The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-23
Negro Education and White Taxa
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Negro Education and White Taxa
ton.
The article published below, from the
pc of Pr7f Da,iel bennett. was prepared
for the New Oflea Rcayune, aud is an
interesting statistical abs -ract from his
official educational reports, showing that
the white people Of the south are taking
from their scanty resources millions of dol
lars annually 10 educate the negro:
In the report Of the commits Il Iner Of ed
ucation for lSS6-'S7 We find the followi G o
page SS7: IA 1885 sl67, 666 were dis
bursei for cOlOred schools in Ke lucky, OF
which SO per mt. we're from CO Ored tax
payers, and 81 per cent from white tax
payers.
"rnat the people" says Superintende
Pickett, in his report fOi 1876, which SHOULD
be con lderet ra he as a ret aspect Of
importa Il educational period, SHOULD, by
their own act, draw the revenue from the
white schools at 50 large a rate each sue
cessive year, to sup ilement the neager sum
contributed by the coored people, is The
most remarkable fact in the school history
I Kentucky. That it should all be ac-
complished quietly and successful " with
out terrupt on of the schpo 5, leading, at
the same time, to higher gu LITIGATION of
teach RS, b.cause requirei AMI conse-
gu 'ntly 20 a higher standard in he schools,
makes his an era in her history
According to the report of he commits
81 ner of education for 1SS6-S7 the school
population of the eighteen southern state
and the District of Colu bia " IS: w lite
), Asa, 65l; colored, 2222, oil. Expenditure
Tor pubic schools, both races, ST., 223 900;
expendit ire for co ored schools, ab Ut one
third, S5,74l 600; estimated that about g..
per ce t. Of this is paid by colored taxpay-
ers, S494, 726; paid by southern ~hl taxi
payers for neg schools, So 246, 274; colored
populatiol of the southern states ovet
6,OJO,000; colpred population of the north
ern states, $500 ; colored schools in tn
free states, 391; colorei sch lars-school
age-in ee states 81 l25; the average ex-
penditure per capitt IN the pub ic schools of
the free states is tween SIS anu 800,
SIS, S56J,2j0; white popu alton of fire.
states in 1880, 30,00J,00J; white population
of S ,uthern states, about 100000.
The negro schools of the sJutn cost Is, O00,-
600 southern people ten times a much as the
negro sch OILS ut tle north cost 80, 100000
northern people.
These ca Gu ations need changing from
year to year t k ep pace with the increas-
ofp puation of both races north and souta.
Ihey ltfer materially in the reports of
1882, 1888. 1884, 1885 and 1886
The 50, 100000 We lrly paid by southern
lie hu dreds of thousands of white chill
dren IN the south are growi * up withou
education, is not all that the southern negro
has to be thankful for The following s a
tlstlcs of sout ern teachers in neg 20 public
>chools, high schools, industrial sc iools,
colleges, etc, are from the report of the
commissioner of education for 1SS6-'S7:
Public schools-Colored school popula-
ito 2, ~, GIL, teachers in the public schn Is
Normal
pupils report of 1884 $500. Schools f.
secondary instruction. (Which tends largely
to two COURSES the classical and the scie
ific)-sch ,ols AZ, teacher; 252, pupils 6, 1894
Universities and cole ges %, teachers 222,
pupils 3,799. Schools of theology %, teacn
ers %, pu II, $50 Sch OILS of law T. to icn-
ers "A. pupils l51. Schools of medicine an
pharm icy %, teachers =, pupils POS. Al
Of the above SCHOOLS ID colleges are the
southern states; there are not enoug
colored schools of any Xxi in the north t.
be of any interest in statistical information.
There are 661 colored schools in the free
states having an enrolment of So, l42 (cau-
sus of 1880.
In addition to the schools and colleges
and universities above no iced for the ne
groes of the south, there are II industr
training scho Is with 50 instructors a I'd $50
male md SOP female stu1eats; 1898 vol
uInes in the iibraries; income S3S AIS The
south has also provided deat a d dumb
asylums, and asylums for the blind, for
lunatlci for feeble-minded negroes, etc.
Millions of dollars have been a propriated
by S utheru Legislatures for colleges and
other schools and institutions for the cJlorel
race, not included in the So, $50, 900 paid
annually to educate negro children in the
public schools.
Ev r since the war, now more than a
quarter of a century, northern phila1-
thropists have been sending money to south
ern negroes to the extent Of many million
dollars TO build churches and school houses
aid for the education and 1enefit of these
negroes, who have received an amount OF
money and favors from the sou hern and
norther PEG lie W ich, addition to the
freedom conferred on them, should make
tae rejoice at UGH magnificent favors and
wonder III good luck. But they are said to
be un Apply, because they are not permit
ted to rule the southern white people
counties ard states where they have de-
cilad ma iOrtiaS