The sun., 1889-11-30
DIR. DEPEW TALKS FOOTBALL.
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Prssident Depew Says It HTustn's Happsu
Again. Even NJ It lie Rredesttnated-sOiv-
ingnthe Negrs Question Before Supper.
Both the Yale and Princeton football
elevens left town yesterday afternoon. They
were little the worse for their scrimmage.
George. the Princeton centre rusher. will have
to limp around on crutchos for time.
The Yale men take their third defeat philo-
sophically. They say II was fair and square
boat or at least the fairost and squarest that
they ever had. There is feeling among the
Yale alumni that the defeat was not altogether
bad thing. 1T will take the conceit out OF the
boys" said q graduate. Neither undergradu-
ates nor alumni favor Yales withdrawal from
the intercollegiate League. II for no other
reason, the Yale men feel that they must stay
in the League to get share Of the receipts
from the annual Thanksgiving games. The
expenses of maintaining football eleven as
than half met By the T6anEsElvinR game here
Yale Sumni a, TSSG last svo1ns. r. and
1t was rather small party that sat down under
.Rs SSs os had SSon an
tunity TO dispose OF some 400 histories Of the
Yale dinner last gFns IN q S
iisSers sS PEEP The i %Ontbcd pfssldspt gs:
GSSnoS GSg to Dispose yop6sS each
which In the light OF the football match. seom.
zion &c 10 wtS Ts botR the boofs and the defeat he
said that the latter was due to the failure to
S e. sthscd hs To So dscns %ai s% n So e.
temperature. He said that the Executive
Committee. previous to the reunion. bad dis-
dell Hoimes had talked about the sands Of
men so; got into into the mud Of BerFeley oval they
doi fheap apon The result OF tho match as
blessing" Continued the orator. The follows
have 6een e. suffering from shs big
elevens, eIS when the Yale men came to town ON
the Princeton men were put to bed at o'clock
and tucked in BY. classmates or by the class
tie iii'v9 opposed p to monopoly, and feared Yale
was forming, an athletic trust For the present
s % dnE'r n eSerghnf S a s oo
E'T6e Rev. NJ vnndyke. the Princeton repre-;
tare and alluded dIsparaginGIy to Yele's devo-
result OF the football match as one OF the pre-
pan IT, As La says to e9p
isto be damned. and next year there must be
no occasion for explanation,", o,.,
the football match, and other things and then
MIR. Depew. in q short account OF his recent
trip South, had this to soy:
"The negro is better treated in the South
than here. There is no prejudice against him
as an industrial factor. but the Southerners can
not give up their idea that he has not the capa-
blitfes OF an American citizen. They believe
that education would unfit him for his condi-
tions and render him dangerous 70 society;
They think that II he got control Of political
power it would lead to cqqIRstscati0n Of properly
recognize the value Of the negro as
lahorer. they dread him as po-
tent factor. for mischief "a their midst.
II may be that We have erred in giving the
negro the franchise. but 1t cannot now be
taken away. AS we are responsible for this
condition OF things we should supply remedy.
The national Government should undertake
the care and education Of the negroes.
Wherever there Is a Post ONCE Il should es-
tablish q postal savings bank In which tho
negro could receive nall interest for his
savings. This would render. him Industrious
and thrifty. and with such education as could
be got at the common school, com bned with
religion. would make OF him good citizen. and
the negro question would be solved. Now let's
MI Depew's second speech concluded the
symposium on football and the negro and the
rest OF the evening was devoted to drinking
confusion to Princeton.