The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-27
FOR WHITE ILLITERATEs.
Editor Lawrence Makes An Appeal to
 MT. Carnegie.

The following open letter appears in this weeks issue of The Union Springs Breeze:
 Union Springs. Ala. May IT. 1905. MT. Andrew Carnegie, Pittsburg, Pa.
 Dear Sir: Having been greatly im- pressed with your recent magnificent gift to superanuated college professors, and being thoroughly in sympathy with and highly endorsing your gifts to educational institutions make bold to write you concerning matter that has been on my mind and heart for I am living in what is called the "black belt" of Alabama, so-called be- cause of the large preponderance or 1 am only. twenty miles south of the famous colored Industrial School at Tuskegee, presided over by Booker Washington, and to the financial sup port of whieh you have been a gener- ous contributor.
 notice in a recent issue of The Att lanta Constitution, you are quoted In a conversation with the young lady that city, as saying that you are in terested in the negroes of the South. but more in the white people, and the " Trusting tO that you @ have been cor rectly quoted I appeal to you in behalf of the 100000 white children. in the South between the ages of ten and one of these should be in a school of some kind. The principal reason that they are not Is lack of means.
 Now, as a self-appointed represen- tative Of you please to so term my position) of the illiterate white chill dren of the South, members of the con- trolling race in this country, l ask for further donation from you In the cause of education.
 have in purpose the establishing of educational institutions at central points in the South for the education growing up in ignorance; after the manner of Tuskegee Institute and Fisk University for the colored.
 My first request is for one million dollars with which to establish and endow such a school, to be located at Birmingham or Montgom cry in this State, the very heart of the South [. Said school to be known as Carnegie College; and both it and the endow- ment fund to be under control of a board of trustees, or managed by what ever method you usually adopt in such
 In connection with the college I would like to establish @ great weekly newspaper to be known as the Car out the South at a nominal subscrip- tion price of 10 cents a year; which will contain an epitome of the import ant news events of the world, and ed, itorial matter on subjects of general interest. For this purpose I ask a do- nation of $500,000 one-flfth to be used for equipment and the palance TOT an endowment for the purpose of main taining it at the low subscription price mentioned, and thus making of 1t a powerful medium of communication with the education of the masses.
 These things ask in behalf of that class of the white population of the South that Is unable to take care of itself on these lines; believing that if they met with your approval they will constitute a fitting climax to your all ready large and generous gifts for the good of others.
 Trusting that this plan may appeal to you in such a way as to receive your hearty approval, subject of course to such changes or notifications as in your judgment are needed and best. I beg to subscribe myself.
 Yours very truly,
 John c. Lawrence, Editor Breeze.