Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1906-01-20

in1ie sSAN anu the Negro insane IN
Just the same proportion.
Aftes reading this ebuilition, we
concluded that Senator Patterson
is chronic dyspeptic and that
Buckingham greens" do not set"
well on his stomach. Certainly.
no man. who had the intelligence
and the ability 20 investigate the
subject would for an instant pre-
sumo that the education Of citi-
zen was prosecuted primarily for
the benefit of that citizen. Il is
done for the purpose OF beneftng
the state for only upon an intclli-
gent educated electorate can we
hope for the final success Of this
commonwealth.
MIR. Patterson talks about what
me white people have expended up
on the Negro for education. while
being at the same time gloriously
.oblivious of what the Negro has by
his unrequited toll expended upon
the white people. The figures have
been produced in these columns
and they were staggering. For = so
years he gave the best labor the
country at that time afforded and
he did it ungrudgingly. with no g.
dea tnat fifty or one hundred years
,1ereafter some thin-skinned mem
Der of the white race would seek TO
deny justice TO mis- offspring.
no one who viii note the pro
Eress OF the Negro will argue that
his education has been q failure.
The loafing Negro is an incubus
upon the race. but the intelligent
Industrious one is the jewel Of the
repubii. and he is adding to the ma
terial wealth and actual prosperity
of the State in which he resides.
But Senator Patterson. how much
taxes do YOU pay TO the State and
how do the taxes YOU pay COM
pare with those paid by Mr.. Jo-
seph Bryan. editor and owner of
the Times-Dispatch2 How do they
compare. senator Patterson. with
those paid by 3Ir. John J.. williams.
Mr.. James +. Branch? How do
they compare with those paid by
the heirs of the Valentine estate and
OF the Cannon family and the host
of other rich people of this locality?
They claim rightfully that their
taxes are going. Senator Patterson.
for the education of your children
and those OF the laboring white
men of this commonwealth. many OF
whom form combinations to injure
their hnsincas and 90 impair the
value of their property. According
TO your code of reasoning. You
would have the taxes divided so
that each man would receive just
abe quantity Of education that his
taxes pay for. The man who paid
only his poll tax would bo furnished
schools for taxpayers of that grade
and the man who paid FIVE dollars
In taxes would be given education
.of that grade and so on, until f.
came 20 the rich mems children and
they would enjoy the palaual educa-
.tional establishments for which
their taxes paid.
These are the breakers IN the
path OF Senator Patterson's ship.
The educational facilities OF the
country are placed upon q higher
basis and it would require fifty
years of close study of the princi-
pies OF ethics for Senator Camm
Patterson to understand the first
lesson. He speaks OF the taxation
TO support the INDECENT people of
the race. Thank God. Christian
charity is broader than this and not
since the good and lowly Nazarene
laid down the first principles Of the
golden rule have the right-thinking
people faltered in their work OF
love for the INDECENT OF all races.
i AAAa mas leu AANAA ~ oEM4 AOAAA AuA
tions to far-off India and the isles
Of the sea. with no hope Of re-
ward. x riay be that before Sen
ator Camm Patterson passes the
way Of all the earth. he VII wish
for the soothing voice and tender
hand Of some good old black man
20 tighten his closing hours and 10
&dnr4 him comfort to the place be-
yOnd the grave.
No black man or woman, who
witnesses his suffering and who
hears his mourning cry viii refuse
to do all in his or her power to les
sen his pains or to afford him re-
lief because of his hatred Of the
race with which he is identified.
No, no, they will trust God and
leave him to his conscience.
Senator Patterson concluded as
follows: