The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-01-22
A NEW MOSES APPEARS.
Tac Corinth Herald Pays Its Respects
to Alfred H. Stone.

Our attention has been called to
an article which first appeared in
the Greenville FINES and after
wards in the Meridian Press and
Clarion-Ledger, and possibly other
state paper, advocating the educa-
ton of the negro, written by Alfred
H. Stone, of Washington county.
We have studiously reviewed the
musty stones of ancient lore, the
vapid compositions of medieval his
torians, the songs of Solomon and
the epistles af St. Paul, the bio
graphical encyclopedias of the pres
ent time and the columns of the
Hattiesburg Progress, but are un-
able to find the name of Alfred H.
Stone, anywhere enrolled among
the worlds intellectual colossi, or
wherein he has in any manner con-
tributed to the cumulative know
ledge of the world, and are, there
tore, forced to the conclusion that
he IS a new Moses called to lead the
children of Africa out of the wilder
ness of ignorance into the bright
and glorious fields of higher educa-
ton and thus fit them to associate
with the s'poor white trash" on
terms of social and intellectual
equality. But we wish to warn the
distinguished Washingtonian to be-
ware of the snores and pitfalls en-
countered by his worthy and illus
trlous archetype, as it will be rem
embered that Moses /. married ne
sro woman, but shortly afterwards
jumped his job and returned to his
own people. He must have mar
ried in the sweet summer time and
stood it as long as he could hold his
breath.
Alfred H. Stone spreads himself
over an average newspaper page
and closes his epistle to the Mississ-
iPpians by saying that 81 have no
personal ends to serve-no favor to
ask-no ak to grind-no irons in
the political fire, and never expect
to have. !" He Just wanted to. see
how his name would look in print.
We are disposed to give Alfred H.
Stone the benefit of the doubt, but
cannot refrain from saying that it is
the first time in the history of the
world that white man ever expen-
ded so much valuable time just for
the fun of the thing. Alfred H.
Stones real motive in pinning his
voluminous ethiopian effusion was
the belief that he was placing a
cockle-bur under the crupper of the
Hon. James K. Vardaman, but he
made the greatest mistake of his
life.
Alfred H. Stone, in his feeble at
tempt to prove negro education ben
eflcial to the white people, refers to
B. K. Bruce, H. R. Revels, j. T..
Harris and |. 7. Montgomery, four
Mississippi negroes who had acquir-
ed common school education, as
living examples of what education
will do for the negro. Poor Alfred
H. Stone! Among the millions ne
groes, living and dead, only four
could be found worthy of mention.
Why didn't Alfred H. Stone refer to
Fred Douglas, the most learned ne
gro this continent has ever produc-
ed? Was it because Fred was ain
advocate of social equality, and
married a white woman? Why
didn't Alfred H. Stone call attention
to Walters, bishop Of the African
Methodist church. and possibly the
mast highly educated negro in this
country today9 Was it because
Walters a few weeks since in Rich
mond, Va, called upon the negroes
to arm themselves and do little
killing. because the state Of Virginia
had adopted a new constitution sim
liar to that of this state, eliminating
the negro from politics9 Why didn't
Alfred H. Stone mention the thous-
ands Of educated negroes to day in
southern penitentaries and the hun
dreds of educated negro rape fiends
lynched throughout the south du-
ring the past thirty years as lasting
and sndaaring monuments to the
beauties and manifold advantages of
negro education? Why didn't Alfred
H. Stone incorporate in his flatulent
effort the indisputsple fact that not
a single educated negro can be found
today in Mississippi pulling a bell
cord over Old Beck, and that the
negro schools prevent hundreds up
on hundreds of white families from
securing competent cooks and
nurses? Why didn't Alfred H Stone
inform those who he expected to-
read his insipid production that ne
gro education is the sole cause oE
the despoilment Qi.so ManY south
egn wornefiy Why didn't Alfred H.
Stone tell the people that it is cruel.