The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-03-27
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-,aatiOn, tn5 OOHNoA "a A0OOA' oSO'S
qlIso session in Charlotte last week.
9Sl. the Charlotte Observer we quote
IoIIowing regarding the testimony
'Ipres;dent Graham, Of the State ALI,
and President Winston, Of the
sH N. College. We hope to be able
Give a fuller report Of Msj)r Ora
or5,s testimony soon. The Obser yer
says:
IN supplied the committee is an ex-
soussive statement by Mi William
Graham, of Macpelah, regarding
=, condition of the farmers in North
Corolira He shows a thorough knowl
.Iga Of the Industrial and agricultural
an Hilton OF this country, and his eVi
dance Is Of great value.
The next witness was DR.. George T.
winstoD, the President OF the Agricul
,,raI and Mechanical College at Bal
.igb He testified concer ming the edu
,otionel and industrial condition Of the
g,u h and the best means Of improving
,be condition Of the negro. He de-
dared the greatest needs Of the South
n he: % Universal education, secured
+ necessary by a compulsory ,educR
tim law and by the temporary 6nan-
.ial aid of the General Government;
~ Industrial education begun in the
rnblig schools and continued in ma
rual training and archaeological col
Is0ez. He considered education to be
not only a State, but also a National
6uty, and that this duty was due at the
cIose Of the civil war and ia still due by
the National Government TO the South
to the extent Of temporarily aiding the
public elementary schools and permR
nensy aiding normal training schools
for teachers, menual training schools
and Industrial colleges. He favored a
national university at Washington.
In regard to the improvement of the
negro race, D.. Winston said the real
race conflict IN the South Is not politi
cal nor social, but industrial. The most
pftitul and in some sense the most cruel
chapter in American history was the
ssten pt to set up the emancipated ne
gro slave as the political antagonist of
his Anglo, Sc n master, dependent as
he was upon that former master for
food, clothing, shelter and employ
ment, as we'll as for legal protection
and friendly assistance in time Of dis
tress. This attempt had slmost en-
sirely alienated the two C in the
South. The greatest blessing that
could be given to the negro race now is
che restoration Of the oId.time kindly
/ personal relations with the whites. The
v races will then be in closer and
triendlier and more helpful daily and
hourly communion and the negro race
will be steadily elevated by such com.
munion. This old time friendly rela
tons can be secured % by the con
plete elimination of the negro from
Southern politics; % by Industrial edu.
cation, which will make him useful
and possibly indispensable to the
Southern whites
The real race trouble has not begun
yet" said DR.. Winston. Then leaning
forward AID lifting his hand, he i'm
pFessively added: 1T will come when
the laboring white ella 9 will not want
the negro to labor. 1t will come with
bitter intensity when the Southern
white laborer ia arrayed against the
Southern negro laborer in a struggle
for employment; when white mill op-
erasives who strike for higher wages
are replaced by negroes. We will then
see Ia the South what we lately saw in
Psna, ILL.,, but with more intensity.
Unless the negro speedily abandons
his political and social equality dreams
and devotes himself to industrial train
ing and manual labor his fate is sealed.
There is now a place for him in the
Southern indu, trial life. Unless he
oil this place speedily, certainly before
another generation passes away, there
will be no place for him at all, except
as the veriest drudge. He will be
driven to the wall as an incompetent
President Booker T. Washington elbows
a6ne appreciation of the real needs OF
his race. Such schools as his should
De established in every Southern State
Tor negroes and also for whites, and
should be aided by the National Gov
eminent.
AS to political rights the negro will
De treated in the South, certainly for
many years, pretty much as the China
man is treated in California. the Indian
u the Northwest, the Hawaiian in
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