The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-21

after years of earnest effort, and the ex penditure of fabulous sums of money t0 educate his head we have only succeed. ed in making a criminal out of him and imperiling his usefulness and efficiency# as laborer, wisdom would suggest tha t# We make another experiment, and see it we cannot improve him by educating his hand and his heart. There must be a2 moral jsubstratum upon which to build, k or you cannot make a desirable citizen.
 The negro as a race is devoid of thatf element. He has never felt the guilt of sin-the restraining influence of moral scruples. or the goading of an outraged conscience. These are unknown to the real negro. Slavery is the only process by which he has ever been made partly civilized. God Almighty created the ne- gro for a menial. He Is essentially a ser- want. In every age of the worlds history
 it has been shown that his civilization will last only so long as he is under con trol of the superior race that inculcated
 1t. When left to himself. he has univer- sally gone back to the barbarism of his native jungles. While a few mixed breeds and freaks of the race may possess qualities which Justify them to aspire above that station. the fact still remains that the race Is fit for that and nothing more. At any rate, that is all he WI ever accomplish in Mississippi, and as it is in Mississippi, so will 1t be ultimately In all the States The white man will not. and should not. share sovereignty and dominion with him.
 The time has come when the truth should be told about this matter. It mat ters not how disagrecable 1t may be to hear it. The first step toward changing the educational system of the State, SD as to meet the demands of both races, 1t occurs to me is for the Legislature to submit to the people a proposition 10 amend the constitution, so as to give the Legislature unrestricted authority in dealing with the public school question. Surely the Legislature elected every four years by the people can be relied upon to do the proper thing in this matter with out constitutional prescription. It is quite certain that little can be done to relieve the present most undesirable co.'s dition of things while the constitution re- mains as it is.'
 The Governor also declares that the peo- pie of the nation should rise up and de- mand the repeal of the Fifteenth Amend- ment.
 Quite a number of recommendation on legislative subjects were made by the Governor in his inaugural address, of which the following is a brief synopsis:
 Removal Of the Judiciary system from pOIJlcS anu increase or SaldEleS TOT all judges in order to obtain the best legal talent: equality of taxation and rigid assessment; encouragement of foreign capital and immigration; laws that will bring about cheaper insurance; a reduc- tion of the legal rate of interest to per cent: issue of bonds to supply deficit in treasury and reduce taxation; improve ment of the public roads by special taxa ton and working them with convict labor; l. ! ating an official whose sole duty it shall be to look after prison affairs; establish ment of a State depository system; en- couragement of agriculture; better organi- Zation and support of State militia; cur tailment of the appointive power of the Governor and enlargement of the elective privilege "f the people; amendments to the primary election law; eliminating the plurality and electoral features. and more drastic punishment for the fraudulent use of money in campaigns; liberal appropria- tiOns for the common schools uniform sys.em of teXt-books: separate sleeping and dining cars for the races; sale of the Governors mansion and erection of pri- vate resi- Hence in some other part Of the city; liberal system of pensions for indi- gent ex-Confederates
 Regardt the spirited opposition en- countared during his canvass for the of- fee. tho new Governor says:
 ''Whatever bitterness or acrimony the recent campaign may have engendered, tha wounds inflicted in the contests for the places, the dsappointments and heart burnings that resulted from the conflict, let Us try to mollify, conciliate and mutu- ally forgive, io'H hands, united in heart and mind, and present a solid front, aS w march forward to meet the grave r+' spcnsib,itcs of the future. Life Is to0 short to be taken up in remembering or brooding over disagreeablc or immaterial things"