The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-03-02

1t gets him into more trouble than it
keeps him out Of.
MUST BE CLEAN.
We must get rid of immoral lead
,ers everywhere, whether they are
ministers or teachers, and let them
understand that our pulpits and our
school teachers desks must be clean.
The white man in every part Of the
south has a great responsibility. The
negro patterns his life very largely
after the life of the white man in the
community where he lives. If the
white man is w-abidiug, virtuous
and sober, the negro is likely to lead
something of the same kind of life.
On the other hand, If the white man
in any community breaks the law, IS
drunkard or gambler, the negro is
likely to lead the same kind of life, so
the white man has a great RESPONSE
btiitY to see TO it that he sets an
example before the negro which shall
help him to make of himself a stronger
and more useful citizen.
ON FRIENDLY TERMS.
AS | said in the beginning, when we
get down beneath the surface in every
southern community we will find that
notwithstanding what the sensational
newspaper may say or the political
dema gogue may utter, when we get
down beneath the surface we find that
in every southern community that as
individuals the negroes and white peo-
pie live on friendly terms with each
other. Every negro has a white friend
and every white man has a negro
! friend, and the relations between the
! individual negro and the individual
| white man here in the south are often
| closer and more sympathetic than they
are IN any community outside of the
! south. There is going to be no racial
| war. There is going 20 be no ernigra-
| ton from the south Both the black
| race and the white race is going to
! live here in my opinion. for all time in
| peace and in harmony"
| Among those who will accompany
| the party through Florida are j. G.
| Napier. register of the treasury. chair
! man executive board OF the National
/ Negro Business League; Nj. w. Gil
| bert. president Selma University; r.
! r. Morton, OF Hampton Institute; w.
| t. B. Williams, field agent. Anna T.
| Jeannes Fund; John F. Slater, fund
for promotion of negro education in
the common schools; J. z. Bell, mem
Der CT the executive hoard OF the Ma
tional Negro Business League. Hous-
! ton, Texas; Bishop @. W. Clinton, A.
NJ. E. Zion church; Richard Carroll.
editor Southern Ploughmau. Column
bia, S. c.: Bradley Gilman, of the Con-
gregational Unitarian parish, Boston,
| Mass; Horace D. Slater, general
newspaper correspondent, Hopkins
Vile, Ky; W. T. Andrews, vice presl-
dent. National Negro Business League,
Sumter S. c.; John Merrick presi-
dent and c. G. Spaulding, secretary.
North Carolina Mutual and Provident
| Association; George c. Hall. physician
and surgeon, Chicago. Ill; r. l..
Smith, president, Farmers Associa-
! tion Bank, Waco, Texas; r. E. Park,
Boston, Mass. Emmett J. Scott, sec
rotary Tuskegee Institute and CORE
spondent secretary of the National Ne
gro Business League; Nathan Hunt,
steuographer; J. T. Kenny, resident
physician of Tuskegee Institute; Alain
Leroy Locke, Rhodes oxford scholar
ship student.
TO LEAVE TODAY.
At the close OF the program last
night in the opera house DR.. Washing
ton and members Of the party were
entertained at a reception in the c. r,
A. hall on Government street by the
m embers of the Pensacola Tuskegee
! club. The Tuskegee club at this place
is made up of more than fifty gradu-
ates and ex-students living in this
city. Claiborne Allen is president Of
the club.
The party will leave this morning
! for Tallahassee, where DIT. Washing
ton will speak tonight. Altogether he
, will make ten or eleven addresses il
the state during the next eight days.