The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-12

in correct shape. Til county's money
should be first applied to erecting good
school houses, in each school district. Let
the county pay for hale the eXpense-the
patrons, the other half-the latter to be
paid in labor. if necessary
Then require the teacher elect
ed-by the patrons of the school; and
men and women each allowed a vote on
the teacher. If there is lack of money
TO do all this work at first. then let each
patron who is able TO pay for schooling
come forward and pay a reasonable sum
as salary per month. Those who will
come up and make oath that they are un-
able to pay shall become benefciaries of
the poor rate or public fund.
IN my Judgment, you will stop ten
thousand leaks by this supervision at
nome, and make a satisfactory showing
to the state and county as a result Have
a board of visitors selected each year, by
competent authority, to visit each school
once a month and make a report to the
county school authorities and the latter
shall make an annual report to the state.
l present this idea as a means of reform
ana as an act of justice to poor country
girls, who have no other chance for edu-
cation and who find thousands of dollars
spent in Georgia to give higher education
to their brothers. and millions of northern
money invested here to give higher edu-
cation to colored girls-whle they are
lacking.
Wake up, men of Georgia, to the crisis
now upon you. These white girls are the
coming mothers of the white race. In the
sight of heaven, l bring this note of
warning and entreaty to you. What
means all this lynching in our borders?
You never heard of it in years past and
gone. If you have one obligation in life
before oil ,ar + &c
duty to motherhood.
MRS. FELTON, gave free rein to her
thoughts in discussing this subject review
ing the condition of the agricultural popu-
lation of the south and laying special stress
upon the unprotected condition of thous-
ands of women living upon the farms
many of them widows and orphan daught-
ers of dead confederates. Her indignation
at the frequenGX of such crimes impelled
her to say:
IF your court houses are shams ana
frauds and the laws delay is the vii
lain's bulwark, then ! say let judgement
begin at the house Of God and redeem this
country from the cloud of shame that
rests upon it; when there is not enough
religion in the pulp.ts to organize a cru
SADIE against sin, nor justice in the court
houses to promptly punish crime nor
manhood enough in the nation to put
sheltering arm about innocence and vir-
tue.
IF it needs lynching to protect womans
dearest possession from cravening human
beasts, then l say lynch a thousand
times a week if necessary"
Although this sentiment was applauded
the applause was not general, and there
were many who thought it a discordant
note and out of place in an otherwise
harmonious symphony.
Mrs. FELTON, condemned the "honey-
smuggling" of colored voters at the polls
in unqualified terms and attributed much
of the evil condition of affairs 20 this
source Need No. 3, she said, was security
of the woman in their home.
The need of greater intellectual advan-
tages for the women on the farms was
next discussed.
The women on the farms of Georgia"
she said demand greater advantages for
Intellectual improvement, for culture for
business, and all the refining influences of
a wel-stored mind. If she is to remain
on the farm. the wife and sister of the
young farmers of Georgia, managing and
directing, as she SO often does, the labor
of these farms, pray, afford her an OPP
portunity for acquiring that scientific
knowledge of agriculture which is just
now so earnestly and persistently demand
ed for the sons of our farmers.
There is not a school in Georgia where
women can obtain the highest education
in the arts and sciences, 1 would not
throw a damper upon the Normal and
Industrial School of this state for It is
doing a noble work for the young women
of Georgia, who are able to secure places
and obtain the money to pay expenses,
for Its advantages are limited. There is
not a school in the state where a woman
can aspire to the higher degrees of learn
ming granted to her brothers a the uni
versity. At this university about 240 young
men, as matriculants. enjoyed over $40,-
600 worth of lectures, and laboratory, and
library, and general instruction, within the
past twelve months. There is great out
cry that no more students go there to
enjoy this lavish offer from the best equip
ped university south of the Potomac. Es-
pecially is there great outcry that so few
students can be induced to enter in the
agricultural department of this great
school supported by the bounty of the
state and federal governments
'Why not. then. gentlemen, throw open
the doors of the university to women of
Georgia, in all of its departments-agr
culture not excepted; and allow the daugh-
ters of the farmers of Georgia to con-
test for those degrees, upon the same
plane, and without favoridsm, that are
now conferred upon men?
The farms would never be attractive,
she said, until intellectual women live up
on them and call them homes The propo-
sition to open the university to women
was agitated at some length.
Mrs. FELTON, said, in conclusion, that she
would feel amply repaid for her effort in
attending the convention and presenting
daughters,if the agricultural society should
petition the legislature to open the doors
Of the university to these "home-loving,
much deserving women of the state"