New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-04

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enjoys the right suffrage class dserlminsted
sssos. ought to vote any way s oss no so
that WIN come whenever a majority OF the s"u'her"
whites are willing TO vote for them
TRUSTING TO TINE Is TRUSTING TO LUCK. AND
TRUSTING TO LUCK CRIME
There is a Vague hope, much commoncr in the No'm
than in the South, that somehow II everybody VIII s'
STILL will bring chaDgsJ large mercsnuic
element, especially would The South let politics
alone" 1t is too busy to understand that whase'cf
people let's politics alone Is doomed There are mnss
tine do, but only vigorous agation can %
trusted change the fundamental convictions on which
people built society Time may do IL NJ last but
likely make bloody work of IT, for either ounda-
ton idea which society build must If let Alone
multiply upon Itself. The elevation idea brings safety
safety constantly commends and ntensihes itself and
tho elevation idea. Tho subugation idea brings danger
and danger constantly fntnsihes the sabIuga-
ton idea 1, may be counted on for such lighter
things as removal Of snlmoses and suspicious and
this in our Nations Il has done. Neither North nor
South now holds suspects tho other OF holding, any
grudge for the But trusting time to do more
than this Is trusting 90 luck and trusting luck
crime.
What is luck doingf Here II the exclusive whito
party in the States calling ITSELF and itself
only The South - praying the Nation 10 hold on
not merely It's Interference but Its counse-even is
notice. while IT, removes. but RcaneS ponshes.
decoraes and DISCUSSES It's and the Natons eyes
this cornerstone OF all its and the true sout mo
whole Souths woes pleading the inability or any ouo
itself TO understand the negro" when In fact isef
tho negro since the than all the Nation beside;
falling st than twenty years since Reconstruction
began than since It's era closed W ONCE
any definition the feedman's needs AMI desires whcn
he can accept making daily OF his preferences
which the hundred newspapers published Tor MS
patronage and by himself daily and unanimously repuak
ate; trying settle affairs on the one only false principle
OF public social keeps them unsettled prgp9s
Ing to settle upon sine qua non '1 b oniy matter in
question and holding settlement which whetnei
elected OF TOT s Ius Nations peace~a settlement
which no more than refusal settle at al with
their Me1@%e' and SVS charen sSaef sSs
se sSss S s and p he would
lessons class rule teach s6 e ns
enson 3 he sshsSa T Ss
sided Effort at settlement subugaton only de9as
f 40 s aas' st sai
for questions OF expedsney 70 WINK an s snh raeon
Of their laws when done to p,eryc agrny e,s
as against better rather eopard,e white mans
solid party and exclusive power 70 regad and 70
and fSs 1 90 shu crimes
Should ga,Ssr boldne:s inconsIstent NTH
asa 5h al GOOD sg aTS eg ce
belief which leave the ruling class In IT'S younger genera
with tie ,oatSI' s 81 The Ss1oos d
" %ncG sr o Il" to rule Without appeal to any
own, and at all costs, spiritual or material 10
There going in several pats Of The, The South
Furnaces qaarries railway, multiplying rapidly IN:
eye that can sec the value OF this % anS d
and the SOuts loss is ereing e with Iva values na asb
only this Industrial and commercial expansion ard our
people rich goods civil order sound foundations II
Of greater value than coal or metals os lnd' ana % ma
South will wish besides to see wealth built upon PUBLIC
wGn is @Sf es Wealth T ike ds wSe on nS
! SDain's He would wish not To see thcN Sucitty
dge" for O sSnaSni that ye ss mas @ ~
That the d Sa oa Of SS't G
foundations o. permanent prosperity They cannot ; %
ad on the ola pSn2Sn asa ana a dGen OF rS rom
it's only old South eadapng The old psn1tion ides
o S pCfS e s aO Sor aR aey shall never fear h
Sry Be hoped for Without
and PpG sGen eaDno DO e ss a by
Intelligence Intelligence be disseminated without
Value Without liberty responsbity private inequality,
public equality self regard, virtue, aspirations and thes
rewards
TIE NEW SOUTH IDEA NOT ENOUGH
Many this material development at the South
will naturally be followed by adequate public provisions
for this dissemination byandby There is but one safe
That it has happened in America FROM
furthest East furthest West whenever coms
! muny established SC al orter in thu idea Of tho
the masses It has planned not for education
and liberty follow from wealth and intelligence but for
wealth and intelligence to follow from education and Lbs
erty and the community whose Intelligent few do not
public liberty tho Of projected wealth is noc
likely provide 1t after wealth is achieved and
mostly their hands.
Our American public school idea-American at least in
contrast with any notion-is that provision
public the whole people Is noo
benevolent concession, but paying Investment cons
sany and absolutely essential to confirm the safety Of
safe government The maintenance and growth
OF public education Southern States, first estab,
lshed principally under Reconstruction rule sadly insult,
still IS is mainly due 10 the partial triumph o.
this minds Of the Southern whites and its esgei
acceptance with without dseordan conditions by tho
Intelligent blacks and In region is rightly attributable
exceptlonabo Increase OF wealth Much less Is
attributable Is often conIecured to the influx Of
Northern capital and capitalists bringing Northern ideaa
with ought to without saying that mmgraonj
with without capital Will always try TO assmae itseu
to tho state society into which it comes Every ims
pulse of commerce is disturb any vexed issue until
such itself Immediately across the pain ~
purposey moests question OF social order ."
IL In tho South.
Certain public men in both North and South have Of
late years made with the klndest Intentions unortus
nate misuse Of It appear that pubs
lie society In doing. all that should be
done, all do for the establishment Of pernanend
safety and harmony through the elevation OF the owes
especially in the mltter OF puzzle education. In
truth these facts do provo tho statement they ara
called upon prove and do the Southern States no kind
in ung them to belle tn IT, r Is said for in;
annually for pgbc IN = ne aas n
compared with Massachusetts, But really thu
comparison sad injustice TO the southern State. for
century of public education has helped to make Massachu
rich that she Is able TO spend annually twenty
dollars per head upon the children her public schools
Whine Mississippi laying heay Weir spends upon hers
but dollars per head. Manifesty is unfair 10 com.
pare whose public school system Is new with any
system IS old Tic public school property OF Ohio,
IL Million twice great al
thai OF ten States New South whose population IL
three o half times large And yet one does not
need 10 90 far West" ind States whose
taxpayers spend far for public edu on than South'
thus far the wisdom need or In:
yesting. third wealth than Virginia. and
tenth the percentage Of Ieraey, Iowa spendi
{, times r.icb year for public Instruction.
less wealth than Alabama. and but one.
fourteenth tho percentage OF teaey Nebraska spendt
three and half times much per year for public ins
structon. With about the same wealth as North taro'
lima one-eghth the percentage OF ilteTacys
spends five times much for puOld
education If the comparison b. moved Westward again