The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15
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V races" How far the pendulum swings.
 1t fs divertine to the grown boy over
 his Calculus to note the joy of the
 small brother who has just at his play with pebbles learned that two and two make fourl
 A few pages back this Dr. Leyden arraiens the nation that made tue Af- ro-American citizen: You liberate him. and encourage him to ride his old master; then you give him a vote in one part of the country and take it away from him in another; though why Uncle Sam should give a vote to an is- norant, low-grade. semi civilized son of black slave and deny It to hts own highly educated and responsible white daughters is more than l can sec" By the way. Dr. Leydon docs rot secm any more analogous to German soil UT pru- dent of German culture than do the Carolinians of the story seem like na- tives of their State. Dr. Leyden, how ever, proves useful peg upon which ta display the authors apparently new to him bits of theoretically acquired knowledge.
 Just after he has put Dessalines through his paces as primitive man for Vfrginia's disiflusionment. he makes these statements: "Ach! It was as l told you; first I encouraged him and he rode across me rough shod; then snubbed him and he cowed; the tactics are the same which one employs with wet Newfoundland; next I am kind, and he licks my hand; then I play with him. and he romps and rolls and runs after the stick and forgets that he was cuffed. Do you not find that the spectacle lessens your awe of the wild animal?"
 The anfhor doAs nOt mt a1I of his theories into the mouth of Leyden He speaks in propria persona from the text of his romance. as when he writes of the negro Dessalines at study: By choice he preferred subjects thought ful, elegantly written with fioreatc rhetoric and high-sounding phrases, but elementary and simple In princi- pie. Let thought be subtle. abstruse, combined, attendant upon something the broad, black forehead would wrinkle. the mou.h draws down, the slightly protruding eyes would grow vacant. confused Sometimes the eff fort to concentrate would defclop a sem sation of physical pain beneath the heavy temporal bones. and before long he would throw down the book, growl, pick it up again. make another effort. then rise suddenly, and If the day was AatAs OIuCN HtS iaOlScS ucCi0tuB tudL HIS brain was overworked, unwilling tu acknowledge that it was simply over taxed"
 Dr. Rowland's newly acquired library knowledge is interesting and amusing to note. While we rejoice with the child who discovers newly for himself that two and two pebbles make four pebbles, we do not at once elect him to professorship. Upon the question of education of the negro. Dr. Rowland gas gotten thus far: Education is light. and light is what we all strive for. The system, however. is absurd: i: examining their heads with empty words! The race possesses a retentive memory which is a deceptive quality, as 1t does not indicate cerebration. A negro may hold lot of facts, but he cannot combine them for use. His brain does not possess the requisite 
 The boy who has discovered newly for himself the world-old truth that two and two make four is about to progress to the discovery that three and three make six.
 But what ignorance the author puts into the mouth of the negro Fouchere: The South fears her former slaves the North spends money to educate them. The South as a matter of plain and open history to be read of all men has never shown one symptom of fear of the negro.
 The North spends but little money upon education of the negro compared with that which the South spends.
 The figures up to about two years ago stood as follows: The South by taxtaion of all her citizens has spent since the war upon negro education SAC. 100000. The North and the rest of the world combined has in the same space of time spent about $30, ,000, ,000. Tax receipts from negro property hold CTS in that period has been about $5,- 900. 900. The South accused of misun- mistreating. abusing the negro. has of her own free will given to that same negro for education and all moneys accruine to the States from the negro's taxes and has added thereunto the magnificent gift of $135.000,00O. Yet we hear con stantly and on all sides the assertion that the North is educating the negro.
 The North now learning and so loud ly declaring its discoveries of the char acter and of the brain construction of the negro may some day learn a little of the true conditions at the South.
 While learning of the incapacity of the negro for absorbing or amalga- ma ting himself Go the civilization of the white races the author yet remains ignorant of the true conditions of slavery.
 "Lashed through generations of slav- cry" he writes. the fault was of course in bringing them into this coun- try as slaves" serious fault of the Northern slave-traders who kidnapped and sold them. serious fault of the Southern planter who bought them. But what a blessing to the negro him self Language. industry, religion were the gifts to him of slavery. no part of the race on it's native shores have risen to the mere beginnings Of civilization. Under no rulers or guides has the race advanced as rapidly as that portion of it advanced under the ownership of the Southern master.
 For the final solving of the problem Dr. Rowland offers this: Time and patience; time and patience The ne- gro will never be A menace to this or any other nation until he has the mind to be one, and when he has the mind to be one he will have mind enough not to be one. He is not naturally vi- clous. Of course he can be goaded in to sporadic outbreaks. He may be a tremendous nuisance; is now; will be; but a menace. never!"
 Dr. Rowland and others are learn ing. The bo." with his pebbles will be at calculus himself some day.
 How ignorant the author is of South ern customs, principles and instincts is shown by his inlpossfble placing of a