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Hardi.:g Sounds Plea For Negro Appeals to Nation to Lay Aside Old Prejudices add Old Antagonisms CHAMPIONS RIGHT TO BROAD- ER ADVANTAGES . QUESTION NO LONGER SECTION- & AL BUT NATIONAL, HE DECLARES SPEAKS AT BiRMINGHAM Delivers Address at Semi Centennial Celebration of Founding of City. (Concluded from yesterday’s Avis.) ““Take the political aspect, I would say let the black man vote when he is fit so vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unftit to vote. Especially would I appeal to the self-respect of the colored race. I would inculecate in it the wish to improve itseif as a distinct race with a heredity, a set of traditions, an array of aspirations all its own. Out of such racial ambitions and pride will come natural segregations, without nar- rowing any rights, such as are proceed- ing in both rural and urban communities now in southern states, satlsfying natu- ral inclinations and adding notably to happiness and contentment. EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY- ““On the other hand I would insist upon equal educational opportunity for beth. This does not mean that both would become equaliy educated within a generation or two generations or ten generations. KEven men of the same race do not accomplish such an equality a Lat. There must be education among the colored people as will >nable them to develop their own leaders, capable of understanding and sympathizing with such a differentiation between the races as [ have suggested—leaders who will inspire the race with proper ideals of race pride, of national pride, of an honor- able destiny; and important participa- tiop in the universal efforts for advance- ment of humanity as a whole. Racial amalgamation there cannot be; a partner- ship of the races in developing the high- est aims of all humanity there must be if humanity pot only here but everywhere, is rfo achieve the ends which we have set for it. ‘I can say o you people of the scuih, both white and black, that the time has passed when you are entit'ed to assume that this problem of races is peculiarly and particularly your problem. More and more it is becoming a problem of the north; moie and more it is the pro- 5 1. il x A Yi b blem of Africa, of South America, of the Pacifie, of the south seas, of the world. It is the problem of democracy everywhere, if we.mean the things we say about democracy as the ideal politi- cal state. “‘Iwould acecept that a black man can- not bea white man, and that he does not need and should not aspire to be as much as a white man as possible in order to accomplish the best that is possible for him. He should seek to be and he should be encouraged to be the best possible black man and not the bes' pos- sible imitaiion of the white man. OPPOSES GROUPINGS OF PEOPLE. "It is a matter of the keenest national concern tkat the south shall not be en- couraged to make its colored population a vast reservoir of ignorance. to be drained away by the processes ¢f migra- tion into all other sections. Thatis what has been going on in recent years at a rate so accentuated that it has caused this question of races to be, asI have already said, no longer one of a particu- lar section. Just as Ido not wish the south to be politically eutirely one party; just as I believe that it is bad for the south and for the rest of the countiy as well, so I do not want the colored people to be entirely of one party. I wish that both the (radition of a solidly Democratic south and t~e tradition of a solidly Re- publican black race might be broken up. Neither political sectionalism nor any system of rigid groupings of the people will in the long run prosper our country. ““Kivery conmsideration, it seems 8o me, brings us back at last in the questwon of education. When 1 speak oi education as a part of this race question 1 do not want the stares or the nation to attempt to edecate people, whether whité or black, into something they are not fitted to be. I have no sympathy with the half-baked altruoism that would overstock us with doctors and lawyers of whatever color, and leave us in need of people fit and willing to do the minual work of a workaday world. But I would like to see an education that would fit 2very man not only to do this particular work as well as possible hut to rise to a higher plane if he would deserve it. ““It is probab'e that as a nation we have come 0 the end of the period of very rapid increase in our population. Restricted immigration willi reduce the rate of increase and foree us back upon our older population to find people to do the simpler, physically harder manual tasks. This will require some difficult readjustment, “In anticipation of such a eondition the south may well recognize th t north and west are likely to continue their drafts upon its colored popuiation and that if the south wishes to keep its fields producing and its industry still expand- ing it will have to compete for the ser- vices of the colored man. If it will . realize its need for him and deal quite | fairly with him the south will be able to ' keep him in such numbers as your activi- ~ ties make desirable. ; ““Is it not possible then that in the long . era of readjustment goon which we are ~entering for the nation to lay aside old - prejudices and old antagonisms and in the .~ broad, clear light of nationalism enter - upon a constructive policy,in dealing . with these intricate issues? Just as we ~ shall rrove ourselves capable of doing - this we shall insure the industrial pro- . gress, the agricultural security, the social . and political safety of our whole country . regardless of race or sections and along the line of ideals superior te every con- ' sideration of groups or class, of race or . color, or section or prejudice.’’ TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. ‘ Tokio, Nov. 4th—Premier Hara was ~ fatally stabbed in the breast today at the railway station in Tokin. Loudon, Nov. 4th.—The House of Com mons todav unanimously adopted the motion presented by labour members, ‘warmly approving’’ the approaching Washington conference on limitation of armaments and Far BEastern questions. The vote came after 24 hours of discus- sion in which numesous speakers sup- ported the resolution and voiced hopes of the ¢)nference success. Los Angeles, Nov. 4th ~The shipping warehouse of the [.os Angeles sugar com- pany was destroyed by fire of unknown cause yesterday, the loss being estimat- ed at $1,500,000 by the manager. The ~ manager said, 175,000 sacks of sugar ~ valued at 6 dollars a sack were burned. Chicago, Nov. 4th —Chirage today bade farewell to Admiral Lord Beatty, formally entertained lLieutenant General Baron Alfonso Jacques, Commander-in Chief of the Belgian army, and prepared to extend arousing welcome to Marshal Foeh tomorrow. The tricolour of France tonight vied with the stars and stripes in lending gala attive to ‘‘the loop’’, Chica- go’s business and financial disiriet, where the most stirring aemonstrations since the close of war are expected tomorrow when the Freneh Generalissimo is es- corted through the district. London, Nov. 4th.—lt developed today that the report made publi- yesterday from Belfast to the effect that all the Sinn Fein prisoners in the Ballykinlar internment eamp near that city, num- bering about 1,700, had been reicased, '~ was erroneous. The giving out of the | report it seems was based on rhe release, of prisoners from this camp owing to the confestaion there, but no genmeral free- ' ing of the interned men occurrad. | London, Nov. 4th.—Two weeks from ' the present time, is the earliest date now . considered possibl2 for Mr Lloyd George . to go to Washington for the armament . conference, according to his Secretary.’