The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-22
ASKS AID FOR HIS RACE
REV. DIR. HUBERT LECTURES ON
CONDITION on NEGRO IN
SOUTH
EDUCATION THEIR ONLY HOPE
President Knows of the Wrongs
Endured by Black Men,
but Does Moth
ing.

Rev. Philip Axis Hubert, financial
secretary of the Welberforce (coloredl
university, Ohio. whose lecture, "The
Light Turned On" gave him national
Tame as colored orator, occupied the
pulpit at the Clinton Avenue M E.
church last evening, mis- remarks being
directed at enlisting sympathy for the
coiored people of the South and help in
enlerging their sphere of usefulness DR..
Hubert Is learned speaker and has a
grace Of delivery that enables him to
give pathetic utterance to the wrongs
that the colcred race have suffered
HIS parents and ancestors were held in
bondage, and he told of the life of the
negro as led under the lash and the in
dfgnities that are even now heaped on his
people because of their color. With all
his faults, DR.. Hubert held, the negro
of the South is today susceptible to better
things, and if only gwen chance will
redeem himself and at no distant date
show that he is worthy of the help gwen
by his white brother
To the statement that the race
is deere sing in population he quoted from
the latest census, which shows over
l2,Oo0,OG0 coaored people in the United
States, against fraction of that number
at the close of the Civil war.
The lecturer was particularly vehement
in his denunciation of the ind gnities
heaped upon the black man in the South,
which he said made the very blood boil
and the heart grow sick. He deplored
his people were as a rule the sufferers,
their doom being pronounced by mob
always more guilty of crime than the
poor wretch they were preparing to send
before his maker
DR.. Hubert gave a rather overdrawn
picture Of the black man as he is being
treated by the people of the South today,
and contended that God would ayenge
their wrongs at no distant date. It was
the illiterate that suffered thus he said,
and their only salvation was education.
1t was their only hope, and when the
world recognized this, the co,ored race
would receive that equality which has
long been denied them. This condition of
affairs could only be brought about, he
said, by an Industrial education. What
the black man wants is an education that
will enable him to hefp himself.
Congress, for It's failure to prevent the
South and stop the black man from be-
ing made the central figure in lynchings
the terrible burnings, in which oftentimeS
he was an innocent victim, came in for
a castigatien from the speaker He also
rebuked the members for their irreverence
in smoking and chatting While the chap
lain was engaged In prayer.
President Mckinley knows what my
people are suffering" said the speaker
at have talked to him time and again
about their being shot down and killed
in cold blood by the people Of the South,
but he can do nothing. He would say
to me, Doctor, God will protect your peo-
pie; He will assist YOU
'eWhen Theodore Roosevelt was in
trouble in New York he asked me to help
IJo,l,N5 yf1jf "a
friends because lots of them help me-"
In concluding his remarks Dr.. Hubert
asked for assistance in educating his
people and spoke of the university with
which he was connected. It is doing a
grand work and furnishing an industrial
education that is retaining the negro
race from illiteracy.