The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-12
BLACK AND. WHITE.
Opinion of Supreme Judge
From the Lottery State
UPON THE NEGRO DIFFICULTY.
Freedmen Should Not Be Allowed to
Vote Until Able to Gead-The
Teachers Convention.

ST. PAUL, July 1I.-During the afternoon
the various departments of the teachers
association met for the last time this year.
The Kindergarten department elected for
president for the year Mrs. Eudora Hail
man, of La Porte, Iowa. H. S. Jones, of
Pennsylvania. was elected president
OF the department. of elementary
schools. The general topic of
The High School as a Finishing
School, was considered by the secondary
educational department.. III. Lee Sellers.
of Texas, and James H. Baker, of Colo
RADIO. read papers on general topics, and
others followed on special divisions.
The college department considered the
question of college administration. and the
matter OF raising the standard of colleges in
general. Committee reports were heard by
the department of industrial education and
manual training. Lewis McLouth, of
Brooklyn, s. D., was elected president.
Hon. Aaron Cove, of Denver, read paper
before the music department. advocating
music as regular part OF the required
school work and placing it on the same
ground with arithmetic and all other
branches
At the last session tonight Professor
the committee on resolutions They favor
moral training in the public schools;
recommend investigation of the White
Cross League literature: endorse the
American Humane Society; advocate
the teaching of ethics OF ,oli,ics;
approve compulsory education to
a limited extent; commend United States
Commissioner Morgans plans for Indian
sob. ~. .lrY To-,
and demand the repeal of all import du-
ties on books. A resolution regarding
spelling reform was referred to- special
committee to report next year. The race
problem was the subject for the evening
and the first address was by Judge Gumby,
OF Louisiana.
Judge Gumby, OF the Louisiana supreme
court, delivered an interesting address on
the race problem, which he said not only
concerns the South but the whole country
1t will not settle ITSELF 1t must not be left
alone. 1t demands thought and action if
We would solve it by bloodess revolution.
All the trouble in the South arises from
political jealousy of the negroes and from
the fear of the whites that negro rule will
be restored and utterly destroy the new
born progress of the South. The true
solution of the race problem on just
basis lies in restriction of the suffrage.
and the only just restriction is an
educational qualification. If the negro
was enabled to exercise the right of suf-
frage intelligently, all danger and appre-
henslon of raee trouble would cease. This
qualification should be adopted by
the government. and the government
should give the negroes the means
of education to qualify them for the bur-
dens and responsibilities of citizenship
which the government placed on them TO
subserve its own ends. Public educa.
ton is the peculiar and grandest destinc-
ton of the American nation, and ought
to be put in the national constitution.
The press should cease to be partisan in
the presence of this grave issue States
men should throw aside all temporary ex-
pedients and adjust the question on
basis just and fair and safe to both races.
PresidentJ. q. Price, of Livingstone col
lege, Salisbury, n. c., next delivered an
address on Education and the Race Prob
lem." President Prices address was an
eloquent one. He argued that negro free
dom would never be complete till the negro
becomes educated. The solution of the
problem is in granting 10 the negro all the
civil rights to which he is entitled
as a member of the human family.
The race problem is the natural outcome
of environment, and a change must be
made in the character OF that environment.
While educating the poor negroes the poor
whites in the South should not be neg
lected. President Garfield made a brief
closing talk, turning over the gavel to the
new president, w. 4. Garrett, who spoke
for moment, and then the thirty-fourth
annual convention of the National Educa-
ton Association adjourned.