Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-21
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races IN the South, a part OF the plaii
being compulsory educauon ia"'
under which man can be connpeheu
to send his children to school whetn-
or he wants to or not. and II he does
not he can be punished under the
criminal law. Communities may adopt
this If they pleace, and they are al
lowed to do so under the present law
Int nv own view is that the state
should furnish the best school faciii-
ties il can. and that then the ques-
ton should be left TO the parents or
guardian OF each child. He admits
that he was employed and paid by
these people, but has never stated
within what periods or at what salary,
although he has been asked by sew
eral newspapers. II has been charged
that the salary was $4,000 year, or
more, and he has not denied IT,
With Booker Washington.
Since Mr.. Tucker will not give us
the facts. let us see wha. the record
shows. The record. Educational Report
for 1909. page 379. shows that in
1901. DIR. q. S. Dickermap and Book
er I. Washington were appointed
field agents hon Harry St. George
Tucker and Or. Robert F'rasier were
later appointed field agents fer VIZ
ginia-- II will be observed that Book
er Washingtons field is not limited
it covers the whole South
The original scheme was the edu-
caticn Of the negro, but later it was
extended to include both races The
money was put up by Northern phil
anthrcpists. and each year they had
a meeting a. some point in the South.
Mr.. Ogden. the president, usually at
tended in his private car. and at the
Birmingham conference in 1904. he
brought with him en- his car. and as
one of the program speakers OF the
occasion. Col. Thomas Wentworth Hig-
giuson. of Massachusetts,. OF whom the
Richmond Times-Dispatch. in an eel
torial On June 18th. 1904. says:
I'm the party which visited Bir-
mingham this year was Col Higginson.
a New EngIander. who was originally
a rank aboliticnist. and who during
the Civil War commanded a regiment
of negro troops. He believes in social
equality. mixed schools. mixed mar
riages. and in the abolition OF the
color line He il to us one OF the
most offensive OF all New England
negro lovers. and it was an crense TO
the South for NJ Ogden to have taken
him 20 the conference at Birmingham
and put him up 10 make speeches.
AT this ve-y same meeting a re-
port from AR. Tucker was read IN
which he said:
I have been IN every section OF the
State-the Valley. southwest. Pied
mont and Tidewater-snd the interest
Of the people has been beyond my
expectation. n there = any oppo-
sition. Il Is offered by a small minority
only. believe the pablo sentiment is
fast crystalyzing into a belief q all
the people that the education o. both
races Is essential to the prosperity
of the state
His Speech IN 1902.
And at a previously meeting. IN
Athens. Ca. in April. 1902. Mr.. Tuck
81. in the course Of a speech. had IN
equivccaliy declared his position on
the subject Of compulsory education
a. follows.
Vow I don't carr how the ignorant
child Is going TO infect the neiehbor-
hood. whether by infcctirh q cortaE-
ION: but friends. ycu know. ard J
know. that the burned hing Is ketch-
ing We are going 10 drive u out
vith q compulsory education lau.
The above ouotasicn is taken from
ne omcisi minutcs II The meeting.
-Buf xe have later expression