The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-31

Iron and steel workers :. :. 4o
Machlnists :. .''., o
brick and stone masons I'oa
Quarrvmen .. - ''''' i'foo
oll nliii iaooreis coo
faiutels - - 30 30
ie''eie'a coo
WILL hanos o 80
lallola -.
ana "hat are Tue nesto "oinei
aoins! Let see' o
Agricultural pursuits - - 94'ooo
Agricultural laborers :. So'oll
Teachers IN colleges ana
SCHOOLS :. go 90.
nam laoorers :. - 80 =
Launoresses '''' A.'1oo ,oo
NURSES :. -. --oo
Servants anu Waftlesses Ao'ooo
Dressmakers ll'I4o "hi'e'' =
Seamstresses (9oo "nlee) 90
"The natural tendency OF the ne
gro to seek an occupation is SHOWN
by these tgures; II the ngures re-
veal the remotest trace Oh any 'alue
to the race or the pnllantnroplc anu
other attempts at academic educa-
tion / fall to find 1t. When one con-
siders the total of the negro popu-
lation and looks at the idle vagrants
hanging around the towns and cities,
and looks inside the State peniten-
tiary walls and the walls OF the
county prisons and on the county
chaingangs, the evidence OF the op-
posite effect are only TOO patent
IN Ine Doay polftlc-a say
1t with no dlsrespect 70 tne caiiins
there are negro preachers VINO
have merely smattering OF educa-
| tion and no knowledge of the econ
omic or moral needs of their race
who don't work themselves because
they are too busy prating about their
rights a class that puts 1901 no
tions into the heads OF the negro
youth, leads him astray and nnaliy
AllA Ill PA ANOa - AAAN hSA0 SA>'
inal and a menace to even his own
race as well as the civilization Of
the country. And so, without dis
respect to religion, might summar-
lie the sources or the majority Oh
fthe troubles Spf tine NEGRO race
source for which the academic sys-
tenn Is directly responsible, to too
much preachers, politics and peni-
tentiary.
Nov is there any hope, any fu-
ture for the negro citizen or South
Carolina? l think there IS.
AS some one said the otner
day, the pro-negro enthusiast ana
the negro natter are running NECK
ana neck 10 see winch Can w 'ne
black man greater INJURY. II -
dlfhcult 10 determine "hicn - niote
unjust-the man VINO says there IS
no good IN any negro OF the phll-
anthropist who boosts all negroes
into raise posltlon "here lneS Ca"
not MAINTAIN themselves. Inc plop-
lem is Digger ana Droauer one-
one OF race nereolty anu ci'iiila-
tion, and II Is not peculiar to lle
white man and the negro OF the
South. 1t has always arisen Wher-
ever two distinct races IN large num-
bers' have dwelt In the same land.
I'm my address to the southern
commissioners or agricultural at
Nashville Ienn., last November l
said among otner thlngs:
III is not 1or me 10 say "haI
must be the final solution OF this
negro problem-the residing OF TWO
entirely distinct races IN the same
territory-for, in my NINA, thls IS
the greatest problem that any ma
tion has ever faced. / believe tie
proper training of the negro as a
better and more efficient agricultu-
raj laborer instead Of upon academic
lines is the most sensible and prac-
tical step that can be taken In the
South at this stage of our eX;s-
tance. Those who fancy thai the
great excess Of negro population vii!
move to other portions of the couli-