The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-11-05
TAKES RACE RELATIONS AS STEXT AND OUTLINES POLICY
OF EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY IN THINGS POLITICAL
AND INDUSTRIAL. SAYS THAT NEGRO ADHERENCE TO RE-
PUBLICAN PARTY IS UNFORTUNATE.

Birmingham. Ala. Nov. S-The right
of the American Negro to broader po-
litlcal, economic and educational ad-
vantages, based on a pride of race
but never on an aspiration for social
equality, was championed by President
Harding here in plainly worded
enunciation of his views on the whole
American race problem.
These are some of the principles on
which the president appealed to the
nation to "lay aside old prejudices
and old antagonisms," and give sup
port to constructive policy of racial
relationship:
Politically and economically, there
need be no occasion for great and
permanent differentiation. provided on
both sides there shall be recognition
of the absolute divergence in things
social and racial"
Il would say let the black man
vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit
the white man voting when he is un-
fit to vote"
Il wish that both the tradition of
solidly democratic south and the
tradition of a solidly republican black
race might be broken up
81 would insist upon equal educa-
tional opportunities for both.'
Men of both races may well stand
uncompromisingly against every sug-
gestion of social equality. This Is
not a question of social equality, but
question Of recognizing a funda-
mental eternal. inescapable differ
ence.'
Racial AmalEnmatiOn.
Racial amalgamation there cannot
be. Partnership of the races in de-
voloping the highest aims of all hu-
manity there must be IL humanity is
to achieve the ends which were set
for it,
"The black man should seek to be,
nd ha -. hn raA n
the best possible black man and not
the best possible imitation of white
man.
The presidents address which
first extended trip into the south.
since Inauguration, was delivered at
a semi centennial celebration of the
founding of the city of Birmingham.
the race question, although Mr.. Hard
ing also took occasion to praise the
south for its Industrial recovery and
to renew faith in the world leader
ship of a reunited nation.
He said in part:
The world war brought us to full
recognition that the race problem is
national rather than merely sectional.
There are no authentic statistics,
but it is common knowledge that the
world war was marked by great
migration of Colored people to the
north and west. They were attracted
Dy lHe uSiHanu IOF ldDOT anu In0 nlB n
er wages offered. 1t has brought the
question of race closer to north and
west, and. i believe, II has served
to modify somewhat, the views of
those sections on this question. Ii
has made the south realize it's indus
trial dependence on the labor OF the
black man and made the north realize
the difficulties of the community in
which two greatly differing races are
brought to live side by side. l should
say that it has been responsible for q
larger charity on both sides, a begin
ming of better understanding; and in
the light of that better understanding.
perhaps shall be able to- consider this
problem together as a problem of all
sections and of both races, in whose
solution the best intelligence of both
must be enlisted.
Can't Blink at Facts,
Indeed, we will be wise to recog
nize it as wider yet
Whoever will take the time to read
and ponder Mr.. Lothrop Stoddard's
book on the rising tide of color, or
say, the thoughtful review of some
recent literature on this question
which +. d. Lugard presented in a
recent Edinburgh review must realize
United States is only a phase of a
race issue that the whole world con-
fronts. Surely we shall gain nothing
by blinking at the facts, by refusing
to give thought to them. That Is not
the American way of approaching such
issues.
Mr. Lugard, in his recent essay,
after surveying the worlds problem
of races, concludes thus:
Here, then, is the true conception
of the inter-relation of color-com-
plete uniformity in ideals. absolute