The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-13

education makes a man more Vaiuab q as
a citizen. makes him mere iudustri0i
makes him earn more makes him MOI Q
upright la this respect let us sac how
the three largest white religious deuOmina-
lions in the South regard the negro; 70
elevate the ignorant and degraded in AZ
RIGA, China, japan. India. etc, these three
denominations in the South give annual
about $Jii,090 but 20 elevate the ignorant
the degraded al your doors Ia protect so r
families Go lessen your taxes. to increa .
their earning power, in "A word 90 Chris
tianize and elevate the people as your very
side upon whom in a large measure your
safety end prosperity depends. these same
denominations give 1000; $1,000 for the
benighted al your doors, $Jl40O0 for the be-
nighted abroad.
Educate the Blacks.
For years all acknowledge that the
South has suffered from the low price of
cotton because of over production The
economic history Of the word teaches
that an ignorant farming class means a
single crop, and that a single crop means
too often low price from over production
or famine from under production. The
negro continues the principal farming
class Of the South. So long as The negro
is ignorant in head, unskiled in hand, I'M
acquainted with labor saving machinery,
so long viii he confne himself to a sin
gle crop, and over production Of cotton
viii result So long as this is true
will You be bound In economic letters? You
will be huggiHg the bear while crying tor
some one 10 help you lei go. Every man,
black or white, in the South with his
crop mOrtgaged. in debt at the end of the
year, buying his meat from Iowa, his
corn from Illinois, has shoes from New
York, his clothing from Pennsylvania,
his wagon from Indiana. his piow from
Massachusetts. his mule from Missouri
and his coffin from Ohio-eVery individual
thus situated is a citizen who Is not pro
ducng the highest results for his state.
IF It is argued that the South is too poor
TO educate such an individual so as to
make him an intelligent producer, ] re-
ply that the South is too poor not TO edu
cate such an individual. Ignorance is
many fold more costly TO tax payers than
intelligence. Every black youth that is
given training of hand, strength of mind,
so that he is able to grasp the full mean
ing and responsibility Of the meaning of
life. SO that he can so into some forest
and turn the raw material into wagons
and buggies, become a citizen who is
able to add 10 the wealth of the state and
TO bear his share of The expenses OF edu-
cation and government. DO you suggest
that this cannot be done? | answer that
it Is being done every day at Tuskegee
and should be duplicated at a hundred
places in every Southern state. This /
take TO be The white mans burden just
now; no no. not his burden-his privilege,
his opportunity to give the black man
sight, to give him strength, skin of hand,
light of mind and honesty of heart.
Negro Question Practical.
Ex-Gov. MacCorkle of West Virginia fol-
lowed Mr.. Washington. He was loudly
cheered as he arose.
He said in part: CAS- a matter Of fact
the negro question is entirely practical.
discussing the negro from pract cal
standpoint. you must discuss the SETTLE
ment of the race question. With the race
question on its way to settlement, the prac-
teal evolution viii quickly come. As soon
as IL is understood that the race conflict
is a question of the past then win begin
Immediately the practical industrial evolu-
ton of the South.
ITO the practical men who desire the up
building of the South the time has come
to speak plainly and honestly. The race
question, however. is no longer q question
of the South is a question o he whoe
country, and If affecting the whole b dy
polite As a matter OF material interest,
the greatest outlay of money within ten
years in this country has been made in
the South. This is largely Northern
money. The greatest development of the
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within ten years has been in the South.
The South is no longer industriarly back
door, no longer a terra incognita With one
exception the finest developments Of iron
ore are in the South, aud the largest body
of hard wood timber is in the South. One
state in the South has more coal than
Pennsylvania and Ohio combined. one
state in the South is to-day exceeding
Pennsylvania in the production Of Oil; one
Southern state is the second coke produc-
er, and it ranks third in the production of
coal. There is more water power in enc
state in the South than there is in whole
Of New England. In her ability 10 man.
ufacture cheap textiles she has no COM
petitor In every branch of natural mer-
camille supremacy she is easily the first.
in the first place we must disabuse the
mind in each section of the prejudice viii h
surrounds the race question. A great bulk
OF the Northern people have the idea that
the whole object of the Southern man was
to nullify every one of the post belum
amendments TO the Constitution and prac-
IDEALLY TO re-enslave the black; that there
was no great or salient question OF race
instinct or race supremacy, and that the
Southern mans treatment of the negro
after the war was intended as an insult
to the North. Now, as matter of fact,
neither one of these propositions is cor
rect A majority of Northern people in
and their desire for the complete emanci-
patton of the saves was the influence be-
hind them To some extent, there was a
vast deal of narrowness and ignorance
among the Northern people, but as a
Southern man l do not believe that the
horrors of reconst ruction were for the
mere purpose of revenge or viciousness on
the part Of the Northern people. A great
number of the political leaders, mlsinform-
ing and misleading the Northern people.
were largely responsible for these wrongs,
but l DO not believe that the mass of the
people In the North intended 70 wantonly
injure or degrade the South.
The Problem II Had.
ION the other hand, the Southern man
was confronted with the most gigantic
problem that had ever fallen to a people
With an ignorant, supers .itious and alien
race i'm absolute control of his home hold
ing control Of his state government. dhect-
ing the affoirs OF his city. wrecking and
loctirS the stale, devastating the fields
destroying he schools and asserting Itself
guoranuy IN aE the affairs Of the state,
go Vae mn tral'N raGtfVp and did a bfnge