The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-01-06
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS.
By J. L. POWER.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
A Manx-sIded Question.

m
A Many-sIded Question.
fost questions have at least w
but the distribution Of the public
,ol fund has half a dozen OF more
he State Teachers Association, at
neeting in April last, resolved that
lion zoo of the constitution should
meuded so as to provide for a more
W table distribution. At present it
Il be distributed among the several
mites and separate school districts
proportion to the number OF educa-
children in each" The association
led to suggest what would be a more
nitable mode. Some have expressed
opinion that the distribution should
based on enrolment or actual at
ndance. thus reducing the fund to
e black counties, where a large per
mt of the educables do not attend
hool, and increasing tothe white coun-
j, in which the per centage OF attend
&c is greater. On the other hand,
vcral papers in the hill counties have
d that they are very well satisfied
|th the present arrangement. Some
6ggest the State appropriation should
reduced to $500, 900, leaving to coun-
Is to supply the balance and increase
reduce the term, in their discretion.
enator Rowan, of Copiah, has been an
rnest and persistent advocate of the
Va that the school fund should be
3tributed to the races in proportion
the taxes they pay. And the other
G of that proposition is thus forcibly
esented by Hon. w. d. Gibbs, of
zoo:
IQ.There are plenty OF poor white peo-
in this State who depend upon that
= stem t. preserve their children from
norance and Acknowledgement, who
MI look after that. Free education,
- a certain extent, is now the common
Nv of the United States. Enlightened
vhblic opipion in Mississippi will toler-
1te no policy in this matter that keeps
Ne word of promise to the ear and
y leaks it to the hope
s.There' are some inequalities that
led correction, but the system is not
iabolical.' 1t has proved a great
essing to the State, and in it's effects
q laying broad and deep foundations
u a structure of wealth and intelli-
nce in the future. The white people
I'VE undisputed control of the State
d it's destinies, and therefore we
Aould justify that supremacy by con-
hung to make it the rule of justice
Id generosity in regard to that race
hat is among US, though not of u.s.
Hose fate is interviewer with ours, by
70 act or desire of its own.
when l consider hat the negro
hakes three-fourths of the cotton and
|ther agricultural products of the
Dtate; that his labor is converting our
imber into wealth; that the market
Falue of these products of his labor
vill amount to at least S25, 600, 600 this
rear; that he has to this extent on
to the debt and tax-paying C
,acity of the State; hat millions of
his money is now finding its way
other hands into the Federal,
tate and county treasures, l am per-
that the negro also has his bur
lens as well as the laboring white
nan, and that it ill becomes white-line
like Senator Rowan and
pyself to attempt to deny him his four
.onths schools, which is pretty much
III he gets out of the State. When the
legro was freed and invested with citi-
'enship the propriety of his education
a closed question. We must
imply recognize the fact, and act upon
t, without stopping to discuss probable
'esults."