The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-05-28
WILL SOLVE PROBLEM President EIi0t of Harvard Speaks in Louisville INTEREST FELT IN SOUTH Says New England Also Has a Race ProbIem-cItes the Kind of
 People We Cannot
 Love.

Louisville, May 27.-President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard was the guest here today of the Associated Harvard clubs in annual convention.
 In an address President Eliot sketched the history of Harvard and other col leges and commeded the work they had done and were doing. He said:
 "Is not education the main hope of our country? Is not the most important problem for every section of our country what the education of the rising genera ton is to be? We feel 1t so in Massa- chusetts today exactly as the puritans did in 1648. We feel it the more per- hads because strange races and strange religions. to the puritan have invaded Massachusetts. We have three Catholic races in Massachusetts, the Irish, the Italian, the French-C Canadian and soon, if not already, they will constitute the majority of the people in Massachusetts. It is not the south alone, ladies and gen. tlemen, which has a race problem before it; and the one means of dealing with the race problem is the same in Massachus- etts, or in Kentucky, or in Louisiana the one means IS euucdtlon. NApplause)
 All Hope Is In Education.
 How sacred how holy is the function of the American schools and colleges. l say without the slightest exaggeration that the whole hope for republican in- stitutions is in education
 But we are making good progress in the work of education in our country; nowhere has more striking progress been made during the last twenty years than in the southern states. It Is a marvel what has already been accomplished. The people of the north have had no problem so difficult as that which is presented to the southern states-I mean no educa- tional problem so diffiaut. We believe at the north just as much as you do in the south in the separation of the two races that divide the south We believe, how ever, that the very fact of separation demonstrates that both races must enjoy the amplest opportunity of education think that is the sum and substance Of the northern belief about the southern problem. It Is a question Tor genera tions working always through public and private education.
 Profound Sympathy and Interest
 "It is, therefore, a singular pleasure that I come here to the edge of the south bearing an expression of the profound sympathy and interest of Harvard uni- versity and all northern institutions of learning in the tremedous educational problem of the south. We look forward to the future, however, with confident hope. Education tells also on the whole industrial problem. The industrial prob lem Is mainly one of good will. The so- lution is to be found in the one word good will.
 "There is something different from love in this good will It is impossible for us to love some people. It is impossible Tor us to love a striker crushing the fingers of a scab on the stone pavement with brick. It is impossible for us to love the capitalistic monopolist seizing upon the entire supply of necessary of hte, in order that he may raise it's price to everybody. We cannot love either or those men, We are told to love our ene- mics and sometimes we can, because we feel a sort of respect for stout oppo- nent. but we cannot love mean, coward lv grasping creature" (Applause9
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