The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-02
AN OLD DEMOCRATS VIEWS.
He Makes Three Suggestions to tn
Legislature Upon Important Matters.

He Makes Three Suggestions to the
Legislature Upon Important Matters.
To the Editor: What does it meant
The result Of the ballot. Away back il
1874 we joined the Polk Club mt Frank
linton. and since that time have observed
the workings of political parties. There
has been no election in all these years
more significant that the one just past
After trying the wild schemes of an
irresponsible party for the past foui
years, and seeing the ship Of State be
ing wrecked and tossed over the pillows
of obstruction, see what Il sudden re-
turning to first principles i'll order te
save the State. 1t means a speedy re
turn to internal State police regulations
dealt out by fair hand, and backed by
just and wholesome laws. 1t means that
the ship of State will be set back where
the great leader of men left it. In the
doing of this. there are so many minds
TO think and so many things to be
done, allow ms to merely hint at tive
or three reforms which will strike every
one as of vital necessity:
The State Guard, as now constituted
needs attention 1t is not provided for
as well as it should be- When all un-
necessary taxation is cut down by the
Legislature, there will lie enough left
without a direct tax to put the State
Guard on a safe footing, by appropriate
ing moneys enough to pay the necessary
expenses of the companies.
Another subject that vitality concerns
us is the Jim Crow ears. or separation
of Ia oil
public carriers in the State We have
a law separating negroes from white
people in all public schools, and it works
well, indeed, there is not single OBJ
lection to it, There is law of decency
that separates the negroes from white
people in our homes, and it works well.
Now, why not separate negroes from
white people in all coaches and public
travel? If one nuisance can be greater
than another, it is the one that allows
negroes to ride i'll coaches with white
people 1t is an insult to our Anglo
Saxon womanhood and manhood, while
it does the negroes no good. The Leg
stature should abate this nuisance on
assembling, and let it be one of the
first acts passed, and to take effect from
and after its ratification. A bill is
ratified when both Speakers sign it. If
this is white mans government, then
let him have some showing of it. some
protection against ithe encroachments
of negroes.
The free schools will be restored of
course, and invested with that of which
they have been robbed. 1t has been said
by school men that the public schools have
been set back twenty years by the ruth
less hands that have been laid on them.
That must be all corrected and the boys
and girls Of the twentieth century
given Il chance. TO do that there must
be law of compulsion. What is the
use Of having free school and not
compel attendance? One reform is
necessary in making the most Of the
free school: That is, the State should
buy and furnish all the books; then
the children could be graded into class
es, the books being uniform, and make
progress. After the books are pur-
chased for the schools hold the teach
ers responsible for them in term time,
ut the close of the term the teacher to
summon the committee and turn all
books over to them, and hold the com
mittee responsible for all books out Of
term time. s. NJ. STONE,
Wake Forest, n, G..