The Irish standard., 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
apolis. says in it's issue of Dec. IA:
Father John A. Dorsey, "A Negro
: Priest, delivered one of the most in
tercstins and instructive lectures at
/ st. Charles Catholic Church on Sun
day afternoon. His subject, 1.-THE
! Condition of the Negro in the South"
was mastery presented to an appre-
ciative 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.
I! He spoke in highest terms of DIR.
| Booker Il. Washington and said that
he was working for the masses, and
/; he was for the higher as well as the
| industrial education of the Negro.
| Father Dorsey regretted that the
Negroes were in Il great way respon-
sble 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 the 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 50. Many Negroes are working
side by side will, white men as skilled
mechanics and engineers. and arc
drawing; The same salary. He said
| that there was 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 duo to ignorance.
and the graduates of Tuskegee 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 a character to be rcck-
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
Il thing Of the past Negro Colleges
were up to the highest standard, and
great progress is being made by pro-
fessional tradcsmen. doctors, dentists
les. The better classes of both races
are working tremendously together
both in the city and country districts
Tho Crime Of Lync1ing.
! He said that the crime of lynch
ing was the curse Of the South. Otter
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. Tho
white press of this country is oul
worst enemy.
Governor Blease does not represent
tho good white men of the South
neither Tilllnan or vardaman. He /.
not talking as man, but as a poll.
tician. Politics in the South are dom
mated by the corrupt politician ant
the ignorant voter. The better class
dcprecate such statements abou
lNnchngs, etc. AS a proof of his as
sertion he referred to the remarks o
; Sen. Davis of Arkansas at demon
stration in honor Of Hon. Theodore
: Roosevelt when he said that he fav
ored lynching. and dumfounded hi
audience. Roosevelt, when introduced
said, that any man Or set of men
who would conduct a lynching, wer
guilty of wilful and deliberate muir
DER and he was checred by 1000
persons who, sat silently at the re
marks of Mr.. Davis. Father Dorse,
said that educational training alon,
all lines would solve the problem. w
need. education to become better cit
liens. as the uneducatcd men an,
women Of any race are the most Diet
rilnental to humanity. At the even
ing service he concluded series o
lectures which he has conducted i,
the Twin Cities. Father Dorsey great
ly impressed his hearers. and his mis-
sion has done much for the uplift O
his race along the religious and socia
= lines. He iS an e1Ouuopt spooI.o,