The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-04
VISITING IN NEW HAVEN
CHARLES STEWAItT 4 NOTED PRESS
CORRESPONDENT.

hAs views ms 10 the COlOreu race hh Ah'
South-Has Made II Study of the SUBJ
ject-The south the Best Place for the
Nesro-He VIII Develop and Prosper
There-Lifo and Property Must be
Made safe-The Good and the Bad.
Chasles Stewart of Chicago, perhaps
one of the best known negro newspaper
correspondents in this country, is in the
city the guest of Rev. A. Clayton Pow
ell, and will lecture Tuesday night at
the Emanuel Baptist church on Race
Builders
Mr.. Stewart was for a number of
years on the editorial staff of the Chica-
go Dispatch, was connected with the
editorial department Of the Chicago In
ter-Ocean. He travels during the year
writing for some of the leading papers
In the country, also the Associated
Press. He spends most of his time in
the south among the negroes, and try
ing as near as possible to better their
condition. He is well pleased with the
condition of his people in this country,
and to a representative of this paper
he declared that the south was the best
place for the negro.
"The south is all right" he said, land
the trouble is with few people in it,
The negros future in this country is in
the south with all it's faults, and he had
just as well make up his mind that he
is going to get it out. His labor has
made the south what it is to-day. and
it is surprising to see the friendly re-
lation between the two races. They
are getting together, in fact they have
been together all the time
1.-THE fact that you pick up a paper
often and see where a negro has been
killed in the south or lynched is not
sign that the race is going back, not
by any means, and you would not think
so if you could only visit their homes,
see them in business, study their social
life Lynching should be stopped the
laws ought to be made strong enough
to stop it or the law making called to-
gether to enact laws that is sufficient to
punish every criminal.
1.-THE south will have to value law
and order higher and punish every man
who dares to violate the law. They
must know that the man who breaks
into jails, takes from the custody Of the
law poor defenseless men, takes their
lives in manners which are inhuman,
they are the worse criminals and de-
serve punishment
do you think this will be done?"
Yes; it will have to be. The people
are getting together now The south
can never build UP until it is done
and the sooner the better. When life
and property are safe, then the negroes
will build better homes, will improve
the towns, and help materially to build
up the country. There is no part of the
country that furnishes us better oppor-
tunities to live than the south. That
is they have more avenues opened to
the wage workers. The poor negro is
given an opportunity to work if he de-
sires and earn money enough to take
care Of himself and family. He cleans
the railroad trains, works on the rail
roads, tills the soil, does all the laboring
work, cooks the food waits on the tables,
nurses the children, clerks in stores as
we'll as porterS. He is mechanic, totes
the mail, in many of the cities in the
south as well as the north, in fact all
the branches of industry and manual
labor are opened to him and he goes on
living in the south.
He should strive to keep his hold in
the south. He is doing it too, for they
are becoming skilled in the various
branches of manual labor The A. and |
M. college, for negroes at Normal, Ala,
Of which Prof w. H Council is prin- |
cipal, doing it's part. Council in prin- |
born a slave, sold through the famous |
Richmand slave pen, carried south, and |
Is now one Of the greatest educators of |
his race In this country. In his school |
the negro is taught how to do all kinds |
Of work as well as given college edu-
cation. To him and Booker T. Wash
ngton I take off my hat for they are
the negro for the future
Governor Johnston of Alabama says
hat it is not race problem in the
south, but an individual problem, and
he negroes must work out their future
rs individuals and not as race. ! be-
ieve this to be true, and urge our young
men to prepare to do this one thing.
.'In all parts of this country we have
rood and bad negroes. We are not all
saints, and it should not be expected
t has required nearly 5000 years to
make a good white man and he is not
perfect yet; than you need not expect
he negro to be perfect in less than for
y years. You have some able negroes
n this city, but you do not measure the
whole race by them These men who
re successful physicians lawyers.
PREACHERS or business men are looked
lpon and respected by the white peo-
lie of this city. The good servant has
is place, and if he is beyond the ordi-
lary he is so respected. You see it is
hen the individual. If all negroes were
Ike Dr. Powell and others the condition