The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-08-03
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Booker
AS no PANACEAS FOR ILLS SdIF.
FGRED BY RACE DOES VET gl :
EIaAN WORKER '... .'t,5D.
Wealth Not Solvent.
vi tne froblem of the Races Nor Docs
huucation Of the Negro secure fot
him Better Treatment From the
other Race, Says Rev. johnson. M

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baltimore, August 3.-Rev. DR.
harvey Johnson, the veteran race
champion, will be 6S years of. aga
tomorrow, having been born in 1Tau-
fuler county, Va. August 4, 1843. ~
tie first attended school in Alex
andrla, Va, and later went to school
IL Philadelphia. He went to the old
"ayland Seminary in 1868, gradu-
atlng IN 1872. He assumed the 1ia.-
torate of Union Baptist Church. this
city, in November Of that wear. and
IS generally regarded as one OF the
most lnsistent advocates for thu.
rights and privileges of the race that
this community has ever known. s---I24
lie was largely instrumental I'm
having the bar opened to colorad
lawyers, IN having the bastardy law
aDrogated and in the fight for the
placing Of colOred teachers in the
local schools he took a conspicuous
part. Always fighter against race
discrimination, he startled the Ban
lists OF this country when he made.
speech at the National Baptist con-
'cntlon. when it met in Boston some
years ago, with determinations
against the colored contingent or
the church. He was also the leader
IN the fight in this State for the sep
aratlon OF the colored churches from
the white convention, and his ideas
OF separation from the white Bap-
tlsts are said to be largely RESPONSE
bic for the great progress along
lines of self help that the colored
Eantists Of this country are now
-.
Always regarded as an insistent
and consistent advocate Of the rights
or the race, when the SuffraeA.
League of Maryland was organized
In 1904 he was elected president.
but declined.
He Is the author Of the Nations
from New Point or View" and nu-
merous pamphlets and has given
considerable attention to the study
OF ethnelogy and history, -espeefa4ly "
IN their bearing upon the race Dues "
tion. 49,. -.
He has not been much Of an agi-
tator in the last few years, but is,
however, an enthusiastic member of
the Niagara movement, the National
Independent Political League and
similar organizations. Besides man
great interest in the well
fare Of the Williams UNI
versity, an institution that he found.
ed some years ago, he Is also advo-
eating the Texas Purchase Move
ment. 'Nvr@ .
Taxing DR.. Booker r. Washington =
as his example, DR.. Johnson says :
that the doctrine preached by the
educator that the whites will deal.
with the race fairly as education
and property are acquired, is not
borne out by the facts when we see
disfranchisement and race
on all sides, he adj
vocates that the race start an inde- ~
pendent country in Texas and GO
there to escape the prejudice of this
country. The land and utilities of
That State, he says, could be .puY-se
chased by the United States and sold
to the colored people on longtime
notes.
the colored- people -noMLre.-
siding in Texas to form nucleus for
a new government and with the
emigration Of the white man there
from, the start would be made to-
wards independence. DR.. Johnson
is firm believer that the progress
that the race has made along all
lines within the past half century Is
proof of the fact that we could man
age Texas as an independent nation,
besides developing it's boundless re- .