The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-02
DIR. CARROLL GIVES
OUTLINE OF VIEWS
CoIored Educator OF Column
bia, S. c., Tells of the
Work in Hand.
IMPRESSES THE PEOPLE

lDURING HIS SHORT STAYINRicH
MoND HE FINDS MANY PER
SONS IN SYMPATHY WITH HIS
MISSION.
DR.. Richard Carroll, of Columbia
S. c., president of the South Carolina
Industrial Home for Destitute colored
| children, and also founder of that In
stitution, has favorably impressed the
many Richmond people with whom
he has come in contact during his
few days in Richmond.
Tomorrow night at the closing SEES
sion of the Chautauoua, DR.. Carol
will, discuss the Race Problem
from his own point of view and
though it is the closing feature of
many good features it promises to be
one of the very best of the Chautau-
lda 9ScSoI LII SdilOiE SldtSuiSnl
regarding his mission on the lecture
platform and of some of his views
are best given in his own words as
follows:
Some time ago, l signed contracts
with Mr. James NJ. Shaw, of Blooming
ton, Illinois, to deliver some lectures
at his various Chautauquas, and the
subject assigned me was THE Negro
Problem a subject which | hate to
discuss. | know no man, white or
black, who has been able to furnish
a solution of the problem that is salts
factory to the American white people.
With the negro himself, there is no
problem. The problem is in the hands
of the white people. Day after day
the problem grows larger and becomes
more difficult to solve. This is ac-
counted for because of the fact that
the negro is making advancement and
improvement and is getting in the
way of the white man, or becoming a
competitor, or becoming more and
more like the white man, taking the
white mans civilization, the white
mans religion, and the white mans
virtues and the white mans crimes.
Before the war there was no negro
problem, since the war he has become
a free man and a citizen and voter,
hence the problem.
Since l have been West, find that
on account of my recent illness, l am
not able to deliver many lectures and
so spend much of my time investi-
eating, talking to white and colored
men, politicians, Christians, newspa-
per men, statesmen, and everywhere |
find that prejudice against the negro
race is growing. 1t is spreading, it is
found where you least expect to find
it. In Marshall county, in Indiana,
where | lectured last Sunday, no ne
gro is allowed to settle and this is
true of about ten counties in Indiana.
Reputation is what people believe
we are. Newspapers and orators
from the South have given the negro
a bad reputation. The Associated
Press, itself, delights in parading in
faults and crimes of the negro before
the country. They want something
to print that will be readable, some
thing exciting" something that will
lake." and the black sheep is the most
noted sheep in the pasture of course.
In my speeches l have endeavored
to show that all negroes are not
Drutes, all negroes are no more alike
han all white people are alike, and
hat all white people of the South are
lot lynchers and murderers; that
here are as good white citizens in the
South as can be found anywhere in
he world and that there are as good |
negroes in the South as can be found |
anywhere in the world In parading
he faults of the negro before the |
country, We are not only injuring the |
legro, but we are injuring the South |
think l am rendering for better SER
ice to my State when / stand up and |
ell the Western and Northern people |
# the advantages of the South, its ed |
lcational advantages, its advantages /
or paying investments, its healthful /
Innate, its intelligent and Christian /
itizens, of its unequaIed hospitality.
IS generosity, of its old chivalry, and /
| know of no good that
las ever come from the negro orator
Tho sought on every occasion while
acing a Northern audience to parade
he wickedness of the Southern white
eople, or TO tell of how many crimes
here are in the South or to speak of
outhern barbarity since the war In
ee king TO injure the white race along
his line, he hurts his own people.
'hus, you see, our reputation is bad,
nd both the reputation of the South
IN negro and the Southern white man
) hurt
TilIman's Lectures.
The people who have heard Sena-
or B. r. Tillman lecture in the West
re under the impression that he has
dead negro for breakfast every morn
lg and that no white man living in
lie South has had a breakfast since
lie war without a negro. If Senator
illman is guilty of numbering a ne
ro,, | do not know it. | have said on
any occasions that his feeling to-
ards the negro is just as good as the
yerage white mans; that he has ne
roes who have lived on his planta-
on for more than 90 years, and who
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