The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-20
Deception, Says DR.. Curry, ana
Fraud to Put the Flag There.
STATE GIVES EDUCATION
WHY Don't Negro GO North to
rThose Who Freed Him
STRIKING THOUGHTS ADVANCED
Eirst. Get Rid of ignorance Before
Helping Cuba or Armenia 6rist-
ling Address on Education Be-
fore CoIored Students.

body and the Slater funds paid his an
nual visit to Shaw University yesterday,
and spoke yesteday morning to the stu
dents and a company of invited citizens.
DIR. Curry had come direct from Hamp-
ton school, in Virginia, the first Of the
schools for the education of the negro
youth, and spoke to those who called to
see him of the good work being done
there. Those of the white present yeSter-
day morning were: Ex-Chief Justice
Shepherd, DIR. James Mckee, dean of the
Medical College; President II. A. Alder
man, Hon. 10. Ii. Battle, DIR. I'll. 3. Bat
tie, DIR. X. p. Battle Prof. L. ID. Howell,
DR.. a. W. Knox, President John Il. Ray,
DR.. w. l. Register, DR.. Hubert Register,
Hon. John G. Scarborough, DIR. a. w.
Goodwin, Rev. J. w. Carter, ID. d.,
State Treasurer Worth, NJ. Bowes, VIM.
Simpson, w. j. Young, j. w. Bailey,
Joseph H. Pogue, w. II. Rand, Rev. DIR.
Skinner and Josephus Daniels.
Without preliminaries, President Me
serve introduced DIR. Curry, who spoke
with power, interest and edification. He
began by stating that ,4.e Peabody fund,
available for both races, of 100000 and
negro race alone, were the chief gifts
that philanthropists had devoted to edu-
cation, the income alone from these two
funds.
1t is an abomination. said the Doctor,
that schools that are no more than high
schools have taken on the high-sounding
name of university 1t is most unfort-
innate for children to be placed under in
competent teachers-more so if they are
ignorant and full of prejudice. | am
afraid the teachers of the colored people
have not been we'll informed in history,
and if so, they hamper their instruction
by prejudice At Hampton yesterday
one speaker, with a rhetorical flourish,
said it was a remarkable coincidence that
Hampton school was located within
few miles of where the first ship laden
with slaves landed in this country.
ventured to remind this young man right
there that the first slave ships were not
fitted out in Virginia, North Carolina or
South Carolina, but that every one of
them started out from either Old England
or New England-not one from the
South From the beginning of slavery
no single vessel laden with rum,
red liquor, and red handkerchiefs were
ever sent from the South to Africa. The
vessel which brought negroes to this
country was great Pandora's box. 1t
was worse. Hope was left in the real
pandora's box.
The greatest curse that every afflicted
the United States was slavery. The
introduction of African slavery was Il
clinging prolific, and possibly incurable
curse. DIR. Curry discussed the institu-
ton from the standpoint of political
Iaa fbaF ciH
of the chief elements in the curse of
aslyery, he declared, was that it inflicted
upon the South an ignorant, stupid, un-
intelligent labor, the one-crop system,
bad roads, poor school houses, imperfect
system of education-the evils of unin-
yentive, unambitious labor.
Manual labor in the schools was defined
to be the most important intellectual
phenomena of to-day. From the Uniyer-
sity up to the kindergarten Ct mean It
that way he said, turning to President
Alderman, there ought to be industrial
training along with academic and scienti
fic. Head, heart and hand ought all to be
united and developed. If the South was
cursed with ignorant labor, what the
South needs is intelligent and skilled la
Dor. Accuracy of judgment and eye,
along with the skill to do things, will
bring us elevation and prosperity.
IF you viii go from Weldon to Will
mington, will venture that you can find
from ten to fifty people at every depot,
standing idly by whiting sticks and
chewing tobacco. They don't know how
to do anything that requires skill They
can't even make axe-helves. A short
time ago saw at station in North
Carolina a bundle of axe-helyes, and
upon asking where they were from, ] was
told they had been shipped from Kansas.
No State has d, magnificent supply Of
timber, and yet you buy aXe-helYes from
Kansas, and wagons from Northern
States. Thanks to the enterprise of the
Mills Wagon Company, we have quit
that in Wake County Editor We have
got to get out Of that.
.'There's another thing we have got to
quit We must not denounce folks who
disagree with us. Some Of you are hid
ing yourselves behind false name
Sound money"-thereby intimating that
those who honestly favor free silver
want unsound money" Turning to Edi-
tor Daniels, who was present, DR.. Curry
said: an my heart of hearts and my
inmost conscience, know you, my friend
Josephus. are as much in favor of sound
money as j am, thougn we 90 not agree
as to the best way TO get it.
The election having passed, let us see
IL we cannot do something for-lifting up
our people Free education is ten thou
sand times more important than free sill
yer. ] affirm that local taxation for
public schools and adequate revenues are
more important than an income tax OF
any other metlrod Of taxation. I'll &C
e,,w+E,ap. Tho az ann and sruprscrintiOn OF
a good, honest character is worth more
than the stamp or every government that
may be put on gold; tie ratio Of the edu
Gated to the illiterate than any ratio be
tween gold and silver.
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