St. Paul daily globe., 1890-07-07
A COLORED EDUCATOR.
Chat With President Price, OF
Livingston College.

Livingston College.
]. G. Price. president of Livingston
college, which is located at Salisbury,
n c., is the most noted colored edu
Gator in the United States. He arrived
in this city yesterday morning and is at
present the guest of L. II. Lyles, at 604
Ashland avenue. He came here to at
tend the National Educational associa-
ton, and is OH the programme for one
of the principal addresses on Thursday
evening. On that evening he and SEN
ator Blair (author Of the Blair educa
tional bilD will discuss 1.-The Race
Problem"
President Price is man of strong
physical proportions, and is at home in
the discussion of general topics. He
conyerses f1uently and in highly in
telligent manner. Education is the
only possible solution of the race prob
lem," said he last evening while con-
versing with a GLOBE representative.
During the course of an informal talk
on matters in general, he said: 1.-The
South needs more education among the
negroes as we'll as the illiterate whites !;
it also needs skilled labor and capital.
The new South has not come, but it has
dawned. Men are usually slow to ac-
cept new condition of things. It may
take 100 years to bring the South up to
the standard of recognizing the civil
equality of all men, but the time will
come through the medium of education" :"
He said he anticipated no race con-
hict, because intelligent people in the
South recognize and concede political
and civil rights to men irrespective of
06Ir0otiAn of tha IItitnrnta a
classes would remove the prejudiceS of
that class. While not advocating social
equality, he thought that the distinc-
ton against colored people i'll relation
to civil rights should be discarded. He
believes that much will be conceded in
time. Said he: ''The South has grown
much more liberal, in political sense.
within the past four years. Men of
wealth and education are doing much
to remove race prejudice" He spoke
of several. Among them are Democrats
who favor the obliteratiOn of race lines
in politics. He believed the time is
coming when all classes of whites liz
the South Will recede from the position
taken after the freedom of the negroes,
and will take a stand that will accord
the colored people the same rights that
the whites claimed in travelling on rail
road trains, at hotels, eating stations and
elsewhere. He said that the people of
the North should push education in the
South.
1.-The Democratic party has an oppor-
tunity to break the c0lored vote into a
thousand pieces" said he. ''lf they
will go to the c0iored people and frank
ly say they are in favor Of eleeting the
best men to office and ask the colored
people to vote that way, they will meet
with hearty response" Mr.. Price
said the colored people are making
rapid progress, and they are making
money-at least the progressive portion
of them are. They are disposed to live
in the South. as they love the country
for several reasons. Among the rea-
sons are the following: 1t is the seat of
race strength. The lands are cheap
and homes can be secured. Many of
the eolored people are becoming the
owners of homes. There is the nucleus
of new civilization there that
makes it desirable place to
live. The colored people there now
have fair educational advantages and
are apt pupils. There are 10000 or So
900 of them in benevolent schools. MI.
Price said that these schools should be
kept up and their capacity and facili-
Ties improved. lu6 ueGu vi SUOu
schools for both whites and negroes in
the South should receive more atten-
ton. He said that he enjoyed all the
political rights he desired in North
Carolina. but there are sections where
the colored people have some fears of
political and civil intolerance.
When asked about the college of
which he is president. Mr.. Price said: ::
81 was given charge of Livingston col
lege in 1882. We had three students
and three teachers. We now have 237
students and twelve professors. l
raised the first $4,000 in England, and
with that | bought forty acres of land
for the institution. We now nave fifty
acres of land and property worth $780,
600. The coIored people pay $4,000 a
year toward the expense OF running
the college. Senator Stanford. q. Z.
Huntington and others have donated
funds to the institution. and it is now
in good condition"
President Price refused the appoint
ment OF minister TO Liberia by fresi-
de MT Cleveland at q salary OF s5,ooo a