The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-04

Spoke in Capitol City Last Evening
 Big Audience Present-Yale Man
 Most EnthuaiastIeRIIy Reeeived-Ed-
 ucation, Work and Character Build ing for the Negro Race.
 In the presence of large and enthu- siastic assemblage of colored people, and a goodly sprinkling of many or Hartford's most prominent white eiti- zens, William Pickens, one of. Yale's leading orators, delivered stirring ad- dress last evening. The exercises were held in the African Methodist Episco- pal church in Hartford and MT. Pick ems was the speaker of the evening. He took for his subject Our Outlook" and, in part, spoke as follows: @
 Within thirteen years the African Methodist church can celebrate it's one hundredth anniversary. century of the most iaudable progress. To any man who says that the negro has no origi- nality. no tenacity of purpose, no capa- bility for organization, concerted ac- tion, efficient management and eorpo- rate power; to any who doubt his fit ness to realize an ideal of ethics and religion; to all such sceptics and Phi listines, I have one concrete and con elusive answer: The African Methodist church. @. ..&
 Eighty seven years ago in Philadel- pflia, the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen estab- lished the little church called Bethel and from this house of God there has flowed an ever widening stream oi blessing and salvation. From this lit. tie congregation has grown system be- side which the governments of Liberia and Hayti stand in odious comparison It is in such men as the elders and bishops of this church that we can an chor our hope for the future.
 The three great essentials for oul well being are religion, education ant industry; intelligence and work; heart head and hand. These are the days O vast differences of opinion. Not in th' days of Phillips and Calhoun was th' negro seen inmore glaringly differen lights. To some the negro is a monste gnawing at the heart of the republic; t others the situation is a crucifixion a which the negro is the Christ: to som' the negro has orightonAmericanso To one the negro is the root of all polit ical, evil; to another he Is the scapegoa Of all political sin.
 .'The intelligent negro dsagrees witt both of these extremists. He woult make the fitness of heart, head anC hand the standard qualification for an. place, except the social.
 s'We can train monkeys; we must ed ucate men. A half century ago the ne gro and education were two ideas st unaccustomed to mental association a: to be ludicrous. To-day there is nt doubt as to our capableness in the. ab stract intellectual gymnasium. But oi character the masses are solely in need : The arguments for higher education and industrial training are by no mean! contradictory. but in the last analysi: the measure of all progress is charac. ter. Upon a broad economical ant sound moral basis we must rear an in < tellectual superstructure that will de serve the respect of the modern world
 Real work implies more than the me diate function of a tool; it includes th' X independence and progressiveness of in telligence. Booker T. Washington ha well said that the negro often though that he was working when he was sim ply being worked.
 fin the fair southland. chance o Providence has cast the American ne gros lot. The south must be the hom of the masses of this people and tn cultivation of the soil must be thei chief occupation. This is no ethnologi cal argument; 1t is an economical one Is there were not black man in tn 2 south agriculture would still be tn principle industry. ..#
 'The negro should be encouraged il every reasonable way to become posses sors of the soil they cultivate. Thi would create a sense of responsibility reward and thrift. and it would foste n eyond 5oiffzpnShir1s sst t"