Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-21
THE RACE ISSUE.
Chauncey M. Depew Has Some
thing to Say on the PrOblem
He Thinks Education and Saw
ings Banks Would Solve 1t.

Hsw the Church In the South Might Lend
AHelping Hand in the Great Work--The
Place for observation-disclosures from
= Speech Made Before an Alumni Asso-
citation In New York CITY.
New YORK, April 21.-Chauncey NJ.
Depew presided at the regular monthly
meeting Of the New York Association OF
the Yale Alumni, at Delmenico's, and
made an impromptu speech upon the
south, touching upon some of the things
he had seen during his recent trip tc
Florida. In discussing the race problem
he said education and accumulation
would solve it, as it would remedy the
evils of New York city's bad govern
ment. There are in New York, he
thought, 100000 persons as ignorant and
illiterate as any negroes in the south.
He heard more about Sherman's march
to the sea and the Battle of Lookout
Mountain during his trip than anything
else. Sherman's march. he believed,
win live longer in the memories of the
people of the south than any other ac-
complishment of the civil war.
In relation to the negro question, Mr..
Depew said:
1.-THE negro is not badly treated in the
south so far as his physical relation to
the community in which he lives Ia CON
cerned. II he leaves politics alone he Is
treated probably better than he is here,
because he has opportunities in the south
which he has not here, One of the sad
dest things that happen TO me are visits
of educated negroes TO my Office, who
come to me complaining that there Is
nothing for an educated negro to do in
New York. There is a large section in
the south who say, solve the race prob
lem by picking the whole population up
and carry them to the islands of the sea,
to Central America, to Africa. But
the more intelligent southern people
the ones not moved by theories or by
any speculation, but who are
facing the problem of the de-
velopment of their state-say the me-
groes must stay. Eight-tenths of the
community say, We cannot get along
without them, aud then the question
comes which nine-tenths don't know
how to solve; how to get along with
them, The two forces which seem 10
be working-and they are the only two
which are working-for any solution of
the question, are education and the ac-
QUESTION Of property. Education IL
rapidly solving the problem in the way
and at the same time throwing difficult
ties in another way. Supplement educa-
ton with the church-and the negro is
immensely susceptible to Christian influ
ence--and force upon him moral intlu-
ences which come from the sentiment Of
the community which sits down upon
and frowns upon anything not of high
moral character, and add to that the nc
QUESTION of property, and wherever that
exists find the problem solved.
"A man with So, 900 can go to the leg
islature and sit in the municipal council.
They are happy to have him do it. They
have confidence in him But the diff
Guilty is in accommodating money, for In
money matters the negro trusts nobody.
believe 1t to be the imperative duty Of
this government to establish postal
savings bank in every postofiice In the
south. Applause. i believe that
system with provision for interest to
encourage to deposits should be formu-
lated, so that the negro of the south who
has 81 will, instead Of going without
work until that dollar is spent, deposit 1t
in a savings bank and redouble his work
10 get an0 her dollar to add to it. APP
plause.
In closing Mr.. Depew said "The net
result of this visit to the south, to my
mind is Just this, that the south is the
bonanza of the future. We have ievef-
oped all the great and sudden oppoituni
ties for wealth, or most of them, in
our northwestern states, and on the Pa
cific slope. But here, say vast coun-
try, with the best climate in the world,
with conditions of health which are alb
solutely unparalleled, with vast forests
untouched, with enormous veins OF coal
and iron, which have not known any
thing beyond their original conditions,
with soil, that under proper cultivation,
for little capital, can support tremen-
dous population; with conditions In the
atmosphere for comfortable living, win
ter and summer, which exist nowhere
else In the country; and that Is to be the
attraction for the young men, who,
going out from the farms 10 seek other
farms, and in the settlement not by inn
migration from abroad--for ! do not
think that that will go that way-but by
the internal immigration from our own
country IL is to become in time, and ia
our time, as prosperous as any other sec
ton Of the country, and as prosperous
by @ purely American development
loud and prolonged cheers.