Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1914-05-06
NEW YORKER DEvOUNcEs "SE-
GRO BATTING POLITICIANS"
THROUGHOUT SOUTH
EDUCATION TO Be REMEDY
Points Out That Thousands of blacks
Are Deprived of school Priv
ilegcs in Souihern
Cities
ny As.o,lated Press.


BALTIMORE. May In an ad-
dress today before the Sixth Con-
ference OF the National Association
Tor the Advancement OF Colored Peo-
pie, Oswald Garrison Willard. presi-
dent Of the New York Evening Post.
defended the negro of the South
against what he termed negro bait
ing politicians and said that he be-
lieyed the solution OF the problem
rested with what southerners term
'iuterlopers from the North"
We. OF the north. boldly venture
10 believe that We can solve this
great race problem" said Mr.. VII
lard. We believe this because of the
pnanswerable argument OF titanic
historical achievement on our side.
u was the Ncrth which solved the
slavery problem in the face OF a prac-
tically united Southern public senti-
| ment The wisdom OF the anti-slay-
cry minority IN the North. which.
with tho aid OF military necessity.
compelled Lincoln 70 his Emancipa
lion Proclamation. has since been
lusiliied 0f all men.
In the question of caring for the
negro tho South Is divided within
itself within itg own ranks there
are malcontents and rebels against
the dominating public sentiment. the
sentimen that ~ voiced today by po-
litical damagogues risen 10 eminence
on the ranks fthe negro. and by
means OF wicked appeals to the un-
\ reason and 10 the baser passions OF
a largely illiterate or uniformed ele-
ctorate II Is In these violent anti
negro southern Senators aud Con-
Eressman that we see our chief enc
mics. az We behold In those within
the other Southern camp a chief hope
q chlef inspiration. certain pro-
mise that the conscience and the JUS
lice of the South. together with that
OF the North will eventually solve
this terrible problem Alright.
"As for the negro-baiting poiiti-
clans. | for one lore no opportunity
20 assall then wi,h an the powers NJ
..r rafnni"r'' b, a..sr - t.r'ff~s@.I.
too rssplng no words too violent 10
devote 40 them. aud the mischief
ard injury they are doing to our
whole country.
when the negro fails 10 rise
certain Southerncrs cheerfully assert
that this proves the negro incapable
of advancing and half-hrother 10 an
OK You same scuiherners deprive
the negro child OF all schooling. as
five thousand are deprived In At
lanta turn adrlft 10 roam In slum
streets. and hen II he grows up an
animal YOU say the responsibility Is
his. that that proves him beast.
and his race inherently criminal.
Never was there n more brazen as
sertion that q people cannot rise In
the scale OF civilization and more
determined effort 20 prevent their
rising. Never did men so frequently
boast their radical superiority and
then. as if In doubt about Il. do
everything 10 handicap heir black
competitors So that they shall not
compete on equal terms
Mr. Willard said that the friends
0f the negro we're indebted to Pro-
fessor Sophronisba breckenridge. OF
LeNiug on XIV. for their out spoken
approval of the Associations protest
against the segregation OF white and
negro clerks IN Washington. For
'he work they have done In behalf
g.. the negro. Mr. Willard also paid
q tribute 20 Dr Clauon. United States
commissioner OF Education; DR. W.
ID Woatherford. OF Tennessee. Prof.
b. William N Huntlcy. Of the rniver-
sits OF Virginia T. G. Branson. pre-
- tideni o' the Athens tGa.i State
Normal school Prot Joshua Morse
OF 'le University OF South Carolina
and q number OF Southern newspa-
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