Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-11-14
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No longer than August, last, hon. a.
p. German said:
Let me tell YOU this race question should
not be made political issue. lis too grave
and it is too vital do not think 1t SHOULD
be approached thus 1t is too great prop
osition to be graspcd or discussed off hand.
The way it should be met is a colossal sub
ject for study. Certainly, it will not be
solved by confusing it with politics.
President Roosevelt, however, aiming
to harmoniZe his party differences III
Maryland, furnished preteXt which
German laid hold on as a drowning
man grasps ii straw. and only two
months later the colossal subject for
study" yielded suddenly to fractional
necessity, and then Mr.. German found
out that he was
in favor of DISTINGUISHING the negroes
because the right of suffrage never ought to
have been conferred on the negro; because
the amendment to the Federal Constitution
giving him that right was never constItU-
tionally adopted.
Evidently III August he had not
learned that 1.-THE right of suffrage,
"thrust on the negro, was an error, or
that the amendment forcing on the
darkey the 33d degree of sovereignty,
which he (the darkey) had never asked
for, nor thought of asking for had net
been "constitutionaliy adopted
Meanwhile, the greatest question late
L., Ia, g.,
imperiling the perpetuity Of his reign
as practically stated by himself is-how
shall we eliminate the negro vote from
Maryland politics without violating an
organic amendment that was never
constitutionally adopted:'
We omit the moral portion of the
ditficulty-the wrong of comforting the
suffrage on the negro, and still our states
man is staggered with the problem OF
legally overcoming an obstacle that was
illegally placed in his way.
The situation iS-if he has not erred in
statement-and no real statesman would
thus err-he is in a unique quandary.
Value of Educati ion.
M. l.. Britain, superintendent of
Schools III Fulton county, Ga, has made
of education, based OH the census
figures. In the II'orIdx Work he states
the result as follows:
An uneducated child has one chance in
Of a., r.,
in the progress of the age
A common school education incrcaS, 5
his chance nearly four times.
a high school education increases the
chance of the common school child - times,
giving him 81 times the chance of the I'M
educated.
A college education increases the chance
of the high school boy nine times, giving
him 219 times the chance of the common
school boy and more than S'G times the
chance Of the unframed.
The JOURNAL has never before seen II e
comparison so simply and well stated.
That is, it has never before seen tie
value of the school as promoter of
popular welfare so briefly, clearly and
strongly stated.
Derived from official data, il is doubt
less accurate, and, SO accepting it, the
thoughtful reader will at once conclude
that the people can hardly have too
many schools, especially Of those which
train the pupils of to-day for expert
teaching tomorrow.
Yet from all over Maryland comes,
like "a still, small voice. the oldtogy
dictum-"the Normal School at Frost
burg is not needed
Without knowing all the purposes
which each of the county's legislators
elect has particularly i'll view the JOUR
NAL assumes to tell him that none sur
passes in Importance the continuance of
State Normal School, No. ,.