The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-02-13

EDUCATION
OF NEGRO.

New York, Feb i3.-Negro industrial
education and It's bearings on the race
problem were discussed last night at
meeting OF the Hampton institute at
Madison Square garden by Andrew Car
negrie, President Eliot OF Harvard.
Booker r. Washington and Principal
Frissnell OF Hampton institute.
DR.. Booker T. Washington discussed
the condition OF the negro and paid espe-
clal attention TO the charge recently
made by chief executive that education
did them moral harm. for there was less
crime among the illiterate than the edu-
Gated negros.
The records OF the South show that 30
per cent OF the colored people I'm prisons
are without knowledge OF trades and 81
per cent are illiterate. This statement
alone disproves the assertion that the
negro grows In crime as education IN
creases. If the negro az the North Is
more criminal than his brother at the
South. II is because the North withholds
from him the opportunity for employ
ment which the South gives.
The fact Is that almost every insurance
company Is now seeking the business or
the educated negro. IL education increased
the risk they would seek the ignorant
negro rather than the educated one.
Some time ago ! sent out letters 10 rep
ex-slave state asking them, judging by
their observation in their own communi.
ties what effect education had upon the
negro To these questions | received lse
replies as follows
/. 1'as education made the negro more
useful citizen?
Answer-Yes. l2f: no. 4; unanswered. IL.
@ Has II made him more economical and
more inclined 10 acquire wealth?
Answer-Yes, 9S, no. IA: unanswered, "A.
3. Does IL make him a more valuable
workmen. especially where skill and
thought are required?
Answered-Yes. 1872; no, 2; unanswered.
..
L. DO well-trained. skilled negro work.
men fined any difficulty in securing work
I'm your community?
Answer-No, III; yes, 4, unanswered. 10.
3 Are coored men In business patron
tied By the whites In your community?
Answer-Yes. go: No. 3. Unanswered. 3o
(The large number OF cases In which the
question was not answered Is due TO tho
scarcity OF business men,
g. Is there any opposition 10 the coll
ored peoples buying land in your COM
munity?
Answer--No. 12S: yes. g. unanswered. ).
T. Has education improved the morals
OF the black race?
Answer-Yes. 97 no, 20: unanswered, 10.
g. Has IL made his religion less emo
tional and more practical?
Answer--Yes, 101: no, is; unanswered,
10.
O. Is IL, as a rule the ignorant or the
educated who commit crime?
Acknowledgements, lis; educated. 3; un'
answered. IL.
10. Does crime grow less as education
increases among the colored people?
Answer-Yes, 102; no, 10; unanswered, 10.
IL. is the moral growth OF the negro
equal to his mental growth?
Answer-Yes, 55; no. 46; unanswered,
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One OF the largest manufacturing con-
Germs in Birmingham, Ala, keeps stand
ing order at the Tuskegee Institute TO
the effect that 1t will employ every man
who graduates from our foundry depart
ment When the south had wholly
ignorant and wholly slave negro popula-
tion she produced about 100000 bales OF
cotton: now she has a wholly free and
partly educated negro population and the
south produces nearly 100000 bales or
cotton besides more food products than
were ever grown in its history
All the negro race asks is that the. door
which rewards industry. thrift. intelli-
gence and character be left as wide open
for him as for the foreigner who con-
stantly comes To our country. More than
this he has no right to request. Less
than this republic has no right to with
hold