The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-11
FOR POOR OF SOUTH
ARMSTRONG ASSOCIATIONS ANNUAL
MEETING.
TO HELP EDUCATE THEM.
FOR IGNORANT WHITES, BLACKS
AND INDIANS.

Daniel {. Gilman of Johns Hopkins
Lyman Ward at Alabama, DIR.
Charles McIver of North Carolina,
Booker r. Washington Of TuSI<c-
gee,nnd u. II. FrissclI of Hampton.
The Uneducated Class of NegrOes
That Commit Crimes. said wash
fnGtOn.
New York, Feb. l0,-The Armstrong
Association of New York, which has for
it's purpose the fostering of education
i'm the South and the advancement OF
Hampton Institute. Hampton, Va. n
particular. usually holds an annual meet
ing just before Lincoln's birthday to
grouse interest in its work. This year,
instead Of the annual meeting, this even"
iEgs service in the Central Presbyterian
Church was utilized. Pleas for the edu-
cation of the ignorant whites, blacks
and Indians of the South We're made by
DR.. Charles Mclver, president of the
North Carolina State Normal School;
Booker r. Washington, president of the
Tuskegee Institute; Rev. Lyman Ward,
president OF the Industrial School for
Whites at Camp Hills. Ala, and II. Il.
Frissel the principal of Hampton
Institute. Daniel c. Gilman.
president of Johns Hopkins University OF
Baltimore, presided.
A feature of the service was the sing
ing by forty students, including whites
blacks and Indians of both sexes of the
Hampton Institute.
The Rev DR.. Lyman Ward, the first
speaker referring to Lincoln, remarked
that he was sure that there was no one
in the South but feels that the best friend
he had was slain by misguided and
fanatlcal man He said it would be DIM
cult to find in the South to-day anyone
who believed that there was any real
profit in the slave traffic. DR. Ward paid a
high compliment to the Southern men, say
ing that the more he saw of them the
more he was convinced of their rectitude
integrity and manhood While he admit
ted the great need OF education for ne
groes, he said that his purpose was to
speak of the needs of the poor whites
and he asked If industrial training can be
made profitable for the poor ignorant
blacks, what may it not do for the white
man? Then ne pleaded at length for the
poor white boys and girls of the South
Dr. McIver, she next speaker. said that
the South understood the North better
than the North understood the South, and
the reason was that a large per cent. of
the North's population was Condensed in
cities, while in the South the population
was scattered over great rural districts.
| For this reason a short visit to the North
revealed much, but one to the South little.
But were getting out of the woods in
the South exclaimed DR.. McIver. why
| recently we had a strike in my town. The
reason we havn't had strikes before is
because we did not have any capital 70
strike against. 1 am glad in way to
see the strike. 1t means industrial devel-
opment"
He thought highly of the negroes and
approved of their being educated but he
said their women had been better cared
for than the white women in the matter
of education. He spoke of the difficulty
his sister had in obtaining the education
she wanted, and the ease with which ne
gro servants gained theirs. school or
college Tor negro women was esta blished
he said, ten years before one for white
women. tOr TINS sta OF affairs, he said,
the preachers, politicians, state and fed
eral governments were to blame.
DR. Frssell spoke very briefly. bestow-
ing great praise upon Booker r. Wash
ington. who followed him.
Booker T. Washington referred to LIN
coin as the emancipation of both the white
and black races. In the discussion of the
negro problem he asked that racial pref
udices be set aside. He declared that
Southern slavery wrought a most as much
injury to the white man as to the black
man. As long as the Southern negro was
kept in Ignorance on dozen pretexts
the white man would be dragged down
also.
We must expect" he said Chat the
negro will believe that liberty means IL
cense for the first generation, but it is
not the educated class of men and women
that commit crimes in the South. but the
uneducated class"
He pleaded that the negro race be not
judged by its worst examples, but by it's
best.
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