The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-04-29
PARkHURST
ON The NEGRO
RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE A GRAVE
MISTAKE.
The Noted New York Divine Asserts
That the Colored Race Is Hated by
Both the Northern and Southern
Whites-An Incidental Reply to
Governor Gambler, of North Caro-
lima.

BY Exclusive Wire from The Associated Press.
New York. April 2S.--The Rev. DR..
Charles II. Parkhurst preached today
at the Madison Square Presbyterian
church on topics connected with his
recent trip south. He also made an
incidental reply to Governor Gambler.
who was reported as having denounced
those northerners who took an inter-
est in educational matters in the
south.
Or. Parkhurst said that the party
of northern people who recently made
the trip referred to did it not because
they had any special interest in the
south as a distinct section but because
they were conscious of the unity which
makes the north and south members
of each other. The conference held
ut Winston Salem in North Carolina,
he said. was characterized by the ut
most frankness on both sides and yet
from first to last not an embittering
word was spoken. Referring to Gov
ernor Candler's criticisms. DR.. Park
hurst said they would not have been
made. had the governor of Georgia.
as did the governor Of North Carolina.
come into direct touch with the per-
minutes respired the atmosphere which
the conference exalted
Referring to the estimation in which
the people of the south and those of
the rorth hold the negro. DR.. Park
hurst said: "The southcrner does not
like the negro any better than the
average northerner does and the two
carry themselves toward the negro
,,.tf I, al, l,a
Christian consideration-only of the
two, the southern white man has per-
haps, this advantage. that he does not
make quite so famboyant "a pretense
OF loving the negro as his northern
conferee does. The southern white
man dislikes the negro and owns up
to it. The white man in the north
dislkes the negro and lies about it,
The preacher said further: "rhe un-
discriminating act by which the me-
groes had conferred upon them the
right to vote. was one of these blum
ders that it is not easy TO escape from
after once it is committed. but which
it would seem we ought to have had
northern craftsmanship sufficiently in
tcliigent to prevent
'"rhe counsel that both the northern
and the southern friends of the negro
are now giving him is to keep qpiet
upon the whole suffrage matter, to
keep out of politics. not to talk about
the constitution. not to insist upon his
rights. but to attend industriously to
the work of getting himself we'll ready
which he is not now-for what God
and the country and the future may
have: in store for him"
DR.. Parkhurst closed by the following
general reference to present conditions
among southern people: 1.-The south
does not altogether love us but no one
there hates us nearly as much as 1t
would be perfectly natural to hate us.
They are all glad slavery is done with,
they ara all glad that they are in the
union. They all glory in the flag, even
while in tender bereavement they lay
flowers upon the graves of the confed-
crate dead We belong to them and
they belong to us, and every deed OF
kindness wisely rendered. every word
of sympathetic interest rrudently spo-
ken, every new commercial relation
and every interchange of hospitalities
6iScrcetly arranged will be so much
contributed 10 that perfect readjust-
ment of relations which shall make
for the enrichment of our common
history"