The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-10-24
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day to a -.bie a,iAlRnco At ther ph,1o
sophical InstftnfS4G their ,vian,s ~
the Negro 1robs9fn IN tba ;IrnItatd
States. r.. ,,.ssss ,sSs3ss' y :, Il
Mr.. Carnegfe stfonelv cbaInninn,,e esd 4
the Negroes fIfs sffaced tbeir davoii--
opment from 5slavSs to cit,znne tb.t
gradual decraaaeIsS IsSS illiteracy among
them. their ,senssral inclusion IN.
church organizstinns and the enor.
nous expen ditiras Of monev .for
churches and schools. ..0,E' Z :
He contented thet the Negro was
saving man. WiitE land huneer and
declared there RaS no better tast of.
respectable member Of society thar
! bank book shoWkng a good sba1anee.
or title deeds to ashouse or farm 4un- !,
encum bered bytASdtt. He renI,tifafSH
the idea that tiS Negro is law a.
the contrary. %dieE Hid, he was ha h1Iaai iad
in every Held Sf.1actiyity even In
| newspapers. .&HsiEss5 - @,s&s - : Z
| The question ,nsad to be what canr
be done with SEthe$ egroes, hut now
it is how moresSEs them and other
workers can he obtained The No
gro has beco mesofs lin mense econ on3f e.
value and is ifaasEensable rrNevar-
theless, Mr.. Cafnssie admitted me
lNegro problenn! tSS8et unsolvedf and
| the question sp8hsther Negroess 4 viii
ever be raised ifites the mass Of the
nation is still HnAns werable. a .' =, r II (:
| Lord Rose berry, while protesting
his incompeteneYfto offer an opinion
ON the subject, and believing II nm
| desirable to submit his views on the
internal affairs Sof other nations.
| nevertheless said HE, doubted the wis.
| dom OF disfranehising the Negroes,
He believed nfnaES per cent OF, them
! were illiterate when they were Re saus
| franehised,. and gwen lpnt nh ar q
l esie''B showing ven Jper cent,
We're still so - ~ ~ -! - -"
I 1t seemed to him that a period OF
tutelage NIGH have been wisely i'm
posed. Had not the United States,
| he asked, in a generous impulse Of
| the moment admitted to the fran
| chise men, wholly incompetent to ex-
erc1se that high prerogative? ...I
There was danger, he declared, in
| dealing with vast masses Of voters,
| OF undertaking the Individual impor-
tance, he might, indeed, say the SOL
emn1ty, OF a vote. Looking cody and
historically back with criticism,
| which 1s SO easy now, of what was
done In hot blood and calling up the.
Old picture Of chained slave ap-
peating to a white man, saying, Am
not man and brother?" he could
not help thinking the wise answer
| would have been, "A MANI Yes. A
brother? Yes, but if you think you
nave proved wour fitness for the suf-
rage and full citizenship, no."
| Continuing, Lord Rosebery said
Chat thlngs were sometimes done un-
oer nigh and generous impulses
| "h1ch we're afterWard regretted. He
was, inclined to think there were
some persons In America who re-
gretted that the suffrage had been
gwen to the Negroes. Dealing more
| orfefly with future fusion OF the
I races ana the persistence OF the color
| i1ne' regarding which he said he