Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-07

competent to be landlords and not merely
tenants. We want home-owners and home
builders; men who will save their money
and invest it wisely and give permanent
prosperity to Mississippi and stability to the
laboring element of the state"
What are you doing to get such classes
of people down here?"
inducements Offered.
Offering them the best soil and climate
In the world" was the boastful reply. Soil
that will raise almost every vegetable
product that is needed to feed or ciothe
men, and a climate that Is unsurpassed for
health and comfort anywhere, taking the
twelve months together. In addition to
that we offer low taxation and govern
ment that is just to all men. There is no
state in the Union in which the rich and the
poor are treated so nearly alike as they are
in Mississippi. The poor man and the rich
man stand on an absolutely dead level The
people of Mississippi are absolutely free
from the tyranny of class; we have no
plutocrats; no monopolies to grind us
down, and no labor unions to interfere with
strikes, no strife over wages and hours, no
riots. This is one state where money Is a
disadvantage in politics. The man who
uses 1t Is the sufferer
rs there any longer prejudice against
northern people?
Strangers who come here from the north
will not at first perceive that geniality
which grows out of long and intimate as
ton, common interests and purposes,
and harmony of Ideals, and there will al
ways be little distance between strangers
because OF difference in customs and meth
DDS of thought; but it requires only very
short time for that GOODNESS to pass away,
and the natural hospitality and good feeling
of our people will be recognized by all re-
spectacle corners. Some of the best friends
l have and some of the most earnest sup
porters of my peculiar ideas, are from the
north. There is no longer any political
prejudice; it died out years ago, and never
will be revived as long as white folks keep
together
Status of the Negro.
81 am talking about white folks" said
the governor. There is no other social
class Under the law and in the courts of
justice. in commerce and in trade there is
no prejudice against the niger, but he has
no social or political rights that white
man is bound to respect, and so far as 1
am concerned he never will have any. He
will never vote in this state again, because
he is utterly Incapable of understanding
the genius of self-government."
How is he getting along in material
way?"
Under white direction he always does
WELL and some negroes are wise enough to
accept white advice and direction. Some of
them are buying homes and land and I'M
Elements, horses and mules, and are doing
very well; but they are the most improvi,
dent people on earth. A child six years old
is more capable of handling money than
the average niger. In the delta negro
farmers make good crops of cotton and sell
them for good prices have known them
paid them at time, but they will have
wasted 1t all on trif1es and will be begging
for credit before six months are over. "A
negro cannot resist temptation. He has no
seif-control, and only when he Is controlled
by others can he be made useful. When
ever he is allowed to control his. own ac-
tons he becomes worthless. Ihat IS the
la w of nature; it is his misfortune, not his
fault He was created that way; to be a
dependent and to serve a superior intel
lect."
the negro how to live and work and take
better care of themselvesT
Doesn't Believe in Educated Negroes.
"To very little account. Not one out OF
the ninety of the graduates OF those schools
does anything but teach or preach, and
they need very few teachers. Some OF them
turn out very WELL There are exceptions
to every rule. / know negroes who are en-
titled to the greatest respect and encour-
agemeut for their efforts to make some
thing of themselves. and the industrial
schools have turned out some good men.
But we do not need negro teachers. don't
believe in educating negroes. Their place
is In the field, and when they leave 1t they
are out of place. When you educate a me-
gro you spoil good field hand. Let me
give you an illustration:
81 have a friend who owns one Of the
finest plantations In the world and he
works q thousand or more negroes. many
of whom have lived and worked on the
same place for forty years. Most of them
were born there. Well. three or four years
ago some of them went to their master and
said that they had heard that Vardamus-
that's what they call me-was going to take
away their schools. My friend replied that
if 'yardamus closed the public schools he
would give .them schools of their own, and
1t finally occurred to him that 1t might be
a good thing to have negro schools on his
plantation, which he could control himself.
He got the philanthropic idea OF doing all
this at his own expense and educating his
own negroes in his own way. He picked
out five of the most intelligent young me-
grc,es on the plantation and sent them up
here to the normal school, where they were
educated. He has paid all of their ex-
pei,ses. They graduated last summer and
went back to tho old plantation on which
they were born. But instead OF settling
there and teaching other negroes, as my
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