The age-herald., 1900-04-09
THE FUTURE OF
 THE NEGRO RAGE Was Ably Discussed at Carnegie
 Hall Yesterday. WILLIAM H. BALDWIN SPOKE He Said the Fine Distinctions Drawn in the South Were Proper Speaker Said That His
 Race Must Labor
WILLIAM H. BALDWIN SPOKE

New York, April S.-The future of the negro race was the subject of discussion at Carnegie ..aIl 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 graduates of the Tuskegee, Ala, school, were the speakers. All spoke hopefully of the negro's future, and found solution of existing problems in industrial education.
 Mir Baldwin said the principal questions involved in the future of the negro race are social relations of black and white; the civil rights of the blacks; the labor ques- tion; 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 amalga- nation 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 proper and beyond criticism Referring to the question of labor, he said it was the only solution of the troubles in the south. negro and mule he acknowledged, are the only combination that can grow cot ton. and consequently are essential to the welfare of the south The religious and moral welfare of black and white in the south can only be secured by industrial education.
 Referring to the abuses of the negro, MT. Baldwin said there was never any complaint of the moral integrity of the negro of inc south in relation to the whites before the war He spoke of 127 lynchings. Latterly it was not uncommon for negroes to be lynched for crimes other than the only one that could by any possibility justify it. A cure for lynching could be found in two ways, always to give matters of criminal assault the right of way in the courts, and, secondly, to compel the community in which the lynching occurs to pay a fixed to the family of the vic- tim.
 The Fifteenth Amendment
 "The fifteenth amendment to the consti- tuition of the United States" MT Baldwin said, "cost million lives to enact. As many more stand ready to maintain 1t. 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 if the same qualifications be enforced for white men. It-is a general question of ed- ucation for the whites and blacks.'
 MT. Baldwin spoke of the refining in- f1uences of schools like the Hampton In- stitute and the Tuskegee school. An in dustrial education that would elevate but not unfit him for the only patch that was open to him Is the ony solution to the many problems presented.
 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 eondi- tion 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 general, Taylor found, is in the edu- cation of the children. In Alabama, he said the education of the children in the cities average $15 a head, while for the education of children in country districts 80 cents a head is the allowance. To that miscalculation is due much of the misery and ignorance of the seth.