The progressive farmer., 1903-09-08

burden on the State. On the other hand o -
who does thing well-makes buggy. h,ild.
house, breaches a sermon, or tills an acrn-bo; :;
the wise man and the only wise man, and the or1.
useful man in the State. He is saved-ho soro,
himself-he is the only man worth saving, Ho :,
the only man that makes the community 7vou+L
living in"
The only way out therefore is to help the negro
to make better buggy, build better house koon
a better farm. Let US discard forever the o1d
idea that the more of this the negro does the Las.
there will be for the white man to do. The trnn
philosophy has been set forth by Mr. Edgar Gard
ner Murphy:
zone mans work does not reduce the volume
of the work open to other men. Every mans
work produces work for all. Every laborer who
is really producer, represents force which is
charging the market for labor. The man who
makes a table, broadens the opportunities of in
dustry behind him and before him. He helps to
make work for the who fells the trees for
the man who hauls the trees to the saw-miI for
those in the mills who dress the timber for his
use, for those who dig and shape the iron which
goes into the nails he drives; he makes work for
the man who provides the glue, the stains and
the varnish for the man who the table at
the shop, for the drummer who tells about it, for
the men who sell food and apparel to those who
handle it and who profit by it's repeated sales from
factory to wholesaler, and from the wholesaler to
the retailer and from the retailer to the final pu
chaser. The man who makes a table makes bust
ness. The man who makes shoes or harness or
tools or crops, makes business. The work Of
the skilled producer does not restrict the market
of labor. It enlarges that market"
So much for Booker Washington and his doc
trine of industrial education. There is one other
matter which we must mention in this connection.
| Governor-elect Vardaman, of Mississippi, is en-
deavoring to have the school fund of his State
divided between the races in proportion to the
amount of taxes paid by each. This would prac-
tically abolish the negros schools. It is said that
there is sentiment of the same kind growing up
in North Carolina. We deplore it and dread it
| for the white mans sake and for the negros sake
We hope that the thoughtful conservative man
hood of North Carolina will never permit it to
succeed.
It is not a question of whether or not the negro
shall be educated. No class of people can remain
in enlightened America in the twentieth century
without provision being made for their education
It is only question of whether not our South
ern people shall abandon their control over negro
education. and surrender the work to misguided
fanatics and social equality philanthropists for
as surely as we fail to support negro educahon'
this class of people will furnish money and carry
on the work in such way to make 1t COLI
stant menace to Southern peace.
But in the trend of things there is an lmPe[a-
tive call to our educational leaders and to tne m
leaders of the negro race to improve the chaTacVSf
of education given the black man. The IDEA u
industrial education must be enforced, not mere
ly in two or three great isolated Institutions ouI
in our general public school system The problem
is with these leaders, and if they would ayGiu y1r
disaster, they must grapple with it right SpeeoV