The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-04-20
Drs. Curry and McIver Set
the Pace.
WORDS OF TRUTH AND sOsERNEss
In Their Addresses Thursday Night
They Were as Frank With the
Evils and Mistakes Here as
With Those at the
North,
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winston Salem, N. c., April 19.-This
was great day in the Conference. The
leading speeches were by DR. Dabney
Hon G. r. Glenn. DR.. Jas E. Russell,
Gen T. f. Toon, President Winston,
Prof. Brooks and DR.. Albert Shaw.
5 The bad weather prevented the drive
about the city. 1t has been postponed
till Saturday. Tonight DR.. Lyman Alb
bott made profoundly able address.
The Conference will adjourn Saturday
evening.
The speeches of Drs. Curry and Nc
Iver set the pace for the Conference.
They spoke words of truth and sober
ness and We're as frank with the evils
and mistakes of the South as those else
where. Frankness and plainness %
speech nfayr be said to be the dist 4e
gushing characteristic of the Confer
ence Whenever Southern and North
ern people talk with perfect frankness,
they find that there is little difference
of opinion between the wisest men of
both sections. The interest felt by such
wealthy man as Ogden, Baldwin and
Lyman Abbott, Bishop Doane and DR..
Parkhurst in removing Southern illit-
eTacy in a hopeful and encouraging
sign. If the Southern white man had
only to pay for the education of the
white children, the illiteracy would not
be near as great among the whites as *
is. The thoughtful class of Northern
men feel the injustice of having put
that burden On the Southern whites
without doing anything, except spas
medically, to help bear the burden.
They are doing more at such schools
as Shaw and st. Augustine I'm Raleigh,
but that is a mere drop in the bucket
to help the millions of untaught ne
groes.
Some of the Northern philanthropists,
too, are becoming interested and have
upon their. conscience the duty of help
aing. to educate those white children
whose property has kept them from
educational advantages. This influence
serves to deepen the impression of duty
that they feel rests upon them and
other good men of the North.
The night session of Educational Con-
ference was opened in the Salem Morav-
ian church. by devotional exercises and
On motion Of DR.. Meserve the secre-
tary was instructed to telegraph the sym
pathy and coincidence of the conference
to Mrs. Sales, of Capon Springs, on the
death of Capt Sales, her husband who as
proprietor of the springs, had extended
many courtesies to the conference in it's
three former sessions there.
DIR. CURRY'S STRONG SPEECH.
Dr. j. L. M. Curry, agent of the Pea
ody and Slater funds, then addressed the
conference on The Outlook of the South"
He said in part:
1t is most hopeful sign that men and
women such as we have here, should
have left their business and come here
to discuss and consider for the common
good the paramount question of educa
tion.
AS a typical Southern man ! wish to
thank these good people of Salem for the
use of their church and the cordial hos
pitality and to express to these noble
men and women of the North my heart
felt congratulations on their coming
here to consult and confer with us on the
common ground of the common good OF
all. Our Northern friends make some
times the mistake of exalting the negro
of the South. 1t is not uncommon either.
The man who wilfully shuts his eyes and
says there is no serious problem to be
solved between the races is not man of
Judgment, if he is conscientious. have
clasped myself the hand that made my
scars in war and here assure my North
ern friends that they will receive from
these people here full appreciation for
their noble intentions of good for all.
The speaker here gave a vivid picture
of the desolation of the South, after the
war and the political conditions of States
where white people were in the minor
ity. He then asked that this picture of
conditions then be turned to the wall and
the present and future looked upon.
l stand here before people who can
contradict me if | am not correct and de-
clare that majority of the bales of cot
tcn9 raised since Whitney introduced the
culture has been produced by the labor
CT white men. 1t is a great error in the
North to suppose that the whole indus