The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-25
WHITE BOYSLEFT In WANT.
4 Church Papers Views On The Ne
gro Question.

The White Lad offered no Advan-
tages to Secure a Technical Educa-
tion Cheaply but the South Full Of
Schools for Negro Boys-The Mar
riage OF Mr. Bloun'ts Secretary to a
Chinese Girl And a Possibility OF
the Future in Our Own Country.
Richmond, Va, July PA sensational
editorial appeared in the last issue of the
FRichmond Christian Advocate, the lead
ing Methodist organ of the south, on the
negro question. 1t is written by DR.. j. J.
Lafferty in his most pungent and incisive
style. Among other things he says:
1.-THE Southern Methodist Advocate has
this incidnet: In q village Of the
cotton belt big, burly, black
rode up to store and said to the owner:
Let this man pointing to a poor white
laborer) have 50 worth of goods and
charge it TO me- This transaction may
fret the reader, but it has wide signih-
cance
Northern people during the war wera
drawn toward the plantation peasantry
of the south. The lot of the fat, fun low
ing negro, the happiest working class on
earth, was for years pictured as bitter
longing for freedom and during the war
praying through the nights for the COM
ing national troops. These moving,
| though mistaken fancies, and much more
| of the same Sort stirred the philan-
! thropic heart Of the cotton-bred million
aires, and rich army contractors turned
| virtuOus. A great sum was sent south
! for the education of the negro. It's ex-
! penditure in the main helped the negro.
| 1t was wisely directed that these do
! nations should have q practical turn.
| What was the Outcome} We find in
| nearly every southern state ne
gro boys Of the brighter sort in training
schools. IN the meanwhile, the negro re-
| ported in the census is growing rapidly
as citizen with home and decent in
| come, thrifty member of society More
| over. the southern commemorative began
| after the war to tax white property-hold-
! ers heavily to educate the sons of the
| non-taxpaying negro. The negro laborer
\ received as much money for his
coarse work as the ex-soldier of
| Lee. The white man consumed more
| of his earnings in house rent, clothing
| and food, hence he could nor spare his
son at school. He needed the boy at the
| plow to aid in bringing up his family.
| The negro boy first learned In free
schools to read and write, then no
| learned in these technical schools how TO
make fine shoes, buggies, saddles, etc.
! Newspapers recently reported that the
! private secretary to Hon. Mr.. Blount, of
| Georgia, representing the United States
| in the Hawaiian islands, would shortly
marry the daughter Of rich Chinaman
of Honolulu. This educated young gen.
tleman and Of social standing seeks an
alliance with an ex-coolie, pig-eyed pagan.
! Who will dare say that olive-colored
octoroons and quadroons. bright mulattoes
! heiresses of wealthy men Of mixed blood
| will not be sought in the next century by
| impecunious, thriftless and idle Young
men of the white racel Negro maidens
are seen at certain colleges for women Of
! high degree IN the north Whereunto
| will this grove
Consider the future of the friendless
and fatherless boy of the white race in
| the south. Can he pay $500 to attend
| Stevens Institute in New Yorlz2 can he
command money for board and raiment
while a student at any state school with a
small annex Of tools and q shop} He
has not money enough to buy even q
railroad ticket to such a college. The
grandchildren Of warlike families with
historic names, who made the southern
army o synonym of dauntless courage, are
drifting towards the Helot class and in
the century dawning there will come to
pass social conditions that would stir the
corpses In jackets of gray.
''No man has seen the harvest from the
sowing after Appomattox. The states
| men among us robbed the ex-soldier Of
Lee to educate the black competitors of
his children. Then northern Million
aires in hatred of parolled citizens have
endowed colleges with tools and machines
to equip the eX-slaVe to surpass and sub
jugate the sons Of the cOnfederatesrin a
struggle for the best pay and position in
skilled trades. 1t is condition and not
theory that confronts US. Thoughtful
men do not contest the fact"