The Denver star., 1914-04-18
QUALITIES Of EDUCATION.
DR.. A. J. Carey Excepts to Statement
In Newspaper Editorial.

Chicago.-The following is in part
the reply of the Rev. A. ] Carey,
ID. D.. pastor of the Institutional A.
NJ e. church in this city. to an edi-
torial which appeared in the Inter
Ocean. The speech which csused the
writing of the editorial was delivered
by Judge Orrin n. Carter. and the
paragraph in the said editorial which
stirred the Rev. Mr.. Carey's race pride
was this: THE future is largely in
your own hands and must be provided
for by education. 1t depends upon
both the white and colored races if the
emancipation proclamation is fully car
ried out"
In his reply DR.. Carey says:
The article was evidently written
in friendly spirit and some of your
statements and conclusions are cor
rect. but as there are many incorrect
statements. probably caused by your
lack of accurate information. l feel
constrained to furnish a little data on
the subject. Standing on the outside.
you cannot. of course, get the view
point of one within.
In the first place. there is no funda-
mental difference between the races.
The Bible tells us that of one blood
God made all nations. The colored
man has his joys and his sorrows. his
loves and his hates just the same as
those of other races. There is nothing
which individuals of the white race
have accomplished which cannot be
duplicated by individuals of the black
race.
Your picture of the supereducated
colored man is not true to nature.
Right here in Chicago there are hun
dreds of Americans who have
been highly educated. There are grad
yates from nearly every American in
stitution for higher education and
some from the great universities of
Europe. 1t is not true that the high
ly educated colored man has con-
tempt for the ordinary activities of his
race any more than it is true of the
white race.
The colored graduate Of Harvard
would not seek menial labor any more
than the white graduate would. al
though the infamous American color
prejudice often compels him to accept
an inferior job in order to earn an hon.
est living.
As matter Of fact. there is more de-
mocracy amcng the colored people
than among the whites People of good
character and intelligence who may be
serving in some ordinary capacity are
more generally received by their well
to do colored brothers and sisters than
among the whites. The highly educat.
ed colored person is not nearly so I'M
happy as you picture him. and he does
not lack for desirable associates. In
the best circles are people who are the
intellectual equals of any other race.
In these circles may be found retired
capitalists. ministers. lawyers. doc
tors business men. professors. editors.
teachers, etc.-men and women who
have had the best training America
and Europe could give. There are so
many of them that there are several
"SetS."
That the higher education has not
been failure in furnishing opportuni-
ties for success may be fully illustrat-
ed by three concrete examples in this
city. First there is a brown skinned
lawyer. with clientele almost exclu-
sively white. who stands at the head
of his profession. He began life a
poor boy Worked his way through col
lege and when he was examined for
admission to the bar was obliged to
button his shabby overcoat close to his
person in order to hide the ragged and
tattered suit he wore Today he is
said 20 be worth 100000 in real es-
tate stocks and bonds and has an in
come of 100000 per annum from his
practice alone He has recently re-
turned from il tour around the world
and states that only in his native land
has he eve- suffered any indignity on
account of his color
A colored dentist who is considered
one of the lenders IN his profession has
an income of from $4,000 to S15.OOO
per year. He numbers among his pa
irons some of the most exclusive white
families in the city. He is the only
colored member Of the Illinois State
Dental association and was ut one time
elected president of the organization.
The most famous cOlored surgeon in
the world lives in Chicago. His great
est fame rests upon the fact that he
was the first surgeon in all the world
to operate successfully on the living
human heart