The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-06-15
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Bishop Turner Says That Liberia il
the Place for the Negro.

Bishop Turner Says That Liberia is
the Place for the Negro.
From the New York SUM-
Bishop H. E. Turner, of the African
NJ E. Church, the leading advocate
of returning the black man to Africa,
arrived in the city on the Umbria on
Sunday. He left Africa on May 3rd.
He represents the Liberian Govern
ment and will go to Washington
to see Mr. Cleveland He will then
go to his home in Atlanta.
The Bishop has been visiting the set
Element of the Cambria River, Sierra
Leone and Liberia On the Cambria
and in Sierra Leone, he says, most
of the black men from this country
are doing we'll.
Thousands of them" he said,
''are keeping stores, raising coffee,
and engaged in all the occupations
of the country"
Those who do not succeed either
lack the physical activity and
strength to compete with the native
blacks or lack self-reliance. Such
men go there expecting to live by
mental service, hoping to find some
one to hire them as they were hired
here. They can't compete in that
market with the natives.
Il can hire men there for twenty
five cents a day who will do twice as
much work i'm a day as one of our
blacks. Promise a man the proper
payment to deliver q message for
in twenty four hours.
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gress that l could wish. 1t needs
new blood, and blood ought to go
from this country. for the reason
that European nations have par
celled out Africa from North to
South among them, and Liberia is
the only place on the face of the
globe left for the black man to build
up for himself a civilized and en-
lightened State, and demonstrate to
the world his ability for self-govern
ment. | believe he has it. In the
Unifed States he has no future ex
cept as mental"
Southern States Magazine for June.
The article of most timely interest
in the June number of The Southern
States magazine is a critical paper
on Jefferson Davis and His Cause"
by James r. Randall, the author of
my Maryland" who views the
events in the life of the late leader of
tie Confederacy in a dispassionate
manner, but with the sentiments of
an ardent Southerner. The opening
/ article in the magazine is concise
statement OF the chief characteristics
of the State of Georgia, by Hon. w.
| j. Northen, governor of that State.
The Woman's College of Balti-
MORE" by Frank Roscoe Butler, is a
beautifully illustrated article about
one Of the youngest and yet one of
the most rapidly progressing
woman's colleges in this country.
j. Stephen Jeans, the well known
statistician and writer on economic
subjects contributes a British view
of Southern Progress and Pros
pects," in which he analyses the
statistics of Southern progress and
points out the inevitable future
| supremacy Of the South in certain
great industrial lines. The first of a
series of camera trips through the
South by II. S. Fleming presents
charming views of a few OF the
picturesque elements of the country
lying along Walden's Ridge in Ten
nessee. The Illustrations in this
issue of the Southern States are of a
high order of excellence and form a
striking feature of the magazine. AS
the only distinctively Southern pop
ular magazine, the Southern States
seems to be filing field that is new
and untouched 1t is published by
the Manufacturers Record Publish
I ing Company, Baltimore, at fifteen
cents per copy, 81 so per year.
The Financial Situation Not So Bad
From the Baltimore Sun.
The falling of wheat at Chicago to
the lowest price in forty years caused
foreigners to buy enormous guam
titles of grain. These purchases
were made with drafts on London,
with the result that gold exports
have ceased. Foreign capital already
here has ceased for the present, at
least, to go abroad, the PRESIDENT
announcement of his purpose to con-
vene Congress in September having
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