Phoenix tribune., 1918-10-26
SOUTHERN WHITE MAN
LAUDS ACHIEVEMENTS
OF THE BLACK RACE
Education Improves the Virtue and
Morality Of Other Races and
Will Do as Much for Negro.
Says Maryland Mayor

"The proper place for the Negro,
and the only place for the Negro, is
here in America. Some times the
ways of God are dark and inscrutable,
but out of the gloom, the uncertainty
and the storm, the sun comes forth
in all its monday splendor and the
world has become more fit for the
coming of the King of Glory. The
American nation today realizes 1t.
@And as the Colored race is with us
his salvation and our salvation re-
quires that he be educated, not only
in the primary grades, but in secon-
dairy schools and colleges. with men
and women of their own race to
teach them to think and act upon all
public questions themselves and not
from prejudice, and to teach their
people the duties of citizenship, to
teach them to be sober, Industrious
and thrifty, so that they may be bet
ter citizens, and may by their correct
living and right living earn for them
selves the respect and confidence Of
their fellow men.
II want to bear witness to the prog
ress which the Colored race of Mary
land is making, and this exhibition
and getting together may prove an
object lesson to all our people and
further incentive to yourselves.
believe the Colored people are becom-
ing more and more prosperous. see
the good which comes from having
sanitary homes, are becoming more
and more independent in thinking
and acting, and are becoming better
prepared to exercise the right citizen
ship, which, as l say, have some
times thought had been prematurely
placed upon them.
81 want the Negroes Of Maryland
to have every reasonable opportunity
for education. l want to see them In
more thrifty and better homes. l
want to see them the owners of homes
of their own, for the man who is
proud of his home is a better and
more respected citizen. want to
see them with higher ideals of morals.
l want to see them with sanitary
homes so that the death rate among
them may be materially lowered.
want to see them become more inde-
pendent and enlightened on all public
questions, so that, like other races or
citizens, they may act and decide upon
the questions of politics and govern
ment, upon the principles which
should govern men and parties, and
l believe, to express the honest views
Of the best men of all political parties
when l say by doing so they will be
rendering a better service to their
race, to their party and to their state.
Must Be Potent
Some people have contended that
education of the Negro would unfit
him for his work. Experience teaches
nothing of the sort. Education i'm
proves the morality and virtue Of
other races.
"Your race must be patient, and the
south must be patient. I believe the
whites of the south understand the
Negro and are his best friends. They
have taxed themselves in order to
give you a chance for an education.
and while all has not been done that
should be done, the nation should help
the south, and is going to help. Ignor-
ance is the most fruitful source of
human ills, and the chain is no strong
er than it's weakest link. The good
results shown in the progress and
education of the Negro justifies extern
sion of his educational opportunities.
No country can fulfill its destiny with
one third of it's population undevelop-
ed and inefficient"