BLACK AND WHITE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 28 October 1921, Page 8

BLACK AND WHITE

PRESIDENT HARDING CAUSES A SENSATION.

BY CABLE—PBEBB A.SSOCIATIOtf-COBYBIGHT I Received Oct. 28, 9 a.m. . NEW YORK, Oct. 2G. President Harding created a sensation in the course of a speech at Bir- • mingham,. Alabama, concerning the status of the negro. Few Republican Presidents ever had so enthusiastic a reception in the South as has been accorded to President Harding, but when, he began to speak at Birmingham he stirred the old civil war issues. The segregated negro section of the audience cheered vociferously, but the whites remained stonily silent. The' President said he did not advocate racial equality. Rather he stressed the impossibility and undesirability of it, but he said1 politically and economically there need be no occasion for the great , permanent differentiation, provided that on both sides there is recognition of absolute divergence in things social . and racial. "I would say, let the black ' man vote when he is fit to vote, and prohibit the wjyte. man when he is un- , nt. \ would usust> upon enual educational opportunity for both* men and women of both races, but would stand uncompromisingly against every sugges- I tion of social equality. This is not a question of social equality, but a ques*V°* , of jeefmnising fundamental, eternal, and -inescapable differences, preventing racial amalgamation. There cannot be a partnership of the races -developing the highest aim of all the ends which we have set for it, the black man should be encouraged to be tht k ? P°s. B'ble. Mack man, and not man " " P°sslble ™»tjitioii of the white