The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-04
EDUCATION
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3ltlnCrea ses C ( ! i 4 ], Of the
Il. Race. Says Or. Steele. &.
b. 90 IKE r ] s !; H
4 Of. Steel Regards Him as q Very
Dangerous Tits vis~
e. ! Of Settlement Of the
ss ,.5.l Race Problem. y33S8 81

In the recent issue Of tho Christian Ad 4
vooate, of Richmond. there appears from
the pen OF tho Rev. s. A. stcel, .. ~.
formerly pastor Of Centenary ethodist
Church, Of this city and ona Of the best
known ministers In tho denomination. O
lehgthy article, In which arc Expressed
Il some rather radical views Upon tho negro
8 problem in the South. NJ 4, III
I8a Dr.. Steel Is at tho present time located
/ In Lumberton. MISC. but no u oil re-,
difference to q recent article published by
Colonel Bingham, Of North Carolina, IN
8 1 popular ma gazine. In which are given
some startling statistics with reference
70 the negro IA DR.. Steel takes up the mat
y ter and draws certain conclusions OF his
I own /; from the statistical data. He says
4 in8part: 8, II y,
chiefly due to the attempt Of tho North
10 contradict nature and treat the negro
n Is a white man. He ID not capable OF
siIol: treatment. These statistlcs prove ~.
X / have Just read quotation from the
b New York Independents In the Manufao-
turers' Record, In which the Indepe dent.
referring to the selection OF successor
10 Dr. Curry. late agent Of the Slater
Fund, said ~ AS far as the Slater Fund
Is concern ed, It should be understo God that
there Is not one kind OF educa ton to be
provided for the# white and an other TOR
Ssthe black, but that the Same chance Is to
+ be given to each,f and It lis not to DO as
/ stunned that citae Is to be permanently q
subject orr dependent race" These words
express the doctrine Of the North, and
that doctrine Is wrong--a heresy respon-
sible for the sad results the census indl-
" cat es. fI$ rs q NJ :;,ff
THESE conclusions prove that the kind
OF education the negro is receiving 10
leading him to destruction. The Southern
states have spent sonnet thing Ike s12o. 900. y
O0O on tn education Of the negro since
y tile war. The generous policy Of giving
i the negro 80 large share-in8 most In
stances, believe, an equal shared the
school mon icy raised by taxation I. has been
based on the theory that education would
make tho negro a better citizen. The CEN,
sus shows that It. does not. Itsrnakes him
worse. He is increasing rapidly lns GRIM
inality. The moro Intelligent he IS, the
higher the per- cent. OF his crlmlnalty.
ITO educate him. In the sense IN which
that term ls meant when used In refer
ence to white people. is to unfit him to
4 be citizen. The Southern States would
4 be perfectly justinable, on the str ength OF
these conclusions not only to- allow the
negroes only the proportion Il Of school
money derived from the taxes they pay
bur in refusing to cdLcate them at ALL
ore the facts. Education up to the pres
Ont time. as the census shows, increases
the criminality OF the negro race. Can q
State afford to suppoHt a system Of edu-
cation tina produces this result7 s8
These conclusions prove that Booker
Washington Is the most dangerous leader
the negroes ever had. He goes n orth and
makes speeches, like his speech in New
York on February ed, that keep up the,
deluslon, both among the whites In the
North and the lacks In the South, that
education and property will solve the
problem by elevating the negro to be the
+ equal of the white man. He does not put
8it quito so plainly but that }is what he
means underneath the smooth and falla-.
clous philosophy he 80 glbly5 dispenses to
4credulous ears. IS III
q. The negro deserves Justice. It is q, self
evident truth that justice Is natural.
and inal lenable right OF all men. The ne
gro In the South Is secured In the right to
! enjoy life. liberty and the pursuit OF hap
2piness within his sphere But God Al
mighty mad o him inferior to the Caucas-
y lam and all the devices OF politics and
constitutional amendments and Slater
funds and Southern Education Boards and
blatant independents and White House
dinners and double-distllled tom-foolery|
OF sentimental philanthropy, with its unc-
8tuous nonsense about the brotherhood OF
man, can't change the laws Of God. The
natural and essential inferlorty OF the
Eegro forever debars him from the right
OF the white man. The race problem"
must he settled upon the basis ofs3this
4 fact 3S EsFS 49, 49, ssiss@ijss