The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-07

< unuSA QeQGUu. HI LHG SOulnp EVh navy i q small amount of white labor and q large amount of black labor. If you ] wish to prosper as you ought to pros 1 per, this would perhaps suggest that you educate both whites and blacks t0 the greatest possible efncleney III dia industrial pursuits.
 l Educational Equipment.
 People sometimes ask whether az riculture can be taught in school. !. 1 My answer is. that anything can be 1 taught in a school If the school is or l ganized and equipped to do the work l that is expected of 1t. d., not mean l to say that schoo. education must noe be supplemented by prao'it al exper- l most unlikely things have been, and are being. successfully taught m schsolsa What could be further from ! the, schoolroom than lighting on land and sea? And yet. West ?oiat and An napolis furnished the great leaders or both sides during ouN Ciyl War IT men can he taught In a scho Il-oom the principles which make the successf . soldier, or the successful sailor. .. ought to go without saying that nen can be trained in school Cor industry branch when experience has given them the opportunity. to test nd to practice the things they have learned
 T often say that SQueeis In Nica- | elas Nickleby Is the fathe. of modern 1 education. You remember" h's method. He would tell q hoy to spell. wlnder., | anu when ne H3u EiFilSue VI nG hift tell him to go and clean |. He would | tell another boy to spell '.orse. and I when he had spelled It ke woI.d tell ! h.m to go and groom It. In thls way 1 these boys earned what iadow was and what a horse was better than they could have learned out Of he Dnnks Ar ! that Is precisely the l1eoratorv method which prevails In all tGe best l schools and colleges al over the and bIt is an expensive method 90 far as'OIt- if goes for 1t necessitates an eaulp- which are to be studied. hut 1t is a method that pays for Itself a thousand i times over in the advantages that f I offers to the students rd through 1 them the community. But we need not confine ourselves to theo-y as to this | question. for there are here and there i throu~hout the country successful | e schools and successful agricultu- ! raj schools enough to demon ,trate that l the theory Is sound.
 What is wanted in the South. and what is wanted all over the country, are better trade schools md better ag- i ricltsural schools, and more of them :. | only upon successful agricuf.Ire and only upon efficient industry can any i 'rto South Is full of natural resources. Let 1t now develop as 1t c'tn. It's re-
 schooI at Tuskegee.
 | As you know 1 have just come from l Tuskegee. It is school, Just as it IS | highly crediteSle to those who have . bFEdnIZeQ Ik ana IO JnOS6 WHO dTe CdI . rying t on. No school s nerfect or 1 at least. If there be a perfect school, I i have never found 1t; and 1t Is reasona- i bl" to expect that Tuskeg se will i'm i to see 1t mean continually more and more to the people of Alabama. The 1 friends of the school never forget that the State of Alabama made the school possibl1 by the grant of the first money
 Many at the North know very little South in the last twenty years, but | those of us who know something of it, appreciate that there Is uo prouder i chapter In the educational history of | the United States than that which tells l the story of the efforts of he South to provide everywhere a double system of | education for its white and its black children. My observation is that where l there is taxable property enough to provide adequately for both races, both races receive equal treatment. Where the-9 Is not taxable property enough to | both. no man should cast a stone at l the South who is not prepa- cd to say l that, in the like casa he limself would i the heroic efforts of the Southern peo- pie. filled as know you are ct the l present time with consuming passion for popular education, tho burden strength. In another generation or two is to happen to this generation oi South Is growing In power? And what is happen to the South ;t this gen eratioh and the next are to erou up 1T south hope to compete i' in he t'qnod modern tia world with ignorant Iabor against highly skilled labor?
 T believe the time has come for the na" once more to consider the ur- gent necessity of national lid for the states In the effort to eXtermnate iIlit- eracy. I believe the Morrell bill under which. with federal help, the various cultural schools, offers a model for wise Legislation upon this subject in the domain of agricultural and indus trial schools for the children of the spects; 1t Is not sectional, for 1t applies to all the States. and neither does it interfere with the States and the scs- tems administered by them. for tn. States administer the land grant funds Any one who knows anything ahou' tae agricultural colleges established under the Morrell bill knows that they have conferred benefits without nun
 Der and without measure upon the pen
 pie of the United States. ana I subm'
 that the burden of proof IS really upo, those who challenge the same policy ir It's application to the problem of ill:
 eracy.
 Tn the city of New York We now what 1t Is to be called upon to provide
 
 many of whom cannot even speak thu
 English language Tn the last fou, years I suppose the city has appropri
 ated not far from $40,000, 900 for new this army of children. But New Yorl . is the point at which the -'ealth of tn, nation is largely centered; and 1t t hardly too much to say that the nstiol itself is working through New Yorl city to Americanize and to educate tn, chlldren of the immigrant;s What, tn, locally, through the city of New York : 1t ought to dn everywhere when tht need is coTrespondingly great.
 "Gentlemen does it ever occur t, You to bemnan the heavy burden rha
 Is laid upon the South by tho necessit, for double system of education tempted to be restive under tSfs M real IT ly heavy load that the ?ast .mmigr9 fton into the United Staes throws upol us Of single ely. Whenever I am in. clinedd to yield to such thought. recall those splendid words of Victor Hugo. 'God suffers not the rreciou! fruits of sorrow to grow upon a branci too weak tC bear them. Tte measure Of the task is in very truth the :aeas
 to whom great t.lsk Is ,ntrueted, am wlo meet it right mdpfullv."
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 dress, the program of the evening wa.
 hnished. When Toastmaster Baldwin
 announced the close Of the banquet
 ny MT. Low. Many of the guests wnC
 had not met him previously crowded
 around him, to express their apprecia
 tion of the sentiments he had convey
 ed in his speech, A few minutes latel
 the banquet hall was cleared, and oy
 l2;%o o'clock the guests had left th,
 hotel.
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