The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-23

fair to the school, and would be willing
10 allow them this much, even though the
bill provides for no exemptions at all,
He thought they should pay something
10 the government with all the advant-
ages given il.
For the School.
Mr.. Hare recited the early history of
the school and noted the fact that 1t was
given only Il small amount from the
state at first; that all other normal
schools have had much more from the
state.
Captain White said this is the only
institution of its kind in the state, and
he thought the movement impolitic. The
people of the state had not come here
asking that the lands of the university,
of Montevallo, of other white schools be
taxed. 1t had not been shown that the
normal school at Tuskegee had two much
lands, but fear that it might get moro
in the future. The state contributed to
the school and it would not be right to
allow the county to take as much or more
from them. The whites had taken the
political power from the negro and he
lies PROSTATE at their feet. They can
with the power drive the negro institu-
tions out of the state, even the negroes
themselves. DO we owe the negro any
thing? whose toll raised the white men
and women of a generation ago and fur
nshed the toll out of which they secured
education. God had made no mistake
when He put these poor people in the
homes and hands of the people of the
SOUTH
Captain White referred with feeling to
the patriotism of the negroes during the
war, and recalled how they cared for the
wives, sisters and families of the men
at the front. In the field he was true
to his master and cared for him when
needed. The sword of the north broke
the chain of slavery but could never
sever the chain of love and sympathy
for the white man in the heart of the
negro
This movement, Captain White
thought, Is a result of feeling of an
tagonism to the negro 1t would be re-
garded as a stroke at the black man by
every white man of the state, yea, of the
entire country. Also that the people of
the state had not shown the fairness and
justice to be expected from the Anglo
Saxon If this bill should pass. 1t is not
so much the doing of the deed, but the
ugly scar 1t would leave. The instltu-
ton Is doing its best. If it is not doing
what it should, then have the manhood
to strike it down by a blow. The state
can get rid of Tuskegee. but 1t cam
never keep the great heart of sympa-
thetic people from contributing to the
uplift of a needy race. The school,
though, has the sympathy of the state
in the work it is doing.
StaIlngs for Bill.
Going back to the opening of the school
Mr.. Stallings recalled that the people of
the state had started it, giving 1t help,
at the first, after which the Yankees
came in. Little by little the law was
changed until the school became a trad
ing corporation, allowed to buy and sell,
yet relieved from the duties of keeping
up civil government. He recited the con-
stitutonal provisions that one acre In
town be exempted for such purpose, and
five acres outside.
The speaker said the people who sent
money to Tuskegee were those who
would make the negro the equal of the
white man; let them eat at their table
and these should bear their part of the
burden. The sentiment of the situation is
pretty he said, but the law is plain that
the school should not be given 50 much
advantage. The whites had educated the
negroes and spent millions upon them.
1--WE carried Cuff for forty years, and
now Cuff ought to carry himself said
Mr. Stallings.
Arguing the increase In values as no
reason for exemptions. Mr. Stallings
called attention to raises of Jefferson
county Ten years ago they were a mill
lion, now they are more than $60,0OO,OO 600.
Mr. White said such action would scare
away Yankee capital. I'VE don't want
Yankee capital" cried the speaker I'VE
got him down here and trimmed the way
we desired, and now We have capital OF
our own