The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-09
NEGRO QUESTION DISCUSSED.
,poaE NEW YORK SOCIETY OF
ETHICAL CULTURE.

.inr Address Made by Presi-
dent w. H. Baldwin, Jr., of the
lang island cIusiOn
yoocbed Was That the Negroes Sal
rotion Lies in Industrial Educa-
,ion-His View of LynchinGs and
.be suffrage Question.
A-ou, York, April S.-The future of the
-ro race was the subject of discussion
- carnegie Hail to-day before the So
o;etv of Ethical Culture.
william H. Baldwin, Jr., president of
.be Long Island Railroad; Prof. Felix
Adler and Isaac Fisher, and Robert w.
r,o,lor two graduates of the Tuskegee,
Ala school were the speakers. All spoke
+,nef,Illy of the negros future, and found
a solution of existing problems in indus
trial education.
Mr. Baldwin said the principal ques-
lions involved in the future of the negro
race are the social relations of black and
white. the civil rights of the blacks; the
r,bor question:; the religious ana moral
raining of the blacks; the abuse of the
reero and the sometimes mooted ques-
tion Of how to get rid of the negro as a
whole by amalgamation or deportation.
All these questions are included in the
main question of the general education
Of the negro.
He held that the fine distinctions be-
tween black and white in the South are
Troner and beyond criticism. Labor, he
said is the only solution of the troubles
In The South. A negro and a mule, he
acknowledged, are the only combination
that can grow cotton, and consequently
are essential to the welfare of the South.
The religious and moral welfare of black
and white in the South could only be Sc
cured by industrial education.
The LynchinG Question.
Referring to the abuses of the negro,
Mr.. Baldwin said there was never any
COMPLAINT of the moral integrity of the
negro of the South in relation to the
whites before the war. He spoke of 1877
1vnchings in $685. and said that i'm six
Years there were more than 500 lynch
ines Latterly it was not uncommon for
negroes to be lynched for crimes other
than the only one that could by any pos
sioility justify il. cure for lynching
could be found in two ways always to
give matters of a criminal assault the
right Of way in the courts, and, secondly,
10 compel the community in which the
lyrching occurs to pay liked sum 10
the family of the victim.
The fifteenth amendment to the Consti-
tuition of the United States" Mr.. Baldwin
said cost million lives to enact it. AS
many more stand ready to maintain it,
The fault is not in the amendment, but
the suffrage right should be equal to black
and white The negro stands ready for
educational or property qualifications II
the same qualifications be enforced for
white men. 1t is a general question OF
education for the whites and blacks"
Mr. Baldwin spoke of the refining in
fuence Of schools like the Hampton Insti-
tute and the Tuskegee. An industrial edu-
cation, that would elevate but not unfit
him for the only path that is open TO
him, is the only solution to the many
problems presented.
Other Speeches Made.
Isaac Fisher told of his graduation from
Tuskegee and of his call to the Schofeld
School of Aiken, S. C. He provoked much
laughter by his descriptions of the con-
dtions he found there
Robert W Taylor said that when he
first went to Tuskegee his ambition was
TO go to Congress and help to enact laws
for the benefit of his race. Under the
teachings of the school he soon learned
that the salvation of the negro can come
through no law but the law of labor. The
hope of the race as of the South in gen.
eraI he said, is in the education of the
children. In Alabama he said, the cost
OF the education of the children in the
cities average S15 a head while for the
education of the children in the country
districts so cents a head is the allowance.
To thar miscalculation is due much of the
misery and ignorance of the South.