The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-15
JUSTICE BREWER
 SPEAKS FOR NEGRO Missionary Work Must Be
 Done for the Race CLAIM OF WRONGS DONE Statement Is Made That the Time Will Come When All Barriers Will Be
 Broken Down for the
 -ses Negro Raee.
 
CLAIM OF WRONGS DONE

Cleveland October 14.--Justice David J. Brewer was the chief speaker at the aft ernoon session of the Congregationalists national conference. He said in part;
 'The uplift through Christian education is the principal work of the American Missionary association. True, these are not the only objects of it's interest and care. All the despsed races in our bor- ders are included. I have myself done lot of preaching from the bench of the supreme court on the duty of Christian America to the heather Chinese. What l said made but slight impression in the courts, but it will yet be heard and needed by the great body of American Christians But the numbers of the col ored people so surpass those of all the others and their relations to the nation are so peculiar that not unnaturally we look earnestly upon the work of the as- sociation among colored people and their very numbers attest the value Of this work to the nation. Surely anything which is uplifting one-ninth of our pop ulation must be of profound interest to all.
  into this republic are racially cold-b -blooded and selfish. Not few come tainted with the spirit of anarchy and are willing to destroy all social order in the hope of personal gain out of the wreck. These immigrants become citizens as we are cit izens. and as is this colored and enfran- chised race and while the colored brothers may be too fond of the chicken coop and the watermelon patch they are firm believers in social order.
 You will find no Johann Most, Emma Goldman, Czolgosz or Guiteau among them In the struggle which may be ex- pected to come between order and an archy may it not be that these people are grateful to the nation for their lib- erty and to the good people of the land for their uplift in knowledge purity, and social standing, prove themselves a mighty force, upholding law, order, and the supremacy of the nation. Stranger things have happened than that these people, crushed and wronged for genera tlons. should become at last strong de- lenders of the nation and the community at whose hands they have hitherto re- ceived mainly injustice.
 "'rhey are here citizens. Whatever temporary restrictions may be placed upon their approach to the ballot box the time will come when all barriers will be broken down and they will enjoy every where the full rights of citizenship. But ignorant citizens are the prey and the sport of every demagogue who appeals to their passions, and if one-ninth of our citizens are so exposed the whole life of the nation Is in peril
 'One of our first tasks Is that of multi plying skilled workers. It is one thing to pick cotton or hoe potatoes and some thing more valuable to make a watch or run on engine. Tine skilled laborer is worth more to the nation than the un- skilled, and the industrial training at Hampton, Tuskegee, and elsewhere is ere ,ating q higher class of labor in the midst of this people. Outside of the indirect re- suits of such increased skill the direct and necessary result is an addition to their commercial value to the community and the nation and so far as the institu- tions and the care of the American Mis- sonary association are doing this work of industrial training, they are placing the nation in debt to them