The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-27
A WORD ABOUT THE SCHOOLS

A WORD ABOUT THE SCHOOLS.
Neame, La, Nov. %, 1902. The
Brandon News Dear Editor. Il have
been reader of your valuable paper
for several years land receive it
promptly every Saturday and it is as
welcome as letter from home.
l have not contributed to its columns
since you succeeded MI. Tabor as
editor. l notice that the paper it still
clean and we'll edited and guards ear
nestly and we'll the interests of old
| Rankin
I have read with serious interest
and some meIriment the letters from
Tee Pee and Hon. Alex Price, on the
school extension proposition and just
want to say a word or two in support
of Mr.. Price
To be frank it is this-an ignorant
white man is just as ignorant and un-
desirable as an ignorant negro, mean
ing of community and state interests
There is only one way to keep the
negro in his proper sph ere and that is
| through free and unlimited educa-
tional system, for it is we'll known that
even an educated negro cannot compete
with an educated white man.
For instance you may take two boys
one white and one black of the same
age and start them to school, when the
| white boy is twenty one years old if
he has the least amount of pride in
his makeup he will not only acquire
| the knowledge of books proper, but he
has accumulated knowledge Of the
| ways of the world and to the same
| extent is leader and ruler of
society and ever watchful to set his
standard higher which is the essential
road to success.
The black boy at twenty one may
have mastered an equal amount Of
book-leaIning yet his nature is mole
animal than humane and it is at this
stage of his progress toward usefulness
that he bumps up against the stump
.of white superiority.
The negro in his school carerer has
| learned to be cunning cute, and curious
and his brutirsh or animal nature
takes full charge of him, lie prides
himself more for being able to degrade
more women of his race than his igno-
rant brother and wire work, steal and
doge his way through the world with
out working than anything else and
this too is the height of his ambition
and his educated cunningness gen.
orally lands him up against the gal
lows as DR.. Chapman limited in your
last issue.
This school question at it's best is a
race question and should be dea 1t
with in a business like way.
I am no nigger-lover having been
bred and born in Mississippi, which
will substantuate this statement.
And looking at it from the stump
that am on see but the one way
and that is to outclass him.
do not take this up for the sake
of argument neither do I believe in
educating the merge at the white
mans expense.
From what draw Of T. P',s letters
he would have the niggers taxes kept
separate and educate them accordingly.
You may be right in this Bro. Tee Pee
but unless your children are educated
they will just little more than hold
their own with the coon. It is better
that you split rails and pay the extra
assessment for then your child can
have at least an equal start in tile
race.
If nv neighbors and / are not able
to pay three dollars year poll Tx
how can we expect our children to be
able and educateftheir children and|so
on until you might run it Into
barbarism.
Give us compulsory poll tax law
extend the school limit and the differ
ence between the white and negro
races will soon be apparent.
We must not Lose sight Of the fact