The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-03-11
HOW THE SOUTH
MUST PROSPER
THAT WILL ADD TO
GLORY, INCREASE WEALTH
IMPROVE HEALTH.
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for Greater Growth.
Associated Press Special.

Associated Press Special.
Atlanta, Ga, March 1.-THE
commercial development of the south
can follow only on the suppression of
mob Violence. in the opinion of ia
cob NJ. Dickinson, the secretary OF
war Addressing the Southern Com
mercial Congress here last night,
Mr.. Dickinson declared that because
of frequent lawless outbreaks, an
unjustifiable prejudice against the
southern states existed not only in
the north but in foreign countries.
Such outbreaks, he declared, were
the result of abnormal conditions
produced by the civil war Broadly
viewed, however he added, the
south would be found to be land
of law and order, and he emphatical-
ly urged The immediate necessity of
establishing a reverence for and an
impartial enforcement of the law as
primary step to the future great
ness of the south.
As an ultimate solution OF the
race problem in the south, Mr. DICK
inson suggested the possibility OF
the voluntary removal of the mass
of Young negroes to country or
their own, fostered and guarded by
the United States.
when they grow in wealth and
education" said Mr.. Dickinson, and
still find themselves confined in
their aspirations by insurmountable
barriers which bar their social and
political progress and deny them the
opportunities OF citizenship open to
all others, an ambition to free them
selves from such conditions may, If
sustained by liberal governmental
policy, lead to such movement
Secretary Dickinson called atten-
ton at the outset of his address to
the fact that parallel to his subject,
The Enforcement of Law in the
South" hardly would find place at
a commercial congress in the north,
or in Great Britain, but declared
that every informed person knows,
that the south through widespread
though not general lawlessness and
the reinforcement of law. is suf-
fering iniury-direct, at home and
indirect, on account of its Teputa-
ton, abroad
Progress and the protection OF
persons and property under the
law" said Mr. Dickinson, are cor
relative terms. There can be no gem
d. 10 Il in,A
ment where there is a general nom
enforcement of the law. The tremen-
dous and steady strides being made
S.nsraIIy In the south for successive
decades. m education, commerce,
manufactures, mines. bank capital
railroad, agriculture, indeed in all
that indicates steady progress, dem
onstrate that the people of the south
taken generally, are peaceable ana
law-abiding The great accumulation
of property by the negroes, the most
HELPLESS politely and socially of all
her people. so widely heralded as
evidence of the industry, thrift and
progress of the race, shows gener-
al stable security under the law.
Therefore, we may confidennally
proclaim this exponent of the gener-
al fact that the south is a land OF
law and order. And this we must be
diligent to do, for the south has sur
fered, is suffering, and for lons
time until prejudice is removed, will
suffer from general reputation
partly Just in its origin, but largely
unjust, and acquired under abnor-
NAL conditions"