Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-10
COLA PODRIDA.''
What Women Are Doing and May DO
for o Waiting and an Anxious
World.

The Mixing Of the Races-The Educa- :
ton Of the Negro-Working for
the Memphis Library.
For the Sunday Appeal
In Washington last year was inyited,with
others, by gentleman from New Orleans,
who wds ST that time in Ihs city trying 70 !
get out a patent for cleaning hemp and other
tibers, to examine jute, hemp, ramie and
other material that had been cleaned by his |
process Among these articles was mate |
rial in length over four iest, Of lex ure as
foe az the best quality Of Chinese grass, and
very strong indeed. He gave it the name
" Bromelis Fibrists," and It grows in the
or latest quantity on the Texas plains and in
Brazil. Paper msde in a crude manner Of
this material endured four wsshings and dry
ings by FIRE, and WAS then firm aud unWorn.
That the raising and expectation OF textiles
OF this nature from the South will yet rival |
her cotton industry one may cou1 ut as GER
tsinty, and the future will develop in her
borders in the next fifty years changes ss
marvellous as did the rubbing OF Aladdin's
wonderful lamp.
|
should develop her resources, and not allow |
such vast bodies of our territory TO pass from
Southern hands. 1t is too like man own
ing the goose that lays the golden egs3, but
lets some one seiZs the eggs the moment hls
pet has laid them. Inviting immigration
now and selling land is well, but We may
carry it too Jar in the near future.
WOMEN AND THE NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION.
The article you gave a short time siUce'
from a Mississippi woman, calling on tn
women OF the nation and the South 70 bear |
their part in the Cotton Exposition ia New |
Orleans, was good suggestion. The people |
Of the South may not recognise the TAFT that |
in schools and laws for the advancement OF |
her women Mississippi is running ahead oil
other States.
THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN.
The University OF Louisiana, by the state
meut Of DR.. Mayo, ia in advance OF any
school seuth Of the Ohio, and Paul Tulane
recently gave TO the White male youths OF
that State, for educational purposes, g, 000,-
900. She has barred her doors to women.
In her medical college, year ago, class
OF young women OF New Orleans met 10
witness experiments in chemistry, study
that they were pursuing under the lnsiruc-
ton of the professor of chemistry out OF
school hours, this the only laboratory in their
reach. The knowledge carAe to the august
body composing the "facully," and ye gods
and fishes, one would have thought by their
summary dismissal that conduct of the most
heinous character had been perpetrated by
these lovely wise virgins striving 10 I'LL their
lamps with the oil of knowledge.
WOMEN WORKERS OUGHT TO ORGANIZE.
Just here I an called by quiet iag, Of
memory to the last weeks paper copoeIassg
city. 1t would be we'll Tor them to examine
into the labor question. Organization means
force and protection OF q grand and ali inn
portant character; not offensive, buL csrtain-
iy defensive and protection IN the highest
degree, and if these women vii! only indi-
cafe any desire TO organize both men aud
women stand ready to aid them in 80 doing
We sneered al the first poor organization Of
the negroes here during the war.
The writer was one 10 sassz= siIis TO mem.
The feetHe aud poor start they made then
has grown into the mighty network Of or
| ganization. which has done what / theu
| thought 1t would do, saved the South FROM
I cfferss,----.kiLa iIs-Aer crippled financial
condition, she would have been unable to
| perform. 1t is a standing record OF the ne
sroea' race love, and recognition Of their duty
10 each other as people.
THE MIXING OF THE RACES.
ara here reminded Of your brief notice
| of the article on "Msrrisga aud Divorce
Lave" by Jordan A. Stewart, Ia the June
number OF Popular Science Monthiy. / had
read the article carsfully. The first nine
| pages are not 10 be caviled at The last
| three touch upon subject thst cannot now
be touched with pair OF tougs One wilt
| naturally inlsr that Mr.. Stewart is an Abo-
| litionist, uaing the word in its old sense ard
broadcast meaning. A fact confronts the
student OF anthropoiogy in this direction
| that calls for grave thought. Before the war
the mixing of the races sud aystem of con.
| cubinsge rested entirely with white men.
Since the var We hear OF no single marriage
OF that nature, but the reverse-white
women marrying negro men. Women have
been In all ages the censsryaiors of morali-
! ~ and sociely- They always viii BE 50, am.
the Northern people are as people %
antagonistic 10 mixing the races es we of the
South can be, and in no instance will we find
such marriages contracted by high type Of
women. Never YET has there been an out
rage Of any social law that il did moi eject
in time upon the innocent and guilty alike.
THE EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO.
Iastesd.ef the negro race decreasing, my
close observation convinCes me the reverse ia
| true. The Southern whites are taxing them
| selves S3O00,O0G annually 10 educate their
negroes, and Northern sympathy has in
creased this by millions 1t was this fact
that prompted the bequest of Mr. Tulane be-
| fore referred to, believing that the freed
negro was a miserable victim of the sius.
| ignorance and prejudice of his former mas
| ter. ] cay II now, fearless of contradiction.
that the negro, by these helps, is far cutstrip,
| ping the poor Uhitss of the South in the race
for knowledge. We had as well get rid Of
the idea that the negro ia q monkey, capable
only of imitation and devoid of intellectual
power and originality. The valedictory of
the young man Hamilton at the LeMoyne
| examination was a paper calculated to call
the attention of all who heard it. For epi.
| grammstic force, it was specimen of unique
oratery, unstudied and powerful, and was
! delivered with more than ordinary d, gnity-
| without b9mbast or fury. I ana told he
| had been in school but FIVE years,
and wac not yet eighteen years old.
| 1 have met with and carefully examined
some boys in the public negro schools, that
compare fayorably with any youth Of the
| same age.
It is no use for us to ignore facts. The
negro has been, and is, 10 a state of incl
lectual starvation. Food has been put be-
| fore him, and for the next fifty years he will
IN That direction do his devoir nobly. What
after that, time alone can tell. In no respect
is II wise to rank the negro higher than he
| deserves, l will only say that We, as a peo-
pie, are dealing with a problem no nation
has solved, and il is a question we, the white
race, must bear conspicuous pert ia. Then
no iuIure historian can point to US as an il.
lustrsiion Of the old tabled race of the hare
| aud tcr,cise.
| WORKING FOR THE LIBRARY
Nothing pleases me 60 much as listening
10 the sweet voices of women when they chat
unceremonieusly together. Twas saIting for
lady friend, in parlor of Memphis
hotel, and overheard conversation between
two ladies concerning the 'lihrSry work"
! "Oh," cried the little lady who was calling
on her friends, and whose hands were as elo-
quent in action, As her laughing voice and
smiling face. "Oh, it is rare sport If We
do gel bluffed, and mihed, and pouted
at, and run from. I wouldn't take
anything for some of our bitter experiences,
bere's one ef them: We were coming out of
a big house, where barrels are piled on one
side and asy sally TAT pork on the other.
only little lane left to come from the Office
that is away back In the rear. l was in the
! advance, when we met the incest, clesnest,
little white haired old gentleman. He backed
| like gallant crab between two barrels, ex,
| claiming, Way for the lsdies.' / Bowed
and Slid by. N. NJ, in her sweet persuasioned
voice began telling him our mission, as he
stood Gagged in by the surrounding barrels.
| he listened in smiling silence. Then he
| broke forth in rich lrish brogue, dispeilIng
our airy vision OF subscription of at least
thousand by his words: my dear, dear
| ladies, my whole sowl is with yer interprise.
| Jlst go up ethairs you'll find me- vile