The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-04-30
SAYS NEGRO FU-
.TURE IS ROSY WITH
PROMISE.
Boston Pastor On Trip to
South is Impressed With Ear
nestnesS of Students Met in
South.

Boston, Mass. April 21.-The Rev.
Dr. Alexander Mann, speaking in Trim
ity Church just after his return from
trip through the southern states.
dwelt enthusiastically on the present
outlook for the Negro race and urged
the cooperation Of all northerners in
the the movement OF whites and
IDIacks now on foot to solve the prob
lens of the South.
First describing the evidences of the
,tremendous material advance" which
ne had seen, the rector of Trinity
went went on to emphasize the progress
and similar institutions.
The boys and girls whom saw at
luskegee and Hampton" he said, 'im-
pressed me by their utter seriousness
ana anoo.,, l. came away feeling that their
progress IS as certain as the move
inent OF the stars" he said.
II was also impressed by the place
which religion has in the lives of
these black students. Religion down
there Is not a special department of
academic study-an elective which a
but an atmosphere in which these
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Then I was also impressed by their
utter Htter loyalty to the flag and to these
GlrlS
are conscious of much in their lives
that is hard, much that is unjust,
much that must be set Alright There
are political privileges from which
! they are still debarred; there are un-
fair determinations which some day
must be done away with. But the
great and significant thing is that
these black boys and girls look to
see these wrongs righted and these
unfair determinations done away with
rot apart from, but in and through
the political genius and the ordered
freedom of the government of the
United States. Yes it is through rep
resentatiNe gover1mcnt, through free
dom under law, through the orderly
processes of constitutional control, and
not part from them, that as time
goes on they are to see injustice done
away with and wrong abolished
ut is immensely significant in days
| Ike these, when some, at any rate, of
the student communities in the North
are indulging themselves in the lux
ury of imagining how some fanciful
tion to the fact that it has never been
tried on great scale, is going to ad-
vance the nation and the world, that
these black boys and girls of the
Anglo-SaXon conception of freedom
and turning a deaf ear to q scheme
of Improvement which would do away
with the only system of political lib
turtles and is the only promise for
future generations.
"As a northern man." proceeded the
speaker IL came home with a feel
ing of immense thankfulness and of
the highest hope Many of you will
remember how in 1895 DR.. Booker T.
Washington. speaking at the great
Atlanta exposition, told his great au-
dience to let down their buckets
where they were and cultivate the
friendiest relations with their black
neighbors.' That speech by a prophet
and statesman has reverberated the
South among white and black to this
day.
"The progress that has been made
in the South is unmistable; the spirit
shown is one of enthusiasm and of
hope; the merely material advances
made have been remarkable. Remem-
Der that while the door of political
privilege may seem to be shut in the
, South and open in the North, that
other door of economic opportunity,
of the opportunity to do an honest
days work, the freedom to enter into
any trade or profession, is wide open
in the South. and of the two doors
there can be no question as to which
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