Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-09-10
SAW NEGRO BURNED
At DANV|LLE
GEORGE A, BROWN WITNESS OF
THE HORROR,
is NOW IN MADISON
Founder Of Harriet Seeoher Indus
trial Sehool-Netes Growth OF
Prejudice Against colored Race
and Believes the Cause TO Be 10.
norance,
Madison, Sept, g.

Madison, Sept, g.
George 4, Brown, an eye Witness OF
the race riot and murder recently ii
Dauville, III, was in Madison yester.
day the guest of Rev, II, w, Jameson
and was interviewed ut some length
YES" said he, Il witnessed the
ynching and burning Of the coloroi
man Mctcalf in my town, saturday,
July %, but that did not surprise me,
for I've watched very carefully for
fifteen years the growing prejudice
against us, even up north And there
Is u cause for &C. That cause must
be handled carefully and wisely by
the negro representatives, Tho cause
is an existing ignorance on tho part
Of the masses, ms they DRIFT from tho
south, similar to the ignorance exist.
Ing among poor class OF white4,
They will lynch n negro here rs thoy
do In the south unless the younger
element of our boys and the younger
element OF the Anglo.Saxou boys can
to taught the value of true manhood
and industry,
You ask my opinion about the III.
tie mploasantnoss In Boston against
Booker 7, Washington, Wen, that a
not surprising either Booker I.
Washington Is SO very far In advance
of many of us, in common Judgment
and intelligence, that naturally many
become Jealous and play dog In the
mangor But Washington Ia right IN
every way, and too strong man to
expect to sail along without oppoSi.
ton
while We admit that the present
condition Of our people Ia doplorahle
we must also admit that there Is no
race problem, 1t is simply hard
problem of individual citizenship and
If our condition Is to he hotterod We
must do II ourselves and not expect
the Anglo.Saxon to shoulder our bur.
dcns, II In 1919 when IA negro
slaves landed nj Jamestown, Va, tho
white man was In advance OF us,
and, IL we have improved, is II not
true that the Anglo. Saxon has I'm.
proved and kept ahead of us? our
duty IL not to try and Guido our white
friends but work along moral, Anan
cial and Industrial lines to Improva,
right in our own immediate vicinity.
no matter whore that place Is.
We should not agree with or sup.
port any negro who In any way de.
fends the bad among us. Many OF
our ministers are creating Il great
deal Of ill.fecllng and discouragemeut
among those of the whites who have
heretofore been friendly toward our
race by arguing that We are infallible
and being very badly treated when
observation proves that no honest,
upright, educated negro IL mlstroated.
even IN the south This talk about
cur people being more quarrolsomo
or obnoxious when educated Is an
error We may preach about environ.
mont, amalgamatlon or whatever you
please. but nothing but education,
mainly Industrial Is going to settle
this argument and better our cond'.
ton
THE northern Anglo.Saxon (frlend.
~ IN n way, IL liberal and charitable,
but constant comments from the
north do us no good and invariably
when man from the north takes up
his home in the south he becomes
more OF an enemy to the negro than
tho southern white man, II ls an af.
fair belonging wholly to the southern
whites and blacks. except MS a very
bad element Of us drift north"
Mr. Brown, speaking Of industrial
education, said. that we need moe
skilled laborers among us, Is begin
ming 10 be acknowledged by all,
When boy or a girl IL an efficient
tradcsman, he or she is I'm position
10 give 10 the white man something
he wants; consequently We believe
that when the negro child has master.
cd trade he has done much to allie.
yiatc prejudice and solve the great
negro problem,
Mr. Brown Ii the son OF the late
Bishop John NJ Brown. who was
founder Of the college at Wilberforce,
Ohio, and one of the founders of tho
Proyldcnt hospital in Chicago. Like
his father. Mr. Brown believes educa.
ton VIII settle all questions concern.
ing the negro From Madison Mr..
Brown goes to st. Paul and Mlnneap.