The Portland daily press., 1899-05-23

six are located outside OF the borders OF
the former slave states.
Taking up the negro's relation TO law,
the speaker said:
"Just as is the case with his franchise,
so the negro is absolutely protected In his
life, liberty and property as IL the white
man. Violence is meted ont to the negro
for only such crimes as would bring q
white man to the same torturing end"
OF the negro's relations to society. the
speaker said that a negro preacher, dis
cussing the race problem, recently. said:
"Many people seemed afraid the negro
would at no distant day demand social
euuality.' He then said there need be
no fear on this point as he knew many
white men he would not allow to sleep in
his bed. "And so," observed ex-Gover.
nor Northern. I'VE are pretty well agreed
on bot h sides down South that social
equality IL not desired by either race and
IN my candid judgment, 1t will never
obtain"
Taking up the recent lynch ings, ex-
Governor Northern declared firmly his
opposition to mock law and stated he con-
demned the burning OF Sam II ose as
strongly as 1t WAS condemned by the
Northern press but that he condemned
the course of the Northern press with all
the vehemencs of an offended native. He
then read the head line put over the Hose
story by Northern paper In which the
words "Fiendish Brutality" Hum an
Devils" "Barbarism," and "Savages"
occurred, and said; "Not one word of
sympathy for a pure and virtuous wo-
man; her honor gone; her husband mur-
dered in her presence, she and her little
children dragged in the fresh warm blood
of the dying man. Surely in all the
North Is there no sympathy except for
negro! No kindly feeling and no tender
word for the defenseless women of the
South who carry with them living
shame, in n living death, In life all too
long for It's miseries, II 1t lasts but for
day"
In closing the speaker said: "Do you
ask me how these lynchings can be
stopped at the SOUTH Ianswer promptly
just as they can be stopped at the
North and in no other way. Stop the
outrages and the lyuchings will cease.
Continue the outrages and the lynchings
will always follow, regardless of threats
by the law, whether in Georgia, Mime
sofa, Illinois, Ohio or other states The
negro problem at the South will not be
settled n day. Step by step as IL
marches into the future of the nation, 1t
must be met by the conditions best suited
to the detail of its solution. What is
nee ded now, Is at least, toleration and
non lin nterferenoe, If the South Is to be-
come respons ible for results. Let me say
In conclusion that the relations between
the races at the South are in no sense.
alarming. Under God we will work out
the problem in a righteous settlement for
both races II We are left alone.
"Sam Hose is by no means, q represen-
tative of his race. 1t Is only a very small
per cent of negroes that are malicious,
criminal and mean. The race should
not suffer because of the bad character
of few. The better part of the negroes,
and this is by far the larger part. are be-
ginning to cooperate with the white peo-
nj a for be1ter conditions. "
Bishop Arnett had a hearty welcome
though the hour was late when he began
to speak of the black mans view, and
he abandoned his prepared address.
He made pleasant allusions to Boston
and to the debt of his race to the Con-
gregational body. Then he, reminded his
audience that while there Is one negro
brute whose crime has been so thrilling
ly told that there are millions who are
not brutes; many are true Christian men
trying to elevate their lace. The disa-
Qreenent between the Ex-Governor and
himself he said, is in their view Of the
principles Of civil government, the op-
posite ideas of civil liberty at Plymouth
Rock and at jamestown. He contrasted
the achievements of prominent white and
black men, and asked, which has trav-
elIed the farthest and achieved the most?
He was glad that Slater ana Peabody
had faith in the colored race, each to the
extent of one million dollars and their
faith begins to bear fruit in the great
number Of educated preachers and min
listers already elevating their race. The
oolored people, in feeding and clothing
their children while in school. do far
more than the whites to pay the teachers; /;
they are doing pretty we'll for 700 years
of servitude. So far as the negro's power
of organization is concerned, his church
organization as Methodists alone, with
81 conferences in the United States and
half as many more outside, shows that
he lis growing. The mass of the
negroes, he said, are mbitious to be men,
they see their duty and eare disposed to
be cordial and harmonious with ell who
wish them we'll.