjustment. a new basis of the mutual relations of both races. Those problems are still with us and, to some extent, seem as hard to settle as in the early years following the, civil war.
 Tout of the conflict of opinion, out of the strife of opposing thought on the race question, there have come some results in the way of admitted truths which may yet be the basis of a satisfactory and final settlement of this whole question. We now know that the ballot will not settle the ques ton, that rigid laws looking to en- forcing equality of rights and privi- -iages will not settle the question, but that those are good only in propor- ton as the former is wisely exercised and the latter does not arouse race prejudice, or dislike, and thus accen tuate the very evil such laws are in tended toscure.
 : T think sometimes we are all prone to worry roo much over things which God in His own time and way is ac- ,complishing by use of means we scarcely recognize. A little faith, a little optimism is a great help in this world. Be not pessimistic on this race question, on the contrary. be per suaded that progress is being made. The thing which in my judgment is -most promising is that the leaders and thinkers of your race are teaching new ideals of manhood and womaphood and that these are being seized upon and l.. +to fin 'your schools and colleges. Those ideals have nothing to do directly and immediately with social or political equality, but do concern the elevation and uplifting of your people to a higher plain of manhood, and in this are in accord with the laws of social development applicable to all men alike. Industry and not ease, capacity to earn decent living for ones family rather than ability to talk politics, honesty and sobriety, habits of thrift and economy, the slow processes by which wealth is acquired rather than showy and shallow learning, these are the ideals which your Booker Wash
 ington and others of your great men are holding up to the youth of your race It is indeed wonderful to behold the good results of this teaching. It in
 spires hope, it arouses true self-re- spect, it gives courage because it hulds out something within the reach of every man. and this something is de- cent, self-respecting manhood, and upon this basis we I.iay all stand, white and black, red and brown and yellow.
 An honest, seif-respectinS, indus .rious. helpful man need fear nothing, can look every other man in the face and with pride feel that in doing the lest he can, in beipg me most he can, he is the equal fin .he essentials of manhood. if not in the accidentals, of every other. What the negro must learn, and l am glad to know is learn ing, is what the white man has through the ages been learning. and that is, in order to better his condi- tion- and advance his race he must make the most of his opportunities to be tier his powers of mind and body. to improve his habits of living, to in- crease his efficiency as worker in any department of human labor he may be engaged in, and To learn the commendation of his own conscience
 fand this means his own self respect,