The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-10-14
HOPE OF C0L0RED RACE.
Archbishop elennon Points Out Re
sponsibiIity Of the Church.

Archbishop Glennon, of st. Louis
who returned lately after spending the
summer in Europe, where he visited
his home in Ireland and inspected the
great European catledrals with a view
TO the 81 600 900 structure which is
soon to be built in his archiepiscopal
city, devoted his first sermon after his
return to q practical consideration of
the responsibility of the Catholic
church in the solution of the negro
problem. Prea ching last Sunday in
the Cathedral chapel in st. Louis, the
archbishop said: -
Yesterday we had the dedication of
a new asylum for colored children, and
l saw there a number zof thhse little
ones cared for by the colored com
munity of Sisters, and ! saw there also
a nur>s er of our people, white and
colored. attending this function. I
had some words TO say to those who
We're present. but in the background
of what | had to say to them there
doomed this great question that is not
settled yet. That is, the race ques-
ton; the question of the colored peo-
pie, their future association with the
other people who dwell in these United
States.
Possibly there will never be writ-
ten down for this problem an exact
solution on paper or in formula. 1t is.
a unique question that does not exist
with the same accentuation anywhere
as it does in the United States. The
Celtic Teutonic Saxon or whatever
may be the original racial blood. of the
people of the United. States, all repre<
sent more than 1000 years of civiliza-
ton and culture, and where there is
civilization and culture from year to
year, and generation to generation,
there must be an accumulated her
edity springing therefTom. While in
dividuals may be decadent, yet the race
exhibits that prenatal civilization
Consequently. we thaveSoil-the one hand
here q race that perhaps has reached
the highest point of civilization today,
and on the4other handwe have a race
that has back Of it no civilization; a
nation that is racially at the very
antithesis of the white race. And yet
by closer political and local associa-
ton these two races have come to-
gether 10 work out their salvation as
best they may.
In Europe they&do not understand
this condition. because in Europe
there is gradual declination from
race to race. The Swedish people
commingle with the North German;
the North German associates with the
South German, The South German
with the Latin, the Latin with the
Egyptian, the Egyptian with the
Abyssinian. and the Abyssinian with
the Hottentots, and thus step by step
the declension goes on, but there is no
accentuated difference between race
and race.
"In the United States they have tried
to solve this question by the Civil
war. They did succeed in the aboli-
tion. of slavery, and that part of the
success of. the United States arms is,
today admitted and applauded- by all
the citizens, because slavery is wrong.
But that they HAYES thereby solved the
entire question of the colored race and
its future is doubted by many.
Some think it will be solved by
education, and hence the proper thing
to do is to intrench the colored people
in their political civil, social rights
or whatever rights they may have,
by placing education before them, by
building high schools and universities
and training them to the point where
they are absolutely the Intellectual
equal of the white man. But there are
others who think that after the high
school and the university have done
all possible for the eolored race, we
shall still have the same old problem.
at appears to US the sanest way to
secure a solution of the problem would
be to study the race according to its
own proper genius. for every race has
its own NATURALIZATION, its own
characteristics, its own trend of racial
and national life, its own way of
growing as we believe all races should
grow, up and onward. This is true of
the white race. it is true Of the colored
race. The characteristics of the coll
ored people can be summed up very
readily, The colored people have
hearts, they are emotional, they are
initiative; they are faithful. provided
the temptations to infdelity are not
too strong; they are .obedient if they.l
are trained to. obedience, they are
believers almost to the point of cred |
ulousness. fThegvery first thing to do
is 10 get them to control their emo
tons, to train their hearts and develop
their moral nature Their faculty OIL
beiief which is Fgood in itself. ought |
to be utilized to their uplifting"
The archbishop tsaW ; in religion the
final hope of the coiored race, and
said it was only by the discipline of
Christianity that they could be lifted |
to better things.