The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-04
TURNER ON LIBERIA.
Says the Negro Must Emigrate or he
Differentiated.

Differentiated.
Bishop II. M. Turner of the African
| Methodist Episcopal Church, was in Sa-
vannah yesterday and conducted three
services the first in St. James Taber-
nacle in the pulpit of which, December
one year ago he received the stroke of
paralysis, which until now has prevented
his attending to his church duties In the
afternoon he preached at st. Phillips
! Monumental Church, and a night at st.
Phillips Church at West Broad and
| Charles street.
! The Bishop says that while he has not
entirely recovered his health, he is suf-
! fleiently well again to take up his church
duties, and that it was for this purpose
that he came to Savannah, as he felt
that he should begin where he had left
eff. From here he will go to Waycross,
| Cuthbert, Albany and Dublin, in each of
which he will hold services.
The Bishop was asked IL he stiH holds
the same views as to negroes emigrating
| to Liberia. He was told of the experience
of some colored people that came to Sa-
vannah recently 10 sail for Africa, but
who found neither ship nor instructions
awaiting them The Bishop said he is as
| strongly as ever in favor of Liberia. Of
| the trouble of the woud-be emgrants.
he said. he was sure it was caused by
circumstances that the officers of the emf
! grafton society could not help.
To the question why he desired The
colored people to leave America and go to
Africa, he replied by saying that there
was no hope for his race unless they did
so, or became again slaves "They cant
| hold up against the white man." he said;
| against his number, wealth and insatia-
BILE ambition, they have no more chance
than has q rabbit against a pack of
| hounds.
| THE black man is marked by his color;
in this country there can be no amalga-
nation of the races. as among the Anglo
SaXons and the Normans in England; so
If the negro is TO be saved from exter-
mination he must either emigrate, or, by
becoming slave, be protected as so much
property.
The Bishop said he is in close touch
with many of those that have emgrated
to Liberia and that in the majority of
cases they are prosperous and have
neither regrets for the land they have
left nor any desire to change their condi-
ton. Unfortunately for the negroes, he
said, rumors have been circulated that to
go to Liberia is to die, but such reports,
he continued are entirely false, as he
himself had an opportunity of proving
when he visited Liberia four years ago.
The fact of the matter is, he continued,
the industrious man that goes to Liberia
succeeds, and the lazy man does not
Only in Liberia living can be made with
| one-third less trouble and work than it
can be in this country.
Referring again to the stories of the
great mortality among the people that
emigrated he said that not only was il
untrue, but that its contrary was the case
that he himself had seen while on a visit
to the country. a man that was lis years
old and seen several that had reached the
age of 100 years.
Discussing the present national admin
| istration in regard TO the negro, the bish-
op said that he was down on Mckinley
as he was opposed to anybody that was
| down on the negro race. What does Nc
| Kinley care for the taking of negro $
! ,ife," he asked, under his administration
four negroes have been lawlessly killed
to every one that was killed under The
| administration of President Cleveland.
! President Harrison plead for us and our
| lives, but Mckinley has made no effort
| TO help us"
OF the present Congress, he said, that
he considered Senator Morgan the ablest
and that the majority of the others were
not statesmen, but towards.