The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-11-22
IN MEMORY OF S. COLE
RIDGE TAYLOR.
BY Cary B. Lewis.

BY Cary B. Lewis.
At a memorial service held at the
Institutional Church In Chicago re-
Gently DR.. Charles e. Bentley, n OF
the foremost leaders of the race was
the principal speaker last Sunday at
a memorial exercises under the aus
pieces of the Choral Study Club at In
stitutional Church where the life and
character of the late Samuel Coleridge
Taylor was eugolized. The church
was filled with Chicago's most repre-
sentative business and professional
men and women.
One of the best literary and musical
programmes yer heard j nthe city
was rendered on this occasion; each
number was taken from some of the
famous works of the noted composer.
The occasion was augmented with
the presence of Mr.. Harrison Eman-
uel who rendered brilliantly and ar
~tistically a violin solo, Deep River"
Mr.. Daniel Protheroe delivered a short
address and charmingly rendered two
tenor solos, (a) Earth Fades, Heaven
Breaks on Me" (b) Weep Not, Be
loved Friends" Mrs. Martha B.
Anderson, one of the best trained
soloists of our city rendered two solos
(a), Prayer" (b) Dawn" Mrs
Wayne Marshall sang when l am
Dead, My Dearest" The Choral
Study Club under the direction OF
Walter E. Gossett rendered two bic
numbers, 'Hiawatha's Departure" and
1.-The Blind Girl of Castel Guile" Miss
Gertrude Jackson was the Organist.
At the close of the programme the
following temporary officers were Sc
lected to make the memorial an an
nual occasion: Pedro Tinsley, Presi
dent; DR.. Charles e. Bentley, Score
tary: James S. Madden, Treasurer.
DR.. Bentley began by saying tina
"The Music World lost a most dis
~tinguished member and the Coloret
people its most gifted musical genius
on September 1st, 1912, in the death o
Mr.. Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Of Lon
don, England.
It is rare. indeed, that we, as a PEG
pie, are called upon to pay tribute tt
opponents of the Arts of poetry ant
music, who belong to us by racia
ties. For ages they have been The
highest products of the more favore'
races We = heritage replete with op
rcs, 4 are no Lery advantage. While
making any gains 10 no race or a9e
has not followed hithe. Gace mas pee :,
the main source of unskih
supply, but the unskilled laborei
the best money-earning class or o..
industrial order. There must b
forward march begun somewhe
Something must be done to supply til
increasing wants of the race. 1t ma
tiers not what may be said to the co!
trary Notwithstanding, there is Away.
a social danger in an inefficient work
ing class. It matters not of wha.
race it is a part, if it is poorly fed
the working class is dissatisfied an(
a municipal burden. When labor i!
underpaid social problems are multi
piled and personal and business safety
are in danger.
II OllOulu BG iGLlCAlbCl Gu al dg .
that the family life of the Negro PEG
pie must be kept steadily moving up
ward in it's intelligence and comforts
It cannot be done unless the men who
are to make the homes are able tC
command good pay for the work they
find opportunity to do. Work alone
does not pay bills. Money is required
for debts and the smaller ones earn.
ings the less he has to work out the
problems of home and life. The
average day laborer of the Negro race
does not earn enough to support a
family. Something or somebody
must be neglected. It may be the
wife or the proper education and care
Of the children. In either case that
means a misfortune and future shad-
ow. Money taken for professional
services from the man of small earn
ing capacity Is almost "blood-money''
but the doctor must get his money or
the sick will have no attention. A
poorly paid and inefficient working
class weakens any people infinitely,
for men will not assume the RESPONSE
bilities Of married life at a time when
they ought because there is no clear
way ahead for fulfilling the obliga-
ti0ns assumed.
Now the eternal questions, What
is to be done about it all?" How
is the situation to be metz" It must
be handled or there is the future of
two classes of Negroes, the prosperous
and Improvident coming together in
enmity, hatred and strife. That will
mean the undoing Of the work of the
patriots who have wrought so well