The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-23

ANsAA man who is trying to win men for .Je- GUS Christ and know that the Chris tian worker with white men must wait on sin and ignorance as well as the ne- gro Christian worker with black mep- neither can have things just as they like to have them.
 l was at Mt Hermon School in 1886 where and when the Student Volunteer movement was born; and have confi- dence in the moral purpose of the men at the head of things. And I am glad that they have common sense enough to know that when they are in India they must take into account the social customs of Indian. Tennessee is not Massachusetts; and if the Student Volunteer movement is to do its best possible work in Tennessee it must recognize that fact
 That is but one thing that will ever save the negroes of the South from the pity of all throughtful people-and pity borders on contempt-and that is the growth of a feeling in the heart of the Southern negro that makes him as prwoud of being by himself as the Southern white man is of being by him. self.
 This protest coming always from one side makes one feel that 1t is due to a feeling of inferiority on the part of the protestants. It is hard to respect a person that is always whining and pouting because you do not want to sit by him. You may pity him-but pity borders on contempt-you cannot respect hifff When the negro really feels as proud of being black as the white man does of being white he will no longer feel humiliated by being seated by himself.
 Booker T. Washington has gained, not the pity, but the respect of the best people; not only of this country, but of the world. And he has done this be- cause he can say to the white race with all truth.
 T am as proud of my race as you are of yours" And because he is proud of his race he never pouts and whines be- cause the customs of the South demand that the races sit by themselves. Book CT T. Washingtin Is just as great a man sitting apart with his mothers s people as he is when he sits with his fathers people.
 Let us get education--let us get the best possible education; let us get good rellgion--and ethiclze1 religion-but in all our getting let us get, as fa' as possible, common senso.
 There is growing up amons the negroes fthis land class of persons who spend their time and strength in talking and writing about tneir man. hood" This talk has the tendeaey 10 give one the same feeling one has in the presence of the women who is all ways talking how s1cred sho
 way talking about how sacred she hold her virtue, Superiority, manhood and virtue never speaks of themselves.
 All intelligent, self-respecting negroes are agreed that the wrongs against the negro race must be fought to a finish but they are not all agreed as to what those wrongs are not are they all agreed as to the method of fighting the wrongs upon which they are agreed. All would destroy the Jim Crow car" Some would do it by destroying the laws that made these cars; others would do 1t by destroying the causes that made the laws; some would de- stroy the "Jim Crow car, so that white and colored can travel together. others would destroy the "Jim Crow negro" so that the so called "Jim Crow car would be the best car in which to travel. This is, the longest way round, but 1t is the surests way home.
 When the negro leaders spend their time and energy in teaching the race to see the distinction between pity and respect, and when this distinction real ly takes hold of the negro in good earnest, the Jim Crow car" will van ish of it's own accord as it did in Bos- ton, the "cradle of liberty" and as 1t did in Philadelphia, "the city of broth erly hatred" as I once heard it called by a speaker one Sunday afternoon on Boston Common,
 I have absolutely no fear of that class of men who write big books and lead ing articles about the inherent su- periority" of the white race-there are evidently superior men and women ir the white race, but they are not those who are always talking about it-but I have fears lest the leaders of the negro race produce in themselves anc the race a chronic state of whining and pouting over their real and i'm ginary wrongs and lose their place ir the great system of things which waits for no man. nor race of men. have fears lest, failing to catch the spirit of the great world movements these good, earnest and larned men will defeat the very end for which they strive.
 It is pathetic and said to hear that while one of the greatest missionary conventions that the Student Volun- eers have ever held was going on, the negro students who are to be leaders of the negro race were outside pouting like children because they were to be