The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-09
FUTURE OF THE NEGRO
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION A sOLU-
TION OF THE DIFFICULTY.

NEW YORK, April S.-The future of
the negro race was the subject of dis
cussion at Carnegie hall today before the
Society of Ethical Culture. William H.
Baldwin Jr., president OF the Long Island
railroad Prof. Felix Adler and Isaac
Fisher and Robert w. Taylor, two grad
yates Of the Tuskegee, g Ala, school were
the speakers. All spoke hopefully of the
negro's future, and found a solution of
existing problems in industrial education
Mr.. Baldwin said the principal questions
involved in the future of the negro race
are the social relations of blacks and
whites, the civil rights of blacks the la
Dor question, the religious and moral
training of the blacks, the abuse of the
negro and the sometimes mooted question
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. RE held that the fine distinctions
between blacks and whites lin the South
are proper and beyond criticism.
Referring to the question of labor, he
said it was the only solution OF the
troubles in the South. ~ A snegro and
mule, he said were the only combina-
ton that could grow cotton, and conse-
quently We're essential to the welfare of
the South. The religious and moral well
fare of the black and white in the South
cOulu only De secured ny industrial eQu-
cation. Referring to the abuse of the
negro, Mr.. Baldwin said there was never
any complaint of the moral integrity of
the South in relation to the whites be-
fore the war. He spoke Of 1N lynchings
in 1885, and said that in six years there
We're more than 800 lynchings. Latterly it
was not uncommon for negroes to be
lynched for other crimes than the one
that could possibly justify it. A cure for
OIL e
criminal assaults the right of way in the
courts; and, secondly, to compel the dis
trict in which the lynching occurred to
pay a fixed sum to the family of the
lynched.
The fifteenth amendment to the con-
stitution,' Mr.. Baldwin said, "cost 1,000,-
600 lives to place it there, and 1,O00 600
more stood ready to fall to keep 1t there.
The trouble is not in the amendment, but
in the franchise qualifications. The negro
race is ready for the property or educa-
tional qualifications, If the same qualifica-
lions are required for the whites. It is
a general question of education for the
whites and blacks
Mr. Baldwin spoke of the refining in
! f1uence of schools like the Schofield or
| Tuskegee institute. An education that
would fit the negro for any path open to
| him is the only remedy for many evils
Hamilton Fisher told of his graduation
| from Iuskegee and of his call to Scho-
| field school, Of Aiken 8. c. He provoke
ed much laughter by his descriptions Of
| the conditions he found there.
Robert w. Taylor said that when he
went first 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 of the South in
general, Mr.. Taylor found, is in the edu-
cation of children. In Alabama, he said,
the education of the children in the pub
lice schools averages SO a head, while for
the education of children. in the country
districts so cents a head is the allow
ance. To that miscalculation is due much
Of the misery and ignorance Of the South.