The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-10-14
MUS1 APPLY EDUCATION.

"Peopletell ME that the young col
ored man is Cramped. and after he gets
his education there are few chances for
him 10 use it, ! have little patience
with such argument. Heretofore we
have had too much of the idea that an
educated cclored man must either teach
preach. be clerk or follow a profess
sion They must apply their education
to conquer the forces of nature. F,duca-
ton within itself Is nothing except as 1t
IS used in Il way 10 make the world bet
ter and more useful unless it is used
in way 10 produce something. An
educated man standing on the streets
with his hands in his pockets IS of no
more value 10 the world than an ignor-
ant man doing the same thing.
In the present condition OF our race,
Your education for The next fifty or a
hundred years should be especially d.
"cc;cd along Industrial and scientific
lin's. The trouble with large proper
i!On of he negro race Is that it is hun
Gsy and it is impossible for any race
tn make satisfactory progress along ed
,;cat!Cnal. moral and religious lines
when in This condition. In other words.
/ II is hard matter To make a good
Christian out Of a hungry man
What l mean by Industrial educa-
ton is 20 get the masses Of our young
men TO the poin; where they can apply
their education 10 conuuerins the forces
OF nature in the same way that this man
in Indiana? The plain hard fact of
the matter is the South is called upon to
compete with the world. and when it
comes down TO plain, hard business
| proposition the business man is going to
| buy his corn from the man who sells II
cheapest, whether the corn be produced
IN Indiana or Alabama. and Just so
! long as the man in Indiana Is able to do
~ much work with his cultivator and
| che workman in one day as four men
ana a mule can do i'm three or four DAYS
! in Alabama, just so long will he continue
| 10 buy corn of the Indiana producers
NEED OF THE PRACTICAL
I'VE must bring cur education down to
the plain, practical. hard everyday facts.
| AS race, We are very emotional We
are inclined to spend more of our time
| in preparing TO I've in heaven than on
| earth. We like To talk about living in
| the white mansions in the upper world
| and at the same time live in one-room
log cabins here. We like to preach abou;
wearing golden slippers and long white
robes in the otle" world and go bare
footed and nearly raked in this world.
| we ike TO sing about living on milk
| and honey in the next world, and eat
| corn bread and peas here. ! believe
that living right in this world is the
best preparation for a happy life In
I heaven.
THE SOUTH THE NEGRO'S HOME.
81 sometime fear that we are too much
inclined to lay stress on our grievances
rather than our opportunities While
many wrongs have been perpetrated
upon us in the South, still 1T the same
time it IS a fact now recognized by ali
intelligent coici"l people. the black man
has far better opportunity to rise in
J The South than he has in the Mort h.
While the black man Is not permitted
20 ride In the first-ciass car in the South
on will find that in many cases In the
North he is rot allowed to build tina:
: frst-cla"s car. have held that the col.
ored man can sooner conquer the South
ern prejudice than Northern competi-
ton. There 10 an abfence Of psAiudics