The Savannah morning news., 1900-12-29
NEGRO EDUCATION.
lconllnuea from 80 PaEel

with the frame aiNe for such as these. We
I must as nation. now confess that only
/ intelligence can rule. for wc know ths
| political stability Of the spsnish-Americau
and his republics We know CHINA and
| the Philippines. and tho wilcox b. Win
! us. no the bin for the reduction Of
I Southern representation Will never pass
| and the negro disfranchiscment is IA
] stand America now sees the hsndw RAJ ma
I on tho wall. Tor she faces a golden oppor-
I unity with hands tied. This o. a great
/ evil but % has ite blessings for us. Not
~ much in the retention 81 representa-
/ lion, az in the vindication OF the historic
I policy Or the South and the decline u
/ political antagonists between the races.
10 means much 60 "a IN tho publication OF
/ politics. ana therefore public morals bu,
| 30 means far more to the negro. az We
| shalt see. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth
amendments have been failures. Let us
! look al The Thirteenth which opened tho
1 economic problem.
] 1t has always been a mystery 20 the
l people Of the North why the non slave
/ holding class at the south fought 20 ard
l entity during the war. No explanation
seems 20 roive the mystery for them Let
| a. FIRST note by way OF explanation. that
I in the mountains 81 North Carolina Ten
I ncfsec. and Virginia tn0w West Virginia.
whore the negro was unknown. the poor
whites did not fight or else fought on the
FEDERAL side. Let us also recall that the
enormous emigration that took place from
/ me South was chiefly a labor cmigrn tion
and even the wealthy when threatened
with poverty Ned from me South. These
things were because every workingman
VINO knew the negro looked with holy
fear upon the day 81 his emancipation
with the well led ohat,el. the expensive
slaves. he could compe<e but with the
starving savage % freedom he had not a
ghost Of chance. In the fated language
Of Prof. Russ late Of Leland sta ndford
! To- speaking ~ the Chinaman. the white
man can outdo the barbarian but the
latter can 'underlive him ana ehere y
the rub.
The lsboring man who knows what
II means 10 have to underllve his fellow
VIII always hate the negro on contact
There are to-day thousands Of Negroes
~ The south living on a ration that costs
b-lo cents fay. or less than g. Der
month. while n pressed they can live on
the half OF ~. Imagine the fate OF the
white man who has to compete with such
IA Dor
bured ~ higher wages. many negroe.
~" nov making rtlgrimancs 60 the North
20 New York. Philadelphia. Chicago ets
As rule they are the best trained work,
ers OF their race In the South. ana hence
the highest livers. but they underiive All
competition 50 easily and cut wages with
such profit 10 themselves that the batr,s
Oh the negro always felt by the white
"orkers OF the South. Is beginning 10 h.
teh az the North and this h. the true
ana only reason OF the late race riots
Wherever ne goes, disenchanment fol-
lows The old slave-owner. bie MAJ
ural friend. IL now az we have seen
MS political foe. aud the uoor whites
Or the South hate him as an economic
enemy, while the laboring man every.
where recognize that the education o.
the darby was a mistake
There Is one other class in the South
and that not a small one. ! refer 10 the
men % wealth or education whom the
war and its consequence. social chaos.
brought down TO poverty aud personal
manual composition with the negro labor.
Thirty years Of unrequited toll has broke
ana soured them tn any Ism from popu-
larism TO nihilism, finds fertile soil. .rhev
nave rot risen. they have done well 20
even mark time In the ranks. but through
the public schools their children are ris-
INK and they are the hope OF the South
ana nation. legion is coming with an
hereditary intelligence sharponsd nv
adversely. hut with their very mothers
milk they have drawn a hatred OF the
negro that Is as the hate Of hell.
Facts
loading up TO present conditions. Som,
Of these will change and some will not.
and the last to so viii be the bitter econ
ouic antagonism OF the white Southern
lahoror. When you leave this out YOU
are leaving the Southern problem. II the
political question Is not reopened, the
antagonism OF the dominant class will
be at once Withdrawn. This class has
never been and will never be Influenced
asg
amendment ~ nullihed. AS at present. or
better stii. repealed. they will have moth.
ing more 70 ask. Their autagOnism viii
die with politics. the laboring mans an.
tagonism dies only with the man We
might az well be frank These conditions
eNist and they seriously compllcate the
case as presented BY the narro himself
which Is about as follows:
Having received from the South. as
gift. American residence. the English
tongue, the opportunities Of the Christian
religion. sound body. and thorough
training IN agricultural and all the do
nestle arts. he. after two centuries re-
ceived as a gift from the North. freedom
citizenship and the ballot In the next
generation he received from the two see
lions eEaia as a gift two hundred millions
Ia education and he stili stands beggaf
at the door u the South. now a criminn
hegEar What are We 10 DO with him?
As he has grown In criminality and ply
steal dopravity since receiving what he
| has Of education. that kind OF education
b. surely a failure. Moreover he has used
this education. given In compassion as
an arm OF defense. A. a weapon OF polti-
col ofense against those who gave g.
Under the circumstances, there a. a
natural and growing sentiment ia the
| South demanding that We give him only
the pittance that he himself produces as
a taxpayer and then let him shift for
| himself The object OF this paper a. 60
| protest against the adoption OF this pol
| Icy as economically unwise and a. un-
worthy Of the South We should as soon
think Of Withdrawing our subscription 60
! the church because the infant class In
/ No. we should not and We viii not with
| draw from the negro the hope OF his race
1 the white mans support. Noblesse
| obliKe
/ so far We have been consistent or ali
| the sections the South now alone pre-
SCENTS in her history that rare virtue. In
/ an the years Of her domination from
| Roanoke Island 90 Appomattox. she claim
/ Cd just what she claims now. viz. that
/ American citizenship was privilege OF
| the highess kind. reserved for the highest
| type. and that degraded and harharous
| races specifically marked by nature rs
] inferior We're unfit for It's functions The
North claimed that the Union was an
asylum for oil citizenship. regardless OF
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