The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1903-03-27

! Huxley, the eminent English SOclClO-
! gist, along the same lines.
He said that education has become
universal in this country aud in Eng
land hut instead of solving had but
Intensified these problems.
Mr.. Walker went on further to say
that anything but religious educs-
ton not only tended to intensity but
made more difficult of settlement
the race question and widened the
chssm separating capital and labor
and all other vexing social problems.
He affirmed that in the past thirty
years, notwithstanding the number
of common schools and secular coli
leges throughout the land. that all
species of crime had increased and
i increasing at desperate ratio.
That out in California ne visited
one of the jaiIs in Los Angeles aud
the jtilor told HIM that he had
university inside the jlil-that among
the prisoners he had Greek class,
Latin class and classes in All the higher
scientific branches.
Mr.. Walker said that the only hope
OF the country Is in Christian educa-
ton.
And yet We have had denomiua-
tional schools in this country and in
other countries for long period of
time
IgnatiuS Loyols established paro-
chIal schools a. early as the sixteenth
century and religious schools have
been in successful operation in the
United States for At least hundred
years.
Not only this but all evangelical
churches have had and still have
sunday schools and in later years
there have been established in con-
nectiOn with the churches Young Men
and Young Women's Christian assoc
Citations, EpwOrth Leagues and SINH
lar active working auXiliaries.
There has also been organized a
religious association known as the
Salvation Army that has carried the
Banner of the Cross into all lands and
has largely confined its labors to the
slums and other places of wickedness
in the great cities.
With all these forces at work for the
uplifting OF humanity it is a sad con.
clusion To think that crime along
side of them has steadily increased.
We rather fain believe that the
statistics are wrong and in former
yeas must have been collected most
imperfectly.
We believe, statistics to the con-
trary Notwithstanding, that this is the
worlds golden era. We believe that
there is less gluttony, drunkenness,
rOwdyism, debauchery, violence aud
other grievOus crimes, and
more tolerance, broader re-
ligious fellowship aud higher
standards Of morality today than
at any other time in the worlds
history; but if the common schools
anu churches, with all their auxiliary
forces, have found it impossible to
lesson crime, is it not an irridescent
dream 10 believe that denominational
schools wil prove a panacea"
The DISCONTINUED and restle,sness
dwelt upon 10y Mr.. Walker in our
oplulun does not proceed from cod
le~~ne-~ uat from other causes that
socjoIos,,t~ have pointed out and are
laboriug TO remedy.
The Negro His Own Worst Enemy.
( Prof. Harris, negro teacher i'm
. Fisk / ulVprSitV. SAYS:
Il ann convinced that the sine qua
/ non of "a change for the better in the
negroes physical condition - higher
social morality. do not believe that
his poverty or his relation 10 the
white people presents any real imped-
imeut to his health and physical de-
/ velOpment. For the causes of the
black mans low vitality, his suscep-
tibility to disease, and his enormous
death rate, we must look to those
social conditions which he creates for
| HIMSELF