The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-02-07
Father John DAILY Declares Race
Problem Will Be Solved by
Teaching Dignity Of Labor
NEGRO HAS GOOD QUALITIES
Eloquent Priest Declares That Judg-
ment Should Not Be Passed by
Considering Only the Low
est of the Race

Work and recognition of the dig
nifty Of toll is the panacea offered by
the Rev. John DAILY of Milwaukee as
solution of the negro race problem.
Father Daily spoke at the Rhode opera
house and he brought a message of
the south on the most important ques-
ton now under discussion by the
Southern people.
In an eloquent but unimpassioned
way Father DAILY pleaded the cause
of the negro, and asked simply fair
treatment for the black man. He de-
clared that the black unan was no
worse than the white man, but that
the people of the world had learned
to judge the black man by the deeds
Of the lowest members Of his race,
and that should the same rule be APP
piled to the white man the result
would bring the same condemnation
Of the white race BY people ignorant
of the real conditions
Father DAILY spoke of the negro in
his Southern home, and declared that
the Northern people had no way to
judge the negro on account of the
fact that they could not appreciate
the conditions in the South. He de-
clared that there were good "niggers"
and that the crimes and lawlessness
in the South we're due to idleness,
drunkenness and political agitation
among the lowest classes of the
whites and the blacks. Father Daily
declared that the whites we're just as
much to blame for the conditions as
the blacks, and that back of it ali was
the face that the whites and the
blacks alike, not only in the North
but in the South, failed to recognize
the dignity of honest toll.
In prefacing his caustic remarks on
the negro question Father Daily talked
at length on slavery and the war of
Secession. He told the story of
the war from a Southern standpoint,
and paid tribute due to the gallant
leaders of the men who fought in
gray. He claimed that slavery was
forced upon the South by the North,
and that 'the most disting uished
leaders of the Southern forces had
been opposed to slavery. He declared
that slaveryghad j ot caused the war,
but that the real cause of the war was
the right of sthe State to withdraw
from the Union. s'The supremacy Of
the Union" he declared, "has been
forever settled with the blood on the
sword, and the Southern people are
proud Of the settlement. To them
the subject Of civil conflict is dead,
and there are no sores of battle re-
manning
In speaking Of General Lee and the
Confederate soldiers Father Daily
said, Lee was one of the worlds
greatest men, mistaken ia his duty
but honest in his mistake. The men
in blue who went down to fight with
the men in gray, knew that they were
mistaken men, but that they we're
honest men, and when the call of
peace came these men who had fought
in the trenches be they in blue or in
gray, laid down, their arms. They
knew that the conflict was over and
and loved the man in gray, and the
man in gray honored the man in blue
IN his day of triumph. But it was the
sneaking, 1ow-1ived politicians, the
hungry robbers and the thieves, the
carpet baggers who went down upon
the bleeding and crushed states of the
South to tear open the wounds of
civil conflict and brought the feeling
that existed after the war. You will
find today that the Union soldier is
respected in the South, and the con-
f1ict for states rights left no rancor
between the men who met in the
awful conflict on the bloody battle
fields; the sores we're all found with
the men who were farthest from the
battle field when the battles were
raging"
In the course of his remarks Father
Daily paid tribute to the work that
had been done by Booker Washing
ton and other negroes who were work
ing for the uplifting of the race, and
he declared that slavery had been
good thing for the older negroes in
that it had taught them the value of
labor. He spoke of "Uncle Toms
Cabin" and declared that it was
distorted story of the South but that
it had done great good.
He claimed that the misuse of
negroes was a decidedly rare thing in
the South. He referred to the polite
al agitators now urging the race
question as an issue in scathing
terms and declared that the people
of the United Country should pay no
attention to these men as their sole
purpose was to gain the vote of the
blacks and in this way keep them
selves IA Office.
Father DAILY is the superintendent
of the Catholic home for homeless
boys Of Milwaukee and before he be-
gan his address he made few re-
marks on the work that is being done