The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-28
DIVISION OF RACES
ONLY SOLUTION OF NEGRO CUES
TI0N, SAYS TURNER.
AFRICA BLACK MANS HOPE.
FOUR MILLIONS READY To SAIL If
PASSAGE BE PROVIDED.

Speaker Claimed Negro Has No
American Citizenship and Cited
Decisions of L. $. Supreme Court
to Prove AssertiOn-United states
to Have No Peace as Long as Ne
gro Question Is an 1ssue-Says
Liberia Is Not a Failure-Needs
Only Immigrants and Business
Men to Develop Her Resources.
Atlanta, Sept. 27.-In an address be-
fore mass meeting of negroes in this
city to-day Bishop Henry H. Turner
of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church declared that the separation of
the races was the only solution of the
race problem:
Bishop Turner said:
F"Among the remarks that shall
make on this occasion VIII be
a few. in reply to Dr.. H. s.
Bradley, who fills one of the first pull
pits of Atlanta, and is the pastor of
a congregation cultured and refined.
l Venerate this distinguished divine,
schorlarly, eloquent, humane as he is,
and | believe he is a Christian gem OF
the first water. Indeed, / have re-
ceived personal recognition from him,
that have been accorded by no other
white minister in the city of Atlanta
while al have treated me With re-
spect But it so happens that God
made me out of that kind of material
which enables me to rise ABOVE per-
sonal considerations sufficiently TO
agree with my enemies and differ
with my friends, when the question
at issue requires it. Personal likes ana
dislikes have nothing to do with my
honest opinions.
THE learned doctor. last Monday
night. delivered an elegant and rhetor-
ical speech before a mass meeting OF
NV race land l was presently against
the separation of the races; mean the
white and black races; or as the Afrl-
cans say. the Buckra man and the
Otutu man. He hurled his ford re-
marks against negro emigration, segre-
cation, any form of separation, or any
movement that would contemplate ne
gro concentration, civilly or politically,
and as l saw it, presented one OF the
most ELOQUENT and illogical addresses
I had heard for great while; not be-
cause he is wanting IN logical ability
and attachments, for / have heard MIN
both in the pulpit and on the platform,
and have read after him; but because
he was handling a subject which ne
had never studied with view or It's
practical results. AS the early history
of Rome. of North America, OF South
An1c-ica and of Australia, and, ln-
deed. the history of all peoples and
nations would have shown the folly
of his position. For emigration is the
philosophy of ancient and modern his
tory.
Negro Not Understood.
.HThe bulk of white men know but
little about the inner feelings and
idiosynecrasies of the negro. When they
speak about black men enigrat1ng 10
better their conditions they signally
fail. nv reason of the fact that II IS
not a question that concerns them
enough to give it deep and protracled
thought know there are many white
men who ride into popularity by pre-
tending to know all about the negro.
but thew only know the ignorant and
scuIlion side of him. In this coun-
try where white represents God, and
black the devil. but little thought is
given to the black mans future. Every
thing that concerns the negro is whit
tied down to the present contingencies,
and the eternal future which involves
and contemplates change, revolution
mutation and might, the destiny OF
races is but little thought Of and II
the negro does not think about 1t him.
self, it will receive but little atten-
tion, and our status as a race. to use
the language of the elder Judge Lump
kin, is so ignoble, and the foolish
scarecrow of social equality has be-
come such a hobgoblin with the ignor.
ant masses that we are further apart
in spirit and sympathy than HEAVIER
and hell.
I'VE are as ignorant of each other
as races as IL we did not live In thC
same world. The very conditions thai