The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-29
ELIOT THEIR GUEST
ENTERTAINED BY ASSOCIATED
 HARVARD CLUBS.
Nnfversity President Tells His Audienc' of Race Problem That Massa- chusetts Has in its Three
 Catholic Races.

Louisville, May 2S.-President Chas. w. Eliot of Harvard was the guest here today of the Associated Harvard Clubs in annual convention. In an ad- dress President Eliot sketched the his- tory of Harvard and other colleges and commended the work they had done and are doing. He said:
 "Is not education the main hope of our country? Is not the most impor- tant problem for every section of our country what the education of the ris- ing generation is to be? We feel it so in Massachusetts today. exactly as the Puritans did in 1643. We feel it\ the morA, perhaps, 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 Ca- nadian, and soon, if not already, they win constitute the majority of the peo- pie in Massachusetts. It Is not the South alone, ladies and gentlemen. which has a race problem before it and the one means of dealing with the race problem Is the same in Massachusetts or in Kentucky or in Louisiana-the one means is education. (Applause.)
 How sacred. how holy is, the func- tion of the American schools and coll lege. I say, without the slightest ex- aggeration. that the whole hope for republican institutions Is in education
 But we are making good progress in the work of education in our coun- try; nowhere has more striking prog ress been made during the last twenty years than in the Southern States. It is a marvel what has already been ac- complished. The people of the North have had no problem so difficult as that which is presented to the Southern so difficult. We believe at the North just as much as you do in the South in the separation of the two races that di vide the South. We believe, however, that the very fact of separation dem onstrates that both races must enjoy the amplest opportunities of educa- tion. I think that is the sum and sub- stance of the Northern belief about the Southern problem. It is a question for general conventions, working always through public and private education.
 Tt is therefore a singular pleasure that come here to the edge of the South, bearing an expression of the Harvard University and all Northern institutions of learning, in the tremen- dous educational problems of the South. We look forward to the future, how ever, with a confident hope Education tells also on the whole industrial prob- lem. The educational problem is main 1y one of good will. The solution 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 im- possible for us to love a striker crush tng the fingers of a scab on the stone pavement with a brick. It is impos- sible for us to love the capitalistic mo- nopolist seizing upon the entire supply of a necessary of life, in order that he may raise it's price to everybody. We cannot love either of those men. We are told to love our enemies and some times we can, because we, feel sort of respect for a stout opponent, but we cannot love a mean, cowardly grasping creature" (Applause.)