The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-08-15

argument. Meantime the situation +. no,
The correspondent admits that ff,, pproe
elapse before the iltcracy of the bl. ''ar' p,.
out. What happens in fifty year., ~ Is rs
time most of the Indians have been LIN opr o.,
civilization; the rest are cooped IN -, ''.Q Of
In the last decade the Hawaiian, b.r. 'ato',
from nation to comparatively .r,.Ir uFnd4
timid dependents. 'rltcr
1t would naturally seem that the .or.r,
who has lived all his life among ncgr.a ,,'fa na
fitted to confront social condition, tb,. bette
man from the north ever ready to.ofFnr .n Juan &
but never willing to give the negro sn,. Ss''iog
in his own social circle here The .or[ ,soaIia
much more lcnient to the negro I'm r... 'ue'
petty faults than northern people ro II % a
his houses, tries to teach him to Lc ate
gives him better clothes, looks after hi. t ,'''a'
after fashion supervises his morals II aa
to educating the negro aud he uamc. ,-, ''lee
First is, that education DESTROY, tho ,,.f., 'a'o
the negro as laborer, iujurc, him m
makes him menace to the commuuit, IN I'M" az
ment does not hold good a, applied fl, 'ss
and VIC arc certain all southern pcanIc 4. Tag
terrain it. But the second reason h,..r,.u;.I %
it presents fact and an obstacle. n - %
in this query: Why should the white.
south tax themselves to educate the black. ~
among southern whites the facilitie. for 49,.
school education come no where near H..
joyed by children living in the north Rof..
civil war the sons of planters were cdro..,
colleges; the children of the wcIl-to-Io o,,.-,
private schools. and academies The close ~ a
war found no really wealthy men in the .ont5
very few are millionares living in that mart Of
country. Why should the descendant, Of mon
poverished by war tax themselves to educate
outnumbering them in some sections two and IL
and four TO one. The south has negro DonnI..
of 100000.
Right here is where the Tribune correspo,..
appears with plan, novel as it is direct. Ho n,
poses to tax the entire country for the cJrc,t.
of the blacks in the south. He sets up the snocon
argument that if the nation is justified in im,.
ing a tax to stamp out yellow fever. 1t NAV mno,
a tax to wipe out the iiliteracy of the sou-bc-
blacks, because, he reasons, both arc evil, and
menace to the whole country. How the northern
champion of the black man will regard proDa
ton which touches his pocket remains to be seen
What queer ideas govern the American peops
concerning the justice and equity Of taxation
Under the system of public education, the CaboB
is taxed to pay for the education of his Protestant
neighbor's child in a goddess school, while at t5
same time the Catholic is supporting d,
rochial school for the Christian education Of
his own children The Catholic has asked
for an equitable distribution of the school
moneys, but his request is turned down wifi
the charge that he is an enemy of the state
of condition of society founded upon public edr
cation Should the plan proposed by the Chias
Tribune writer be seriously entertained and acH
ally become operative the Protestant taxpayer will
begin to feel how it is to be whipsawed by the ne
gro, using the same methods inflicted upon th
Catholic. We live to learn the injustice and in
equity of great many things in what is cah
popular government; but we fail to recognize Then
Importance until VIC first discover whose OK is go1