The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-02-08

children, bad dwelt in such fond hon
OF such a contamination that they ha
gone so far as to select the college an
he course Of study. but when the tim
came inexorable poverty stared ther
IN the face, and the hope failed OF rea
lzation. Until the white man can ed
ucate his own children members OF In
superior race, should he be expected
OF a. moral question, should he edu
cate the children Of an inferior race ?
That the white people Of Virginia ar,
receiving educations sufficiently liberia
TO enable them to compete with theiI
own race from more favored sections
may well be doubted. This is an age
OF high equipment, and one can ii
Afford to enter the contest handicapped
The negro race takes S4O0,OOOOO OF
the school fund. As long as he con.
stltuted the labor of the country and
aided in producing its taxes, if he did
not pay them, there might have been
some justice IN giving him an equal
chance Of education, but in more recent
years he has practically refused TO per-
FORM labor in the country, and as soon
as he had received his portion of the
school fund, he was of to spend his
time and strength in other sections. re.
turning in the fall to become tax
upon those who remained, and upon
the criminal fund Of the state, bringing
with him new ideas, to promulgate
and make dissatisfied those who might
have become valuable citizens.
Next to the fifteenth amendment the
greatest outrage, That has been COM |
as affecting the two races. was
giving the negroes colored teachers. 1t
was personal political move, that has
been the cause, there is little doubt. of
The present strained relations between
The TWO races. What they have been
taught in the backwoods, by these
Fould-be teachers, no white man
Knows, though the white man has paid
or il.
The negro who thinks that such an
was for his benefit lacks
ense. In one Of our adjoining counties
he County superintendent Of Educa-
ION reported to the State Superintend-
MT OF Education that there were not
nough colored teachers who had re-
eived even third grade certificates. TO
VI the colored schools. He was told
nat he must pass enough, anyhow. !
What d lravesty on education. There
'ere plenty of white teachers of the
ighest standing, willing and anxious
teach the colored. 1t is claimed they
'ouid not teach them; but we all no &
atier
The result Of this has been that the
egro has been injured by the schooling
e has received.
II taught he should be taught by the Z
Try highest class Of Southern white
'ople. That they will be just and
lr to him, goes without saying. They
ere In the past and they will be in
e future. 1t might result in the
gro giving you half the road and
king of his hat when he came into
'ur house, but no good negro would
ject to that.
II the negro is to be taught the Con-
tuition should provide so that ii can
longer be a question Of politics. that
ey shall be taught by white teachers
d no others. Unless this is done
ere can be little hope for the future
the color, d race. The blind leading
2 blind has never had but one ending.
d that is both falling into the ditch.
The negro is no longer an apprecia-
factor in the developments of the
lntry districts. II has taken the
lite man long time to get down to
but at last he has, only to find that
has no assistance. The negro goes
nth and returns to buy little land
! that IL the end Of most of them.
Not only does he not aid in labor. =,
In the country those among the -
lite people who have taken off their
is are getting to be more and more
easy about their families in their
ence, fearing that uncomfortable vi
ne, the gravity Of which the colored n,
e seems unable to appreciate. When m
ir former lives are taken into con- col
Grafton aud the fact that they va ",
'e had c0lOred teachers for fifteen or ar.
'nty years, this should not be a
rec Of surprise.
hese are some Of the conditions that
'front.' US, the colored a. well as the
tie. The result so far as the country te
oncerei means with their contin-
zee deseriion by the white people. "'
ne could seem 10 be no doubt of this. ]
Is probably a result desired and 49,;
led forward to by the colored race.
it is probable that to produce this 20
ilt, is one cause Of the SC ,rcity Of bl
,r.
he Southern white people are the 'u
Y membe Of our race who can get III.
X peaceably with the negro. Our
res will not be taken by others Of