The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-07-04
WARDEN HADDOx,S ADDRESS.

hDDhTNoHo.
Speaking. ON Education and Crime
before the State Educational Asso-
citation at Huntington last week,
Ws8sfd1ahn sa e: E. Haddox OF the State
Penitentiary said:
ttEhe, eensns of 1900 shows that of
the 4U5r,216 native white voters of
: native, white parents, 23,O24 were
alltterate, or 11.2 per cent, while of
thR II, 841 colOred voters, 1884, OF
33.T per cent were illiterate. The
white conYicts are 1 to each 1000 of
SAsir* population, while the colored
eonvicts AIRED to 1923 Of their popula-
ton ., -,
Ffs"Of the 1878 foreign born white
veters in West Virginia, 2,895 are IL
.nerate, or 22.5 per cent. Forty-three
OF them are in prison, or 1 to each
229 OF the foreign born voting popu-
1a&fon, carrying out the general ra-
ito of ignorance to crime to mathe-
NAUTICAL nicely.
The Progress Of the ColOred Race.
TN calling attention to the large
percentage of crime amongst the
eolored race, it is not done with the
belief that crime is the result of
race, but owing to the large amount
OF 1lliteracy amongst the race Snd
the consequent trend of ignorance to
criminality.' The progress of the
colored man through education is
one OF the marvels of the ages.
for only forty years has it been 9TH
or than a crime to teach him to read
but his progress since then. all
doleful calamity croakers to the con-
trary Notwithstanding, is the most
magnificent tribute to education the
world has ever seen.
There is a difference as wide as
the world between the refined and
cultured Englishman of today and
che rough and uncOuth NOrseman OF
the ninth century, but eleven hun
dred years were necessary to make
THE change. A difference as wide
as the poles exist between the an
:c1ent Gauls, who were conquered by
the Franks in the tenth century, ant
the polished Frenchman of the TWEEN
fteth century but it took a Thousand
years TO do it.
THE colOred race has risen in for
ny years from utter, absolute ant
complete ignorance, until today fifty
Two per cent are more or less edu
Gated. They have risen from com
Tfete penury to be the possessors o
aAO,0 900 farms, valued at $750,O0O,
900 and $170,000,0OO worth of per
sonal property. They have writer
500 books, published 800 newspa
pers and have produced 1000 law
Yers, q larger number Of doctors am
$4,000 teachers. They have bull
5000 churches, worth $40,00O,0OC
and own $12 100000 worth of schoo
"
segesS seventeen academies, fit
high schools, five law schools, fiv
medical schools and twenty-five thee
logical seminaries-a result Of tn
education of forty years."
I'VE have heard so much of late III
= on the futihty Of educating the Ne
gro. or at best, Of giving him onl
manual training, that it warns til
coekles of our heart to know ths
we still have a few friends left {
court.
AS warden Of the penitentiary M
" Haddox deals with the very wor.
portion OF the race-the criminal Ell
Tnent. He knows that our percentag
OF criminals is 1 to 1919, while thu
! OF the whites is only 1 to each 200
s yet he can see o. light ahead an
: days he does not believe that OF
;, Aigh percentage of crime is the r
suit OF race, but is due to the lars
( pTnoUnt OF illtteracy and conseuue
3 ATend. Of ignorance to criminality.
Il How different is this from the l
4 +: Esrances OF Mr.. Vardaman and M
q Woke Smith, both of whom wou
Unit. fs not entirely discontinue, Il
Nation of Negro children. BIN
90 ny their desire to keep the bla1