The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25

The Womans club is enjoying a two
weeks vacation during the holiday
season.
At the last meeting, Dec. Il, the at
tendance was not large owing to tie
unpleasant weather Though there
We're many vacant chairs, the enter
tainment of the afternoon furnished ty
the art and music and the social and
domestic science departments was en-
joyed by an apprFciative audience The
current events department under the
leadership of Mrs. NJ 6. MacNevin
presented q topic %The Race War in
the South which created such an in
teresting discussion that the president
yielded to the demand and extended
the time limit. The problem was not
discussed from the newspaper view en-
tirely, for participating were members
who We're born and raised in the sun
ny South, who had grown up in the
old slave regions, and are. therefore,
familiar with the negro character and
the prejudices of the two races.
Mrs, G. S. Colyar led the discussion
by giving a brief outline of the rece Il
trouble in North Carolina. Freedom
and the ballot have made the negro
insolent. 1t is impossible for a supe-
rior race to be domineered and ruled
by an inferior one, and there is no
doubt about the negro race being both
intellectually and morally inferior.
Probably the generations of oppression
to which he has been. subjected has
made him what he is. The solution
of the problem and the future of the
race has been summed up by eminent
thinkers in three different ways-ed-
ucation, emigration or legislation.
Booker Washington as leader of the
colered race. gives il as his opinion
that in education. industrial, moral
and intellectual, lies the only future Of
the negro race Mrs. Colyar also said
that there was an element in the South
far more degraded and troublesome
than the negro, and that Is made up of
what is commonly known as the poor
white trash
Mrs. E. c. Atwater and Miss Nash
We're supposed to defend the defense
less negro. Mrs. AtWatef confined ner
remarks to the educational phase of The
question but Miss Nash frankly adj
mitted that a Northerner who mad
never been in the South and knew
nothing of the actual conditions, was
not competent to pass judgment upon
either side: that it is q problem which
must be left to the South to work out,
ana she believed that all thinking peo-
pie of the North had confidence in the
ability of the Southern people to ul-
timately bring order out of chaos. Mrs.
Q. NJ. Hogsett said, as children, her
family were taught to be kind to the
eolored people and to respect the eyed
among them, but as far as social IN
tercourse between the two races Was
concerned. that could not be tolefat-
ed and for that reason she agreed With
Mrs. Colyar in opposing eo-edueatlols
of the races. In listening TO TINS dis
cussion the quiet thinker over IN the
corner unused upon the old shave days.
Certainly there were many causes Tor
complaint. much cruelty and hafd-
ships. but there were also much aTac-
ton and kindness, such affection 2nd
kindness as one has for the weak ard
helpless: and the thought came. NWas
it worth while the bloodshed, the sad
dened homes. the strife and bitterness
As far as the negro is concerned Inc
answer must come after the euuca-
tional forces are put 10 work. For the
Others. the new South which has pro-
duced an energetic. educated people,
must give answer that slavry was FAR
more the curse of the white than Of the
coloredr race.
Miss MacGinniss. a member of The
Matheon club of Chicago, was guest
at the Homer club recently. In COM
pliance with a request. Miss MacGin-
Mss spoke at some length on the work
of her club and other clubs in Chicago
The Mathenn is young girls cur
with membership of 300. One thing
they have established which has beer
of much benefit is a day nursery fol
poor children whose parents are en-
ployed during the day. Al first II was
difficult to get TIE children, the parents
looking upon the plan with doubt, hu
gradually they saw how much bette
it was for the children to be well ear
cd for during their absence than :
be left 10 amuse themselves In tht
streets or back alleys. A fee q
cents per day is charged It was in
tended when established that the nur
sery should be free 10 ali. but # *as
found that many of the families We're
ayerse 10 accepting what seSksd Ike
charity, therefore q sukA wa
charged The club apps 1ous..
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