The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-25

by side practically for all time. sincs tAis is true. the only ssnstbls eourss tor both races to pursue is Tor each one to try Co do that Whieh VIII promote the highest degree of peace. friendship and ps0spsrity: that ie., in ., words Tor each. race to do all 1t can to help for ward the other raos and nothing % "The nsgrv in the South Aas gottss [ dexree of civilization from the white man that has placed him far in ad- vance of any similar gfcup Of neGross anywhere in the world We. then. owe much to the white man, The white man h the 1euth ewes se0eshtng to 'u us. I believe that the time has comS when the best and mcst cnitussd ana intelligent white peopla- Of the South realize the importance of educating the negro: not smattering of education. but real education. an education that will prepare the members of the race to do the thing which the community in which they live wants done. This means, then, education of the head, ed ncation of the hand. education in high moral living.
 '.The negro has passed through. or is passing through the silly period of his life. and Is beginning everywhere to settle down to an earnest considera- ton of what education is meant to acc complish From a selfish point of view it will pay every favmer, every land- holder. to see to 1t that there Is good school house on or near his plantation, that there Is . good teacher. and that the school Is in session eight or nine months in the year. Instead of such. planter having to seek labor. labor will seek him because whatever other faults the negro may have, he always wants to live in the vicinity of a church or Of school house, and wherever these fa- ciiities are best. thsrs negro labor win congregate.
 But. from higher point of view. I believe that the best white people in Alabama are seeing more and more ev- cry year that they must educate the negro. At nearly every vital point In the life of the white man in Alabama the negro touches him. In very large degree the negro helps raise the food that the white man eats The negro woman. in a large degree. helps cook that food. she helps to serve that food; she laundries the white mans cloth ing; she nurses the white mans child. If by reason of ignorance the negro woman Is filthy, immoral unskiiied to such an extent that she may have the germs of consumption, smallpox, or the hook worm disease in her body, these diseases will be conveyed to the body or the WhIte poroou tnbt tD bSNfou. " Is impossible that the white mans clothes can be laundrted In q filthy. un- healthy negro cabin without disease be- ing carried from that cabin to the man sion of the white man. Then. repeat. that for his physical and moral saliva tion, aside from the help that can be given to the negro, the white man should help to lift up the negro and make him a more useful citizen. and this I am glad to say that throughout Alabama the best leaders among the white race are attempting to do.
 e - eff the negroes in large numbers are going to serve the white man either on the plantation or in any kind of labor, 1t pays to keep them cheerful and hap py and contented. A good school. good church. good teacher or minis- ter. fair and just treatment, helps to make them happy and contented. and wherever they are happy and contented they render better service to them selves and better service to the white man by whom they are surrounded"