The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-08-17

Es fRMoha' gEsI vIRGlhit
with so much patience, docility and
ksubmissiYen IS; trne that many
grave crimes have been committed
4 by negroes, and these have sorefy
4 taxed the patience Of the white PEG.
pie of the South. / do not blink AT
their enormity, and know that they
must be sternly repressed and terri
1 bly, avenged. But insist that the en-
tire race is not chargeable with these
exceptional crimes, and that the over
whelming majority of the race are
peaceable, inoffensive and submissive
to whatever the superior race sees fit
to put upon them. Their crimes are
not the fruit of the little learning
their schools afford them. They are
| the results of british instincts and
propensities which they have not been
taught to regulate and restrain
And in this scheme for their edu-
cation a constructive craftsmanship
suggests that proper training be pro-
vided for those who may become the
teachers and wise leaders of their
people.
The true theory of negro education
in the South has been admirably
stated in these words: THE rudi-
ments of an education for all, indus.
trial training for the many, and col
lese course for the talented few The
thirty thousand negro public schools
Of the South, on which s7,5OO,OOO arc
expended annually, and for which
we have spent s125.00O.0O0 since 1870,
must be supplied with competent
teachers of that race.
To every man among them with the
evident qualities of leadership, we
should lend our Christian sympathy
and helping hand. President Tuck
correct when he said: q believe with
a growing conviction that the saliva
ton of the negro in this country lies
with the exceptional men of that
race" And those who have studied
the philosophy of Christian missions
and the progress of civilization, will
tell you that the same is true of ali
the peoples of the earth. We train
and Christianize the exceptional men
who are to be the real redeemers Of
their race, whether in China, Japan
India or Africa.
Professor Max Muller gives author
itative and conclusive testimony on
this momentous matter: THE intel
lectual and moral character of a Ma.
ton is formed in schools and unlver-
sites, and those who educate a PEG
pie have always been its real masters,
though they may go by more mod.
est name"
When Professor Tholuck reached
the fifueth anniversary of his great
career as teacher of theology at
Halle, he received hearty and grateful
congratulations from pupils and
friends in all parts of the German
empire. The Emperor sent him the
decoration of the Order of the Black
Eagle. Students, with torches
marched in procession past his win
dows, singing one of Luther's imrlor |
tai hymns. What a significant ard |
appropriate tribute to one of the mag
nificent forces in the empire. The |
man who was fitting teachers and
preachers to mould the moral and re
isious thought of the Nation.
might we'll receive recognition: and
honor from the throne itself. For
without the security given the en.pire
in the ethical and religious instruction
of the church and school, the throne
itself would become unsteady, and the
crown would rest uneasily on the EN-
peror's anxious head. And if for an
empire, how much more important for
a republic in which every cir,zen is
a sovereign and peer of the REALM.
Other phases of this problem of The
Nation have not time TO consider
l have trespassea TOO long
upon your patience.
My message is to the younger peo-
pie of the South. Into their strong
hands the country is soon to DC cont
mitted The facts OF history eIo-
Guently confirm the wise observa-
ton OF Goethe, that s.the- destiny of
a Nation at any given time depends
upon the opinions of its young men
who are under twenty-five years OF
age Upon them must devolve the
solution Of this problem. 1t requires
great wisdom and long patience. But
God rules. and right the dav INNS,