New-York tribune., 1900-04-09
FUTURE OF THE NEGRO.
PRESIDENT BALDWIN THINKS INDUS
TRIAL EDUCATION THE SOLUTION.
GRADUATES OF TUsKEGEE TELL EAR
NEsTLY AND HUMoRoUsLY OF THEIR
WORK BEFORE THE SOCIETY
FOR ETHICAL CULTURE.
FOR ETHICAL CULTURE.

The future of the negro in America the sub
ject of discussion before the Society of Ethical
Culture at its regular Sunday morning meeting. in
Carnegie Hall, yesterday. William II Baldwin, jr
president of the Long Island Railroad, treated 1t
from business mans point of view Dr. Felix
Adler from ethical one, and Isaac Fisher and
Robert w. Taylor. two young colored men, gradu-
ates Of Tuskegee University. from the negro's
They all agreed that the solution of the negro
problem lay in giving the rising generation a
practical industrial education
MI Baldwin was the first speaker. He briefly
touched on the social line which marks off the
white from the black population of the South and
found no fault with il; dismissed a few words
the remedy of deportation Of the race. proposed
by some, impossible; said that the moral and
religious training of the black man was going for
ward at fairly satisfactory rate. treated a little
more extensively of the lynchng evil. and proposed
two cures for it The first was to give criminal
assault cases the right of way in the courts above
all other cases, so that justice could be speedily
administered, and the second consisted in making
each county where lynching occurred liable 10
pay substantial damages to the family of the
lynchers victim
AGAINST DIsFRANCHIsEMENT.
Mr. Baldwin warned his hearers against the false
solution urged for the problem which consists in
practlcaliy disfranchising the negro. He declared
that the vast army had given It's life to get the
franchise for the negro, and another vast army
would make equal sacrifices to perpetuata that
right. The only true solution he declared lay in
the education Of the masses in the South and in
this scheme he included first the poor whites He
said many of these to be pitied than the
negro. because they had less opportunity to get an
education or to acquire property He was sure the
poor white must be raised up first. for he always
would insist upon keeping the negro little below
Els own level For this he advocated indus
trial education for the negro, because the higher
education he said really untitled per cent of the
negroes who got it for the sphere in life which
they must fill in the South
Eiebar
educational work he had been doing among his
own people in South Carolina since he was gradu-
ated from Tuskegee He said one chief
endeavors dissuading the negro from buying
goods on credit and giving a mortgage on his next
crop for payment Of the bills He would occa-
SSiona!ly meet a colored man riding in $50
buggy. bought in this way. whose house was so
slllII hat the boys and girls of his family had
sIeep IN one room. Sometimes he would enter a
CABIN through whose roof he could see the stars,
though" said Nj Fisher "6ardy VI a member Of
mat family knew the difference between the note
90 IN music and the do Of their cabin.
WORK AMONG THE COLORED FOLK
Mr. TAYLOR spoke of similar work among the
black men of Alabama, and told of a negro who
was converted and joyously proclaimed that he
was standing the rock" He had used this
phrase three four times. when a sceptic in the
done paid for the boots vou is standin you am
Mr. Taylor spoke rather longer than the time al
lowed him, and pulling out his watch. told story
Droohets and after Snealkinr FOR ON 5oIIr W and
forty minutes had only got as far as Amos
Where shall place Amos?" he shouted. My
brethren. where shall place Amos?'' You can
place him in my seat" said old man. who rose
and began tOtter toward the door, for Use
gwine homa."
Mr.. Taylor said that thirty-eight Tuskegee boys
volunteered for the front in the with Spain.
All were accepted. twenty-five of them" he said.
were black, ten very black and six were
black any could be. I knew they all
right when saw them, because fast black never
bere e aq Jn9se san a3G did e fy dny
love our country and flag well the white
people
In closing the exercises Professor Adler said ii
hopeful sign that the white is begin
ming teach in the colored schools the South.
and that in doing he no longer faces a condition
of social ostraCism l. a threatening sign
that the 100000 ex-slaves have become 10000 900
and that their moral and political standing not
yet fixed The question: said DR.. Adler, lis
What shall do with Them but What will they
do with if do not succeed in eavening the
II is a question not of morality of charity.
but Of patriotism. Shall they be fostering corrt-
the body politic?"