Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-02-11

help given by unselfsh and patriotic Northern men
to the cause OF education, he thus speaks OF the i'm
portance of renewed efforts the part OF onr own
people:
"I would if could, persuade men OF the national
temper and the national heart, men like Mr.. Carne-
gle, Mr.. Peabody, Mr.. Ogden q would ask not a
dollar from the sectiOnalistic NOrtherDer)- say
would gladly persuade men Of of the national tenn
per and the national heart to spend their thousands
in my own state-fOr our children are the Nations
children. But, nv friends, il 1 could persuade one
reluctant community in Alabama to spend its own
upon its own, to further tax itself not merely for
roads and als and cOurhouses but for the training
OF its children and for the future Of its citizenship
would count any 800 thus given through local ef
fort and local sacrifice, nObler and happier result
than any $780, 900 that might be brought to us from
without the borders Of our State"
This Is largely the keynote of success in the work
of educatisn in the South It will stimulate local
pride, increase local patriotism and work out great
er results for the Improvement of the Southern youth
than through any other means or plans. An indi.
vidua interest in the education Of Southern children
is what is most needed, and individual investments
along this line cannot fail to develop that interest.
DR.. Murphy discusses ia an able way the educa.
On Of the negro and the relations between the two
races Says he:
"There are certain things which the South has
once for all decided which she has right to decide
and believe she has decided wisely First, there
iOre dealing with the question Of popular educa
tiOn, she has begun by placing her negro children
in one schOOlhOuse and her white children in
another.
No man now living, no child Of any man now liv.
ing, will at the South these two races taught
together in the same schOOlrOOm and graduated to-
gether from the same institution. The races must
be educated apart. The South as one Of our friends
Ia Georgia has observed is not ready to open or to
discuss that question with anybody. 1t is closed
question.
Moreover, the negro is not an individual; he is
an incaculable multitude. In some OF our counties
he Outnumbers our white people six to one. In the
county Of the capital of Alabama, my home county,
he Outnumbers our white people three to One No
Northern man can easily understand the oppressive
significance of the negro rs u mass.
Rather than give cOuntenance, therefore, TO any
thing which might look directly or Indirectly to-
ward the mutual assimilation or amalgamation of
these races in the South, would prefer to see an
utter end to both. Better noble extinction than
an ignOble peTpetuAtiOn. Our racial integrity is
not attacked today from the side of the North. It
is not attacked from the side Of the negro Il is at
tackled solely from the side of that secies OF white
man who has neither sentiments OF pride nor stand
ards of decency. He doesn't count. He is becom.
ing more eOmepletey with every day an Outcast
from our social system. MiscegenatiOu is decreas-
ing. 1t will not be suffered to increase. The whole
world has accepted the dogma of separation and
segregation which the South prOclaims These
races must dwell apart. Dwelling apart and living
apart, they must be schOOled apart. The education
al burden Of the South is thus double burden for
its educational system is double system The cost
of it is large But the South though twice as DOOR
would rouse herself to meet it though this cost were
twice great"