The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-11
IN MEMORY OF DR, ]. ( PRICE
HON. JOHN C. DAUCY PRAISES
 GREAT NIGRO EDUCATOR.

Large Audience Listened to WeiI-
 Known Negro Editor nt FOote Street
 Church Last Night--TeIIs of Strue-
 gles and Genius of Dr. Price Who
 Pounded Livingston College at saIis-
 bury, N. C.-speaks on Lincoln To-
 night.
 The Hon, John c. Daucy, recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, and editor of the Quarterly Review of the A. M. E. Zion church, was greeted by a large audience of colored people last night, when he delivered a lecture at the A. M. F. Zion church on Foote street, on the life of the late Dr. Jo- seph c. Price, the founder of Living stone college. MT. Daucys lecture was very scholarly one and he was lis- tened to with great interest as he told the life story of one of the greatest men that his race has produced.
 Dr. Price was always precocious, said MT. Daucy, Even in his youth he showed the signs of genius He excel led in all his studies. and headed his classes. He had a fine physique, and excelled in athletic sports He evoked admiration everywhere he appeared and white as well as black gave him unstinted praise for his work
 He rose by hard work from humble position, and he worked his way through Lincoln college by teaching during the summer months. His people were very fond of him, and he made it a point never to pass an acquaintance without recognizing him. In the early years of his career, and before he grad uated from college, he earned an envi- able reputation for his work in con- ducting a prohibition campaign in
 
 success turn his head for he realized that more would be expected of him in the future.
 When he graduated from college he entered into educational work, and was for time princpal of a high school
 But this did nt satisfy him. He later made a visit to England, and it was while there that he conceived the idea of raising the money to found Living ston college. He was very successful
 and obtained a fund of $10Oo0 With this he bought the college property at Salisbury, N. C., and started in his work. The first year he had only two students and three teachers, but the number of students rapidly increased, and at the end of the second year he had 200 studentsand eleven teachers. So rapid was the growth that addition al funds were needed, and he made trip to California during which he raised $25,000. On his return from England Mir. Price was married to Miss Jennie Smallwood, who had been edu- cated in the north, He was by her the father of i've lovely children, two sons and three daughters, who are now liv- ing.
 Dr. Price was invited in 1893 to ad- dress the Nineteenth Century club of New York. He was the only colored man who has been accorded the honor and the speech that he made on that ocicasion received the unstinted praises of the New York press.
 Dr, Price was the author of policy which, if it had been followed when he first suggested it would have placed his race on much higher plane than it is to-day. He was always the advocate of equal and exact justice to all men. He Vigorously opposed the enactment of the Jim Crow law, and because of his vigorous efforts it's passage in North Carolina was delayed for a long time. He always urged his people to the ac- cumulation of property, holding that this was the surest way to their pros perity and advancement to a status more like that of the whites He en- oouraged them to buy homes and | farms.
 He was strong advocate of civic vir- tue and taught the love of law and the obedience to its provisions. As a speak CT he was unexcelled and his speeches were praised for their eloquence and their wisdom. On one occasion he was advertised to speak with Frederick 1 Douglass and Isaiah Wells. These two renowned orators spoke until very late in the evening and when Dr. Price, who was little known arose the people began to leave, but after he had spok- CT but very few words the people again took their seats and listened with rapt attention to his eloquence
 After the lecture a collection was taken for the benefit of Livingston col lege which recently sustained a severe loss of $6,OO0 by the burning of the girls dormitory. a neat sum was realized
 MT Daucy will speak at. the same church tonight on 'IAbraham Lincoln, the Greatest American Statesman. President, Liberator and Martyr" His excellent address of last night assures him of a large audience at the exercises in memory of President Lincoln.