The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-09
THE NEGRO'S FUTURE.
Mr.. Price Takes a Rose ColOred
View in His Tabernacle Ser mon.

The Rev. J. Price, president of the
Livingston College. Atlanta, Ga, de-
livered an interesting & address ST even
ing at the Tabernacle, on the .'Futur Of
the Negro" Mr.. Price is one OF the most
noted negro preachers in this country,
and many artic les on the negro question
have appeared over MS signature
in leading magazines. In the course
his address. he said:-
II am here tonight to answer to the
question Is there future for the negror
No question is more prominent before the
people of America today than the race
question The negro is the soul of this
question, and ! shall give you the truth as
/ feel il regarding the future Of my col
ored brethren. Now what do we mean
by the future OF the negrof We mean is
there a chance o. making the negro cui-
tured, intelligent, refined manf To at
tain this standard be must first have a
mind. II he has this, he can undoubtedly
be brought to this state of perfection.
'sThe Negro himself has little faith in
future looks back at the past. IL
is dark. d tn future is not particularly
bright. con >, however, that / have
more sanL. expectations. / rejoice as
look ahead IN this beautiful land, and
see the white winged messengers Of COM
merce on our rivers and our bays. / re-
joice when / see the steam cars pas
through our cities loaded with passen-
gers and freight. / rejoice when | see the
numerous factories employing thousands
of hands, / rejoice because live in such a
busy land; and now l ask what is the
power behind the sails and the engine. It
is the mind, and il the negro has a mind
then there is future for him. A good
many don't believe that he has a mind
They measure brains by the exterior fea-
lures and the color of the skin This Is a
false standard, as many have already
fOuDh mt Won rant measure mind nv a
yard stick.
''The negro has given unmistakable
evidence that he doe, possess this mind
power. We nave now learned colored pro-
fessors. learned coiored preachers and
learned coIored authors. In the last
twenty-years of freedom they have
taught him something. In the colored
universities OF to-day we are teaching
between thirty and forty thousand coli
ored children, and fifty millions of dollars
have been given in support OF these instl-
tutlons Would this large sum OF money
have been donated if there was proof
that he had no mind power Some people
look upon the negroes as a lazy. shiftless
lot afraid to work.
snow let us see. Up to twenty-five
years ago he has laoored necessarily.
while his master took things easy, and
the negro got the idea in his head that
freedom meant rest, and he has simply
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when he prayed for freedom was that he
would rest, and he has kept it. But of
late he has gone to work. He bought
land, built his cabin. and set to
WORK to acquire wealth. That he
has been successful is shown by glance
at the record of the condition OF the
negro's in my State, Georgia In Georgia
alone we have 100,0 900 negro voters. Thev
own 10000 acres of land worth so, ,000. .000
He had no rich ancestors, he worked for
what he got / predict more glorious
future. AT the end of the twentieth cen
tury we will have 100. 900. 900 negroes. In
1865 the census gave us, 100000 and
today we have over 50, ,0o0, ,O00. This
proves conelusively that the
negro is not dying out. Here
is where the problem comes. 1t he null
tipIies so fast what are you going TO DO
with him-iet MIN run around uneducat-
edr Think of the trouble they can cause
at an electionl
THE only salvation we have is in the
colleges, and thanks TO the Northern peo-
pie. they are putting their hands in their
pockets and helping us grandly."