The times., 1901-04-30

when unable to secure employment as
preacher or teacher.
Properly instructed as we believe the
students at Tuskegee are, its graduates
are apt to become valuable to the com
muuity as farmers and mechanics.
Those are the directions in which the
Improvement of the race is possible.
There is no reason Why negroes, when
they have attained the ability, should
not become a prosperous agricultural
community of farm proprietors. They
have today a better opportunity in that
respect than thousands Of scandinavian
immigrants who have come to the
United States since the civil war, with
hardly more money than would take
them to the places Of their destination,
but wLo now are and for years have
been owners of productive farms. and
influential citizens in the West and
Northwest The Southern man does
not dislike the negro per Sc; outside
Of the peril he has became TO society
through no fault of his own, he is well
liked He is far better liked individual
~ than he appears to be in Massacnu-
sets. where. although the nominal at
titude of the people is fraternal and al
most affectionate toward him, he IS
sternly confined to menial avocations,
and is at least as hopeless of public
/ preferment as he is in any other part
Of the Union. In fact, he is more so,
( because in the South he is made a
source of irritation by Republican ad-
ministrations, through appointment to
Federal offices.
We are inclined TO congratulate DR..
Parkhurst upon the closing sentences
7 Of his address, which breathe the spirit
/ of good and sound Americanism. He
said:
..The South does not altogether love US. but
no one there hates us nearly as much as It would
be perfectly natural for them to hate us Inc!
are all glad that slavery is done; they are al
glad that they arc in the Union. They all
glory in the flag, even while IN tender De
rcavomCnt they lay flowers upon the graves oi
the Confederate dead. We belong to them ana
l thCy belong to US. and every deed OF klndnesa
wisely rendered. every word OF sympathetic IN
terest prudently spoken: every new commercial
relation and every Interchange OF hospltahtles
discre,tly arranged, viii be much contribution
10 that perfect readiustment of relations Wheh
shall make Tor the enrichment OF cur common
history"
The South loves its Northern -rela-
tives and friends in the proportion that
the latter have, do. or shall show rea-
sonable regard for the complex condi-
tons which the three disasters Of slav-
/ cry. war, and reconstruction have fas-
( tened upon the section. There is moth
/ ing to divide South from North today
but the doctrinaire and destructive in
( reference of some people on this side
+ Of the line in matters concerning which
they are ignorant except as they have
attempted to instruct themselves by
/ reading Harriet Beecher Stowe. The
! South is ready and willing to accept
sane and expert advice, and the as
! sistance Of sensible educational enter
/ prises. endowed by anybody, native OF
outland but its people deprecate use
/ less and detrimental meddling. On that
point DR. Parkhurst has sounded the
keynote of the subject. We trust that
/ his words will not be lost upon the
Eastern and Northern people who will
read them.