Los Angeles herald., 1891-10-01

repudiated vigorously the idea that
Providence had anything to do with the
coming of negroes to this Christian
country. These be bigh themes, and
would not be over positive, but prov
idence incapable or Indifferent to events
involving millions OF human beings, is
hardly worth trusting or respecting.
The bishop gave DR.. Stradley informa-
tion as to his own phenomenal success
in raising money for the education OF
the colored race. He said, | am in
formed, that be had himself raised more
money for the negro's education than
DR.. Stradley's church had raised
in all its history. If go, he has
had better luck than his church.
credits him with. Does he really know
how much DIR. Stradley's church has
done for the negroesP Not what it
ought TO have done, l admit with much
sorrow, but does he know2
There is another view that justice re-
| quires. l speak of things understand /;
IRON October, 1882, till April 80, 1891,
was general agent for the John +. Sla-
ter tund''-a million dollars given by q
| princely Connecticut man to help for
ward the education OF the negro race in
the south. In that interest travelled
In the south nine years, visiting all the
most important schools for these un-
| happy people--speaking. weiting and
working in their behalf, meantime
| studying the negro problem in all its
| phases.
The southern white people have
borne the chief part of the burden of
| educating the negro race in the south.
/ of 11il
spent since 1855 in trying to educate the
negroes; the southern public schools
| 81 900 and more-have cost full forty OF
| the fifty millions. And southern white
! people pay 90 per cent. of all the taxes.
| The million and more members of the
| M. K. church, south, resident in the
negro states, own their share of the
property and pay their share of the
| taxes. Have these Methodists done
nothing for the negro2
These southern states-Methodis
| paying their share-will this year spend
more than seven millions in educating
the negro youth, and the southern
whites viii pay ninety-fve of every one
hundred dollars.
AS matter OF course the bishop Is
not informed as to these matters.
Very recently l have received from
the Hon. w. I. Harris, United States
commissioner OF education, Washington
city, under his own signature, the latest
statements of his department on the
subject OF negro education. In some
thing more than q 900 colored schools
there are this year enrolled l,119,410
pupils. The best informed statisticians
cay that of the negro population, at
least two and quarter millions have
learned to read, q reasonably good chow
ing for the people who support the pub
lie schools.
1t is true that in the south the school
children are separated on the color line,
else there would be no public schools.
For the same reason, probably, that in
duced Bishop Malaiieu's church TO
divide all their southern conferences on
the color line. (See their discipline.)
Perhaps the school managers and the
conference makers did what they
thought best in order to do the most
good. One of the saddest results of the
war is this; not few have found fault
with the. southern people 80 long that
they have lost the faculty of just judg-
ments. ATTIcUs G. HAyGooD,
1862 Lovelace avenue, Los Angeles.