The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-08-25

Educ pf is the development
OF That 6lch IS. The Negro has
held th Continent of Africa
since Ia dawn of history, crunch
ing act of diamonds beneath
his fee Vet he. never picked
one - from the dust until a
Whit IAN showed to him it's
lighs His land swarmed with
powerful and docile animals, vet
he Hsr built a harness, cart or
sled. hunter by necessity, he
rieveNmade an ak, spear or ar
row worth preserving be-
youl he moment of it's use. In
a ian1 f stone and timber, he
nevet Arved block, sawed a
foot fdfnber or built a house
save broken sticks and mud,
and fQ four thousand years he
gazeas Upon the sea yet never
drearneda "a sail.
Who isl sthe greatest negro that
everhven according to Mr.. Book
er z. Washington? Through all
his books he speaks this mans
name with bated breath and un-
covered head-"Frederick Doug
lass of sainted memory!" And
what did Saint Frederick do?
Spent a life in bombastic vitu-
peration of the men whose genius
created the American Republic,
wore himself out finally drawing
his salary as a Federal office
holder, and at last achieved the
climax of Negro sainthood by
marrying a white woman!
WHAT EDUCATION CANNOT DO
Says the author of Napoleon,
Honorable Thomas E. Watson:
Education is a good thing, but
1T never did and never will after
the essential character of any
man or race of men,"
! Irepeat, education is the de-
yel0pment of that which is. Be-
hol9the man whom the rags of
slavery once concealed-nine
millions strong! This creature,
with a racial record of four
thousand years of incapacity,
.half-child, half-animal, the sport
of impulse, whim and conceit,
pleased with a rattle, tickled
with a straw, a being who, left
to his will, roams at night and
sleeps in the day, whose native
tongue has framed no word of
love, whose passions once aroused
are as the tiger's-equality is the
law of our life!-when he is ed
ucated and ceases to fill his USE
full sphere as servant and peas
ant, what are you going to do
with him?
The second big fact which con-
fronts the thoughtful, patriotic
American is that the greatest
calamity which could possibly
befall this Republic would be the
corruption of our national char
acter by the assimilation of the
Negro race. l have never seen
a white man of any brains who
disputes this fact. / have never
seen negro of any capacity who
did not deny it.
, One thought I would burn into
the soul of every young Ameri-
can (and who thinks of a negro
when he says "Americap?O -
this: Our Republic is great not
by reason of the amount of dirt
we possess, or the size of our
census roll, but because of the
genius of the race of pioneer
white freemen who settled this
continent, dared the might of
kings, and blazed the way
through our wilderness for the
trembling feet of liberty.
A distinguished Negro college
professor recently expressed him.
self as to the future American
in one of our great periodicals as
follows;
"All race prejudice will be
eradicated. Physically, the new
race will be much the stronger.
1t will be endowed with a high
er intelligence and clearer con-
ception of God than the whites
of the West have ever had. 1t
will be much less material than
the American white of to-day.
1t will be especially concerned
with the things of the mind, and
moral excellence will become the
dominant factor in the life of the
new nation. The new race is to
gain more from the Black ele-
ment than from the White"
We have here an accurate