The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-29
PARKHURST ON
NEGRO IN SOUTH.
I 49, 49, -.
New York Pastor Gets In Tell
ing Shots.
HYPOCRISY OF NORTH.
PRETEND TO LIKE NEGROES,
BUT DON'T.
HYPOCRISY OF NORTH

New York, April 2s.-Rev. Charles H.
Parkhurst preached today atkthe Mad
ison Square Presbyterian church on
topics connected with his recent trip
south. He also made an incidental re-
ply to Governor Gambler of Georgia,
who was reported as having denounced
those northerners who took an interest
in the educational matters in the south.
Dr. Parlxhurst said that the party OF
northern, people who recently made the
trip referred to did it not because they
had any special interest in the south as
a distinct section, but because they
were conscious of the unity which
makes the north and south members
of each other.
The conference held at Winston-
Salem, n c.; he said. was characters
lied by the utmost fTankneSs on both
sides and yet from first to last not an
embitterifAg word was spoken Re-
ferring to Governor Gamblers criti-
cisms, DR. Parkhurst said they would
not have been made Had the governor
OF Georgia, as did the governor OF
North Carolina. come into direct touch
with the personnel of the conference or
for five minutes breathed the atmos-
phere which the conference exhaied- 4"
Referring to the estimation in which
the people OF the south and those of
the north hold the negro, Dr. Parkhurst
said:
Southerners Make No Pretense.
The southeaner does not like the
negro any better than the averages
northerner does and the two carry
themselves toward the negro with jllst
about the same amount Of Christian
considera ton. only of the two the
southern white man has, perhaps, this
advantage. that he does not make quite
so hamboyunt a pretense OF loving the
negro as the northern man does. The
southern white man disIikes the negro
and owns up TO it. The white man in
the north dislikes the negro and lies
/. about it
He said further: 4The undiserinli-
mating act by which the negroes had
conferred on them the right to vote was
one of those plumbers that il is not
easy to escape from after once it lis
committed. bat which it would seem
we ought to have had northern states
nlanship sufficiently intelligent to pre-
vent.
The counsel that both the northern
and the southern friends OF the negro
are now giving him, is to keep quiet
upon the whole suffrage matter. to
keep cut of politics, not to talk about
the constitution, not TO insist upon Ilis
rights, but TO attend industrious1y ito
the work Of getting himself Wen ready
for what God and the country and the
future may have in store for him.
General Southern. Condition. q
DIR. Parkhurst closed by the follow
ing general reference TO present con-
ditions among southern people, 81
THE south does not altogether leVes
us, but no one there hates US nearly
as much as it would be perfectly, mar
ural for them to hate US. They are all
glad mat slaverysis done they are ali
glad, that sthey are in the 4I5nions They
all glory in the nag: even while in
tender bereavement they lay flowers
upon the graves Of the confederate
dead. We belong 60 them ana they be
long to us, and every deed OF kindness
wisely rendereds every word OF SYM
pathetic Interest prddenfly spoken;