Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1891-06-13
SATURDAY. JUNE 10. 1891.
NEGRO CONFERENCE.
Needs Of the ColOred Race
The South Discussed.
Views OF Experienced Educators on
The Question.

Mohonk Lake, N. Y, June 9Th.
The third session Of the Mohonk Ne,
gro Conference, met on the 3rd.
President Hayes 10 the chair. In
his opening address he qnoted freely
from the recent report of Rev. DIR.
Haygood. Declaring that the chap
ter as to the work and results in the
education of the Negro in America
was q success. Elk President Hayes
called attention to two facts pregnant
with good for the we'll being Of both
races in the South. First, commence,
manufacturing, mining. farming, and
other forms of enterprise are giving
the South all the material and prose
perity needed for highest civilization.
Second, the increase of the colored
population as shown by the recent
census. while it has been during the
last decade, healthful and normal it
is not excessive not such as to excite
the slightest concern as to the ulti-
mate good relations between the ra-
ces if continued by enlightened prin-
ciples. Let us with provide educa-
ton in its fullest, broadest sense for
the lately emancipated race in the
South.
Rev. Burrows of Boston d elivered
an address on his recent trip to the
South TO study the situation of the
Negro and to get the Negroes view
on the situation. His report was an
encouraging presentation Of the in.
dustrial, social, religious and ethical
development Of the Negro.
At the morning session Rev. A.
w. Pitzer, of Washington, D. C.
spoke as Southern man on what has
been done for the Negro in the South.
He declared that every door was
open 10 the negro both as citizen
and as a man. He showed how much
the white people were paying for the
Negroes education.
William Harris, U. S. States
Commissioner of education, gave a
table of statistics showing the pro-
gress in education in thirteen years.
While the white population had in
creased Is per cent, the school pop
ulation had nearly doubled. In case
Of the colored people it has more
than doubled. Harris urged that
all who gave the money for education
in the South should give it for pri-
mary education.
Gen. E. Whitney. of Washington,
spoke Of the increasing honesty Of
the colored people.
Miss Martha Schofeld, of the
Schofeld Normal and Industrial
School. at Aiken, S. c., spoke of the
present needs of Negroes.
Miss E. H. Botume, of Port Roy
al. S. G. spoke on the home life of
the colored people. The mothers,
she said used to be taught how to
take care of their children and the
children need discipline. The coli
ored people need to be taught make
virtue respectable and to make vice
disrespectable.
President Bumstead, Of Atlanta
University, said it was mistake to
suppose that the higher education
of the colored people was being ov.
erdone not over or at the most 10
per cent of them were getting it. II
was a mistake to forget that the
higher education of the few was con-
tributing most efficiently to the ele.
mentary education of the many.
Another mistake was to depreciate
higher education in favor of indus
trial training; another was to make
too much of the comical and grotes-
que side Of the Negro life and char
acter.
Morris K Jessup, Of New York,
the Treasurer Of the Slater fund,
emphasizes the Importance of :indus-
t.ial education. The Negro too" he
said, "must be taught to save" He
deprecated sectarianism which exists
in the educational work for the col
ored people.
President Hickman, of Clark Uni
versity of Atlanta, read thoughtful