The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-04-30
By VIM. Anthony Aery.


Hampton, Va. April 2S-That the
Negro is entitled to equal and exact
justice before the law and that the
white man must accord him that jus
tice or be false to all Anglo-SaXon
traditions was the opinion expressed
by the Hon Thomas w. Pickett, form
er governor of North Carolina. i'm his
recent address delivered at the clos
ing session Of the fifty-third ami
versary- of Hampton Institute, over
which Principal j. e. Gregg presided.
Governor Beckett said:
Though only fifty-three years old,
Hampton Institute has achieved the
unique and noble distinction Of be-
shrine. From il are constantly flow
ing streams that make waste places
glad. and from every quarter of the
continent weary pilgrims come to
courage, faith, and love.
The Negro VINO has to get an
order from n white man before he can
buy a sack of meal or side of meat
is almost as much a slave. as the
man who had to get a permit before
he could leave his masters land. The
Negro as a race will not travel far
until his credit in store or in bank
Is as good as that of the white man.
"All during my administration the
hand of executive clemency knew no
color line. ] opened the prison doors
to more than four hundred Negroes:
During my administration I preached
against lynching and I fought lyn-
ching. I rushed troops to protect pris-
oners, leaders of mobs were indicted
and conyicted, and ] personally walk
ed into a mob and persuade men to
abandon their purpose.
strikes mt IIu T<IuX
"In this free country the message
that cannot be proclaimed from the
housetop ought not, to be heard by a
loyal American citizen. The Ku KluX
Klan believes in the whisper and that
is one of the reasons why, when the
strong man from Texas tried TO estab-
lish the Kul<luX Klan in North Caro-
lima, ! rose up and hit 1t with all my
might and drove II from our borders.
Listen to your leaders who proclaim
through the local press When the
whispering aEitator comes around,
say to him: Get thee behind me, Sa-
tan
A Candid Confession.
Let me make candid and solemn
confession con The whites in the tn So South
ways deal Justly by the Negro. We
sometimes do him wrong-and God
knows ] am ashamed of it.-but vio-
lence will not hasten the day of your
deliverance and hate will always him
der. The God of your redemption will
come, not in the mighty wind not in
the earthquake, and not in fire, but in
Stlll, Small voice tndJ VIII trouble
the white mans conscience and drive
sleep from his eyes, until he gives to
your people thefullest measure of JUS
tice. The one safe path for the Ne
gro to follow is the path that leads
straight to the door of the white
mans conscience. Some day every
plea that is born of wisdom and JUS
tice will be allowed.
while hate and wrath will lead
to failure and destruction, love and
faith will surely conquer. My mes
sage an my prayer to both races Is
this: Love one another, and all these
things will be added unto you.''
Era of Negro Prosperity.
DIR Talcott Williams of New York,
well known publicist and former di-
rector of the Pulitzer School of Jour
nalism, Columbia University, paid a
warm tribute to Governor Bickett's
great deliverance of truth. justice,
and hope"
DR.. Williams. in his address on
Economic Independence through In
dustry," stated to the Hampton grad