Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-11-13
Must BE Educated, to Settle
the Race Problem In
the South,
SO BISHOP M'CABE DECLARED.
Christian People Should Give Their
Money to the Church For This Pur-
pose-Meetine CT the M. e. Freed
mems Board.

Pittsburg, Nov. 13.--The thirty-hfth
anniversary of the Freedmens Aid
and Southern Educational society OF
the Methodist Episcopal church held
its second days session at the Cal
vary Methodist Episcopal church,
Beech street, Allegheny.
A business session was held yesters
day morning at 3 o'clock, the entire
morning being devoted TO the discus.
sion Of the various appeals for appros
priations. This work was not COM
pleted at noon. Bishop G. G. McCabe
opened the meeting and then retired
in favor of Bishop j. N. Fitzgerald,
who presided during the morning.
Bishop McCabe said that the work
of the Freedmen's Aid and Southern
Education society could scarcely be
over-estimated He said in part:
I'VE have 1000 colored graduates
who are capable of teaching That
would give us one teacher to every
1000 cnlored persons in the United
States. The work is meeting with
great success. Our church and school
property IL now valued at S15,o00.000,
this all having been accumulated
since the Civil War. We are teach
ihE JIit ltHQ3A pSQPiN w htAP #ta0ttf
selves.
The society has 81 universities and
schools for whites and 25 colleges
and schools for negroes. The finan-
cial end of the work is very eneour-
aging, although we could use much
more money than is available. The
work is charging and stretching
away before us. SO that we are al.
ways in need Of financial aid The
movement Is taking hold. and causing
the people to think. The total receipts
during the year ending June 80. 1901,
from all sources. were $aS0,5So which
was an increase Of $26.7t9 over 1900.
On our $2.000n0O worth of school
| property there is debt of 1854. 600
which we are slowly liquidating
Our Industrial schools arc doing
a great work In them we are educas-
ing the young negroes to be useful
men and women--teachdng them all
useful handicrafts. trades and profes.
sions We arc constantly sending out
stream Of educated men and women.
and we are proud to say that not one
OF our graduates has ever been con.
yieted of heinous crime We chal.
lcnge the world to show any action on
their part Of which we have any need
to be ashamed
The only way to solve the race
question Of the south is for Christian
people to give their money to the
church to educate both whites and
blacks. For In many sections the
white part Of the population arc
stepped in the deepest ignorance. so
dark that@we can scarcely realize
what good little education would do
them"
Mob law and iawless violence
which has SO often brought shame an
disgrace upon the fair name Of orr
country we're vigorously condemned
In resolutions adopted
Such lawlessness, It was assert.
ed In the resolutions, brought dis
grace upon all civilized people. living
undor the guarantees of life and lib-
erty to every citizen not regularly con-
vfcted OF crime" An Instance OF 4
race war In Louisiana was cited as a
cruel murder OF innocent men and
women, as only one negro was armed
and involved in the difficulty.
The resolutions congratulated the
society on the continued and wide
spread interest in the work of Chris
tian education among the negroes an
the whites OF the south, and express d
hte wish hat industrial training as a
necessary factor be energetically ex-
tended to all the schools now estab-
hshed and also introduced into other
schools.
The resolutions were unanimously
adopted and a resolution that an ap-
peal signed by the bishops. for church
extension aids. be sent out, was also
approved.