The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-08-15

that Scotch Presbyterians have given the cap.a =.
education In America is a matter In which tbov
will take pride. Even the cabmen here road ~
newspapers almost as carefully as business mo- .
America would do. And | have been ,mnras,..
by the number OF monuments which record ~
dead mans services to public education as nj.
strongest claim upon the regard OF poster,tv
Over in the old town OF Stirling In Scotland ~.
call how a tablet in Greyfriars Church records the
fact that Alexander Cunningham. merchan, T.
stirling. to extend the inestimable blessinys -,
education. bcqueathed 4. ID. 1909. $4,000 fsoo
no0l TO be expended in maintaining, clothing ana
educating poor boys there. while another memo
9iai alongside Is Ito the memory of John Allen
writer In Stirling. mortgaging 4. ID. 1876 the sum
OF 30. 900 marks by which hundreds OF young mon
have been able TO advance themselves and to All
situations in life which their lot seemed to for.
bid" In Liverpool. too. you find the same idea in
the striking monuments to James Sugent. bearing
the legend. Save the boy while the significant
inscription on tho monument TO Major Lester
reads: Give tho child a fair chance" Demo.
cratic England to-day understands full well that
Princes and lords may flourish or may fade.
\ breath can make them. as a breath has made.
Blu, n bold peasan,ry. their country's pride.
When once destroyed, can never be supplied"
An in,olligen, laboring class Is tho backbone Of
any country. and In this England In strong. There
are no negroes here. OF course. the entire ser ving
class being white. And their nea,ness. cleanliness.
quickness. aud intelligence In one OF tho things
which itnprcsses itself mos, deeply upon the
southern traveller. Nowhere in the country dis
'ricia here have | seen the signs OF shif,iessness-
broken gates. quilted fields. neglected tools. shack
~ outhousrs. implanted and !ii-kept residences
which mar the landscape In SO many country dis
irici# In the South. a house here may have only
Two or three rooms. but its nea,ncss makes II a
10Y forever. and the fields look like the work OF
landscape gardeners: all Scotland between Edin-
Nurgh and Glasgow seems to be almost ms neat as
sur Capitol sauares-and England Is hardly less
beautiful. | bear no ill-will toward our negroes.
but II In impossible To cscape the conclusion that
their ignorance and ahiftiessness have not only
held back tho South In n thousand ways. bu, their
carclcssncws has provided n lower level for indif-
feren, white people 10 fail TO, Nowhere else do
YOU md white people eon,en, to live In such ugly
homes and with such nnpronlsing farms rs often
meet our vision In the South, and think Il parti-
ally explained by the fact that the negro taken
'rcah from Africa has lowered our ideals and
standards o! Twin. In IA way no other country has
suffered.
Another way In which tn. difference between
Intelligent white labor aud shittl.ss negro labor
makes itself felt IN In tn. different attitude to-
ward work itself. People here in England do not
"e-tn to regard any work that comes to hand as
being beneath them" Over In bennington the
other day the man who Joined his wife In waiting
an our table. aud who brough, the water 10 my
room. VAS a man OF such Intelligence that | should
sucaa him to be u minister; "A man with the bear
Ing Of n gentleman and n man whose wide knowl-
cds. OF politics and history made II IA pleasure to
talk with him. IL was much the same way In
Glasgow. 10 that ut sigh; OF the head men OF the
house removing plates from tho table. one OF our
party we'll remarked: In England everybody
works-including father"
Most OF the smaller hotels seem To be run by
women. women work largely In the fields. and In
tho stores women. believe. arc even more nu-