The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-07
INDUSTRIAL, TRAINING

IL.
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING.
Under the inspiration of tina great.
truly great. man. General Armstrong.
Virginia has Just upset her normal
school work for the colored people, and
has injected into it thorough courses of
industrial training 1t will only be a
few years until every colored school in
Virginia will have efficient. intelligent
teachers. fitting them for great things in 4
these industrial lines. Hundreds of ne
groes to-day are SEEM under wise
guidance,##the great needs of their race,
and are crowding into these industrial
courses 10 fit themselves to be the leaders
of their people along lines that@mean in
#telligent work. the building of homes.
the purifying Of lives and theSredenption
Of a race whose long and faithful service
under conditions tina gave them strong. 4
healthy bodies. and quiet even DISPOSE
tons. fitted them for great deeds.
Slavervawas not unrniNed evil Had
the training that t gave 7t,a-n &consecrat-
ed Immediately after freedom came 20
Intelligent training along tires of. skilled
labor the race to-day had been better
off, and had the license of liberty leen
properly restrained to this newborn child
race that had Just come upon freedom
sta with the strongest#of physical man
hood and physical appetites. but with
aintelects dormant through centuries. and
had those who guided them a,asl inspired
with more wisdom and less ianattclStn.3
Ne verify believe that the race to-day
would he the wonder of the age. But
.iaslf century of license 20 uncontroled
passions. the strongest that the world
has eyer known, has done for the race
rrorc harm than a century OF continued
slavery. wrong as it may have been But
tho work for the poor boy Ct this unfor-a
tInate race we consider most hopeful
You. however. expect too rn1cn- 1t took
your ancestors. my frienCs. long r1;iien-#
il,ms@to land YOU where You are to-day.
ard shall You expect the African. fran
lar deeper depths. to become in all re-
spects your equal through onlysa few Cer1-
turtles Of training? We know that oar
Southern Industrial schools for the blacks
during the past two centuries were taught
by the best men and women and with Il
severity that was Solomonic. But YOU do us
honor overmuch when YOU declare that
our two centuries OF school teaching has
fitted "a savage zcannibal race from the
jug of Africa to be the social AMI
Political equals of the greatest people on
Gods earth -
1.-THE great need of the negro hoy to-
davis to be taught intelligent labor and
to be led along cheerful. bright ways
with purity of life, cleanliness of person
and an ever inspiring zeal to become not
a white man. but an honest. healthy,
strong negro. leading his people to build
homes and to have race pride.
ITO this end the most primary books
that come into his hands should give pic-
tires and stories of his own race. not
Of the white race. 10 inspire him along
the line that he is to go and not along
the line that he never can go.
THE POOR WHITE BOY.
This class constitutes the poor white
Toys whose parents in the days of slavery
we're we'll to do owning some of the best
estates a nd many slaves and living always
Ear. above want.
These people lived happy lives and
they constituted the very best class il
the South before the war But many.
whose income was assured. accustomed to-
quiet steady life. full of happiness.
flowing on like a gentle stream, could not
adjust themselves to the new order. and
they became poor. abJectiy poor and their
sons and their sons sons after them have
hcen poor.
There is a great work TO be done for
these poor boys. They have the very best
blood in their veins. But they become dis
coura sed as they hear OF days gone By.
They are, perhaps, the most respondent
OF any class of hoys with US. But they
are rapidly turning from the dreams Of
the past to the brightness of the future.
and when once stimulated to aspire along
new lines and to fall in with this pro-
gressive age they will 10 great th;.:gs.
They offer the fines, field for developing
the very best men for the upbrilding Of
the South we would call attention TO
the many cases among The hundreds o.
poor boys that have come under our train
ing. We will mention only one. A poor
by came to u.s.. He was the son Of
Confederate officer, the grandson of an
ante-bellum Southern Governor who hal
been immensely rich in land and negroes.
but who became. as a result of the war.
poor. The boy was not specially studious
and he seemed to abhors the idea of dirty
Jug Lie hands II the machine shop. But