The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-26

races.
A.. The kind Of education that the negro
needs Is Industrial and moral, enforced
by severe restraints. rather than with in
teilectual culture with freedom OF conduct,
After learning to read, write and cipher,
the next most important thing Tor the ne
gro Is Industrial and character raining
8. The negro woman is less GRIM
inal than the foreign white immigrant in
similar conditions, and therefore Is good
material for development. The develop
ment of the negro race depends upon the
DEVELOPMENT of the negro woman. The in
fluence of the home, Of the church and OF
social custom and opluion must be brought
to bear in the Improvement OF our negro
population, and this can be done only
through the patient, careful and Intelligent
training Of negro girls before they arrive at
maturity. The two most important steps
10 secure this training are. First, the re-
establishment OF friendly personal relations
between the negro race and the Southern
whites, whereby the Southern white woman
may be actively interested in the mental,
religious and industrial Improvement of
the negro girl. This interest existed during
slavery and produced as beneficial results
as could be expected under a slave system,
but the political animosity of the last
twenty-five years have nearly destroyed IT,.
II re-ostabiished 1t would accomplish more
for the Improvement OF the negro than the
education now offered him in the public
schools.
1t is my belief that the Southern woman
wonld cheerfully and roligiously undertake
this Iierculean task II the negro would al
low ii, but 1t can not be done so long as the
two races are in solid political antagonism.
The second step to secure the training OF
the negro girl Is through Industrial schools.
one well equipped, well managed industrial
school in each country IN the Southern
States would be worth more than half a
dozen public schools OF the present char
acter.
6. The negro IS more criminal as II Tree
man than he was as a slave. This is per-
feetly natural aud is due mainly 70 an
increased opportunity, freedom Of loromo-
ton, freedom Of vice, prostitution. ganb-
ling drinking, fighting; freedom TO carry
deadly weapons; freedom from ueariy all
the restraints peculiar to slavery. Those
restraints have been cut loo5a, but not re-
placed by others. New desires. too; new
passions and new ambitions have been
created by freedom. but no adequate power
has been supplied for the legitimate graft
iication of these new desires. 'fhe result
IS a large and rapid increase q crime, fire.
quently so atrOcious. diabolical and
Shocking in character as tenn orarilv al
NEST to destroy the reason OF the white
community tn which the crimes are cou1-
United. driving them almost TO a frenzy
oI summary Venseanea. Year by year this
at"ee OF mugs mas oeVeioped from bad TO
w. 40 man can see the egd. one thing
an least is sure--tbe negro is not r%eceiv-
ing me sort Of education Nor is he sub
Jeeteu 10 the sort of restraint thai tends TO
make hlm either q better man or % better
ciul@en' The long and bitter political strug
gle to l~egislatc the negro up to full So
ein civil and political equality with the
While race ana the struggle OF the South
ern "nl'5 popo!alion to protect their prop
erty and civilization against the const-
Quehces OF such a movement. have pre-
vented TINS question of negro education
ana negro Development from receiving.
uiugPr Nof,h or south the careful, I'M
parllal ana Intelligent consideration that
IT must receive If our country is to be res
ouea from the greatest peril that ever
'nIeateheQ IT. The question Of negro slav-
cry was NOT so momentous az the question
OF negro freedom, negro citizenship and
ueSIo eaueatlon' The negro problem is not
ended but has only begun.