The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-20
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FEDERAL AID
DR. DABNEY,s ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF NATIONAL AID
 TO EDUCATION.
He Discusses the Objections Which the People of the Southern States are Likely to Present
 Against the Plan.

We give below the address delivered by pr. Charles Dabney, president of the University the National Educational Association at Att lazita, and which has been much discussed in
 "The question as to whether the South should accept national aid in performing this s6s s5sai presen9 m but sne the ansso
 been recently raised by such q aistipsutshs1 authority as the president of Hafvatr Uni. versity, 1t may De permitted 10 ment1on u ne.s a%ny plan of national aid should provide. sistent. rstionai plan for uDiifting the sretard- ed and depressed population in all portions 5 % SSs Ssss nhG New YoS are T as % those in the worst counties of the Southern
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 should take this broad view of it. While we are helping the Posto Rcs;o oo and I the .aI5 ral help our own neglected people wherever they Some oUi persons speak of national aid to the States for the purposes of popular edacation
 as if 1t was aid from the outside which M sUsss SGS be or ss a Yoble sentiment that snggested this idea. But do we southern people fully Tsallte that not the the national Tressury our Treasury; is v,or part ' by 'i us? is not the negro as Iasch . ward Of the nation as the Indian? the sTeater obligation to provide for the educa-
 SR of the n r.a S S tSs ,Ss ofnt nstoUs t.s s' Ing and took a large part in the contest for humanitarian ends and the rsaemption of the Cuban people We give the blood of our sons for the national aid in sservic eof wad for aiierG, may not we honorabiy accept the aid of ths. national Treasury h this greater ser turks danger of Federal interference with our can not permit. The. right of the state to control it's own schools and all their affairs Is principle that has never been questioned nmsef as fayopsd the dIstribution of the ac- cumuIated national funds to the States for ] icsl colleges and experiment stations and ws have suffered no embarrassment from any at tempt at Federal control of those institutions. iy proposed. If they ever are. our. repressnta- tiyes viii frankly take tip this phase of the Rsseist s ef Ti ths State o @ sosrS tssr own otise'E' ods t viii 6e done p thias way or not at An .Methoas can also De found to ala needy communities without paralyzing their own powers either of initiative or support. Such ssssistance can be used, on the .other. hand, tc arouse the initiative in improving educational cosditionag and to enceusSge sspygors q, ses in proportion to the needs of the people as shown by school population iiliteracy' and sacrifices to help themselves
 Tt VII be seen, thus. that t is not a bIair bill we want; we reflected that long ago; ana measure may not be revived. but that some plan may be adopted which shall make the wealth of the whole nation contribute to tho education and general social improvement of all peoples. who by reason of their isolation, their poverty their raee & tne reGent tSsr Snos have not been able to take their place in the grand army of American citizenship, Or to catch step with the march of modern prog