The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-25

The Woman's club is enjoying a two
weeks vacation during the holiday
season.
At the last meeting. Dec. IA, the at
tendance was not large owing to the
unpleasant weather. Though there
were many vacan chairs. the enter
tainment of the afternoon furnished by
the art and music and the social and
domestic science departments was en-
Joyed by an appreciative audience. The
current events department under the
leadership of Mrs. NJ. G.. MacNevin
presented a topic. THE Race War i'm
the South which created such an in
teresting discussion that the president
yielded tn the demand and extended
the time limit. The problem was not
discussed from the ~wsp view en-
tirely, Tor participating were members
who were born and raised i'm the sun
ny South, who had grown up i'm the
OLD slave regions, and are, therefore.
familiar with the negro character and
the pretudices of the two races.
Mrs. g. 5. Colyar led the discussion
by giving a brief outline of the recent
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
thinker in three different ways-ed-
ucation, emigration or legislation.
Booker Washington. as leader of the
colered race, gives it as his opinion
that i'm education, Industrial. moral
and intellectual. lies the only future of
the negro race. Mrs. Colyar also said
that there was an element i'm 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. Il. c.. Atwater and Miss Nash
were supposed to defend the defense
less negro. Mrs. Atwater confined ner
remarks to the educational phase of The
question, but Miss Nash frankly ad-
mitted that a Northerner who nad
never been i'm the South and knew
nothing of the actual conditions. was
not competent to pass judgment upon
either side; that it is a problem which
must be left to the South to work out.
and she believed that all linking peo-
pie OF the North had confidence i'm the
ability of the southern people to ul-
timately bring order out Of chaos. Mrs.
o.. Nj. Hogsett said. as children. her
family were taught to be kin TO the
colored people n to respect the aged
among them. but as far as social in
tercourse between the two races was
concerned. that could not be tolerat-
ed, and for that reason she agreed with |
Mrs. Colyar in opposing ~-educat
of the races. In listening to this dis
cussion the quiet thinker over i'm The
corner unused upon the old slave days.
Certainly there were many causes for
complaint. much cruelty and hard
ships. but there were also much affac-
ton and kindness. such affection and
kindness as one has for the weak and
helpless; and the thought came, was
II worth while. the bloodshed. the sad
dened homes, the strife and bitterness? |
As far as the negro is concerned the
answer must come after the educa-
tional forces are put to work. For the
others, the new South which has pro-
duced an energetic. educated people.
must give answe that slavry was far
more the curse of the white than of the
colored race.
Miss MacGinniss. a member of The
Matheon club of Chicago. was a guest
the Homer club recently. In CON-
pliance with a request, Miss MacGin-
Miss spoke at some length on the work
her club and other clubs in Chicago.
The Matheon is a young girls club
with a membership of 800. One thing
they have established which has been
OF much benefit is a day nursery for
poor children whose parents are en-
during the day. At first II was
difficult to get the children. the parents
upon the plan with doubt. hut
gradually they saw nov much better
IL was for the children to be well car
for during their absence than TO
be left to amuse themselves i'm the
streets or back alleys. a fee of )
rents per day is charged. 1t was in
tended when established that the nur-
sery should be free TO all. but II was
found that many of the families were
averse to accepting what seemed like
therefore a small fee was
The club appoints the house
committee. which serves one year and
ooks after the management. selecting
members to help from time to time.
The members also do work in connec-
ion with the Hull house. Hull house
vas originally a beautiful old mansion.
As the city grew it became undesirable