The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-01-15
BILL ARP'S VIEWS
On the Training hoy Gets I'm College.
Atlanta Cbnstitution.

out now can a man be 80 and take the
papers:: When he reads the nonsense of
men Claiming to be educators he eeIa
dlsgusted with fools, aud when he reads
the venemous lies and ISLANDERS of po!iti.
clans he is equally disgusted with knayes.
ana 80 between the two their u.terances
In the public press keeps him vexed
about half the time.
Nevertheless, it is the duty of a good
citizen to keep up with the age In which
he lives, for he can do sometbipp and II
is his duty to read and DO prepsred for ~
coming events and raise his voice on the
right side. 1t has been o great drawback
on the South that her people did not
read enough and were too contepted
with their ignorance but they are wax.
ing up, now, and you can hardly find n
family in this region that does not take
some paper. / mix with our common
people good deal and know families
who take paper for the children to reod
although the parents cannot. This is all
right and it is encouraging. After n
poor farmer boy has learned to read and
write and cipher, ne can get right good
education from the papers, and he can
get il cheaper than any other way. 7
would rather my boys wonld depend on
three or four good papers, that would not
cost more than ten dollars q wear. than
on bfty dollars worth of Latin snd Greek
aud algebra and geometry. They will
De OF more benefit to him in the practi.
cal business of life. OF course, if lie ia to
be professional man, he must study the
sciences and go to college, but it is a
hazzard-a great hazzard to send a how
to college, and the reason ia plain. Four
years at school and four more at college
takes eight of the best years of a bows
life, say from IL to 20, the very wears
that his physical system needs physical
exercise and physical training; the very
years when his habits of life and for
life are fixed the very years when he
should mix labor with study and let his
brain and his muscle all work along to.
gether and sustain each other. College
habits are habits of physical Incidence.
a college boy has no education to work
anything but his brain when he comes
away, and looks around for business.
His physical nature abhors vork-he
can't stand it. His habits are fixed and
habits are as binding as fetters, and he
sees no agreeable opening except the law
or medicine or politics, aud 80 the land
is full of quacks, pettigoggerssand small
politicians who aff1ict the people and do
no good for themselves. These small law.
yers sit around town and watch for strife
among nabors like buzzard watches for
carcass. They nurse and encourage all
sorts Of petty litigation. The doctors
gallop off TO BEE sick patient and keep
him sick until it takes his little crop to
pay the bill. The politicians get up
rumpus in the newspapers and slarder
one another until the people don't know
who to vote for, and they don't care.
And so it goes, and IL would have been
better, far better, for the whole batch to
have stayed upon the farm and married
clever country girls, and gone to raising
children and chickens in Rn honest and
honorable way. Now if, I say if, the
college boys would 60 to farming I would
rejoice to see the boys 60 to college, for
the higher the education the more refined
is the happiness that knowledge gives
and the better farmers they geuld make,
but they will not And for like reasons
l have never favored the higher educa.
ton OF the negro. His race is physically
ordained for labor, muscular labor, and
he likes it. A college life is his utter
ruin as man and citizen, and he comes
out q genteel African vagabond. : 10.
ceived letter from one of them In
Atlanta the other day that was full of
profane abuse and blasphemy for the
views expressed iu one of my letters, and
he demanded the name of that Boston
traitor, as he called him, who said he
pitied US when he saw the ignorant horde
that had been entrusted with the ballot.
Well, that iarkey has been to college,
and is now an educated vagabond. The
trouble with Mr.. George w. Cable is
that he does not consider the negro es
race but lets his large philanthrophy con.
sider-them individually. He fndBp case
where negro became an expert from
having the advantage OF high degree
of culture, and he makes him type Of
the race, and puts demand upon US for
like civilization to all. It reminds me
of the educated hog that, q few years ago,
was exhibited over the South, aud cSIld
play cards and tell the ii6ie vf day upon
watch, but i don't think IL follows
that we should, therefore. educste ell TIE
hogs in the country. The exceptions
always prove the rule. No negroes have
made any progress in arts, or science, or
politics, or the pulpi. except those who
had Caucasian blood In their veins. The
cross does we'll for time, but 1t la
natures les. effort, e: nature sLhe:s Il,
and from the unnatural union comes O
feeble posterity or none, after the frst
generation. Some of the noblest colored
people ever, knew were Of this kind.
Fred Douglas and Senator Bruce and oil
the colored men Of note are among them.
The BARRIERS of the South are Of them,
and almost without exception they are
law abiding, intelligent and well.man.
nered ciasa of citizens. I have great re.
spect for them, for they attend we'll 10
lheir. business, and are entitled to more
respect than some of their customsrs.
Mr.. Cable seems to think that justice to
the negro reqnires that We should mix
with them on equal terms in our churches
and schools and cars and hotels and
theatres, and this shows his utter igno-
rance OF the race as race, for they will
tell him almost uniformly that they do
not want to mix. They want equal privi.
leges, but they do not like TO mix. The
race Instinct Is against 1t. Your recent
editorial on this subject was most admifa-
Bile and most true. and this reminds me
to say chat no philosopher or philanthro.
pist understands the negro like those
who wero born and bred, 9Th them, and
the negro knowsit. He has to-day moro
respect sor tho old masters than for his 90.
called Northern friends. When he feels
fully assured thst Democracy does not
mean slavery or oppression, but rather an
enlarged freedom and protection he will
no longer rely upon Northern politics or
Northern promises, and will quietly afRl!'
iate with hss owl, people, We are get
tinp along very we'll together noa. hnd,