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81 don't say that all Negroes should go
TO Africa: but do say that hundreds oI
thousands should go. We have got TO
have some national centre, some flag to
be respected. Suppose we had n flag
would We be counted out by the nations?
Not a bit OF IL. Even Liberia Is respect
ed; and she has but 0.ooO civilized Negro
inhabitants.
"Wouldn't an exodus from the South TO
the North solve the problem by reliev-
Sng congestion in the South, and couldn'c
southern Negroes more than hold their
own in competition with much OF the for
eign labor that coem I'm every day?"
asked the reporter.
They should be able 10 do so. were the
climate suited to the Negro: but Il isn't.
Why, more than 10000 have left Georgia,
10000 have left South Carolina. and God
knows how many have emigrated north
from Mississippi and other southern
states
'"rhey have come here and slckened and
died. Some are doing well, some 1rc
doing nothing. as they are in other part.
OF the country. Internal emigration VIII
not settle the problem. We shall still be
under the white mans nomination I'm any
part OF this country"
Bishop Turner is q years old and has
been perhaps the most conspicuous figure
in the African Methodist Episcopal
church for the past 26 years.
Long before he was made a bishop he
had served as chaplain I'm the United
States army. He has been the most out
spoken Negro In the country. never bit =
ing his tongue In any section, speaking
as Booker T. Washington stated only n
few days ago. with as much asperity IN
Georgia as in Massachusetts. and never
hestating to criticise his own race as
strongly as he criticised the white
people.
Bishop Turner Is presiding over the
New England conference of his church.
whose sessions are bing held I'm Bethel
A. NJ. r. church. Meeting street At last
evenings session he said:
The negro has something more 10 do
than sing something more to do than 10
deliver eulogistic remarks or 20 acquire
habit for speaking. | know we are a
loquacious race.
"Our education Is not 10 be gained so
much Y the attendance at school or by
the erection Of colleges devoted To the
negro as II Is by the education OF indi-
viduals who devote themselves TO hard
study by the burning OF the midnight
oil and by rising with the break OF dawn.
1T Is necessary for us to do some
thing on an original line and it is not
by Initiating the white man that we
shall develop
I'VE must devise opportunities 20 be
original We have this much the advan-
tage IN that whatever black man does ~
stands 20 the credit OF the whole race.
AZ We have no Mason and Dixon line
20 divide VS..
''One great discovery by the black peo-
pie. one great book. one great accom-
plishment In any field whatever will do
more TO uplift our race than all the
talking that we may or IT VIZ tn DO tn tiIc
next % years"
The 5bth annual session % the New
England conference ~ the African Metho-
dist Episcopal church. which embraces
more than 1900. 00O members. was con-
tnued today in Bethel church Bishop
Turner presiding
Last evening there was a public re-
e<ption az which the ministers were well
ecmed 20 the city and state
Mayor Dyer, who welcomed the confer