The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-11-02
NEGRO AGITATION.
Assumes Grave Proportions With
Race at Washington.-All About
School Teachers.
Washington cor. Columbia State.

capital seems to be assuming grave
proportions among the "colored"
folks. They are holding mass meet
ings now over what they term their
treatment in the public schools, and
while they do not specify any parti-
cular grievances of which they can
complain except the dismissal of Car
dozn and Il few other teachers, they
are censuring certain white people,
especially DR.. Chancellor, the new
superintendent Of schools, and ex-
pressing the most virulent condemna-
tlon of the sentiment heard or breath
ed anywhere that the negroes are not
Il downtrodden people. They point
to the fact that the negroes of Phil
adelphia by forming mob and
threatening riot succeeded in making
the mayor and the court suppress
"The ClanSman' in Philadelphia,
and declare that the thing for them to
do is to "agitate.'
The new superintendent, DR.. Chan
cellor, has been throwing cold water
on this agitation. and one of the pro-
minent negro preachers at mass
meeting last night quoted him as hav-
ing said that if the negroes did not
stop this agitating they would bring
down upon themselves some such state
of affairs as prevails in The Southern
States. 1t is Il pretty bad state of
affairs which prevail in The Southern
States, these negroes up here seem to
think and they deeply and indignantly
resent the threat of any men, cspcc-
ally the superintendent OF schools,
who is Il Republican and an adminis-
| tration man, that anything could
bring about such a dcplorable thing
here.
DR.. Chancellor, as stated Il few
| days ago in this correspondence, is
the one who proposed to bring here
DR.. w. e. B. Dubois, the celebrated
negro agitator now living in Atlanta,
and make him an officer in The schools
but with the distinct understanding
! that Dubois was to cease his "agita-
tion' aaginst Booker Washington
and industrial education. The negroes
do not object to Dubois. What they
do not like is the condition upon
which he would be invited here, for
Booker Washington is no idol among
Northern or "Yankee' negroes.
Booker is a working negro and in fav-
or Of negroes working. The Yankee
! negro is more in favor of being n
gentleman. The only time the Tus-
kegee negro has ever pleased them
was when he ate with the president.
That dlightcd them, but when he tells
I them that their salvation lies along
the paths of toll, they hiss him, and
rs they once did in Boston, sometimes
pull the razors on him.
This negro preacher, Corruthers,
"member of the colored citizens
committee on the public schools"
who led the onslaught On the super
! intendcnt Of schools last night,
preached red hot sermon last Sun
htS ulSllt, HHtl IL "uS III IclcIclltc W
that sermon that the new superin-
tcndent is alleged to have threatened
the negroes with "Southe,n tron-
bles.' Corruthcrs declared that he
lad no use for the colorcd man who
was afraid 10 Std up trouble, if there
by he might secure his rights. He de-
clarcd that trouble is sure to CONS
some day and il might as we'll come
now. lie preferred, he said, to have
the trouble himself than To be cow
ardly and leave it for his children 70
fight out.
Among those" present at this mass
, meeting was one 4. w. Scott, who for
reasons Of his own was made to skip
out Of Wilmington about six years
ago, about the time of thriots there.
Said he: "Dr. Chancellor seems to be
full of chicanery and tricks. Flo
threatens us with Southern troubles
if we keep up our agitation Of this
question. I tell you it was through
just such agitation that Charles Sum
ner Fred. Douglass, Wendell philips
and other great men made the insti-
tuition Of human slavery to totter and
fall. Let us, to, be men and aai,a,c
,, until justice is done in our schools"
! So thny hnlinyo in oritotiuo An