The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-20

must be good school system with a COM
plete working organization from the state
superintendent of public instruction down
to the local school direc ors, all in charge OF
the head of the work. At present we prob
ably lack more system than money. There
never can be first-clas schools in Georgia
until the state is laid off into suitable school
districts, say from three to four miles
square, and let each district have its own
school house. Around this school house
would then gather settlers, with good edu-
cational ana religious influences. These
communities thus formed all over the
state would become wonderful power for
good, and would not only increase the
wealth, but the moral and intellectual stand
ing of the state. In community of that
kind it would be pleasure as well as prof
liable to live. Emigrants from
the north would form settle
ments and thus bring to our state their
wealth and enterprise. 1t would be an
easy matter for me to build up several such
settlements if there were only prospects for
good schools in the rural districts. Hun
dreds of others could and would do the
same, while men of means would purchase
bodies of land, and bring in enterprising
and wealthy colonies. There is before the
Empire state OF the south wonderful oppor-
tunities if she will only exert herself in the
right direction.
Introduce these improvements and you
will have all the immigrants you want, and
that of the most intelligent and enterprising
classes. The state already has a good rec
ord on the temperance question. Now give
her a good school system and she will get
more than her share of immigrants. If all
the southern states could be made to under
stand this point, there would be a united
move all over the land of Dixie to improve
the school system of the south so as to in
duce intelligent immigrants of the most de-
sirable class. There are two things that we
do not want in the south yet. One is for
eign immigrants for while they may
increase the population and add wealth,
they will not assimilate with the people
of the south, neither will they improve the
intellectual, moral or temperance standing
of the country. The other is too many
immigrants from cities. This class will
confine themselves largely to cities, and
thus overdo business. We want all the
northern farmers, stock raisers, gardeners,
and fruit growers we can get, in order to
buill up the wasted rural districts, and thus
lay broad and lasting foundation for
wealth and prosperity.
In connection with the improving of our
school system we are confronted with tn Q
race problem. There is a way of settling
that question, and unless we take hold of it
with vigor it is going to settle itself with
detriment to both the white race ana the
south. The negro is increasing in numbers,
wealth and some in knowledge The in
crease in wealth, however, is small, but the
increase in number IS in advance of the
whites. 1t is not possible for the two races,
in the same locality, to live on the best Of
terms, especially when the negro
race becomes stronger 1t must
be conflict of the races
and may be even without the shedding OF
blood, but in the end one must and will
succumb to the other And while it is our
bounden duty to treat the negro with due
respect, and accord to him all the rights
granted by the constitution of the country,
the thought nevertheless comes home to us,
will we keep our race in the front and
above or will we let the negro pass on in
advance over uss Education and immigra-
ton are the only answer to this great prob
lem. Give both races good school system
and the whites will pass on far in advance
of the blacks. And when the northern peo-
pie see that the people of the south are
wideawake in the interest of education
and have good school facilities they will
come down here in swarms and augment
the white population, as well as the wealth
of the whites in the south, thus throwing
the whole influence of the south in the
hands of the intelligent, cultured and en-
terprising whites. This, to my mind, is the
only legitimate solution OF the race
problem.
After swarms of northern people have
settled all over the south, and in this way
have bound together the north and south
with stronger ties of social, commercial
and race interest than ever existed before,
and after these northern people have Oppor-
tunities of studying the negro and seeing
the difficulty Of the two races living to-
gether in harmony, then will come before
the united people of this great nation the
greatest problem with which it has ever had
to deal. By that time the United States
will be wealthy and influential enough &c
undertake to colonize, in humane manner
the negroes and give to them a form of
government that will enable them to worR
out future for themselves.
Give the south good educational facilitie:
and you not only solve the immigration
question, but in the end will settle the great
race problem. Here is something for the
newspapers of the south to work for.
j. r. MOORE.