Show THE COLORED RACE lon Hilary A Herbert who was Mr Clevelands Secretary of the Navy and before that was 0 member of Congress for several terms presided at the Montgomery conference on the negro problem the other day and on assuming assum-ing the chair made a speech In the course of it he said To bring about better relations between the races we need more education both of the whlt sand s-and the blacks Men must be educated tobroader views of the relations they bear He praised highly tho system of Industrial Investigation as taught ut Tuskeegco by Booker Washington He I insisted that it was the duty of the whites to lift up and Improve the colored col-ored man until he became a better laborer la-borer 0 better citizen and more useful to himself and the country He insisted in-sisted the South must work out that problem or God only can tell what is Ito I-to become of us That seems to us like good talk and while Mr Herbert emphasizes the need for education the real thought Is in the mind of Booker T Washington that to make the ordinary ordi-nary white man respect the ordinary negro In the South the negro must be trained to b selfsupporting and under un-der no obligation to any one When ho reaches that point then his own self respect will sustain him and tide him over many difficulties When the white man who has race prejudices exhibits those prejudices the colored man who is capable of taking care of himself who Is I capable of producing something that the world1 wants ten he can afford af-ford to lock down upon those vho lookdown look-down upon him At the same time we think still as we always have that I there ought to be a concerted effort among the colored men themselves to gravitate to some country where they can without friction work out their own salvation I may be Cuba It may be Haytl H may be San Domingo Domin-go I may be Florida but certainly as yet there Is plenty of room on this earh for all us peoples and It would be better for that race L be by themselves them-selves better for them and better for the white men of the South But while there the youth of the colored race ought all be Instructed in the useful arts I they cannot make machinists or carpenters or blacksmiths that Is those that have not a natural mechanical mechani-cal gift can learn tobe gardeners and florists and such other things And oral or-al ihlngs most needed peter all to be cultivated arc Industry and thrift They are a happygolucky goIlck race and when they get enough to cover the wants of the present they are very apt to want to rest until another necessity neces-sity drives them on In that respect they are 0 good deal like the Mexicans for that matter they arc n good deal like a great many white Americans for tho most of us only work because onl wc I have to |