The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-15
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
HAS ABANDONED THE NEGRO
TO THE SOUTHERN STATES.
MUST SOLVE PROBLEM FOR THEMSELVES
The Trump Of the Anglo.Saxon and the Reas-
sons for it. What Education has Done
and is Doing for the
Norman,

Morehead City, n. c., June 14-(Edi-
torial correspondence THE sixteenth
annual session of the North Carolina
Teachers Assembly was opened with
prayer by Rev. II. Il. Madison. principal
of Cullowee School. The opening ad-
dress was made by DR.. ID. "A. Long,
native of Alamance county. North Caro-
lima, and one of a family of distinguished
brothers. DR.. Long has won fame as
president of Antioch College. Ohio, and
is recognized as one of the most DIS
ting,lished educators of the country.
DR.. Longs subject, Education in the
South" is one that is of pecunar inter
est to our people. speaking as he did
from the point of view of Southerner
of wide experience elsewhere. After re-
ferring to Il list of questions he had sent
out to superintendent of public instruc-
ton in all Southern States and the show
ing of the answers that the South has
made great strides in education. DIR.
Long continued:
Il am glad to meet and greet the men
and women of North Carolina who be-
lieve deeply and thoroughly i'll the edu
cation of all the people. Not that mere
intellectual culture eleyates people
morally. Witness the case Of Greece IN !.
der Particles. Rome under Augustus. and
England under Elizabeth. Yet mental,
moral, and manual training will elevate
any people. Over two millions of child
rem. white and colored. have recently
been attending the public schools in this
beautiful Southland What the South
l.. fatr Il
leges and universities is her best invest
ment Who can estimate the moral and
intellectual investment lifting her IT, Il
higher plane of civilization? The aver
age wealth-producing power of evry ina
age wealth producing power of every
man and woman going ont from her in
dustrial schools is doubled. Before this
association adjourns, | trust that every
teacher i'm North Carolina will vote ~
recommend that manual training, or
what others call industrial education, De
lad. !: part OF al orr publ c school in
str,Iction. Let the e1uca,ina of the head
the hand. and the heart go together
AT the lend a Hand Club in Boston
May 29th, while DIR. Everette Hale was
presiding, Hon. Carroll ID. Wright WAS
speaking of the advantages of industrial
schools for all classes and sections. In
discussing the industrial school at Man
assas. Virginia, he said: If there were
industrial schools. lynching would cease.
for the negro would become self-respect-
ing DIR. j. l.. NJ. Curry heartily en-
dorses industrial education, as You see
in his article on Education in the South
in the Southern farm magazine for this
month.
There is an educa tional awakening in
the South. New railroads are being sur
yeyed, larger mills and factories are 70
be built. The rising generation must
know more about liquid air. engineering
steam. machinery and electricity. The
mines are being opened. the fields must
be cultivated Oh the intensive plan. cities
will be built The question is. will the
South prepare the trained heads and
hands to do this work, or will she import
them! Can you teach the people how to
advance the cause of education and
build UP rich. powerful and yirtnous
State? Can "A State grow rich if nearly
everything is imported? Is it a fact that
we sleep on beds and between sheets
made in Connecticut? that we take our
morning additions in vessels made in
France. that we put on hose from Ger
many linen from ireland. rock our ba-
bies in cradles from Michigan. brol our
fish on ranges from Cincinnati, buy our
flour from Minneapolis. get the baking
powder from New York. orr knives
from Sheffield. and our canned beef from
Chicago?
ut is all right to import anything you
cannot produce. II is all right to recog-
llize competition. 1t would be better if
we could always have cooperation. yet.
You can never understand the history Of
any people. outside of its struggles for
life You cannot understand the history
of England unless you keep your eye on
the slow but certain evolution of the
Saxon through the inner lining of the
Celtic, and the outer. denser Norman
shell. The strongest races are always
bonnd firmly to the soil.
'The cause Of education in the South
ern States is the greatest problem con-
fronting the people. Let us look this
question calmly and sguarely in the
face, and shy and do what we think is
best, regardless Of the criticisms which
may be given us from any section. The
Southern States. for prudential rca SOFAS.
until the close of the Civil War. all had
laws making il crime to educate the
slaves. Slavery and the war left the
States too poor to furnish schools in many
counties. or to continue them longer than
three or four months in the year. Then
the question Of history comes for the
teacher. Civil rights persisted in the
citadel of the supreme court. What are
the fundamental principles for which the
people fought? Was it for social eouaIi-
ty that the brave and victorious le-
gions of the North followed Grant to
AppomattOX and Sherman To the cos
No. The Grand Army of the Republic
has separate posts for the colored
soldiers, just as the Masons have snn-
arate lodges. Well. what was the fun
dafnental principles for which the great
body OF the Union soldiers commended?
1t was that the union of our fathers
might be saved. OF course there were