Arizona republican., 1891-10-20
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Extra bulletin No. II, which has just been issued by the census bureau, con- tains an exhaustive summafylqf st tics regarding national edueati0n.
 tables presented, showingo thetpI school enrolment in everyistNte m union, are of great interess'and
 portance. luti1sao
 The facts as to the present ratl9l9
 rollment to population in theisoutf states are especially signiicsntsnT AT show that a great gain in he'sehoQl rollment in the past decade has, ' made, not in the north and vest ,bn the south, and that it , has been largely among the coloreda people sd Q; an9A
 While the percentagelef sehScP ehtolla ment for the whSle county iias in- creased since 1880 from 1g. ST fP 20 22, the ratio in the eastarn sstates shows decline. In the north Atlantic division. comprising Maine, New Hamp- shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York; New Jersey and Pennsylvania, it has fallen from 2O.33 per cent. in 1880 to l7.51 in the year 1890. In the north central di- vision, comprising the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Da- kota, South Dakota, Nebraska and kan sas, the ratio has likewise decreased, though only slightly. It was 23.55 in 1880 and is 22.35 now. The western division, which contains Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and California, has increased it's ratio from 1892 to l7.Ol in the decade.
 The South Atlantic division of Della ware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, North Caro- lima. South Carolina, Georgia and Flor ida shows an increase of from l6.3l per cent. to 1917 per cent. in public school enrolment. The South Central division, with the States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas, makes the remarkable gain from l5. fl per cent. in 1880 to 2l ,3l in 1890. A fact of the highest import ance is the increase of the percentage oi school enrolment among the cOlored people.
 In the South Atlantic group of State: the gain in white school enrolment since 1880 has been 35.96 per cent. In colored school enrolment it has been 53.52 pei cent. In Missouri it is 27.lS and 36. # per cent. respectively. In the South Central division the colored public school enrolment shows rain of 7O.SS per cent, as against gain for the whites of 63. .46 per cent. In the southern states as whole the ratio to population O white public school enrolment is 2l.6t per cent. The percentage of coloreC scholars enrolled is 1855.
 While these statistics are necessarily subject to final revision, and while per feet accuracy is by no means claimed io them, they are without doubt approx imately correct. The notatle increas, in school enrolment in the south, anC especially among the southern coloreC people, IS highly encouraging feature It shows that the negroes are awake tt the importance of securing a common school education for their children. Tn proportion of educated persons of tn colored race is steadily increasing, an, in this fact is the promise of the de struction of the "solid south" in pol itics. Knowledge IS power for colore, people as we'll as for whites. When tn black man becomes educated it will b impossible for southern Democrats t prevent him by force or fraud from ex ercising his legal rights of citizenship.