The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-09-26

pull together ii organized capacity.
There are at least 100000 OF our
people who belong to some Of these
secret and fraternal organizations.
We have organized and now sus-
tain Sc banks in various parts of the
country, another indication of our
ability to work in harness.
So mucn for the past. What about
the problems of the future? Many
of the strongest and most powerful
leaders who are before me taught in
this audience must realize as / said
minute ago that the church in an
increasing degree has got to concern
itself with the social problem that
exist in the community where the
church is located. Our leaders have
got to concern themselves with the
problem of teaching our people how
to live side by side with the Amer
lean white man in peace, harmony
and friendship. There is no portion
OF the civilized or uncivilized world
today where we can go and not meet
a white man, where we con go with
out living by his side or very near
him.
/ have studied white people in
many parts of the world, and have
no hesitation in saying that if | have
got to colve the problem of living
by the side Of any white man. pre-
fer to take my chance every day in
the year by the side of the SSouth-
ern white man. There is an mex
plainable, intangible something in the
atmosphere of the South which makes
the black man and the white man I'M
derstand each other, and despite all
academic and theoretical discussion
there Is something in the atmosphere
of the South which makes the bIick
man and the white man like each
other. In some parts of the country
there is a good deal of discussion
concerning the segregation of the
races, but | am not afraid that segre-
CATION in the South will ever play any
serious part. The average white
man, especially in the country dis
tricts, does not care to have his black
neighbor very far out of calling dis
lance
hThe white man of the North and
the white man Of the South are MAX
ing friends with each other, are get
ting closer together. The Negro has
got to initiate their example. When
the white man who wore the blue
and the white man who wore the
gray met upon the field of Gettys-
burg few days ago and clasped
hands, it meant to say to the Negro
that no more would the white man OF
North and the white man of the
South become enemies and do battle
with each other because of the Ne
gro.
In my experience with the South
ern white man find that he respects
the colored man who talks to him.
who tells him in a respectful, kindly
and polite way what he wants, tells
him about his needs, about his griev-
ances about the wrongs perpetrated
upon him; but the Southern white
man does not like to be talked about.
This is human nature, and is not
peculiar to the Southern white
man.
In an increasing degree we, repre-
senting tn aeeledrs shrdl cmfwyshrdr
senting the leaders of our race, must
talk to the Southern white man in our
community Let him know our con-
ditions, and our needs. We must
get hold of the officers of the county
and of the city in which we live We
must get county Judge, the sheriff,
the mayor, the members of the city
council, the members of the board OF
education to visit our churches and
Sunday-schools, to visit our day
schools. We must let these repre-
sentatives of the white race see our
condition and our needs.
Everywhere l want to see our peo-
pie get back to the old habit of in
viting the best white ministers into
our pulpits. There are dozen of
the best white ministers scattered
throughout the South who would be
glad to occupy our pulpits three or
four times year, and in this way
we would keep intouch with the white
race in a way that we could scarce
ly do in better manner,