Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-04-22

! absurd to some. but if they Will rl- vo stisate the two conditions. look in- i to the neGrO's condition and environ l tnents, the opportunities he has for ! work and accumulation of prOpert V which he refuses 10 accept and then go to the 'backWoods of the south and N!eW the condition of those neglected iiiterate whites. they will find the environments very different My req son for saving to divide the school tax and transfer the tax paid for negro education to the bacG1woods of the different states is this: The time has come for us to dc OUT duty first to our own race, who are in such great need of an education, the race on which depends the future or the south. the citizenship which must rule. Another reason, We have never received any thanks or appreciation from the negro, only hatred and abuse of the white people of the south. If We ever owed the negro anything n the Way of an education it has been settled and entered up 10 the profit and loss. do not consider education tc be our obligation to the negro race. but oaf greatest obligation Is 10 give more assistance to those of the race who are trying to live and let live" and are earning their bread by the sweat of their brow. I do think We owe great deal 10 the faithful cx- slave who followed his master in the carnage of war as servants to minis ter to their wants and needs and in es from the battlefield. This was heroism of the highest order, and it is our duty to pay them 8 good pen sion that they may live comfortably in their last days. This is one good deed for the state of Mississippi. She pays $14,OOO to faithful eX-slayes who followed their masters through that great struggle. Rev. T B. Boiling says of this class of negroes:
 Do not take the pensions from them, but let them go along with us ats We totter in the march through time, cross with Us the pontoons which span the river, and rest with rs over che river @under the shade ot the trees" where the host once under Lee. Jackson Johnson and others sleep to awaken no more until the angel sounds the reveil'e ill the morn ot eternity for the dead.
 "They may be just niggers, but they are our sort of triggers, and we could eat with one of them on log, and if the president went into lunch l with one of them We would be as sil- ent about it as coon hunting craw- fish. for one of them is worth more than those of a generation now, and while we may be regarded as some what out of line with the present condition. we hope that while honor ing the Confederate soldier no le%is- lature will ever forget the cOlored men who suffered with us and whose service was one of pure affection without pay of any sort.
 Mrs. Martha $. Gielow, president general of the "Southern Industrial Educational association, sends |, message through the Veteran to pres dents of chapters United Daughters O. the confederacy, 10 commanders of Confederate camps and camps or Sons of Veterans and to all other ol eanizeA bodies of southern women and children and to all friends in the United States. From the message are the following points:
 "The Southern Industrial associa- ton has been organized and incor- pGrated to promote industrial and practical education for white child ren throughout the south. to establish mission schools for the destitute whites in the mountain districts and to help such schools already struc- g!ing. Grant us vour combined and earnest co operation to the cause of hrmanity and to the welfare of the future of the south It is well that We have made efforts to secure cor rect historical records; it is we'll that we. have organized to take care o' our helpless Veterans and to lay flowers on those at rest. But as great a mission--aye! greater one yet awaits us: greater monument than one of stone and granite yet to be built is the memorial work of the women and men of the south-the memorial of education to our uned- 'ucated whites. What is being done in this direction? With the excep- ton of struggling school here and there. mere drop in this great ocean of necessity, the impovished whites have no opportunities. I have begun