The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-11-29
What OF the Poor White Boy
.lfianin tonstitution.

On almost every hilltop IN tcorgla
may be -ccn the poor white boy who
has no friends abroad, ana -hall we so
describe it? can only lonh for enc
mics at home
The poor white boy? What an in
spration Of genius swclls within him,
rcprcsscd BY ignorance AID restrained
by environment. The son of a man
who owned -layrs. he tillS TIE field in
soldcn despair. while the son Of the
man who backed his boot is pursu-
Ing the royal chase Of Learning within
college wall- fortified by millions in
ehapwncnt. y teacher i needed in
the ncghboshood he imported
from a more favored land. y cotton
mill j. erected his little sisters and
brothers may 4 ,hc mcnili work fora
;rl.c ia l1ny. but the superintendent.
the rnrlnccr, the experts in cplpring
and in pattern making, must come
from Massachusetts, or from England.
IN iror foundry is established thc
men who command from - To so Il
day are brought from Rhode Island or
from Pennsylvania. while the little
boy who carrie water to the hands
may be- the only born Georgian on the
payroll. The nearby town puts in an
electric plant with the order for it
went rcqui,lton for men who un-
dcr,tan1 how to run the machine. 4
linotype is ordered by the local news
paper New York is ordered upon to
ship All operator as we'll Is it any
wonder, then, that seeing his chance
OF prcicrmcnt swept away, the poor
white boy turns sulcnly to his hoe,
and for the first time understands
what Mark ham meant when lie de-
>cribcd the man
. dead to rapture and despair,
y thing that grcvcs not, and never
hopes.
Stolid and stunned, brother to the
OK
God pity the poor white boy who is
thus doomed to scrfdom while the
son Of his master slave has his face
set toward the rising sun, and to whom
the great secrets of art and nature arc
being opened. Hampton institute,
with an endowment Of $742 900 and
real estate as much more, appeals to
Northern and even Southern philan-
tbropy for as much more. From the
walls of this institution Tusk:gcc has
grown, and now between the two the
negro is learning the use of the hand
as well as brain. The soil and its
component parts; the smelling and
the amalgamation Of the metals; the
varied secrets Of chemistry; the con
troll OF steam and Of electricity
arc brought near to him. The scholar,
no matter how black he may be, will
be the master workman; the ignorant
man, no matter how clear the.white-
ness of his skin, will only be the help
er-glad to get that This is the
picture which, as it reverses itself to
the eye of the white boy, makes him
strike his hoe into the earth with We
nomous wrath and logged resignation.
Men abroad contribute to negro educa-
tion, because the negro is poor; men
at home deny liberal State aid to
higher education; it would cost little
money.
Hear the story from Hampton In
stitutc-sl ,342, 900 on hand-s1, ,OOO,-
600 more coming in-Clarke Univer-
sity in Atlanta, over 81 100000 in it's
varied departments: Atlanta Univer-
sity s1,OOO,OOO with chronological
courses. AS in Atlanta, so it is else
where. The poor white boy looks in
quiringly around. The State tcchno-
logical school has just closed its doors
against young white men-no room
and the room which is here was made
possible by generous stranger.
Shame that Georgia should keep her
sons in ignorance; that the escape
from it should be through the munili-
ccncc of a stranger-but thanks to the
man who was broadmindcd enough to
suggest to US the line Of duty. All
over Georgia, while such young men
as described exist, there are those
who fight higher education, and who
cannot understand that leaders must
be moulded simultaneously with the
file which fills the public schools.
These men seem to be willing that cx-
perts should be imported, while our
own young men are to be relegated to
the furrow.
To-day Germany stands as the cen
trail n,oDnfo ~ oDI