The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-13

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gro is concerned will soon disregard it
when white man is concerned.
In the evolution of the south it
seems to me that We have reached that
period where private philanthropy and
the Christian church OF the white south
should in a larger oegree share directly
in the elevation of the negro. Every
dollar that goes into the education of
the negro is an interest bearing dollar.
ovERPRopUCTION DUE TO IG-
NORANCB.
For years all acknowledge that the
south has suffered from the low price
of cotton because of overproduction.
The economic hiatory of the world
teaches that an ignorant farming class
means single crop, and that single
crop means too often low price from
cverproduction or famine from under
production. The negro constitutes the
principal farming class of the south
So long as the negro is ignorant in head,
unskilled in hand, unacquainted with
labor-saving mac hincry, 80 long will he
confine himself 10 single crop and
overproductiol of cotton will result. So
long as this is true viii you be bound in
economic letters. You will be hugging
the bear while crying for someone to
help you let go. ~
TILE WHITE MANS BURDEN.
Every man, black or white, fn-the south
with his crop nsortgaged, in debt at
the end of the year. buying his meat
from Iowa, his corn from Illinois, his
shoes from New York, his clothing
from Pennsylvania, his wagon from In
diana, his plow from Massachusetts, his
mule from Missouri ard his coffin from
Ohio, every individual thus situated is
citizen who is roc producing the
highest results for his State If it is
argued that he south IS too poor to ed.
ucate such an Individual so as to make
him an intelligent producer, l reply
that the south is too poor not to edu-
cate such an individual. Ignorance is
many fold more costly to taxpayers
than intelligence. Every black youth
tfat is given training of hand, strength
of mind, so that he is able to grasp the
full meaning and responsibility of life,
b
turn the raw material into wagons and
buggies, becomes a citizen who is able
to add to the wealth OF the state. and
to bear his share Of the expenses of ed
ucatiOn and government. Do YOU sug-
gest that this cannot be done? l an
swer that it is being done every day at
T'iskegee, and should be duplicated at
a hundred places in every southern
state. This take to be the white mans
i11c /
den, his privilege, his opportunity, to
give the black man sight, to give him
strength, skill of hand, light of mind
and honesty Of heart.
Ex-Gov w. A. McCorkle of West
Virginia said in part
ITO the practical men who desire the
upbuildlng Of the south, She time has
come to speak plainly and honestly
Tue race question, however, is no lon
ger question of the south. 1t is a
question of the whole country, and is
affecting the whole body polite. The
greatest development of the nations
prosperity, naturally speaking, within
10 years has been in the south The
south is no longer industrially a back
door, no longer terra incognita. With
one exception the finest developments
of iron Gre are il the south, and the
largest body of hardwood 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 pro-
duction of oil; one southern state is the
sespnd coke producer, and it ranks third
in the production of coal There is more
water power in one state in
the south than there is in the
whole Of New England. In her
ability to manufacture cheap textiles
she has no competitor. In every branch
| of natural mercantile supremacy she is
| easily the first.
THE NATURAL RESOURCES.
1.-The south, unlike the west. affords a
varied field for agriculture, mineral
and mining development The north,
with the quick intuition of trade, I'M
| derstands this, and today 1t is con-
cerned in the south, not alone from a
! question of patriotism for the whole
country, but also from the fact that
millions of northern money have been
poured into the south.
MUTUAL MISUNDERSTANDING
! 81 speak as southern man who
| springs from 200 years of southern an
cestry, and am naturally filled with the
prejudice of the south. The southern
man generally believes that the en-
Reimbursement of slaves at the recon-
struotion period was entirely from
hate, viciousness and revenge on the
part of the northern people. 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 bellum amendments to the
constitution and practically to re-en-
slave 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