New-York tribune., 1905-05-10
SCHOOL NOT " jim CROW
BISHOPS on THE NEGRO.
Church at Fault, They Say at Con-
gress-Must Not Divide.

AS 70 "The Future of the Negro IN America
which was discussed at the Church congress IN AS
ISOLATION Hail. Brooklyn, last night oy Il oisIop Vi
the North a bishop of the South ana negro eieisS
man. all agreed that it lay not in deporta'ioh nor
amalgamaton but in education and the adjustment
OF the black and white people. as TWO dlst1nct
races with political and Industrial equahE II
was agreed that the Episcopal Church hao no.
done what it should toward the uphIuhs Vi 'ne
negro In this country and solution OF the PROD
lem and that although the problem was hard 10
solve. there was hope for the future of the negro
race in America. The congress opened yesterday
morning in Holy Trinity Church.
Bishop Burgess of Long Island. presided. On
the negro problem he said
One thing alone cling TO in all our thoughts on
the subject. We will not divide the Church we
" VIII not erect separate Church f0r 1ne g ~ all
costs we Will maintain unity.
Regarding the subject for tomorrow evening,
The Church and Public Brgandage" the Bishop
said:
We shall await the unfolding of this thought
but we know that bribery and corruption are all
around us Money purchases silence buys legls-
It protects houses of ill-fame to which many In an
open hells of gambling, which ruin the young and
Old alike Surely the Church has duty here Sho"
US how to perform it,
Bishop Lines of Newark, was the first writer on
the subject OF the evening. He said in part:
Northern question as well TheoreticaIIy in the
North we like the negro better than they do in the
South. but practically In the first place there
should be a better understanding between the two
Suspicious of the North and the North Should not
be intolerant of the South 1t not in a South
Easter Sunday cards We're given out asking the
colored men to come to the communion table after
Two things. think. may, be regarded as settled:
ond. there to be separate schools and churches
IN the North as well as in the South. The negroes
should we not have them? If the negroes are
the opportunity Of reaehing the same places as any
one else: Why should we not have suffragant negro
pendence among the negro and not waste the little
money that we send down there by putting
the negro keep out of politics and work for indus
Italian the Negro Would haVe Owned d large part Of
me, me south by this time The Anglo1Sax3n thinks
be a rude awakening.
Bishop Strange. coadjutor of East Carolina, after
declaring that deportation or colonization could not
be depended on to solve the problem. showed by
statistics that the negro would in all probability
always be present.
The Rev. John Wesley Johnson is a negro Of the
most pronounced type, except that his skin is not
dark His sturdy and aggressive cham
ponship of the black man aroused great applause.
He said that he thought there nothing back
of the cry about the inferiority OF his except
that the white had a better education and
bigger bank account. He said:
The negro race is plastic race. You can't
starve It TO DEATH legislate 1t to death, nor
you can't kill it by Jim Crow cars. We are an
aspiring race. You came and followed the Indian.
We didn't follow the Indian. We followed you. 1
have faith in the future of the negro because we
are not going argue from his past but deal with
his present and future. We have our friends, and
among them is that greatest of all modern rulers
the man who believes in a square deal for every
man-Prsdent Roosevelt.
Among other speakers were George Foster Pea
body and the Rev. T. Lewis Barrister, formerly OF
Mobile Ala
The congress was opened yesterday by the cele-
bration of the Holy Communion and an address by
Bishop Brewster, of Connecticut. Sessions Will be
held every morning and evening till Friday after