The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-04-23
WARNING FOR THE SOUTH.
Time 10 Pause III the New Education
81 Propaganda.
Baltimore Sun.

Baltimore Sun.
MEssRs. ELIToRs:-On the eve OF the Ogden
movement, taking this year the form OF a
| meeting in April at Richmond, Va, of the
Conference for Education in the South, pro-
motors OF the Southern education scheme,
feeling confident of the success OF one years
active missinary work are presenting living
pictures of the ultimate end OF that scheme
if Southerners continue TO countenance 1t.
They started out actively "a year ago III an
attempt to cultivate the notion of like train
ing for blacks and Whites Of education
without distinction OF sex or race" and OF no
color line in education" The attitude OF
quite number of the promoters toward diff
| erent races had been pretty we'll demonstrate
ed by their previous inclinations in ''educa-
tional work Now this attitude has been
emphasized in an incident recorded in the
New York Times of March 10 as follows:
1.-TWO negroes sat down at dinner last
night in q company that included several
prominent Southerners OF this city. The din
ner was one of the monthly affairs OF the
Unitarian Club at the Hotel St Denis. Of
| the three speakers two were Southerners-
| Walter II. Page, editor and publisher, and
| George Cary EggiestOn, author. Among
| those present was DR.. James Ii, Parker, long
| a prominent member of the New York South
| ern Society. There We're a few Southern Wo
men. The negroes present were William T..
| Benson, a teacher of Alabama. and another
| colored educator, who left early before the
| speaking began.
| Mr.. Eggleston, Who spoke first, discussed
| The South as it Was President W. H.
| Baldwin, Jr., of the Long Island Railroad
| Company, followed with The South as it Is
| Mr. Page talked about The South As 1t Is
| To Be- Both Mr.. Baldwin and Mr.. Page are
| members of the educational boards now en-
| gagged in Southern work under the leadership
| OF Robert c. Ogden"
The report of this gathering, which include,
in addition to negroes bout the fest al board
the wives of several OF the men present, says
| that the keynote of the talk OF Mr.. William
| H. Baldwin, Jr., who is chairman OF the Gen
| eral Education Board and member OF the
Southern Education Board which is the ex-
ecutive board of Mr.. Robert Ogden's Con
ference for Education in the South was,
Don't give the negro the sort OF education
which makes him aspire and dream OF great
things, but gives him no power to do any
| thing practical after he has acquired it, II
the old days before the origin Of the propa
ganda of the Southern Education Board, il
would have been truth to say that 10 NOR;
demoralizing and dangerous education coulC
be given the negro than that OF making al
opportunity for him to mngle socially with
white men and women. But things have
changed The South is being given, through
| direct and indirect dOles in this and that
| quarter fiaunted as representative, a new ed
ucation under the auspices of the Southern
Education Board. and two OF the New Yorl
members of that board have clearly indicated
though, perhaps, unwittingly, what thu
South Is to be if its plans are allowed 10 b
carried through.
| 1t is but step from dining socially witt
negroes in New York to dining socially will
negroes anywhere else and it is but a step TO
the negro to rise from the white mans tab
, and to aspire to the hand OF the white man,
. daughter
Is it not about time for SOutherncrs who
have disinterestedly supported this move
ment in "education to pause ere they be lee
over the brink of horrors?
EDWARD INGLE