The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-18
soUTH'S SERIOUS QUESTION.
BIsHoP NELSON DEALS WITH THE
GREAT RACE PROBLEM.

suhfect which strikes Home to
Every Heart-Church Must Do Her
part in Bringing About a Change.
Religious and Technical Educa-
tim Needed-Muct Raise the Negro
In No Division of the Diocese
This Year.
Atlanta, May 1.-THE twenty-seventh
annual session OF The Episcopal Diocesan
convention of Georgia, began here to-day,
1sisbop c. X. Nelson presiding.
rlt event fthe day was The bishops
address which in part, dealt ~with the
live otsss,ion of the day. Under this divis-
ian og his address, he took up The race
piopitm, giving utterance TO the following.
"0ur last topic is nearest to US. We have
troiibles Of our own. Clearly paramount 10
an o.her questions of the state, or the ma
4fop is the disposition of the heritage be-
oueatbed to US by England the Dutch
and the New England states. before they
abandoned the iniquitous trade in human
lives. Their conversion comes too late to
ayerl The evils entailed upon our forefa-
tberg and US of this generation.
"It is too late 10 discuss the vengeance,
which time has wreaked under the opera
lion Of the act of emancipation, an euphen-
Ism for the most stupendous folly, to
which nation ever committed Itself, en-
utrug seven million children, under the
are of proper Judgment, discrimination or
any other qualification whatever 10 par
ticipate in American citizenship. Here they
are and here are we. a factor in the pro
portion of one-tenth of the population can
not exist in any civilization without per-
ceptibly affecting it. We are learning every
day that we must raise the negro or he
will drag us down. Are we raising him up?
Not a Political Query.
This is no political query to be avoid
ed in the pupits. 1t is pracucal re-
ligious and educational matter which we
q have no right to avoid, nay, cannot al
ford to avoid. Men are SO tired and dis
gusied with the present condition OF al
fairs that hey say, We cannot stand H.
n we VIII go to some other part of the
country where the race issue is unknown
N You cannot say 1t is the nations prob
Il lem, nor yours, nor mine, nor ours only.
ri Had the nation had the church set at
once about fitting these people for their
Z. place. we SuOQlQ DS SOlNllS llO ptOp4CiA
instead.
H Il do not assume that we have any
IA longer the opportunity of solving it, but
we must act; we must act whenever and
Ell wherever We can, guardedly and yet IN
tensely. l shall not weary YOU with a
discussion of theories of segrega, how TO
remove all the negroes in this country to
81. Arisona or Texas, or TO the city of Bos-
ton or Chicago; or deportation how TO
n to Afripa npOnlp ana their
progeny by the expenditure of S5O00OOO
and the use for twenty-five years of every
ship in commission that floats the Amer
lean flag; or exemption, as in the case of
the Indians, or the people who are as
much needed here in the South, as are
81 the Irish in New York. We viii leave
these debates to the platform and the
press. 1 shall endeavor to deal with it as
q a Christian preacher and a citizen.
E The Remedy Needed.
1.-THE immediate. necessity is for the
4 prompt and thorough exercise of justice
ana consideration, not ont3 in business re-
latons of every sort thus educating char
Al acter and exercising conscience as God
monitor in man, but justice as well
speedy and unerring in the punishment
Of criminals of every sort. We may resi-
assured That large measure of RESPONSE
btty for every outrage of black or white
"
ed justice. One implants the seed of dis
trust in this department of government
ana the growth iS rank, the fruitage ex
uoerant The haggiing over technicalities
the poStpOnement, under various preteXts
tne ready acceptance of the plea of in
sanity, the exasperatipg delays and not
able Derverslons, which are too familial
10 the eope Of our state, re not only
IloNofauoN hut are Ell ,ouragencnt Il
'n' people to form mbs. Debased law Il
ever the hotbed of violence, and misrule
ana anarchy, bloodshed and savagery, th
natural offspring of degraded and belateC
n justice
For tho protection of families separated
'I mics of prairie, marshes and woodland
some form Of constabulary or patrol woulc
seem 70 be the only safeguard now tha
the example of life and influence of civil
Zanons contact have been withdrawn a'
factors in the development of the negro
NO oiher method proposed can meet tht
Iequi' neuts. 1t is not so much the ac
NtF or watchfulness of the police which
renders cities cNparauvely safe, as tn,
tde. mat an organized army for the pro
'g4on of The peace exists, and can b.
'"i'et INTO action at short notice.
The Church Must Aid.
Lastly, and the fact which exposes III.
I,',,st and most neglect is the increas
GeUanJ, not upon the south ajone, bu
E. tAe nole nation and everybody o
o''.s'ans (among whom the church /
oilmeworthy), to supply facalitie
parting In combination re.igiou
-iI4 and technical knowledge suited L
o'.i-tcus and Environments of tn
oI iiliterate and unoccupied boy
~Iis who are now uncontrolled b,
: .' ana fed by idlSness and ignorance
'Iethren, the blaze of indgna ion
by the latest horrors of barbara
crime. may prove a blessing
. olrns Out some of the se,dshnes
"Ithho.ds the means to prosecut
"eIA Of Christian civilization in III
\ I' a',d the home, rather than in III
49," exhort you, men and women
ana lay. TO study hese method
L view Of adding your quota of in
TO provide the remedy and tha
may leave to your descendants Of th
'nerauon, not world, bul a stat
: 'nmunitles better than you foun'
eJer because you have lived ar