Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-19
FUTURE |: !. OF THE NEGRO
REV. Dn. PITTS ADDRESS CAUSES
a SENSATION ~
Bosros.
A NEGRO D. D. MAKES A REPLY.
Anyhow, the Negro of the south
voted for Honest Money.
SKIN Observation-Disclosures NIGER
voted for Honest Money.
SKIN DIsEAsE-EPIDERMIs NIGER
The colered Divine Says That II
Disease as Diagnosed By Rich-
mond Minister DR. Pitt Took
Gloomy View of Outlook for Man
In Black, But Argued for Hi. Edu.
cation.
cation.

BOSTON. MASS. November 1s.-{spe
cial.}-The address delivered before tina
BAPTIST Congress in this city tonight By
Rev. DR.. r. II. Pitt. editor OF the Re
ligious Herald. OF Richmond. created
sensation. and almost q scene.
The address was received with the ut.
most respect. but Immediately upon It's
close Rev. Charles S. Norris, colored
D. D.. Of New York, arose and entered
into a. sort OF discussion OF campaign
questions, declaring that the negro In
the South had voted for honest money.
while the white southerner had voted for
debased money.
Finally. the colored divine declared that
the question of what to do with the negro
rested entirely on the fact that he was
black.
There were grins when DR.. Norris
added that the trouble with the negro.
was calmly diagnosed as "skin disease
epidermis Niger and though only one.
sixteenth OF an inch deep. was causing
the white man much concern.
DIR. Pitts Address
DIR. Pitts address was as follows:
The writer Of this paper enters upon
the discussion of this theme with gem
uine trepidation, The whole problem OF
and one cannot deeply consider it with
out the gravest anxiety, not unmixed
with bewilderment. The best that can
writer can do-tn the discussion Of this
topic, Is to oirer for consideration some
vital and verified facts. to describe as
may be some OF the factors which enter
into the probiem. and then to essay with
conscious awkwardness the untried rola
Of prophet. without the prophets pre-
science.
Is there an educated negro. about
whose future We >tay profitably inquire:
century ago the awful era OF rsconstruc-
tlon. In some respects more demoralizing
and az dsstruetiye than the four long years
this ntghtmare came the awakening OF
the South to a situation entirely neyel
sa H5 ossss enns bs the oh
demoraiization Of the he isast1 reeonssracton tom
ssioa tss sdae e aeW potIeal psrs born os
OF wholly Ignorant voters just emerged
from slavery. the immediate necessity for
sesa WaE their eVn w. ruasd
surrounded the southern people as they
undertook the, work of providing public
dran ana for the children Of those ea who
RAPID STRIDES FORWARD.
What has been accomplished? The
figures which follow do not pretend to
absolute accuracy, but they are sub
sstantially true and exact as Is neces.
sary for our purposes. Let it be borne
In mind that when this work began there
was not In the entire South Single pub
lie elementary school for the negroes,
except possibly here and there school
for the negroes who had been free. Not
only so, but there was nothing approach.
ing a system OF schools for the whites
In the year 1S9a-191O there were enrolled
in the colored public schools of the soutk
.567 children. The public expenditure
for these schools in the same year II
estimated at s7,1ls.s14. IN the: same yeal
land included in the foregoing figures,
there were ninety-two public high
schools for co!ored youth in the entir.
country. eighty-six being IN the South
and there were enrolled in these s.H
pupils. For the same period there vert
145 schools OF secondary and higher grade
Sc soSrees sSs s;ani. and these had In attendane3
system began operation In the South. thu
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