The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-03
AFRICA THE NEeRo's HOME.
BISHOP TURNER SAYS THEY SHOULD
ALL GO THERE.

VIII Never Consent That the Ne
gro Shall BE Anything But an In
feriOr-The Negro Can Take the
White Mans Civilization to Africa
ana Improve Upon II, He says-The
Government should Appropriate
Money to Transport the Negroes
There-He Denies the Stories About
the Liberian Emigrants and Says
Those There Now Are Doing We'll.
Bishop H. n. Turner of the African
Methodist Church addressed the congrega-
ton Of st. Philips a. NJ. E. Church, at
Ford's Hall, last night. Bishop Turner'S
address was merely a general discussion
of matter Of interest to his audience. in
GLIDING church, mission, and educationa
work among the co.ored peope.
Bishop Turner is a forcible speaker and
man OF much influence among his peo-
/ pie as Wen as of repute among the white
people of the South. He has achieved
considerable note by his advo acy Of whole
sale emigration of the colored people to
Africa as the only solution Of the negro
problem in this country. and dwelt as some
length upon this subject in his address last
night He took active part in the
work Of the International Migration Com
Dany which sent several shiploads of ne
groes from Savannah to Liberia three or
four years ago. The reports as to the I'll
success of these emigrants are discounted
by Bishop Turner, who asserts that many
of the emigranis are now doing well in Ii
IBERIA.
hon uVs,~,
spending some time in Liberia, and also
making tour of South Africa. II found
n number of the emigrants who left Sa-
Vannah in Liberia" said Bishop Turner,
when seen by a Morning News reporter
''They are back in the interior some dis
lance from the coast and are engaged
! chiefly in agriculture. Many Of them are
doing well in thes growing of coffee and
ginger, both of which are very profitable
| crops"
How about the reports brought back by
| some of these returned emgrants of
their hardships there and the number who
had died?' Bishop Turner was asked.
1T is simply the same old story that we
read in the history of the settlement of
every new country" replied the bishop.
Go to The British Museum in London, and
read there the reports sent back by the
early colonists who came to America and
see in what dark colors they painted the
conditions. Some of those very reports
We're from Savannah and they told a hor-
rible story of destitution and suffering and
the fearful climate which they declared
could not be borne by Europeans. Similar
reports were sent from Massachusetts and
other colonies. There was no doubt some
foundation for the reports 1t is always
a difficult matter 10 become accus-
toned to a new climate. Why,
even take a person coming from Atlanta
to Savannah has to become acclima ell.
| Coast climates are always very trying.
The early colonists found it so in America
and our negro colonists have simply expe-
renced the same thing in Liberia They
have found that they do better back in the
interior and those who have gone earnestly
to work are doing we'll 1t is true that
some have died and that others have re-
turned to this country. This was only to
be expected. Many of those who went out
We're not fit for colonisls. They were
worthless in This country and proved equal
| " worthless in Liberia
Then you are as firmly of the opinion
as ever that Africa is the true home Of the
negro and that the sooner he returns
there the better?"
81 am more strongly of that opinion than
ever" the bishop replied. God sent the
/ negro to this country in bondage, that
he might learn Christianity and clviliza-
ton from the white man. Now that he
has learned these things it is his duty to
go back to his own country and estab-
| lish there civilization of his own. He
can never accomplish anything in this
| country. Our government inculcates the
principles of liberty and equality The
negro imbibes these principles from the
white men. he is taught them in the his
| tory of the country and in all the ac-
counts of the early struggles of the col
onists. The white man teaches the negro
these principles directly and indirectly.
] and fbpO 10 oh no mt !,
ing but an inferior. The white race has
the wealth and the power, and it VIII
never consent that the negro shall stand
upon plane of equality with it. OBJ
viOusiy, the only thing for the negro to
do, if he has the good of his race at heart.
is to seek a country where a negro is the
equal of the best. Liberia is the negro 3
country. 1t has negro president, ne
gro officials, negro generals and colonies
and lawyers and doctors and teachers. 1t
is the only genuine negro republic and the
| only country where the negro is offered
the opportunity to work out his own sal
Vat.On free from mOlestation by the white
man"
DO you think the history of Liberia
shows the capacity of the negro for self
government" Bishop Turner was asked.
do you believe that he can take the civ
inzaticn of The white man to Africa nnd
maintain it there a it's present standard ~
He can not only maintain the white
mans civilization there. but he can i'm
prove upon it," asserted Bishop Turner
I'm the whole of Liberia. with its $50 miles
of coast line, extending back $50 miles into
the interior, you cannot find single sa-
loon Show me a single white republic
of which this can be said. The govern
mont Of Liberia is not ouly being success
fully con lucted, but il IS making progress
and is destined to make sull further prog
! ress."
DO you not believe that It is a practical
impossiblity 20 transport the 100000 of
negroes in the United States to Africa,
even if all the navies of the world were
put at this work?' Bishop Turner was
asked.
Il understand all that" he replied. Il
have never advocated that any such at
tempt should be made all at once. The
movement would extend over a long pc.
riod of years, forty years, perhaps and
even then we would not take all We do
! not want all Some are not fit for colo