The colored American., 1901-03-02

race bV so much must the coIoIeu p0o
nile be indOctrinated with the nlS1eL
culture 10 give them correct pflhclp!eS
and ideals, to sustain, fOrtlIy anu III
spire them, while labOrIng 10 feaIlAe d
larger and nObIer life growing out OF |
a more correct estimate Of their dignity
and destiny.
nv y sort of common consent the
GREAT mass of the cOl0red people have
been put into what might be appro-
Driately termed social and splfltuaI
0uarantine with respect to the CIVIL
ZatiOn about them, and when neither
custom nor statute aVailS to eXclude
the cOlOred people from the common
benefits of the social organism OF
which they form an essential ana I'M
pOrtant part Ted-handed violence Is IN
VOked with the most unbluShlnS Ell
| frOntry, and whole communities paftl-
cipate in crimes so fragrant and hOrrl-
| BILE that they shock the civilized world.
1t is useless to hope that this cOer-
Give plain Of campaign will be aban-
dOned so long as the country permits
| the commercial and political fruits or
it to be enjoyed in security. Men ana
women are deprived of their most I'M
pOrtant moral and civil rights by
| terming them "social rightS''-juSt as
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| ings sustain to each other were not $50
| cial relations" in view and in func-
| ton; and as if all rights growing out
of social relations" whether they be
| specifically termed legal rights or civil
rights, or political rights or moral
rights were not first Of all social
rights" To deny a man, or class of
men, social rights is to deny him,
or them, all rights of any value in the
| world that now is. The whole thing
| is an outrageous fraud and tyranny
| under the cover of an epithet. But
public sentiment combines the fraud
and the colOred people are thrown
| back upon themselves into a huge
black mass which must be Ieavened
and Illuminated in some way from
without my missionary effort, because
the ordinary agencies and resources
available in such an emergency in ev-
cry other civilized community on earth
are withheld here.
There is manifeStly but one way to
penetrate and work over this mass,
and that is to send competent teachers
into its midst; and by competent teach
ers l mean all sorts of leaders re-
quired to organize an isolated COM
munity ON progressive lines so as to
liZatiOn envirOniug it.
This means the eQujpping of that
!, community with educated leadership
in every line of human effort. 1t means
that not only formal education, but
[ also what in other social communities
might be termed informal education,
| must be given in the missionary insti-
tutiOns of learning designed to meet
the needs of these people, so that their
| leadership, in all the directions Of
human striving, shall come to them
fully panOplied and prepared for its
labors like unto Menerva when she
| sprang forth from the brain of Zeus.
; We have had an illustration of this
} very process and principle of uplifting
| from without in the cause of japan.
r who, under the advice of missionaries.
? began some years ago to send ner
I promising youth to the foremost in
? StitutiOnS of learning in Europe and
/ America, and has thus appropriated.
almost as garment. the occidental
} civilization and aSSimilated it, through
2 the medium Of the schools
Of course in the case Of japan there
: have been no constant, vigilant and
: perVaSive repreSSive forces to hinder
t the process such as those eXerted by
4 our white fellOw-citiZens in the South.
? and which it seems the cOlOred people
p, must forever, SysSiphus like. strive
t against; on the contrary the japanese
: have received every possible aid and
encouragement in pursuing the upward
: way.