The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-15

l (Contiuued from Page Twcive.) have never seen or heard of the flag, and are growing up in ignorance ana practical heathenism. From this stock of mountaineers have come Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, and Abraham Lincoln. We owe it to our country to- carry education to their children. We ask you to help us. It Is our purpose to establish settlement and industrial schools among them--to send teachers and missionaries within their very homes To open up flresido industries among them, spinning, weaving, cook ing, sewing-every kind of domestic. work and hand crafts. We want to help them help themselves. and espc- cially to develop them agriculturally. Miss Dromgoole. who has lived much among these people and has written so much about them. says. They get up at in the morning and sit and wait for the sun to rise. Then they pre- pare the stuff they eat--after which they sit and wait for the sun to go down." Think of the bleakness of such wasted lives.
 You who read this may not realize the fact that the lack of farming im- plements. and the utter helplessness of being chained to their little patch by hopeless poverty. Is responsible for their apathy and the seeming lack Of interest in life.
 An unenlis htened farmer, who cannot read. knows but little of the advantages of trade, and where there are no facili. ties for knowledge. is it to be wondereu that our too long forgotten white brother is in great need of our aid?
 We as well as Miss Dromgoole ana Miss Craddock believe in the great possibilities of these people. In proof of taeir ability to progress when gwen chance one only need to visit the Vanderbilt and other shcpols near Ashyiils s There are ma"S Sv stne the Pres byterians and other denominatlons' pug they are a mere drop in the ocean or this great necessity. ..,
 There arc struggling schools m Norlh Carolina, Georgia. kentucky. iGnnes see. Virginia, Arkansas ana AiapaHas all asking us for aid. Firty doiiars will support a mountain girl or boy TOT eights months in one of these schools. A rough school house can be built for $500 to $500: $500 will support a mis- sionary teacher; $2o0 will fit out school of fifty pupils with the neces- sary industrial apparatus We want also to build ten substantial lnoustrial schools among them, with lands ana gardens for training, ten thousand doi- lars each. We want 100000 life mem bers at twenty-five dollars each, and IuU,UUU annual "N one dollar each.
 Commissioner Harris says; The problem of the hour is the rural school" and so 1t is. There are no great educational funds. except for col leges and normal schools.
 And so we ask your earnest assis- tance America needs her mountain eers, her own American citizens Let us. at least, give them the same chance All Ia cIr Eiflinin0S-- the Porto Ricans-our negroes. the heathens abroad and the millions ot immigrants who come to our shores.
 General Stewart L. Woodford, ex-Min- ister to Spain, who gave an eloquentId- dress in behalf of this movement, said: This was crusade greater than that of Joan of Arc--the results of which will benefit the entire future Of thus Republic" Rev. Dr. Howard Dufield and Bishop Brown, of Arkansas, and many others have also spoken elo- quently with us for this cause.