The sun., 1903-07-05
LYMAN ABBOTT on THE NEGRO
INDy STRIAL EDUCATION WILL
SOLVE. RACE PROBLEM.
Spend NJ Tor This. He Says. to SA for the
Hisher Education. and Mako the Black
Man Self Supporting Equality Does
Not Necessarily Mean the Franchise.


Hsgher Fducatlon and Mako the Nlack
Man Self supporting Equality Does
Not Necessarily Mean the Franchise.
MoNrcLAIR, n. j., July 4--The Rev.
DR. Lyman Abbott, editor OF the Outlook,
spoke at the Fourth of July celebration here
to-day on the race problem. In part he
said: .....>
The principles of the fathers of this re
public and. what is more important. their Their
BY As sossy ess
lopment,, equality before The laws:
soton eYoSr ssTes afsss
Our colonial problem. our industrial prob
lem, our race problem. II 10 to the latter
alone shall seek to apply them this ater-
noon.
It is safe to assume that the African race 10
socially and temperamentally different from
assume That, whatever that race may be In
the future, IT is at present as race INFERIOR
to the Anglo; Saxon. The one has three
turtles Of barbarsm behind II; the other race
has ten centuries OF Christian CIVILIZATION
behind II.
shall these two races live together on tho
same continent under the sams Govern
ment, In the same community? What is tho
ciples of liberty. equality and fraternity re-
utlire of MS? In one sense this problem " a
new one In the history Of tho world Humanity
religion, and economic sef-nterest com
hine to make determination or expatriation
impossible. Subjugation has been attempted
and abandoned and no. renewal OF the sN-
mitted., And amalgamation y foSbidden,
by the instinct Of both races. and so Mr ne ~
has been illegally and surreptitiously at
tempted has apparently tended toward race
deterioration
/ do not propose 20 oifera complete and COM
prehensive solution OF the problem pro-
almost self-evident propositions which are TO
be kept In mind in an endeayor 70 solve H.
The North shares with the South n the tas re.
the North must share the responsibility for
here We helped to enslays him here, We
and gave him ballot We cannot now aban-
don him 70 the Southern States: and an the he
Southern States to HIM an aad LIE Leave ave them ,ena TO
The solution. whatever II may be. must be
In accordance with liberty: equality; , fraeer- @
n NIT national to- @fnx suicides sSs' must 70 fS
freeman. He must be industrially free.
The freedom of family, Of labor. Of contract.
tain for him He must he the equal Of the
white man under the law and before the
courts. That cannot be crime u committed
by a negro which ls not crime II committed
mitted by member of one race than il com
mitted by member Of the other. u ne
and executed by summary process and there
Is much to be said In favor Of such summary
process the same expeditions Justice must
be employed in the case Of the white as Of
the Black. IF the negro ia TO he punished
by burning at the stake and there is nothing
10 be said in favor Of that position guilty
But equality before the law does not mean
equality in character or involve identity in
function. It does not mean that all are to
or as members Of the Legislature. or as votrrs
at the polls A boy OF 10 years OF age -
equal before the law with the, man OF 6o
Equality before the Inv does not mean uni.
govern was left by the Constitution OF the
State for itself To that right Of local self
government there ia but one qualification
that added by, the Fifteenth Amendment
color or previous condition Of servitude a
bar to suffrage II may make ignorance
poverty or imoTa,ty SI sG"'eeTn en
sttutions 40 as to define afresh the right OF
whether black, or white. may vote If he owns
and can read and write the English language.
That is not an unconstitutional provision
n is not Inconsistent with liberty, eqnahty
or fraternity. II ia not certain that there
may not be in IT example worthy of con-
aideration in he North
II is said that while these provisions are not
Objectionable, they are not justly and equally
enforced. This Is probably true; there are
some sections in the South where it ia Ger
tainly true Wha. is TIE remedy, The
honest, intelligent sentiment in the South
for the just and equal len enf9rcemsnt 9 20 q ,a Avs
There are brave men and true in, the, South
bhsy 90 Sf @ peT Of
lntion cannot read and write. negro domina-
tion means government Of society by its
iS Ear amaieanation n,i But they believe in siy-
ing the negro n free chance to work out his
own salvation equal Justice IL hIs s0s.oyor before ne
help help Himself, These men, are our allies
IL in liberty we are to find tho solvent Of
the industrial problem. il II equality we we are
fraternity we are to And the solvent, OF the
educational problem The negro is brosher
10 the .Anglo.saxon. This dc does no not &. mean
NOR NOR That That he is to Initiate the Anslo-saxon:
but II does mean that the Anglo-Sanon Is to
give him aid in developing In himself az an
Individual and as a race the highest and best
and largest man hood. ,,
Concerning education two things are TO be
What is the first need of such populations
Industrial education Where over 40 per
cent. are poor ana ignorant per cent are
thoroughly vicious and only 10 per cent. are
30 sncnd at least eight dollars on primary and
industrial education and one dollar on what is
called the CHER education. The first duty
~ everv man il 10 support himself The
1rst service we Of the North can render the
African race is the kind OF education which
Rut II ia also true that IL expatriatiOn and
,mnipamation and subjugation are all i'm
p"ssibe, II this black race Is 70 live as a
pe r,ess race al ON rside OF Is on this American
coptinent. the negroes must have their own
nreacbrrs and teachers and doctors and
iawvers. and these must be educated men;
Professional education for tho few industrial
ad,cntion for the many this Ia the need Of
the hour. perhaps as timely in the North 90
in the South. certainly more emphatioalIy
in the South than in the North
Nv 40 much as the North Is richer than
the south, by 40 much II Is OUR duty TO con-
tribute Of our thought, our energy, our sub
stance. 10 the solution, , o. Their problem on