The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1920-01-02
GOVERNOR TALKS
TO THE NEGROES
Tells Them That the Tiger in
White and Black Must be
Restrained
SELF CONTROL REMEDY

celebrating the 9th anniversary
of the emancipation proclamation,
the negroes of Raleigh in the city
auditorium yesterday afternoon
adopted resolutions calling upon
the members of the race to qualify
to vote and use the ballot, and me-
morializing Congress for Federal
investigation of race riots and for
an act making lynching a capital
crime punishable by the United
States government.
Governor Beckett, closing the GER
emonies with an address talked
plainly to the negro assembly, con-
graduating the race upon its achieve
ments, warning it against entry into
North Carolina politics, and urging
self-control
Rev. S. A. Howell, banker and
preacher of Newport News, preceded
Governor Beckett and declared that
the trouble with the American negro
is that he will not accept honest ne
gro leadership.
Shame and fear instead of hatred,
said the speaker, is the attitude of
some of the white race in the face
of the remarkable achievements of
the negro in the last three hundred
years. Ninetenths of the lynchings,
he attributed to the lower elements
of both races.
Social equality, he maintained, is
not the aim of the negro unless the
abolition of the Jim Crow car, and
the removal of the segregation line
can be termed social equality.
Speaking of the future, the negro
minister declared that the time will
negroes and negroes will vote for
white men not because they are
white or black. but for the good of
the common country.
The speaker made an urgent ap-
peal for the cultivation of a higher
respect on the part of the negro for
the women of the race.
The resolutions presented by A. E.
Burgess, Charles H. Boyer, J. E. Sam
uels, j. w. Walker, C. E. Askew, ]
E. Farley, and w. S. Turner, were
presented by the last named. They
were not adopted without discus
sion. DR.. A. w. Pegues called atten-
tion to the fact that the resolutions
denouncing lynching failed to de-
nounce the crime at the lotion of
all lynching, and Rev. S. N. Vass
championed the suggestion. But
Prof. Turner, in defense of the res
olutions as offered, maintained that
it ought to be taken for granted
that the negro race and the commit
tee which framed the resolutions
was opposed to all crime. Ee thought
that the resolutions as offered were
sufficiently clear on this poi3r.
Governor Beckett attributed the
| progress of the negro race to it's
good teachers, the Southcrl whites,
and to its own aptness.
Eternal obedience is the price of
life" was a principle that the Gov
ernor set forth and illustrated in
the decline of the II Ian race and
the growth of the negro. The In
dian that roamed at will and covered
the country three hundred years ago,
! the Governor pointed out, refused to
obey the law, declaring that he was
a law unto himself, and sow the In
dian is reduced to a mere handful
and the negro, three hundred years
ago numerically in the same proper
ton, now is numbered by millions.
'The whole world is run by law,
said the Governor. "The man or
race, black or white, that sets it
self against the laws of God, the
laws of health, the laws OF man, is
simply courting self destruction, fo1