The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-06-23
NEGRO is RECEIVING
BENEFICIAL TEACHING
Evidences Of Friendship, Peace
and Good viii In Southern
Communities
tBy AeaoeIated Pressl

Louisville KY, June 30 The inter
national Sunday school convention late
yesterday afternoon decided to hold
their next convention in San Francis
co in 1911 The convention will be
neld in Jne. the exact date to be an
lnounced later by the executive com
mittee
The principal speakers at the ma
tional session were W. n. Hartshcrt,
of Boston, chairman of the international
executive committee, who took for his
topic New Plans for Sunday School
Work Among the Negroes" and Book
er + Washington, principal Of the Tus-
kegee institute at Tuskegee Ala. Mr.
Westminster said
Il was born in the South was
born slave. In the sgutherH part
Of the United States there are more
than S,000000 of my race These
blacks and whites are here 10 remain,
in my opinion, for all time Whatever
affects one race affects the other We
are fast learning in every part Of
America that one man cannot hold
ar0ther man down in the ditch with
out remaining in the ditch with him
1T may not be kn-wn outside of
the South and to the general public,
but nevertheless Il Is true that every
branch of the southern white church
Is assisting in some manner in the
4 educational, moral and religious in the
1 improvement in the negro in the Sun
4 day school OF church work The
whole future of the relations of the
twc races in the South hinges largely
upon our being able to inculcate into
the young minds OF the black children
and the white children proper ideas
tof justice and a spirit of liberation
and friendship between race and race
If we fail TO teach these lessons in the
Sunday school in that degree the fu-
ture relations between the races be-
lcomes matter os speculation and dan
gerous, The Good Father" has so
arranged matters on this earth that
lone man cannot get on without the
help Of the other man Our relations
are so delicately and minutely inter
woven that one race cannot in any
large degree get away from the other.
Not long ago in a certain southern
city there lived white family Of
wealth and culture and influence. A
few yards from this stately mansion
there lived negrO family In little
cabin that was unclean and surround
ance. The laundry of this whitef fam
lily was done in this negro cabin.
There was in the white family a sin
gle daughter OF refinement in whom
the hearts of father and mother were
deeply set for the future. A contag-
ious disease Of a deadly character
made It's appearance in this negro
cabin, The germs of il were conveyed
from this cabin INTO the mansion
where the young white lady lived.
Within a few weeKs sne lay upon her
deathbed. Who win dare say that
not have any responsibility Ia connec
ton with the appointment OF the con
iditiOn Of the negro family in the cabin
of sqnalOr and poverty? Smallpox, for
{ example cannot exist in any commun
ity in the South among cur race with
ont its endangering the health and hap
plness OF the white race. Contagious
diseases draw no color line.
In nine-tenths of our southern
communities there is peace good viii
and evidences of friendehip existing
between the races The outside world
hears Of the isolated cases. OF friction
lYesulting IN mob violence and lyncn
ing and too often concludes that this
represents our southern Christian civ
lillIdIOu and lhdt tueie are no due
lquate results following the work being
ldone I'm church, Sunday school public
school and elsewhere
Just now the most beneficial teach
ling which the negro is receiving Is
that which Is howing him how to
keep his feet upon the earth, showing
him how. by patience hard work and
courage TO lay the same kind OF foun
ldation In the soil. ia the ownership
+ of property, Ia high Christian charac'
tier that has made the white race and
Ian ether races strong and useful.
Attention IS often called 10 the fact
that the young negro gives trouble.
grant that there Is far too much crime
c0mmitted by the negro yoath, but in
I considering negro life we must remenf
) ber that IL is the young that gives
trouble Statistics show that two
years age 100000 children OF my race
entered no public school and large
proportion Oi those were in school az
tended only four or five months dur
L ing the year. There are hundreds OF
Z thousands of black children wh- enter
4 no school on each Sabbath day Bun
h notwithstanding the enormous amount
4 Of work 10 be done what has already
4 been accomplished In moral and relis
i0us growth Indicates the possibilities
of such work and iustlliea further
4 efforts ir that direction. The nesioe.
who are IN ialls. the cabin ean6f and