The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-20

COLORED CATHOLICS
Convention Protests Against
Caste Distinctions in
Churches and In
stitutions.
ST. MIcHAEL's FINE HALL
Will Be Ready for the Entertain
ment Next Week St.
Bridget's Mission.
ST. MICHAEL'S FINE HALL

Last week colored Catholics held a
rousing reception in Baltimore. A large
number of delegates from this State
were present. The convention spent most
of its time in discussing the report OF
a Committee on Grievances, the prin-
cipal cause of complaint being the ale
CATION that unjust determinations are
made against the race in the churches,
DR.. w. S. Loftin. president of the con-
v~ention, alluded TO the matter under de-
bate in his annual address. He said in
part
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL WANTED.
81 have long advocated the establish
ment of an industrial and trade school
at Washington, and time has impressed
upon me more forcibly the need of such
an institution. Debarred from entering
a Catholic college because God has seen
fit to make our skins of a darker hue
than pleases the opposite race, discrim-
mated against alike by the traces
unions, we must either enter Protestant
-stitution established for our race,
thereby e-ndangering our youths to the
loss of their faith or let them remain
ignorant, the latter as great a NM
drance to our material and social ad-
vancement as the former Is disastrous
to the soul We hope to hail the day
when the American people, the hier-
1aity shall rise in their might ana
stamp out the prejudice which is today
destroying the life's blood of this coun-
try +o
clefsymen who are interested in the
work amon the colored people; Kew;
John A. de Ruyter, who has established
a fourishing industrial school at VIII
mington, criticised severely the trades
unions for determinations against the
colored people. Trade rs the only thing
for you" he said, land the Catholic
Church is the only force that can break
footing with other workingmen"
Rev: ]. F. Slatterg, PRESIDENT OF ST
dressed the convention. He said in
THE FUTURE BRIGHT.
THE colored man needs encourage
ment to well-doing, to ambition, to rise
above degrading circumstances. Neither
by nature nor by traditional training
can the colored people, taken as a podys
moral independence as their white
brethren. They need the whites and
the whites need them.
lou colored people need religion
not a religion which puts holiness and
sanctification in he wnirI and excite
ment of a camp-meeting or a revival,
but a religion which strengthens them
to be pure, to be honest, to love home,
~ NC SOOOAa
bright and glorious for the colored race,
centre in the Catholic Church"
a commission consisting of Robert n.
Wood, of New York, and S. K. Nc
Govern, of Philadelphia, who had been
appointed to go to Philadelphia and lay
before the meeting of archbishops there
the complaints of the convention re-
garding the drawing of the color line
in churches and institutions, departed
on their journey.
The committee appointed to take into
consideration the report of President
Loftin, reported through Secretary Nc
Chez. advocating the establishment of
g university and industrial school for
colored youths. The report stated that
Father Stephen, head of the Indian In
6ustrial Bureau at Washington, has at
his disposal a tract of $50 acres of land
near Washington which may be secured
for the purposes of an industrial school.
The Executive Committee of st. Peter
Clavers Union was instructed to try
and secure the property, and to take
steps for the establishment of the
school,, the convention having pledged
its support to the project.