The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-14
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET,
FOR PRESIDT~rT.
WILLIAM ]. BRYAN.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON.


When the newspapers are o dis
cussing the south's treatment Of the
and the north's cruelty to the
negroes who have gone into its section,
they are considering the best way TO
the negroes We take cave to
say that in so far as we have read in
books, magazines and newspapers We
never seen an article from a
pen that revealed that the
writer had the slightest conception
and understanding of the negro and
negro character. They are o as
well informed Of the Martians as they
are of the southern negroes. They are
learning something Of the northern ne
groes and after a longer experience
they will not be 50 swift to volunteer
advice to the south as to how to settle
the negro question. how to educate
Sambo and s on.
Let us add here hat in North Car
DINA there is no movement on foot to
deprive the negroes of their ope
share in the common school fund. The
WIlIOS HAVE III "N O0oS ~-I
900, 900, we suppose, to the education
of the g children of the state. h
whites pay 96 2-5ths of the taxes n
the negroes 8 3-5ths, and yet the school
fund has beer equitably divided be-
tween the two races. The people who
paid 8 3-5ths had uniformly, invaria-
bly, voted to the injury and oppression
of the whites who paid h So 2-5ths OF
the taxes. After being voluntarily
taxed for thirty-odd years to educate
the negroes, the whites waxed weary
of the wrongs visited upon them by
negro voters. and they resolved to
have no more negro supremacy in
North Carolina. This means all such
supremacy as comes from fusion con-
spiracy or Mckinley meanness and
r~ascaIity. 1t means freedom-com-
plete and final. No more negro boss
ing in North Carolina will be allowed.
If the amendment had been defeat
ed at the polls, or if the supreme
court defeats it. then public sentiment
will be sure to change as to g
by white taxation. If. how
ever, the amendment shall stand and
go into effect on LIST July 1902. the time
appointed and shall not be interferred
with in any particular in Its opera
TONS, then the democrats Will con-
tinue to tax themselves to help TO
educate the negroes. They will en-
large the negro taxes for schools by
compelling a poll tax to be paid, and
they will also make increased appro-
priations for the betterment of the
negro schools. This will be done. In
reference by the north in n way
can only injure the schooling of the
negroes, while a wrong decision of the
courts will give a deadly blow to ne
gro education by white taxation in
North Carolina. Hands Off
We see that a New Orleans CORE
spondent writes to the New York u
that there is a party forming in the
south against taxing whites for negro
education. He says they are opposed
to giving the negro any education
whatever, on the ground that it ruins
him IS a field hand and gives him a
false idea of his position in society,"
He says that idea is for white taxes
to go to white schools and g
taxes to negro schools. We do not
know how strong the reactionary
movement is in louisiana. but it can
have but little force In North Carolina
so long as only those negroes ca1
who can read and write. This idea
prevails that education IS unnecessary
for the negro if he is to remain in the
south. They must have a primary
education. Bill Arp wrote twenty
years ago that it hurt the negro spoil
ing ga good field hand" But if the
negroes are to continue in h south
they must be taught, their morals
must be looked after, they must unite
to put down crime and stop the damn
able deeds of the lowest OF their race
and end lynchings.
As to industrial training which now
holds the ear of teachers, there IS not
such a great success attending it as
we have all been led to suppose. II
what is stated In the Philadelphia Re
cord Is true, then IL Is time 10 sup
and consider as to industrial training
for negroes That paper says:
Industrial training for the blacks
does not appear so far to have accom-
plished its main object Statistics
have been published to show that u
OF a Thousand negroes graduated by
the industrial schools only three fol-
lowed the trade that was learned, all
b others having taken up teaching
or other professions"
Since preparing the above We learn
that the question Of limiting negro
schools is up in Virginia The idea
grows hat the negroes shall receive
only the amount OF their actual taxes
education A dispatch from Rich
to the Washington Post, dated
9th, gives the following:
1.-The information received daily at
the office OF the Virginia board OF ed