The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-18
EDUCATION OF NEGRO RESULTS
 Lh DETRIlNENT 70 WHOLE RACE

today, and If not. what is the cause of this change which has taken place? believe it entirely due to the educa- should one ask. Has not Booker Washington's school been of benefit to the negro?" the so-called philanthropy ists of the North would say "yes," but nare1 sama %ouS say No Ma PSep Sps Peabodys Ogdens. Carnegies and like negrophiles at the North who are spending millions of money in the education of the negro in the South are doing more damage to the people of the South-white and black--than 1t was possible for Thad Stevens and his associate taraties to do in the days of Reconstruction. These men like to pose as philanthrop- ists and friends to the poor, ignorant negro, but they are intermeddling In a matter which they do not understand. They are aiding in making the negro trihing and worthless.
 l am no recent convert to the views here expressed. In September, 1887, I sought, by litigation, to prevent the payment of money by the State to the Alabama Colored University here. while l admit the school has not been the nuisance l thought 1t would be. still that it Is not, Is due to the wise management of Prof. W. B. Paterson, a and the government of his school, com mended himself to the confidence and respect of the white people in this community. But who can estimate the number of good blow hands he has spoiled?
 sincere Friend of Negro.
 I am the sincere friend of the ne- gro. l have done him thSusand acts of kindness and never an ynjury, and 1t is as his well-wisher that regret to see him drifting to the bad from un- wise interference of those who mistak- ingly believe that they can make the leopard change his spots and the Ethi- opian his skin by education. The fiat of the Almighty has gone forth that these children of Ham should be new CTS of wood and drawers of water" Ed ucation which man is tryinEfto cram into their heads only units them for the station in life a wise Creator in tended they should occupy, and it must come to nought, for the educated negro servant is myth.
 Brought up on the plantation as was. surrounded by kind and faithful slaves, they contributed in a large de- gree to make my boyhood days bright and pleasant and memory now recalls them with affection. When 1 had a local habitation' of my own. my first servant remained with me for nearly twenty five years. This could not have been had l been unfair or unjust to- wards her. And, when the long nights of pain and illness to wife and children came, who could have been more like "a ministering angel' than this unlet- tered, ignorant colored woman? May God forget me if l ever forget her and her unselhsh devotion to me and mine. 1 could not be otherwise than friend to the negro if I tried and I have no disposition to try. He is by nature Of q loyal and conhding disposition, ready and anxious to lean on the arm of the superior white race for protection, and can no more walk alone without this protection and support than the ivy can climb into the air without the sup port of the oak to which it clings. Edu- cation makes him think he can. and the revolution in his nature is com plete.
 The injury to the negro by confer ring on him the right of suffrage. as great as 1t was, Is no more to be com tempt to educate him than is a zephyr to cyclone. The first seriously hurt him; the last ruins hum. The differ ence reminds me of the story told of the poor freigner who had lost his wife. His friend tried to console him and told how he sympathized with him as he had witnessed his great grief at tho funeral in the church. "Ah, Monsieur" church, but you should have seen me at ze grave; dat is where l play ze hell"
 We could not help the North trying GO the negro. but We canlhelp ourselves by stopping playing ze help in the education of the negro
 Who has been much about court houses in this State in the last few years but has heard frequent re- quests of jurors from the country to be excused from serving. on the ground that they may have to spend the night in the jury room and they were afraid to lese their families uu- protected as there was no home occu- pied by a white person near their home? Protected from whom, The same negroes or the descen- dants of the same negroes, who but a few short years ago would have risked their lives Go protect these same families from all harm.
 Something has wrought a radical change in the negro and for the worse If emancipation did not do it. if suf- frage did not do it. If ''ReconstriIc- tion'' did not do It, what did? That the change Is fact is admitted or ~N~"iA hA hV svarv ~@@ Al~A A-'A---