The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-06
PROGRESS OF THE NEGRO
STRONG sPEECHEs IN FAVOR OF
EDUCATION.

Northern Teachers Declared Not in
Danger of Ostracism In the South If
They Don't Advocate Social Equality.
President Hickman Advises Avoid
ancs of Political Controversies.
LAKE MoHoNK. N. Y, June 5.-The
fourth session Of the Lake Mohonk negro
conference was marked by a spirited but
fraternal debate on the race question. Rev.
A L. Phillips, southern delegate, made q
ringing speech in favor Of the education OF
the negro. The time bad
CONS when northern teachers would
no longer be ostracized by the southern
whites. He urged, however, that northern
teachers, while maintaining business rela-
ticns with the colored people. should main
tain social relations only with the whites
Rev. DR.. Hall of Brooklyn. as a southern
man, disputed this position.
PLANTING THE RED FLAG.
President Hickman of Atlanta University
did not believe in Haunting the red flag. He
advocated the avoidance Of political irrita-
tion.
John Glenn Of Baltimore read a paper
favoring compulsory education Of the
negroes.
At the fifth session President Woodworth
OF Tougaloo University, Miss, gave a val
liable paper on the economic conditions of
the colored people in Mississippi, which he
thought were better than in any other state.
ibis was largely because the people were
essentially an agricultural people.
NEGROES IN THE PROFESSIONS.
There were six colored physicians In the
CT fnkn ala ali nr,A .s..
yers. One Of them has many white clients.
In the country he should say that per
cent. own homes, and in the city about 20
per cent. He repontsd gain ia respect 10
temperance. He urged that the productive
capacity OF tho negro should be increased
by education. "Train the girls In house,
hold economy; provide facilities for saving
and investment"
AS SMALL LAND OWNERS.
Prof. Clark Of Smith College, Massachu-
setts, showed that the negro is best adapted
TO become the owner OF small piece of
land under hard conditions He believed
that fhe great negro problem, il we
put right construction upon the
forthcoming volume of the census,
was practically solved. 1t is in the
nature Of democracy that the labor vote
should count. He looked TO sec the negro
brought to the polls in coach and four.
He had expected that suffrage would come
to the negro before he was ready for 1t.
The president OF the conference, Ruther-
ford B. Hayes, spoke in favor of national
education.
THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
The conference, at its closing session,
adopted the following Recommendations
for which 1t suggests thai the friends Of the
negro, north and south, should labor in
union.
/. The accomplishing Of the education OF the
negro by the states themselves and further
developments OF means and methods to this
end until all the negroes are creditably trained
in the primary SCHOOLS
2. Largely increased support OF the schools,
aided by private benevolenoe, which shall sup
ply teachers and preachers for the negroes.
8. The grounding OF these teachers and
preachers in common English studies and In the
English Bible with further opportunity for any
of them to carry on these studies as far as they
may desire.
t. The greatest extension Of industrial educa-
tion for both men and women.
s. The encouragement OF secondary schools
established, maintained and conducted by
negroes.
negro households as possible, with an increase
In the number Of decent houses to replace the
old one-room cabin.
T. The establishment by the government of
postal savings banks by which the negroes can
be encouraged to save their earnings until they
can purchase homes.
g. Aid of public education by the national
government for the special benefit OF those sec
tions in which illiteracy most prevails.
The removal Of all the disabilities under
which negroes labor by the sure forces Of edu-
cation, thrift and religion