The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-03-06

llNl
SENT E.l-lOr
i or tic Southern states really Is; because
tutathe North they ni'e Under ito licccs-
city or providing separate institutions
OF ali grades for negroes III addition TO
those provided Tor tic whites. Tho pes
culinary burden of thls Separate pros
gvIsIoil On tho relatively poor southeiit
Z State Ii cnOrn,otls; y is heavy ~ the !
elementary schools but IN ne hish ~,
grades of education 1t Is heavier stll
iii proportion 10 the numbers 10 DO edti.
5catnd. THO provision Of Il higher cd,i-8
cation for negroes is the logical conse- 3
uticnce Of tho proposition tlnL The Tllitn
and black races should both be kcpL#
pure and MS / have said h thus proposition
Els accepted both ut tho North and ~
the South. Tho alternative view that tina
negro needs 10 cducation or Is harmed
by3it or that the race should only be Of
fered tho lower grades or education, Is
thoroughly inconsistent with tho propo-
sition that tho two races should DO kopa
uhmixed.ii Democratic society cannot pos !
slbly contemplate the permanent pres
cnce OF millions Of 10 race, but recently
delivered from slavery, breeding fast. and
tlcfl In ignorance, or even VI thout guid-
Rncn and Incentives to intellectual and
spiritual life. Such II suggestion Tics
IN the Taco OF MI democratic Thought
about public Justice, liberty, and even
safety. ~
AN IGNORANT ELECTORATE.
The Northern whites have precisely
the same dread OHM ignorant and cor-
.iuptivcs suffrage IA that the Southern 4
t<,n f.ul H. - f0s.S "a
nrc3ilow suffering from IT,. Millions OF !
Immigrants who have had no practice
III civil or religious liberty. have invaded
the North and negro suffrage there has
often proved not only unntcIllgent. but
merccnnry. Their remedy however, for
an ignorant suffrage Is to abolish liz
Snorance by patient. generous work on
the children. AS an MD In this long
campaign they value an educational y
qualification for tho suffrage Moreover.
Itht Northern people arc having at homo {
abundant illustration OF thcway crimes
Increase when portions Of tho population
have emnncipatcd themselves from nc
scustomed restraints, but have not yet
been provided With. any new effective
restraints either from within or frnm&
without. In this respect they arc pre-
Eured to synlpathfze warmly with their
Southern brethren whose situation Is
even. more difficult than their own. Both Y
parts of the country are feeling acntely
the same nccd-the need Of a. stronger
arm for the law. Of permanent, large,
and pervasivc police force organized IN
military fashion and provided with All
the best means for instantaneous COM
munlcation between stations. The pres
ence OF n competent public force would
1 tend 10 prevent those sudden gre garloua
panics which cause lawlcss barbaritics.
an respect to the value OF that Ipccu lar \
fern OF education which Hampton In
stitute has so admirably ilnstratsd-edu-
cation through manual training and IN
f.ol al trades and crafts-thcre Is a strik-#
Ing agreement between Northern ana
Southern opinion. Oncio the most re-
markable changes in Public ca iichfion IN
tho Northern States during tho past fif-
teen years has been the rapid 'introdnc-
ton OF Just these features into urban
school systems. 3 u,
DUTY OF, THE; NATIoSA LGovERN-5
SIENT-
The Northern writes are beginning 10
sympathIzc strongly with their Sou thcrr
brethren In respect to tho peculiar
burden which The action OF INC National
Government i'll llbcrating the negroes
has imposed on them. They sec that
the educational problem at the South
ts much moro dtficult thantit Is a tho
North. and calls for much greater public
expenditures They also perceive THAI tho
Northern States to endure public eSpen-
diturc for education In spiro OF
their ingrained preference for local con-
troll OF education, and for local govern
mcnt In general--a preference which has
preserved far too long ward government
FOR schools in cities and district govern
ment In country townS-they arc begins
ming to feel that the peculiar burden
upon the Southern States, caused by the
separation between the black and tho
white races In the institutions OF cdu-
cation should be borne In part By tia
National Government. They would like
to see devised constitutional means OF
bringing exceptional aid from the nation
al treasury to the former States which
have this exceptional burden to bear.
They would like to see the negro schools
of the South kept eight months of the
year instead Of four at the expense OF
tho nation. They would like 10 SEQ
separate negro colleges for agriculture
and the mechanic arts provided through
cut the South by the National Govern
ment. They would like to see the South
ern universities enabled TO maintain sep
furnte professional schools for colored$
men. They would Ike to sec a way
found for the National Government 10
spcnd3 as much money on solving Tho
Southern negro problem ash has beeH
spending for six years past on the t'hil.
frDine problem. In short, they would
likc to see the National Government ne
cosnize its responsibility for many of the Y
physical and moral difficulties which be-
set civilization in the Southern States,
and como to the aid of III the clNilizlnes
forces in those States. They know tn4 t {
efficient help could only be given
through existing local agencies; and the
nlyIeip they would wish the goycrr'-
Iamcnt to give is help to meet tho peculiar
burdens those agencies no" have 70 peal
i,ecn,,sc 81 the cxped!cnt social scpara-
ton between tho two races which arg
to- occupy together the fair Southern
country. 1t was i'll the supreme interest," +,
sof tho whole nation that the Southern, +
states were{impoverislled forty years ago
I2by four-ycnrs blockade and tllegdle-4
structjon OF their whole Industrial sys-
tenn. It Is fair that the nation should 1,
help 10 rebuild Southern prosperity ~
| the very best way. namely, through cuu-
cation 49,. IN.