The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-23
FOR UNWORTHY ENDS
Attacks Made Upon Southern
Education Board.
Alta iPsrtly 10 Avenge Defeats AIn ady SLf'
fertd in the BattI, s for the Chldreh's
Rlehs.
(The Presbyterian standarlD

the violence and unreason of the sudder
newspaper outburst against the South
ern Education Board. There were all the
signs of a concerted attack. Papers tha
have not been so violently Southern
hitherto have been going into Mysteries
not to speak of throwing fits, becaus,
of the dreadful things that the Boart
may do to the South. So far as the pub.
lished occasions for this outburst car
be learned they reduce themselves to the
/ following:
1t was alleged that two of the members
of the Board sat down to dinner with
scores of other guests, and that there
We're two negroes at the table 1t was
| denied. later, that the negroes were al
! the dinner and asserted that they ONLY
came in afterwards to hear the speeches
But the apology for the misrepresenta-
tion consisted in further abuse Then
it was asserted that Mr.. w II. Baldwin
whose long residence in the South has
given him, as a matter of fact, the
strongest Southern sympathies, once de-
cided in favor of an impudent negro
against railroad conductor. The par
tfculars are not obtainable, but of course
| the conductor must have been in the
right and therefore the Southern Educa-
ton Board wishes to put the negro on
top. Another specification is that DR..
Frizzeli, one Of the members of the Board,
is at the head of Hampton Institute, the
great industrial school for the negroes.
His views are not known by his critics
and the character and methods of the
Institute are not considered, but of
course DR.. Frizzell is disqualified as an
authority on education in the South. The
last charge in the indictment against the
Southern Education Board is the allega-
ton that some years ago an offer of an
endowment was made to Catawba College
and it was found that the offer had a
string attached, namely, that the COL
lege should admit both races to it's privi-
leSes.
The reader can not fail to notice how
pertinent these charges are. The South
ern Education Board has as much to do
With the offer to Catawba College as
Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made
Israel to sin.
On the other side of the case, Mr..
Robert II. Ogden made a speech I'M the
Union League Club New York City. the
other day, against a motion to investi-
gate political conditions at the south
with view to restricting Southern rep
resentation. Mr. Ogden's speech was a
warm defense of the South and the mo-
tion was tabled. More recently, at the
m in oil of
which Mr.. Cleveland made his great adj
dress on the Southern side of the negro
question, Mr. w. II. Baldwin and Rev
Edgar Gardner Murphy also spoke in the
same vein. But these things were pub
lished in the news columns and kept out
Of the comment columns of the papers
heretofore described. If there had been
the slightest effort to learn the truth of
the matters discussed it could easily
have been learned. For instance. in an
address at Washington and Lee Univer-
sity, only last December, Rev. Edgar
Gardner Murphy, the executive secre-
tary of the Southern Board, speaking for
the Board. said:
There are certain things which
the South has once for all decided.
which she has a right to decide, and
which l believe she has decided wise
ly. First therefore, in dealing with
the question of popular education.
She has begun by placing her negro
children in one school house and her
white children in another. These
races must be educated apart. The
South, as one of our friends in Geor-
gia has observed, is not ready to open
or to discuss that question with any,
body. 1t is closed question 1t is
closed in one way, and no mem
Der of the Southern Education Board
or of the General Education Board
desires to open It.
These races must dwell apart They
must live apart. Dwelling apart and
living apart, they must be schooIed
the South is thus a double burden, as
the South is thus double burden, for
its educational system is q double
system The cost of it is large. But
the South, though twice as poor,
would rouse herself to meet it,
though the cost we're twice as great"
1t would have been difficult for in
genuity to have devised a Islander with
less foundation of fact than this idea
Wnlcn mas DeeH SO lHduSLflOuSly spread,
that the Southern Education Board, with
its Southern members, such as Dabney
and McIver and Alderman and Murphy,
and its Northern members. generous and
friends of the South, to a
man, is planning a crusade for social
equality and mixed schools The Stand /
ard Will match its record of devotion to !
the South with that oe any or all of
these papers. And it knows enough also
of newspaper methods and newspaper /
ethics, too, to assert that there is alb
solutely no Justification for this sympo- |
SUM of SANDER.
But there is a reason for it, and the /
reason was limited in last weeks Stand |
ard. Rev. Edgar Gardner Murphy has
walked up the South on the question of /
in the cotton mills. The sta