The age-herald., 1901-04-29
Says Northerner Hates Negro as Much as SOutheIRer BUT LIES ABOUT QUESTION Says CandIer's Criticism Was Result of Non-Acquaintance NEGRO MUST KEEP QUIET AND WAIT Should Nox Mix in Politics But Work IndustrlousIy-south Does Not
 Hate North as Much as
 Would be Natural.
NEGRO MUST KEEP QUIET AND WAIT

New York, April 2s.-The Rev. pr. Charles H. Parkhurst preached today at the Madison Square Presbyterian church on topics connected with his recent trip south. Te also made an incidental reply to Governor Candler, who was reported as having denounced those northerners who took an interest in educational mat ters in the south.
 Dr. Parkhurst said that the party of northern people who recently made the trip did it, not because they had any special interest in the south as distinct section. but because they were conscious of the unity of the north and south. The conference held at Winston Salem. N. C.. he said, was characterized by the utmost frankness on both sides. and yet from first to last not an embittering wo-d was spoken. Referring to Goyer.iof Candler's
 criticisms Dr. Parkhurst said they would
 not have been made had the Governor
 of Georgia. as did the Governor of North
 Carolina. come into direct teE1h s.th the
 psrssun&f ,ef Stfes eonference or for five
 minutes respired the atmosphere which the conference exhaled..
 Referring to the estimation in which the people of the south and those of the north hold the negro. Dr. Parkhurst said 7
 "The southerner does not like the ne- gro any better than the average north erner does. and the two carry themselves toward the negro with just about the same amount of Christian consideration, only of the two the southern white man has perhaps this advantage. that he does not make quite. as famboyaut pre- tense of loving the negro a shis northern conferee does. The southern white man white man in the north dislikes the ne- gro and lies about it.
 The preacher said further:
 "The undiscriminating act by which the negroes had conferred upon them the right to vote was one of those blunders that it is not easy to escape from after once 1t Is committed. but which 1t would seem we ought to have had northern statesmanship sufficiently intelligent to prevent.
 "The counsel that both the northern and the southern friends of the negro are now giving him is to keep quite upon the whole suffrage matter, to keep out of poll itics. not to talk about the constitution, not to insist upon his rights. but to at tend industriousy to the work of getting himself well ready. which he is not now. for what God and the country and the future may have in store for him"
 pr. Parkhurst closed by the following general reference to present conditions among southern people:
 "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. They are all glad that slavery is done. they are all glad that they are in the Union They all glory in the flag, even while in tender bereavements they lay flowers upon the graves of the Confederate dead We belong to them and they belong to us. nd every deed of kind- ness wisely rendered, every word of sym pathetic interest prudently spoken. every new commercial relation and every con tributfon to that perfect readjustment of relations which shall make for the en- richment of our common history"