The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-17
The south and seIf.ReIIan,s.
(From the Manufacturers Record !,

(from the Manufacturers Recordl
Dr. Walker Lewis is saying some things ID Ii Y
Georgians that ought to stir them up Georgia MI
he says assesses four cents member for the .dv4l
the young and seems satisfied. 1t spends moft N
bacco before breakfast than it gives to educzs
twevemonth" We do not wonder that he urges d, n
Methodists to give their money TO Emory coleg. n
Baptists to Mercer. Hear him:
DO you people know that one negro college fot n
girls in Atlanta has more endowment than Emory sni
and the university? Do they really know that nd
stitution in Atlanta for coored girls is better tqr
teaching than is any college for white girls ID d.
Do they really know and consider that the negfo 4
in Georgia buy all the property OF, other colleges
commonwealth and leave balance that more than al
endowment of Emory or Mercer? these 4nsyrat
facts. And yet there 100000 Methodsts and Btu
this commonwealth beneath or back OF these iasih
mostly beneath"
We are surprised If the facts are as gytn' Il
hcers OF these white colleges ought to show d, !
that Booker T. Washington shows for Tuskeges
money to be had North or South, Let them % a
Independent
DR., Lewis is doubtless correct But the Indqal
its comments as quoted above, shows how little 1
stands the situation. The comparative wealth d
negro schools is due to the philanthropists Of a'
who, in this particular, carry to extreme that "A
benehcence which prompts some folks to give freeyh
missions but nothing to home missions. Thtx
thropists, to whose sentimental fancy the negro M
dertully appealed, have eynced any great prsa
terest in the education of the poor of their own ri
happened to live South. To the average man Is aa
an impression that these great money gvers have
plan to aid the negro iii so-caed education OF tue
careful avoidance of help in the education of the VI
the South. But if this be so, they are surely ~
wind for the reapng of a whirlwind. With no ra
edge OF the negro of the character Of educahn
suits him best, and beyond which for his own y
ought not to be forced they have given heed % "a
peal made holm for has In fa1I
tad and like many other fads, has been works u
was worth. The money given to Tuskegee ana ~
mas been given for good work, but Tuskegee anu n
are exceptions, demonstrating in their very accomA
the waste and wrong done in other directions 4
he Independent says there is money to oe g
or South for the advancement of the education olu
AS tar as the North is concerned, that money nus
very low if it is, indeed in existence However gs
south would revere the memory Of the Northern 4
might pour their millions into its educational Sse
Strengthening and enlargement particularly On nj
INES we can not escape a conviction that those n
something OF an ignis fatuus in the chasing OF G
time and much energy would be wasted and masp S 4
opportunity lost; for the chase would undouoNyss
Southern men of wealth from their own duty 10 =
The South is still poor. 1t requires many - i
people to from the destruction OF the We
loss at least FIVE times as much the agereSs, vi
OF all the National banks of the United sta'ss
the same time the South has done much IN
not only for its whites, but for the negroes
possibly do more to advance education ana ~ \. X
beng pressed in that direction by every active - -
that section. These men believe that for thsI y,
me main reliance should be self-help poweiiu :
influence in itself. That seH-hep, while weeun 49,
untary cooperation OF outside wealth looks p iA IL
liberality of Southern men themselves, whetna
made their fortunes in hard struggle in thel y. NJ
OF have accumulated elsewhere The drains upoa N
necessary by success have not permitted the isp
Them OF that public spirit which has blessed OnI
me country They have had hardly time to a.
tual facts about the necessities of the rising gens
comprehend the significance for good OF private s,
the public welfare. But they are gradually w.,
mat conclusion, and patient, persistent pupl'A X,
iurtherance of practical, businessike plans io' ~
lure OF money for real education where i -. 80 "a
WIN IN the end bring Southern wealth TO the f'''
increasing volume.