The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 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 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 wEo 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
ly than he appears to be in Massachu
sets, where, although tEe nominal at
titude of the people is fraternal and al
most affectionate toward him, he is
sternly confined to mental avocations,
and is at least as hopeless Of public
prefeIment as he is in any other part
of the Union. In fact, he is more so.
because in the South he is made
source of irritation by Republican adj
ministrations, through appointment TO
Federal offices.
We are inclined to congratulate DIR.
Parkhurst upon the closing sentences
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 nearly much as it would
be perfectly natural for them to hate 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 be-
resyemont they lay flowers upon the graves CT
the Confederate dead. We belong to them and
they belong 10 US, and every deed OF kindness
wisely rendered; every word OF sympathetic in
terest prudently spoken; every new commercial
relation and every interchange Of hosptalities
discreetiy arranged, will be so much contribution
10 that perfect readjustment of relations which
shall make for 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 or
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.