The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-23
WASHINGTON
Washington, d. c. May 70. 1907.

What was about as near a Sensa-
tional address as a conservative
minister often makes, was delivered
this week by Bishop Satterlee, the
Episcopal Bishop of Washington at
the convention of the diocese just
held. 1t is an address likely to
gain wide publicity and create talk
in the north though in the south
the facts are too well understood to
cause any comment except from the
fact that a bishop uttered them.
He devoted the major part of his
address to the race problem and
said, as everyone in the southern
part of the country is keenly aware
that it was the most pressing prob
lem before the American people.
What he said that will hurt and
what is sure to cause a lot of talk
in the north was that the negro race
was distinctly an inferior race,
mentally, morally and physically,
that suffrage was a. failure, having
been tried for forty years and hav-
ing failed utterly to make equals
with the white race out Of people
who were racially inferior. He
said some more true but not all dip
lomatic things about the childish
efforts of the race to grasp social
equality through money, land hold
ing and education, and added that
while he would cheerfully give the
negro race all the advantages III
these lines that they could have,
nothing that they could do would
ever make them anything but what
they were, a race below the stand
ard of the white.
Further, and this is likely to
cause adverse comment i'll the
Episcopal church, he said that the
Methodist system of local preachers
and class leaders was just the thing
needed to reach the mass of the
colored people within the jurisdc-
ton of the Episcopal church. The
experiment will be watched with a
great deal OF interest in Washing
ton, which has the largest negro
population of any city in the world
and where anything that could be
done to tighten the race curse
would be an unmixed blessing.
XIX
1t has been settled by the party
in power that Oklahoma and Indi-
an Territory are not to come into
the Union as a state till after the
next presidential election if then
1t is purely matter of politics.
Three or four Democratic represen-
tatives and two Democratic Sena-
tors are not wanted at the Capitol,
and there are plenty of good rea'
sons why they will not get there.
Fault is found with the constitution
that Oklahoma has adopted. 1t is
said to be too radical and too hard
on corporations. This is a remark
able complaint from a "trust-bust-
ing" administration. Then it is
claimed that the state has been
Gerrymandered so that it will new
er be anything but Democratic. 1t
takes a pretty fair sprinkling of
voters to Gerrymander a state i'll
the first place, and if this has been
done, which is open to question, it
is no more than what was done in
the case of Ohio, and other states,
but that was in the interests of the
other party. Anyhow the fate of
Oklahoma is settled for some time
to come. The constitution cannot
be adopted without executive ap-
proval, and it has been settled by
the party leaders that this shall not
be given.
Xxx
There are almost as many Demo
cratic possibilities for the Presiden-
tial nomination coming forward as
there are Republican, and that is
useless. 1t is claimed that there is
large element in the party who
would be glad of anything to beat
Bryan for the nomination, and
these members are putting forward
several candidates to feel the party
pulse. OF course Senator Daniel OF
Virginia has been a possibility for
long time and recently his name
has been mentioned before the con-
vention assemblies and mentioned
in such a way as to compel recog-
n'tion. This week Judge Gray, of
Delaware was at the White House