Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-24

Many Women Express Their Views
Man Must Care For the
Children.
Special to Times-Republican.
Des Moines. May 24.-The race prob
lem of the south was presented to the
Mothers Congress In a new and strong
light by Mrs. A. J. Murray, of Wash
Iington, d. c., the accomplished repre-
sentative of the colored race. Her ac-.
count Of the colored mans love for the
lchurch, because II offered him q home
in Heaven which he has been SO long
denied in this world. was pathetic
picture OF misguided reverence. She
spoke with sorrow of the power of the
colored preachers over their people,
who. she said. might accomplish so
much good if they were educated men,
but they are not The comparison of
the amount of money the colored peo-
pie have spent for education. $4,000, 900,
and the amount spent for the support
of the church, $37,000,000, showed, in
the opinion of Mrs. Murray, a sud state
of affairs. Prosperity and education
partly cured this undue proportion. but
1.-THE change is slow from the dominance
Iof the church to that of the home. In
1 1893 the foundation of q women's Or.
i ganization was laid in Washington, and
now It is carrying on a great work in
that city among the colored people.
tholding mothers meetings, maintaining
day nurseries. Missions free kindergar-
items and other educational institutions.
In the south the wife of Booker T..
washington began the organization in
"a very humble way, and now 1t has
i grown to a membership of more than
Is1,000 in Tuskegee, and national asso-
.lciation of colored women had been
formed. Mrs. Murray spoke affection
Iately8of Senator Allison and his friend
lshipfo the colored race. She had been
Jappointed TO present the free kinder
4 garten to a congressional committee
asking that $4,000 be appropriated to
Iestablish 1t in the District of Columbia
4 She appeared before Senator Allison's
sEcommittee, whom she described as
EIl"that grand old man whom the colored
A Ipeople love. honor and trust, and to
y whom the colored people never appeal
u In vain" and the money WAS granted.
$4,000 for the white schools and $4,000
for the colored children Out of this
sI.has grown a training school for Kinder
8|sgartners. and it is proposed to bring
slltwenty young colored women from The
south to be trained in this work to
l5teach in the south .srhe way to up
lift the colored race" said Mrs. Muir
4 ray, sis to build on character and to
|5commence at the beginning We can't
lido it in the colored mans home in the
south: we must do 1t thru the kinder
i lgarten. 1t will take many years to do
lit, but the institutions of this country
4 are not safe until this is done. The
i whole nation is no stronger than part
of it, and If you would make the nation
4 strong you must make us strong. The
4 speaker took this occasion to say that
4 the solution OF the race problem did not
4 lie in the direction of disfranchisement,
: now being practiced in the south, be-
I cause the colored man, once having
y tasted liberty. 1t is dearer to him than
4 life.
!. The latest candidate for secretary of
4 state to be proposed Is Senator a. c.
i Hobart, of Cherokee. Senator Hobart
A has served the first session Of his sec
ond term as senator, and having served
n thru the extra session has beena mem
4 Der OF four legislatures. He has wide
4 Acquaintance thruout the state. is a
man of ability and character and Is not
4; known to be tied up to any faction in
81 the party. Now that neither r. ID.
j Chassell of LeAIars nor a. G. Smith OF
). Storm Lake will contest for the office
lit leaves the Eleventh district clear for
n Senator Hobart. Conditions seem to
y Ipoint fayorably to the candidacy of any
Il good man who can command the united
& support of the Eleventh district.
Mrs. Isaac L. Hillis OF Des Moines
.Altold Of her work of organization in
Iowa. and expressed pride in the help
8 fulness. sympathy and appreciation OF
the Iowa women. Iowa. she said had
a awakened to the interest Of this funda-
4 mental work, and every county had
some kind of organization. There Were
In the state 624 clubs doing Mothers
. Congress work. having a membership
of more than $1,000, tho not all had re-
ported.
MISS harriet "A. MarSH SalQ tHe WOrR
in Michigan had been carried on by
private subscriptions. but had attracted
more than national attention and was
quite successful She doubted the value
of many organizations now in exist
ence, and said that nine-tenths OF then
could be swept away without harm tc
the people, because 1t would strengthen
J those that We're left. She urged the
need Of organized motherhood to pro-
tect the American home from the dis.
turbing influence Of foreign immsra.
tion. The training OF the people to pre-.
serve the republic must begin with the
child. The father must be brought back
to his position as head Of the famil,
and must bear his share OF the respon.
slbility for the trainig OF the child. HI
5is necessary to the chlid's education
The lack OF Interest in the children i.
!. felt in the schools as well as in the
home. Miss Marsh, who is principal ol
one OF the city schools In Detroit. com.
i planned bitterly Of the femininity oi
J, ideas that had prevailed for ten year.
I in the educational world in both sexes
She said II was "a cruel. selfish. short.
sighted love that concealed from tht