The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-12
THURSDAY, MAY 70, 1904.
Again, the Ogden Movement.

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crn conference lof EAo uea ''o ~
minEham IN the Tribune of Monday Is
o5itor,,, article on tho same sub
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Ject, WHICH % ~ - - :. IN. !.
produce tho most OF ~ pleciseiS 20 - |
Was written. We qoute:
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IN. u" setie. ".n ,,a,s IL o,n ~ thc on
southern eMsPape'' - ,aa i, nn,,rnr.
eouraglns l@e's 20 ~ eo,4I,a.,, ,Sli,,c.-
ton with VIC ieNt''t r,,,,,trn1,,, son,e |
tiohai IottltlsH.G :. -, m M ,.e+ q, |
attempts h1Nc o"e,' '.'t'" ~ ,vn,. nf tho
stir up teehhg asuA'St .n n I'M. 9,.,,.1
southern Gu!iSH ~ -. e,a,,,,,
however, IS iatEtlS colii'oo'' - y 49,.
crn men, WIN thc INTERESTS W Wy ','u u'
and Of the white race AZ iiear,, aLu Wy
Northerners cooperating Win them naNc
had no disposition to pose as teacheis
and missionaries, but have been merely |
helpers, ana they have at every point
recognized most cordially the heroic eli
forts made by the South for education or
both raccs--efforts which excite their adj
mlration and ambition to lend hand.
AS the General Education Board, with
tile help of the Southern Education Board
IAN invcst eating body-has gone about
quietly helping Southern institutions
which were already helping themselves,
putting upta common school house In q
district where the taxpayers were strug-
Cling, or contributing as at Troy. Ala,
II tho erection of IA State normal schooi
for white men and women. the great
body OF Southern people have come to
see in the movement not invasion or
patronage but merely friendly effort
for the fulfiHmcnt of their own aspra-
tlons The constituencies about Northern
interest in the conference, and the sus
picion that there is some hidden pur-
nose to put the negro on top have al
most entirely vanished. Among those
who understand the movement, objection
is confined to the opponents Of education
and democracy themselves. The issue
is not between North and South. between
whites and blacks, but between civiliza-
ton and barbarism.
:. I This Is clear when the character of tho
. Interest warfare on what has come to be
called. after the president Of the con-
arod II is fo1n1 IN orrans ~ the now
manufacturing interests of the South,
and these interests are largely controlled
wbic ,rn,,sad nfassn,nsntts ',, ,raSs ~
Southern mills to fisht child labor laws
no" iinpels them to keep the poor whites
n,,,,s 40, =, iii ''s sI,a,,s .,,,d
furniture factories which are Swinging
up like mushrooms in the Southern
80, "a ,,.o us pa etapi4s
people who have hitherto lived in poverty
and Ignorance In the Isolated rural dis
~ !, rul 'l'gil 'iLil men me III
this movement have bee1 asnerinllv con
cerned. 1t is for them, above all others,
INA, ,aae lonai IaAstlon TOT PUBIC schools
tons 10 school funds hnvn been ,,,ade.
Some of these manufacturers--w do not
beheVe theF are numerically strong
thc odncntion of this ci,ss ,,.a,, AZ ,nt
want universal education. even of whites
Ihey nave established cotton mills in the
and wnrl, - ,anL ~: u,eap Ianor
limitation as to conditions, and the up-
lifting Of the class from which that labor
,I,oir :, oa.s ,,'1' NY SUI '''e''i' i'ei'ee
nut,
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49,, ~ - : we i'tpu''s =
''''' INC "0''''t ~ 'ne
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'i.ts''i'7 '''"'''S't' ''''''"i''e ''liis -"
a. a,a 49,, 1919 ,, asalts' ~ y
~ ii''"iie may ~
80 ~ 'N' pe'O'''e se"ei'ns - 'i''
"s''ist 't''s movement Grows o''t
- N'e tAS' '''a' many ''oueherhefs pe-
''e,e .,''' - Is i"''i'af''S ana u's'i''ctiSe-
" NJ INC interest OF negro education ana
'4p''UeS'i''tiS ~ INC interest OF SOCIAL
eauaIhS' IL must be confessed too, that
'Ne1e 70 ground ior thls prejudice. LeaV-
ing oul OF inc question the TACT 'hat
Ha'S ne" Ehshndefs are prominent N
me p'o'eNeht-"na ne" Englanders are