The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-09-21
NEGROES.
Commendable Movement for Promoting
Better Relations Between the
Races in Louisiana.

Better Relations Between the
Races in Louisiana
One of the most commendable move
ments recently begun among the
eolored people of this state has been
! organized and chartered in New Or
leans under the name of ''The Twenti-
eth Century Educational and Indus
| trial Congress. /" The main purposes
of this association as stated in the
charter, are to promote the welfare of
! the colored people of Louisiana along
educational, moral and industrial
lines, to provide suitable homes for
| them, especially in the country, where
, the negro people naturally prefer to
live If they can have assurance that
the worthy colored people will be as
safe from menace and molestation as
the good white people of the same
communities are.
The promoters OF this movement
have faith in the white mans human
ity and are working to show their
faith by undertaking to gather the
eolored people around them and to
point out the pathways of life in which
these people can secure the blessings
of peace and prosperity among their
strong neighbors, the white people,
with whom after all they will have to
live.
The plan OF the movement is to visit
every parish in the state and to call
the colored people together at the
churches. halls and other convenient
places, where, with the leading white
citizens of the respective communities,
they will discuss what should be done
to bring about better understanding
between the races, and to insure the
safety of all law abiding, industrious
colored people from the penalties and
punishments that only the criminals
and malefactors of the race deserve.
AT the New Orleans meeting of the
congress on the 10th and 18th insts.,
held ia the church of Rev. Andrew
Hubbss the program of exercises in
cluded a discussion of the following
questions: 'Education," Industry, .
"Woman's Influence and it's Purity"
"Value of Time Among Colored Peo-
pie, '''The Uplifting Influence of Chris
tianity," s'The immigration Cues
ton and the Negro, - "The Growth of
the Race in Religion, " How to Bring
About Better Understanding Be-
tween the Races" ''Misapplied En-
ergy of the Race tsThe Place of
Young Men in the Development of a
Race ''How 60 Make Christianity
Popular ''The Value of Dollar, u
"The Honor of Service" 'sThe I'm
portance OF Keeping an Obligation, -
''The Necessity of Economy Among
Colored People,. 80 ''The Value OF Pub
lie Schools,'' 1.-THE Growth of the
Race in Industry ''Should Race
be Held Responsible for the Crimes
OF Individuals" and ''Good Citizen
ship.''
AS will be seen by the very ques-
tions themselves. the promoters of
this movement are not only thinking
earnestly and seriously of how to
interest their people in matters of
vital concern to the negro race, but are
seeking to show that it is their pur-
pose to deserve the good will and CO.
operation of all the good people of |
the state.
The temperate tone OF the speakers
to discuss the more serious |
questions before the congress was a |
mark of good Judgment on the part |
of the leaders of this movement and |
indicates that fomentors of strife or |
'rouble will not be given an opportu-
nity to do any mischief under the |
auspices OF ''The Twentieth Century |
and Industrial Con-
gress." Rev. A. L. Reese, known as
one of the most conservative colored
men in the state, is president, and
'rofo Frank B. Smith, one of the
most level-headed of the younger men
II the race, is secretary of the
congress.
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