The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1905-02-22
''l'M AGIN IT."

person. But josh was trying to
abolish the Immigration Bureau
when he made this pert remark.
We, along with other good folks,
are "agin' the Legislature, as a
whole, for what they haye done, or
rather have failed to do.
I-ke, this week, gives thu Dis
peisary the very devil, and wei
want to 60 on record against the
action Of the Legislature in tue
matter Of the compulsory educa-
t'on bill. 1t does seeL. TO us that
there were enough liberal, broad.
minded, Lowell headed fellows in
that august body to have put
through this bill-but by some
means, unknown to lis, and prob
ably unexplainable by them, the
measure failed of passage.
We wish to call on the Legisla-
ture, collectively and singly, to sit
down and give this question
thorough study, and sec where it
Will lead to. If they will do this,
the first measure proposed at the
next session vii be an educational
h'l, and it will be put through,
to-.
The educational situation will
become, aye, has already become,
a monaco TO the State. With the
money from the dispensary, with
the poll tax, and the special levies
in each school district, for educa>
ton, there is quite a lot of moue,4
being raised each year~"1i;or this
one purpose, a99sn'd''>lt and II cannot bo cir
cumveMed to any other; 81 if,
>, 'eetistrict does not usY her share i
simply accumulates, md lies t.
her credit in the Offices Of tn
county treusurers. This none
could be used up if each distric
sent its full strength to school.
The negro race pays very littl.
of this tax, but 1T is apportionec
out equally, and Ii, gets his par
of it. The negro goes hungry an(
half naked in ordtr to get an edu
cation, while the whito man let
petty spite, chickering's, animosity
etc, deter him from giving his off
spring an education. A great man,
say they cannot spare their child
ron from the farm, yet they viii
spend half of their time in tow
and all their change at the dispen
sary, while their wives and son
and daughters make the living
- For such rs these some sort of
vagrancy law should be enacted.
Then, thore is the fellow who i
two lazy to do anything at all 81
he picks up his family aid set
down at somc cotton Midland whil
his wife and children make til,
living he sits around tho store, ant
while he whittles up the good
boxes ho predicts The country il
going to the "dcmnition bow. vows
in gal'op; and he does not say .
word or do thing to prevent it
Happily these kind aro few anC
far between, SO the country is safe
for Il timo yot.
For such as these would this
law he applicable. They have nc
right to starvc tho men tality of any
one, and without u compulsory
education law, large part oil
South Carolina will Le ,lliterate
and it will be larger portion O.
the Ang'o Saxon than Of the nogr,
race that will be minus thu educa
ton.
A practical illustration of on
remarks was brought to our atten
D ton this week, when white ma,
came in and asked that this pape
be sent to him on q credit; Will
we were refusing him and explain
ing our position, q negro walked
in and said he wanted the paper
he wanted to keep mp with wha
was going on, pulled out some bill
v and hended us a Y to take our pay
AS we handed him bis receipt he
remarked, "When the time is out
III bo around and renew"
Dol1tthis speak volumes for edu-
cation ln.South Carolina? Deem
sDch this appeal to our represen-
b ata tiYes to enact a compulsory edu-
cafional law? It seems to us that
they would never have defeated
.l,;s .,,,,osnro had !hau lacked EaE