The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-12
NEW BOOK NEWS

Not a factory. mill or Workshop or any kind is to be found there. They (the government) have no money or currency in circulation of any kind. They have no boats of any character. not even a canoe, the gunboats Eng land gave them lying rotten on the beach,"
 For the future of our country we quote MT. Page: 'The negro race in America will eventually disappear. not in a generation. or in a century--it may take several centuries. The means will be natural Certain portions of the Southern States will for awhile. per- haps, be almost given up to him, but in time he will be crowded out even there. Africa will take part; Mexico and South America part; the rost will, as the country fills up. as life grows harder and competition fiercer. disappear"
 A chapter '.The Partial Disfranchise- ment of the Negro" gives synopsis of The matters that have for several years past claimed the attention of the South.
 "The chapter "The Race Question" has been published already in vol ume of essays entitled The Old South and has been Widely reao throughout the South.
 In the pages: "The Old Time Negro" the author of ''Marse Chan" and "Meh Lady" draws the pictures that please him best, and that give such pleasure to a world of readers.
 From the final chapter "Of The So- iution of the Question we take quo tations:
 "one Isolation is to remove him; the other Is to elevate him. The former is apparently out of the question. The only method then Is to improve him
 He (the negro), should be taught that education consists of something more than a mere ability to read and write and speak. that education in- cludes elevation as well as intellectual development; that religion includes morality and Is more than emotional excitement.
 The best way. perhaps, the only way, for Sthe negro race to progress steadily Is to secure the sympathy and aid of the Southern whites"
 "The urgent need is for the negroes to divide up into classes, with charac- ter and right conduct as the standard for elevation" dignity There is In 1t no new sugges- tion; it is careful resume of facts familiar to all Southerners.
 It is well that we have here the mat ter, so far as we have been able to carry it. served up In so acceptable manner in so just. so non-partisan and so loyal a spirit. There is an appendix of statistics, valuable to the student.
 The Negro The southerner's Problem. By Thomas Nelson Page. MT. Page gives these statistics since the war lover s109 100000 has been expended by the South on the negro's educa- tion."
 This sum aggregates more than three times the amount given by private charity to negro education.
 It seems strange that this statement is not heard from the platforms where education of the negro is so feelingly discussed.
 The general feeling is that the South does not foster negro education. These statictics prove that the South has done and Is continuing to do for the ed- ucation of her freed slaves just three times what all the rest of the world Is doing for them.
 Is there commemorate return TOT this large expenditure?
 The South at once recognized the necessity of education for the freed man. On page 3s Mir. Page writes:
 "On the emancipation of the slaves the more enlightened of the South saw quite as clearly as any person at the North could have seen the necessity of some SuDSLltuIo TOT tHS LoNiHeI uiicc~ tion and training of the negroes. and schools were started in many places by the old masters for colored children"
 Further, in a foot-note, he states: "The writer knew personally of a num- Der of these schools, which began first as Sunday schools immediately after the war. Indeed. under the inspiration of a pious lady, the services of all the young people In the neighborhood were 4..4. 4otf fT, 1865 to help teach a Sunday school for negro children"
 So early did the best element of the South recognize and rush to the fulfill ing of its obligations. That this move was stopped short. may be laid to the charge of Reconstruction. Negro edu- cation was left entirely to the North ern teacher and to the negro them- selves, while the cost of the education was for the most part paid by the white taxpayers
 This education has completely de- stroyed the old sympathy and mutual understanding and reliance of the two races. The old relation of helpfulness. of sympathy. of support on the one side, of veneration. affection. effort at emulation of lofty principles on the other, a condition which made slavery & blessed school of civilization 10 the negro, has departed.
 For a seemingly mistaken education which has not advanced the negro Tn the scale of usefulness and morality and which has taught him bitterness and distrust of his best friends, the South has paid $109, 9,000.000.
 Does not ordinary Judgment and economy suggest that since the South pays the greater part of the bills there should be some means found of over looking and directing the education for which the money Is spent?
 Does 1t not seem that they who pay the fiddler should determine the tunes to be played?
 Might not some way he found of rightly educating the negro to useful ness in the fields of industry where his lot is cast so that he be not al- ways just educated enough to make him worthless as a laborer and leave him useless for anything else"
 The German, the Swede. the Norwe- gian is trained for service. Those so trained serve well and secure high wages The negro who also serves should also be trained to serve well. MT. Pages book is a thoughtful but not a hopeful outlook upon the South's problem. He touches but lightly on the question of deportation. He quotes from the report of Charles H. Tay Tor, a negro, ministers from the United States to Liberia, upon the condition of that country.