The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-01

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What Education Does for the the
Negro,
Ss4tThc Atlanta Constitution argues thai
Acknowledgement Of tho negro IN Georgia
would entail agitation and unnece:ssar?
si disruption Of tho Industrial situation
..trhc farmers Of Georgia. It ayers, are
58 beginning to realize that however good
fs3 this Acknowledgement talk may look TO
aspiring politicians and unthinking PEG.
It'll pie, It spells disaster to them. :" 5
% n In reply Che New York Evening Post
E3sy says that this should encourage tho negro
* not a little "Htherto,"'s It argues, S' .'aly
+ politician could raise the negro issue and
35 90 to any lengths he chose, With ~ tle
" or no protest from tho whites But IT
4 it Is to become Il bad policy from the in-
duBtrial or business point Of view, the
B negro may look forward TO froedon from
4 the pestIferous type Of s'anti.nggerv
/, slgitator, Tho prosperity OF the South de-.
ponds upon It's negro Labor: IL It's polltl-.
clans ana denagogues so SO fur IN their
rersecution as to make that labor dis
satisfied and discontinued, the white
planters will not fail to call g halt,
The answer to both the Constitution and
4 TIE Evening Post Is that the disfrancl lserS
S Hnant measures in other Southern States
n nave not had the effect to run the negroes
away, SO long as the South PROVIDES e %
y school facilities for negro children 5a az
NJ gives tho black man his rights before
6 Aha law ana an opportunity to ga N an an
honest livelihood and accumulate prop
erty, he vii not run away to the Norm orr
# simply Tor the risht 70 east g pa'ot IVY
ia called Mister. \; \.
4: c,n July gGth last, tho ST. Paul FARMERS
Conference, sof. 4 brunswick county county . was wa
held at the school of that na'ne ana 15 1a g;
4 we're brought out which 50 far ',s g $su ~
atnhtinte these statements. Tho contaF-
once is composed Of NEGROES, ana 'ts pug
pose ID to discuss everything relating %
,he unfit and progress OF the RAGS te.
Rlshon Strange, of North Carolina Who
,yas in attendance, put tho question, as 70
the young men, whether tho conference
! thought the tendency to go North. 70 W
sober, moral, industrious, buy lana ana
Is settle down, was on tho increase o.
z decrease. Tho corsensus Of opinion was
Fl that the young men were getting more
Industrious ana showing q greater ten
uency to purchase homes and settle down.
In regard to tho ownership of homes
In general. it was shown by the reports
that In each OF the five maglsterllal DIS
trcts OF the ceAhty the proportion varied
/ 1rom one-foiirthf in some localities to
* taree.fourths In others, For instance. y.
", Walker. OF the upper end OF Lawrence,
vile. said that In his precinct tho poo-
q pie mostly owned their homes. having
Z farms OF from 20 to 400 acres, principally
paid for> Osborne Wingfield. AIpredlth-
a vile, stated that for distance Of four
miles down the road from his house nlI
the land was owned by colored people.
and only two log houses in. the precinct.
i 11phralm Gaines. Fitzhugh. stated that
II colored people owned all the land In u
n solid block OF five miles, houses mostly
frame. He himself had owned over 1000
acres. bought and paid for since tho war.
0ie still owned Go acres. having sold the
a remainder. Most Of the land in dis pre-,
clnct was paid for, Alfred Steinback,
a 6turgeonvlllo. said the houses In his pro.
clnct We're mostly frame. and the ma.
II 3ority OF the people owned their homes,
n &, G. Macklin, Droadnux, said many
"a owned their homes and the houses were
mostly frame,
Another OF tho speakers said;
Tin 1891. In tho five magisteriui districts
X OF brunswick county the colored people
a owned total OF 2l.0H IA acres OF land.
81 Powelton District leading with $3.50 acres
Il to Its credit. The total value OF the land
II with the buildings on II was SA5,479B5. To-
day In the same districts comprising the
V entire county wo own 44.1o7 55-la acres
OF land of total value, including the
buildings. OF $3c5. $50, p. 1T will ae seen that
F IN the space OF Fifteen years we have
Increased our hoainga seventold, or
iSf monetary increase OF s279,701 In the past
fifteen years. In 1891 our personal property
total value was scarcely $1,000: to-day It
Is In round numbers 10000, an Increase
OF flvcfold In that time. In 1905 the coun-
~ ivy anlnuHted 70 S3Io6, the district
school fund, s923,s7, q gain OF over four
tlmes. as much,''
A question by the president, ana an,
other one by Bishop Strange. brought out
the fact from i. ]. Walker and II. C.,
Green, former Commissioner OF tho Reye-
nue.. and fully conyersant with the state
OF affairs in the county. that ownership
OF land had tended to make the people
responsible and lawabiding and more
anxious to secure homes; that !. had
Increased their sense Of self-respect and
resulted In q general tontng UP all around;
s3 that when they did not own anything they
were irresponsible, careless, Indifferent
and slliftless.4
This IS O sufficient answer to the New