Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-02-18

urbed.
The Call OF the Mountains should
ring in the ears OF all our modern
philanthropists They are the only
great class in all our country tina.
have lived unheejed and unhelpra
In an age that has though! and
moved and done so much
II may be that IN esoutr itself
has not done It's full part bv these
people who are in measure it's
own. The south has done somethinf.
but the south has been poor, wasted
by the war and slow TO recuperatc
from widespread desolation. There
are people in the south whose hearts
are in their pockets now. | know a
man i'm Stephens county, at Toccoa,
who. with his noble wife. during the
present winter. has offered to lay
Dne-half of his fortune at the feet o.
any man or any company of meI
who will add TO his magnifcer' do
nation OF houses and lands enough
TO equip AMI maintain a great r1nun-
ain school for the boys and girls
Of these north Georgia hills. He
himself is doing his best TO educate
and train the youth OF his nnmcdi-
axe environment. and there are num-
Ders OF small schools scattered
through this mountain region AMI
/ sustained in absolutely heroic eff
'ort by the sacrifice and labor Of
southern men and women who are
lctually giving their lives ami their
scanty fortunes to this splendid
struggle for their fellow men.
The Call OF the Mountains now Is
% the philanthropy that is not only
willing, but able, to help. The
riches of Rockefeller and Carnegie
and the Fields is being poured in
golden streams upon education and
libraries and help for the negro in
he great centers of the country. The
cry of the mountains should reach
them at last.
There is no shadow OF protest
against the great things that phil
anthropy has done TO rthe negro
The riches that have been poured
from northern purses into negro
schools outweighs by far the person
al contributions to any other form
of human kindness in the south
There is none to protest or be-
Hon 81;
May its mission be magnifed!
But the cry of our own blood, Of
our own color OF our own great but
dwarfed race comes from these be-
nighted mountains to the Golfers
that are bursting with fullness and
| philanthropy.
Surely the munifcent Scot who
has given 100000 of his increase
to Booker Washington for a single
colored school in Alabama should
not be deaf to the appeal that
thunders from the darkness and
silence of the mountains which hold
the great-grandchlldren OF Scottish
and Irish parentage.
And surely the prodigious purse
Of Rockefeller, awakened at last
and late to the beauty and the bless
edness of giving, should head the
frank, clear challenge Of the brave
old South Caroinian to the best and
the broadest and the most appealing
philanthropy that the republic holds.
Unanswered yet through princely
years of fullness and helpfulness.
the southern mountains, from peak
to peak and from valley to vaIley
are calling to the hearts and the
hands of the helpers of men.
Light, education, development and
civilization are pointing now to the
Blue Ridge, the Ozarks and the
Cumberlands of Dixie.
What Tillman said to Rockefeller
humanity repeats to the nabobs who
are the stewards of philanthropy.
the Instruments Of God.