Dr.  Moton  was  everywhere  received  with  cordiality  and
enthusiasm.  He  was  shown  marked  courtesies  by  railroad
officials,  city  and  town  officers,  teachers,  doctors,  lawyers,
and  business  men.  The  object  of  the  Mississippi  tour  was  simply
to  add  to  the  racial  good  will  which  already  exists  in  that  State
and  to  indicate  to  white  and  colored  citizens  what  can  be  done,
here  and  now,  to  make  Mississippi  all  that  it  should  be.
How  men  can  live  side  by  side  in  mutual  peace  and  help-
fulness,— ^this  was  the  big  theme  of  Dr.  Moton's  illuminating,
incisive,  and  prophetic  addresses  at  Brookhaven,  Hattiesburg,
Meridian,  Jackson,  Tougaloo,  Utica,  Clinton,  Alcorn  Agricul-
tural and  Mechanical  College,  Port  Gibson,  Greenville,  and
Mound  Bayou.  Dr.  Moton  said  that  mutual  service  must  un-
derlie all  prosperity  and  progress.  He  tried  to  accomplish
three  results  in  all  his  addresses;  namely  (1)  to  make  clear  to
white  citizens  that  thinking  colored  people,  rank  and  file  as
well  as  leaders,  understand  their  own  weaknesses  and  are
willing  to  face  their  shortcomings  squarely  with  a  view  to
getting  rid  of  them;  (2)  to  disabuse  white  men's  minds  of  any
anxiety  that  the  success  of  colored  people  will  mean  the  defeat


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in  any  way  of  white  men;  and  (3)  to  put  on  the  minds  and
hearts  of  all  white  citizens  the  things  that  are  happening
every  day  before  their  eyes — things  unlawful  and  things  law-
ful but  unfair  and  unjust — which  create  misunderstanding,
irritation,  and  race  friction  and  which  white  citizens  can —
and  will — remedy,  when  they  stop  to  think.
