Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-27
THEY WILL NOT MIX.
THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE Will NEVER
INTE RMARRY WITH BLACKS
IL IL the Opinion OF Prominent Educs-
tors-Our Boys should 10 Given
Technical Training.

Technical Training.
The recent uttorances Of Rev. DR.. Laf-
ferty touching the technical education of
negroes and its tendency having excited
a great deal of comment. the DISPATCH
was led yesterday To seek a number OF
leading educators and others with the
purpose OF obtaining their views upon DIR.
Lafierty's position aud the Jries. Among
those sought were DIR. Curry. Rev. DR..
Corey, Hon. John L. Massey, Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction. aud Rev.
Or. Dickinson, OF the Religious Herdh. but
these were out OF the city. OF others
found several declined to discuss the mat
ter.
TIE WHITES NEED sTIRRIsG UP.
DIR. Charles II. Ryland. financial score
tafy Of Richmond College. being asked Tor
an expression OF opinion on this subject.
said
Il am grateful 10 Dr. Laferty or any
one else who will STIR ~ our southern
whites 10 protect their offspring. There
is no doubt OF the fact that our white
youth are caught between the upper and
neither millstones OF foreign skilled labor
aud negroes fTom northCfn-iOunded trade
schools. Where ~ the mere literary out
Iub III our nCuOOlo kDluB ~ rhpp ~"
long IL "A suffering people to see mlllion
year put into State colleges, hlgh
schools, and grammar schools. where
children are led up to literature and
tho Ologles and at last turned out
with no means Of making living
Oh for more men ike hlchaid
L. huchmestY, the founder Oh the
trades schools OF New York. As to DR..
La1erty's thrust about the Internarrage
of mpecuuous. idle. ana thrittless
young men Of the white race" with the
ollve-coiOred OCtOrOOns and quadrOons
who are heTesses suppose he put that IN
% give a helpful twist to his incis.ve
blade. II | mistake not history shows
that while the Latin nations are not Sc
riously averse 30 mixing by marriage with
Indians and negroes, the Angio-SsXons are
are not amalgamatlOnists. PERISH the
thought The sons of gray Jacket vetc-
rams" are not going TO do IL. But II
scare Is necessary 70 impel action Tor SELF
protection, let the Doctor give us another
Sensational picture and paint 1t III highest
cOlOTs."
SUPERINTENDENT FOX GIVES SOME FIGURES
Mr.. William +. Fox, the Superintendent
Of Public Schools OF this CITY, stated that
he had not read Or. LaheTty's editorial.
but he had seer the interview In the Dis
PATCH. lie disagreed with some things
which the distinguished Methodist had
said but seemed wiling to admit that the
southern negro possessed superior iaci'-
Ues over the whites for obtaining an edu-
cation that would tit him for mechanical
or industrial pursul's.
Mr.. Fox, 10y consulting tho last report of
the Commissioner OF Education, published
in lS6SL'59, produced the following figures.
which throw considerable light Oh the
subject
NUMBER or PCPIIs IN THE SOUTH.
COlorod. White
In normal scbOols. J,|3l
In industrial Ssh DO;s..........2,4lO 40
NUMBER or PUPILS II TIE UNITED srATEs.
Colored White
In normal schools. ,402 HS,llO
In industrial schools ..%,sl1 D. !Ct
These tables. OF course, are given with the
idea that the southern States have all, or
practically all. Of the negro population III
/ the Union. Furthermore. the lgures may
have changed since the publication OF the
report.
As far as the whole United States is con-
! cerned the attendance Of white pupils 70
industrial schools is vastly larger than
that of the negroes. Besides the 23,llO
whites who attend industrial schools, 70
cities have manual training departments
III connection wit b their white educational
institutions. and IN these departments
| there are 40.3yS pupils.
1he report OF the United States Com
missioner of Education shows that the
/ majority IN fact all except two-of tho
southern negro manual schools are sup
ported by northern religious societies.
BLOOD is THICKER THAN WATER.
DR.. ". W. Parker did not seem inclined
to treat DT. Lailerty's editorial or interview
seriously. Referring to them lie said:
fear that the succuleut vegetables OF
Brother Laherty's country home have
Il IL t,,f "a hangn
ho has occasionally what doctors call
might terr0rs.' The white man aud the
negro of the South are getting further and
further apart everg day. Before the war
millions of negroes slept under the same
roof with the whites. Now, a house-girl
getting sc q month will give $3.50 OF II for
an attic-rOom away tIom her employer,
where she NAV have more liberty
and often more license The negroes
like the cherries. are hocking together,
and will continue 10 do so. The OctO-
rooms will not increase as fast as Brother
Laiiertv thinks-nOt as fast rs they did
before the war. and il Is with this class
alone that any indecent white man Will
affiliate. When white men OF low degree
goes down 20 the low level with the negro
/ he IS GONG to stay there, but will carry no
| one with him. Indeed, he becomes dead
| to his former white friends. Blood Is
! thicker than water and color IL stronger
1 than kindred. such cases as Brother iaf-
/ ferty refers To will be one IL tea thousand
and will make 10 impress upon public
! sentiment There will always be men OF
4 the baser sort q, Pau calls them, and
. they can never have any influence upon
! their nelghboys except TO disgust them.
! ! am friend to the negroes and willing
| 10 see them prosper and become good ana
/ happy citizens. There Is plenty Of room
IN this country for both races. We should
/ wisely help one another. We are IN
I some sort mutually dependent The
! young white mother mas hard
/ time now. When | was boy the
nurse always slept III the house and
| was Of nestimablo value at night. espo-
! clally IN sickness. | slept with my NAM
my TIL was years old, and. bv the way,
| she did most of the whipping IN the
nursery. She WAS very truthful. If she
promised me whipping ] knew Wouic
most certainly get IT. Blessed te her
memory The races are of Gods ordering
/ and therefore wise. Some OF the best Chris
! .laGs | have known were negroes. l am
/ certain OF this fact. They were slaves II
/ my fathers house, and | saw Their daily
| walk and was with them when they died."
no DANGER op AaiALGAMAuoN.
An ex.tTnitel States aud e1-Contederate
! naval officer, WHO spent some Of the best
! wears OF his life IN the west Indies aud
South America, said III cOnversat o. wiki
: q DIspArCH reporter that while n had not
read Dr, Laterty's editorial ne had glanced
oven the interview with the Doctor III the
DlsPArCH. As far as bis olaoryatlon went,
he added, there was no danger OF anal
gamat on between the AuClo-Saxon and
any inferior rice. The Anglo-Saxou had
more pride of blood than any other man on
the face Of the g.oJe. lie nad noticed III
the British possessions. ~ the West lud rs.
and IN south America II was rarely the
case that Brlton married with a negresS.
/ O mu,attO, octOroun. Indian, or bGlf-hreed
} Indian. AnglO-SaIon race prejudice was
| the same the world over. The population
! of mixed white and negro blood and mixed
I white and Indian blood IN the countries