New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-23

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down But that was not until alter '"ep
had been put out OF the diocesan couhcH
OF that diocese. In North Carolina theS
were never put out Of the diocesan couh-
ell Their delegates come year AFTER year
10 elf there They have exactly the same
privileges as the white man. nut theE %
NOT take advantage Of them. They never
take part in the discussions.
shepherd of Own Race Needed.
1T is not because We white people want
TO get rid OF the negro, but IL is LOT ms
good that we ask that a missionary
bishop OF his own be created. the negroes
need q shepherd OF their own race. II
Won don't want them in your Church All
Won have to do is to pass resolution up
! holding the majority report and dlsIniss-
ing this commission from further consul
Grafton OF the question. You'll get ria OF
Them then. You can't give them chance
without giving them bishop.
81 speak as the son OF STAKEHOLDER.
shall never forget how the negro race
behaved toward our women and chilureh
while we were engaged In a cruel Wal
and the men OF the family were away al
the front Have | no regard Tor the
negro? Have ! no recollection OF those
DAYS and Of what my mother and o'hea
mems mothers received at their Nd nus
And shall vote now 20 nave thv"' u''''"
from the Church,
The Rev. George Sherwood whitney III
Georgia. a slender little man, with
penetrating voice and a very unemouohaI
manner followed Mr.. Buxton. presenting
. striking contrast. Mr.. Whitney 'A-
n,a,ned that he was a Northern man VINO
had enent fifteen years In the Southern
mart Of Georgia. but that he spoke for the
Georgia delegation, the members oil "hich
had come to the convention as the real
friends OF the negro.
Create a negro bishop he said. ana
in fifteen years you viii have a separate
negro Episcopal Church. Perhaps 1t VIII
be the African Protestant Episcopal
Church. as a delegate has suggested. We
in Georgia would rather keep In direct
touch with the negro.
Il have In mind An opinion expressed
to me by some friends OF mine. Meth
odists. who have spent their lives teach
ing negroes. They said 10 me that the
worst thing the Methodist Church ever
did for the negro was TO create for him
a separate Church-the African Methodist
Church: that this Church has deteriorat-
ed steadily since its formation.
Not Ready for Autonomy.
Bishop Brent has told you OF the con-
dItjons I'm the Philippines, and what ca
tastrophe would result there from grant
of autonomous government. The same
thing applies in this case TO the negro. lie
Is not ready for autonomy in the Church'
That fact should cover all the points
raised.
There Is one thing | want to ask you
men of the South: Suppose had nour-
ishing negro mission In my parish ana
the negro bishop should visit it. He might
have his ideas about its proper conduct
and I might have mine. Should i give
IN TO him? Perhaps ] should, but ] ask
YOU men OF the South-would that be
posslble? It would not; l should have to
give up my work.
On. OF the few Northern delegates who
discussed the question on the floor OF the
House was Everett =. Wheeler, OF New
York. Mr.. Wheeler favored the creation
OF q negro bishop as an abnormal rem
edy for an abnormal condition. Histo-
rians he said, had showed that this race
antagonism did not exist before the Clvl
War; Mr.. Buxton had pointed out that II
| AID NOT exist at the time of the war. ana
James Bryce, former British Ambassa-
dor. had said in his book on South Amer
Tea that It did not exist there, or, in fact
IN any part OF the world to the same de-
gree as I'm the United States.
| "Ubo or what is to blame for the sit
ustion bere?" asked Mr.. Wheeler. AS a
| ,-or+berner and a student of history who
lived through the period, have no hest
tation In saying that we OF the North are
IN blame in giving the franchise to a
neople utterly untitled for 1t. The griev-
| ous mistake made in the reconstruction
&c n blame for It, We gave them the
franchise and put them on top for a
n,hue What good could come OF that"
onontaneous applause punctuated this
confession.
Extension from Hours to Years.
10th the Rev. ]. Nick. Pittlnger, OF
Nortb Carolina. and the Rev. DR.. c. B..
Rrvan. of Southern Virginia, sponsors for
the minority and majority reports, re-
snectIvely. of the joint commission ap-
no,nted In 1910 to consider the question.
had their say over again The motion
vas made and carried to extend the time
for debate from one TO Two hours. and
tban on the motion of the Rev. Philip
Cao,, ~ Western Texas. II was decided