NEGRO DISABILITIES
Dr Booker Washington addressed tlie final meeting of his English tour on October 7 in Liverpool. He described the policy of lynching human beings for crime as a disgrace to any civilised nation, and said tho habit, if persisted in would damn any Christian nation. Much depended on the attitude the British nation would assume towards tlie weaker of the darker races under its flag. No man could inflict wrong upon another without being more injured himself than the man he was wronging. The negro knew lie was down? and wanted to get up, and we could’ always help a race when it appreciated the fact that it was down. It was comparatively easy to overcome the wcakncssesNof the negro race, but along with its spiritual and moral orowrth must go economical growth, as the foundation for its human life. If a negro burned down a house everyone heard of it, but if ten negroes built a house we never heard anything of it; if one white man killed a negro everyone know of it, but if ten white men helped and encouraged a negro every day no one heard of it.
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Evening Star, Issue 14529, 3 December 1910, Page 12
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194NEGRO DISABILITIES Evening Star, Issue 14529, 3 December 1910, Page 12
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