Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-25
GLADDEN. ON THE BLACK
Tainted Money Man Discusses
the Race Problem.
PROSPECT OF CONFLICTS
Talk Of Segregation, He Says, is
Simply Idiotic.
CONDITIONS GETTING WORSE
Says Everything Bears Out tho Pre-
diction of Carl Schurz-Drift is
Toward Serfdom.
CONDITIONS GETTING WORSE

OBERLIN. Ohio October 25.-The devo-
tional exercises at the opening of today's
session of the sixtieth annual meeting OF
the American Missionary Association were
led by President H. c. King. DID,. of
OberlIn College, the subject being Thy
Will Be Done"
Secretary James w. Cooper Of New York
read a secretarial paper: Rev. J. Spencer
Voorhees, of Massachusetts, delivered an ad-
dress on The American Missionary Asso-
citation and the Problems OF the Reserva-
tion:'' Rev. Frank N. White. DID,. of ILL.,
nois spoke on THE American Missionary
Association and the Problems of Expan-
sion.'
Rev. Washington GLADDEN., DID,, of Ohio
discussed 1.-The American Missionary As
ISOLATION and the Problems of Emancipa-
tion."
DR.. GLADDEN. said in part:
THE legacy left LIS by emancipation Is
the care of the negro race in the United
States. 1t is a national problem. The
burden of this obligation rests on the whole
nation, as many of the wisest southern men
insist.
1.-THE problem as It confronts us involves
the principles on which our nation Is found
ed 1t is well stated Of the words of Carl
Schurz: There will be a movement either
in the direction of reducing the negroes to
the permanent condition of Serfdom-the
condition of the mere plantation hand
alongside the Independently without any
rights of citizenship; or a movement In the
direction of recognizing him as a citizen in
the full sense of the term.
Trend of Southern Prejudice.
such a movement as that described in
the first alternative is now in full progress
In the south the conditions are rapidly be-
coming more unfayorable to the negro The
manifestoes of Gov. Vardaman, which some
time will be Endorsed by the people of the
state. and the recent campaign In Georgia
in which the candidate most unequlvocaliy
fayoring the repression of the negro was
overwhelmingly elected, show the drift OF
opinion in that section.
ITO keep four millions in slavery, who
were born and reared in that condition.
was one thing; to reduce nine millions to
serfdom. after they have been fifty years
free. is quite another thing. Senator TIL
mans prediction that race struggles OF
very bitter nature are likely to be ire
quent and CONTINUOUS in the future Is Eot
without probability. can see no other OUT
come of a strife of this nature than the
segregation of the races. A portion of the
southern domain would have to be set
apart for the blacks; we should probably
have three or four states. OF Whlcn me
population would be wholly composed OF
negroes. governing themselves and repre-
scented in the Congress at Washington. Ine
blacks would suffer by being thrown on
their own resources in their poverty; 1t
work out the problem of civilization. To
the whites. the prosperity in which they
are now rejoicing would suffer severe
perhaps a deadly blow. -
ut is idiotic to talk of deportng the ne
sroes TO some other country; they are
mere and here they must stay, and their
home viii be in the southern portion or the
I United States"