The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-12-21
FATHER DORSEY
What Negro Paper Of this City
Thinks of Him,

The Twin City Star, organ of the
colorcd people, published in Mime
;polis, says in its issue of Dec. IA:
F.; Father John \. Dorsey, a Negro
Priest, delivered one OF the most in
tercsting and instructive lectures at
! st. Charles Catholic Church on Sum
day afternoon. His subject, THE
4: Condition of the Negro in the South"
ciativc audience. Father Dorsey said
! that the general conditions in the
South We're very good. and the Negro
i is doing great things for himself and
! his people. Along professional and
other lines he is better off than the
| Negro of the North.
4! He spoke in highest terms of DR..
Booker Il. Washington and said that
he was working for the masses, and
I; he was for the higher as we'll as the
(; Industrial education of the Negro
Father Dorsey regretted that the
Negroes were in Il great way respon-
sible for Jim Crow conditions, and
that there was Il low element of men
and women of our race. whose morals
are SO low, that they do not respect
anyone, and of these tho lowest were
the women. Also many Negroes
higher up when elected to office had
| sold out the rights of his race. and
he had an occasion to tell many Of
them SO. Many Negroes are working
side by side with white men as skilled
mechanics and engineers. and arc
DRAWN. the same salary. He said
that there wis a sad condition in the
cotton country, where the blacks
worked extra long hours, with small
pay, where child labor was employed,
but that this was due to ignorance
and the graduates of Tuskcgec were
doing much to better these conditions.
The rural schools of the South are
not up to the standard.
Teachers are not paid enough salary
but the Southern Negroes were talk
ing advantage Of every opportunity
and are DESTROYS to get education, even
paying the teachers out of their own
pockets
The Negro is character to be rock
oned with in the South. He is facing
every opposition without outcry, but
coming up gradually: These are the
darkest days. Yet we are not despair
ing but ever hopeful, faboring patient
ly. The silent forces are the ones
that do the work in every nation.
Negroes are employed as Union
Labor in many places. The homes of
the colored people are among the best
in the South. The one-room cabin is
a thing of the past Negro Colleges
were up to the highest standard, and
great progress is being made by pro-
fessional tradesmen, doctors, dentists,
bankers, lawyers. and skilled mechan-
les. The better classes of both races
are working tremendously together,
both in the city and country districts.
Tho Crime OF Lynching.
! He said that the crime of lynch
ing was the curse Of the South. Often
crimes were committed by persons
with blackened faces, and an innocent
person lynched-and many conditions,
such as race riots, are reported in the
newspapers that never happened. The
white press of this country is our
worst enemy.
Governor Blcase does not represent
the good white men OF the South
neither Tillnan or vardaman. He is
not talking as a man, but as poll
tician. Politics in the South are DOM
mated by the corrupt politician and
the ignorant voter. The better class
! dcprecate such statements about
lNnchinSs. etc. AS a proof of his as
sertion he referred to the remarks of
;, Sen. Davis of Arkansas at demon
stration in honor of Hon. Theodore
Roosevelt, when he said that he fav-
ored lynching. and dumfounded his
audience. Roosevelt, when introduced
said, that any man or set of men
who would conduct lynching, were
guilty of wilful and deliberate muir.
DER and he was checred by 10000
persons who sat silently at the re-
marks of Mr.. Davis. Father Dorsey
said that educational training along
all lines would solve the problem. We
need education to become better cit
liens. as the uneducatcd men and
women Of any race are the most Diet
rilnental to humanity. At the even
ing service he concluded series OF
lectures which he has conducted in
the Twin Cities. Father Dorsey great
1y impressed his hearers, and his mis-
sion has done much for the uplift o!
his race along the religious and social