The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-10-15
NEGRO UPLIFT URGED
BY JUSTICE BREWER
Judge of Supreme Court
Points Out Duty in
an Address.
GOOD TRAITS IN THE RACE
Says That Many Foreigners Coming
Here Are Racially Cold-Colored
Man Not So.

Cleveland, Ohio Oct 14-Justice
David J. Brewer of the United States
supreme court spoke on the race prob
lem at the meeting today of the Ameri-
can Missionary association of the Con-
gregational national council He urged
the people to make 1t their business
to aid in uplifting the negroes, who
he said, were much more desirable
citizens than the Objectionable foreign
population which came to this country
and made war on industrial and social
order
The uplift through Christian edu-
cation is the principal work of the
American Missionary association" said
Justice Brewer. Still these are not
the only objects of its interest and
care. All the despised races in our
borders are included I have myself
done little preaching from the bench
of the supreme court on the duty of
Christian America to the heather Chi
nese. What 1 said made but slight
impression in the courts, but it will
be heard and needed by the great body
of American Christians. But the num-
bers of colored people so surpass those
of all the others and their relations to
the nation are so peculiar that not
unnaturally we look earnestly upon
the work of the association among the
colored people. Surely anything which
is uplifting one-ninth of our popula-
ton must be of profound interest to
all.
RacinlIy Cold and Selfish.
Many of the vast multitudes pour
ing into this republic are racially cold
Aoh
tainted with the spirit Of anarchy, and
are willing to destroy all social order
in the hope of personal gain out of
the wreck. These immigrants become
citizens as we are citizens, and as is
this colored and enfranchised race. And
while the colored brothers may be too
fond of the chicken coop and the wa
termelon patch, they are firm believers
in social order. You will find no
Johann Most Emma Goldman. Cool
gosz, or Guiteau among them.
I'm the struggle which may be ex-
pected to come between order and an
archy, may 1t not be that these people
grateful to the nation for their lib
erty. prove themselves a mighty force
upholding law. order, and the supre-
macy of the nation? Stranger things
nave happened Indn CndC THESE people
crushed and wronged for generations
should become at last strong defend
ers of the nation and the community
at whose hands they hitherto have re-
ceived mainly injustice.
Ignorance Aids DemaEOgue.
They are here as citizens. What
ever temporary restrictions may be
placed upon their approach to the bal
lot box the time Will come when al
barriers will be broken down and they
will enjoy everywhere the full rights
! of citizenship. But ignorant citizens
are the prey and sport of every dema-
gogue who appeals to their passions
and if one-ninth of our citizens are
so exposed the whole life of the natior
| is in peril.
"One of our first tasks is that O.
multiplying skilled workers. It is on
thing to pick cotton or hoe potatoes
and something more valuable to MAKE
watch or run an engine. The skilled
laborer is worth more to the nation
than the unskflled. and the industrial
training at Hampton. Tuskegee, an'
elsewhere is creating a higher clas
of labor in the midst of this people.