The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-05
The Negroes Friends.

Editor OF Tho Times-Dispn tell:
Slr-ln your editorial reference. to-day
mond College, you say very justly that
he is always entertaining because he Is
both learned and sincere You might.
have added these other G}ilalifiyng Words U
great human problems.
| do not know the numerical strength
Of the white people OF the country who
tncc to the education Of the blacks, nor
those who share the Montague ycock
view. However. 1t Is no Indication OF the
that tho adherents Of this latter notion
are In minority.
than maiorities in the wrong.
No more striking illustrate ton OF this
fact Is known than n the founder OF
our holy Christianity One man, the God
man despiscd Of His own race, through
and acts, evolved for Hungary. q KOS
south, for Russian serfs Tolstoi. for the
oppressed Of the, British West Indies Q
Virginia in $4,000 those grand intellects,
whose coEent arguments against opprcs-
sion were scarcely ecllpsed by the silver
tongucd Wendell Phillips, Of Massachu-
struggle for civil liberty a j. l.. M. Curry,
a vigorous, virle Montague and Aycock
These men and those WHO think as they
do about mental and moral enlightenment
are both cvolutonists and revolutionists.
the influence OF whose utterances will sur
vve political parties and scurvy politi-
clans; and live or and on beyond their
individual memories. because right and
truth are immortal.
Such men as these, with God on their
side. arc on the side of the stars; a
single one Of them Is q majority In po-
tency.
The essence Of Christianity is optimism.
As a negro Vlrginian. I am proud OF the
hope of Mitchell, Montague and Aycock
In the possibility of the growth of the
negro In thorough mental and moral
training. which Will enable him to edu-
cate himself.
The negro educated makes better
servant or anything else than the negro
uneducated.
Any Northern or Southern man who
doubts this statement needs but to So.
iourn n few weeks In London and Paris
and stop at a first-class hotel. The Eng
lish,. German (or there are many IN
Londonl and French servants give pleas
ure and comfort to ones stay by their
excellent and cultivated service, which
will conclusively prove that education for
maid and butler makes life worth living,
while ignorance on the part OF servants
makes it a burden to those who can en-
plov servants.
There Is economy In employing a skilled
person to do your work. rather than an
unskiled one: time and money are : sa y e,1
upon unskllled service.
The views of Rev. DR.. Daniel A, Payne.
bishop of the African Methodist ,Erisco.
pal Church. who died in 1898. in his last
published letter. said:
There is no hope for the race (negro)
ii Southern policy There Is none in
Northern policy. The race idea binds
both North and South with bonds of steel,
and brings them into practical sympathy
with each other. Therefore. to God alone
can we look for protection, for unity and
fo.' perpetuity. He has promised to break
the arms Of the oppressor and to let the
meek inherit the earth. Therefore, let tho
race (negro) get down upon its knees and
remain there until God shall convert It's
enemies into friends
Men OF the North and the South. may
It not he possible that God Will yet con-
vert vardar1nan ct i'd omne genus in
Montngue-Aycockism?
JOHN II. sNIYTH.
Hanover. Va.