The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-28
FACTS SPEAK
FOR THEMSELVES,

DR.. II. E. Frisscll
You have asked INC to answer the
Questions: no you think that education
has improved tho negro race l beAeV eve
that an5cducnted man IS always q petter
,r.an tllni1 the Same man un e . teu'
BIO l,e black or red or white. Educa ton
ncnns ito mo the training OF inc mead
tho hand and the heart. ! 20 ,lot Cyl
slider d. mt,,, really educated, -be he white
OF black, who has not had Some training
along these three lines.
I'll Slavery trained tho hand TO some OK
tent, aud III tho best homes TIC neart
was also trained. There came TOO, as
there always does through the acquiring
OF Any It. some training OF ING Le'lu.
a1n5 our negro public schools We nave
made .ome provisions though very III
adequate enc. FOR head training, and
where NC have secured good teachers,
sono tianlnL of the heart, BUT mo tram ram
ing OF tho hand. even such rs was given
D tho plantations, has been lott almost
entirely neglected. The word education
itnFthe South, as in the North, has been
wrongly understood as referring only
to books. What Il man gets from DOCKS
is G. very small part Of his real cuucn-8 4
4 ton. Captain Vawter has shown thtlt
by tho training OF the head, the heart
and the land at the Miller School, hun
four or five times as nuch Haluo 70
themselves and to the communities 70
which they have gone us they would
have been without IL. Hampton, am
sure, cnn make the Same showing rs re-
CARDS tho blacks. ] send you by this
mail Il copygof a book called ltPenty-$
two Years Work ut Hampton, which
contains short sketches OF the lives OF
hundreds Of negro and Indian boys ana
girls, showing what they have accom-
plshed. Without such education MS they
received at Hampton they would have
boon OF &llttle service TO themselves or
to their communities, You WILL find tes-
timonals in that book from Southern
s,lperirtendents Of schools and from peo-
puc Of all classes as to what hose young
mems lives have meant as teachers,
farmers, mechanics, preachers, business
men, and as to the good, decent homes
made by these young women, VINO have
helped their black sisters to lead Viz
t,ious lives, md have improved the
morals OF tho negro communities to which
they. have gone.
& At Ealnpton rs you krow, in the
laundry, in The kitchen. on the farm, IN
the workshops, in the barns. VIC try TO
teach every boy and girl who comes to
us to work intelligently, regularly, cheer
fully. Iii connection with our work on
the farms ard in the shops. we take the
students !. intos$the laboratory and the
school room and teach then, thesmeaninEB
OF the things they have seen and done
in tho shops ortSthe Kitchens or On tho
farm. Perhaps the best thing about
Hampton. IS It's religious, training, by
which tho students learn that service is
the greatest thing in the world. and that
they must make the 4klngdom Of God
come among their people in better homes
ana nurel' lives. And they have, helped
the Kingdom OF God to come in many
place in the South. Two or three of
our students decided TO build ZIP a model
OF portsmouth, Va.,r at place called
Mount Harmon. There are three hum
,dred and fifty comfortable houses, owned
by co)o.ed people there to-day. There
has never been n},saloon in that place
end never an arrest What Dr. Booker
Washington, Hampton's most distin-:
guished graduate, has doEe IN helping
the people to live pleasantly with their
white neighbours. to buy land and estab-
lish decent homes, you all know. Through
its less prominent graduates. Hampton
has done the same thing all through the
South. l could tell you of counties
where, through the Influence of these
men and women, crime among the blacks
has become almost unknown, where there
have been no negroes In tho jalls for
years ut a time Interesting testimony
to this truth comes from a Southern
man, Mr. Clarence II. Poe, the
editor Of the Raleigh Progressive
Farmer, who says, In q recent article:
Industrial educa tor as exemplfied in
Hampton and Tuskegee Institutes strikes
directly at the evils which foster crime,
and TO breathe the spirit of these in
stitutions into the general public school
system Of the race IS the Imperative all;
immediate duty of those who lIavo the
matter In charge"
m fail pnN 1to a
government to provide adequate school
ing for The cnaEcipated negro after the
Civil War was q tremendous blunder.
Considering their poverty and the heavy
burdens they had to bear, the people. or
Virginia have done well in the education
people OF any other Southern State.
Yet, in spite Of all that has becn dore.
probably not more than n quarter OF
the negro children of the State receive
more than four or five months school,
ing. Seven or eight months out of school,
ard -four or five months n school! Prob
ably not over onc-fourth Of the teachers
provided by the State at salaries OF FROM
fifteen to twenty-five dollars q month
for these four or five months are at all
adequately prepared 70 teach the schools.
Moro than this, tho course of study
pursued in the public schools OF the
state. teaches nothing about cooking or
Yet that even this poor teaching Of u
poor course of study for q very few
moEths In the year has resulted IN good,
can DO clearly proven. In certain OF
tho counties where there arc The bes.
negro schools, It can BIO shown that no
negro has gore to the penltentiary for
period Of five ysats Ct time liz ih aiad tbs
are Of the best, and that the self-respect
and land-holdng Of the negro are IN
creased. Neither Hampton nor, Tuskegee
is able, to find any OF It's graduates Pc
hind the bars or convicted Of crime, So
far as is known no graduate OF either
institution has ever been guilty OF the
crime against women. Young negroes
often claim to have been graduated from
Hampton when they have Only been there
for few days or months, ,ooos
OF the negro prisoners u 1880 lthe ip pet
avallnble), less than one-tenth had trades
and less than two,tfths were n poe e ff iha
article already referred to. submits the
following table complied frG ON s sne fen
tory rpSlllts NJ even our DOOR educutlOll