The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04

but it is probable that the party
Jared much better in South Car
DINA than it would have done ii
Mississippi. The negro today
finds his best friends among those
who represent the old aristocracy
of the South. Their prejudices
are milder; their appreciation Of
character and service quicker
and in few states is that element
more in force today, than ir
South Carolina. They realize
and approve what Booker Wash
ington has done toward the so,
luton of their great problem, anc
he has nowhere had an expert.
ence likely to give him greater
encouragement in his work than
in the Palmetto State. He gained
from it NEW faith and vigor and
he left behind him ideas and i'm.
pressions that were both educa-
tional and humanizidg."
This is rather hard on Missis-
sippi for it leaves the people of
Boston to infer that that benight-
ed State is not only lacking in
anything suggestive of an .'aris-
tocracy"-a charge which its
smart set would repudiate with a
mighty indignation-but that the
usual Mississippi cure for the ed.
ucated and ambitions negro is
hanging, roasting, or bathing in
boiling oil. or, at least shooting
on sight.
But we may leave the State OF
Jefferson Davis to take care OF
itself, and pass on to remind the
Boston Transcript that South
Carolina was not foremost ir
the movement for disunion in or
der to save the Institution OF
slavery" 1t was foremost in
the movement for disunion in or
der to save the slavery-providing
and slavery-protecting Consti.
tuition written by the fathers of
the republic in 1857 from being
violated and nullifed by a dozen
Northern States that put laws
on their statute books repudiating
it's fugitive slave, clause and kept
them there in the teeth of South.
ern protest.
Whether Booker Washington
and the members of his travelling
exhibit did or did not leave
among the aristocrats of South
Carolina ideas and impressions
that were both educational and
humanizing," as the Transcript
says, we may safely conclude
that long before the former left
Tuskegee they felt reasonably
assured that they would not i'm
peril their lives through the ven
ture. We may add that if the
aristocrats of South Carolina are
in need of such educational and
humanizing" influences as Book
er Washington's travelling ex
hibit can bring to them they are
not as far in advance of the
savages of Mississippi as the Bos-
ton Transcript seems to sup
pose. Macon Ga. Telegraph.
The Telegraph very properly
leaves Mississippi to take care of
herself which she has always
been able to do under any and all
circumstances. The people of
Mississippi do not care a contin-
entail red about the views enter
tanned of them by the negro phile
journal of Boston.
Booker Washington has more
than once visited Mississippi, and
while on Mississippi soil he was
unmolested, but treated with due
consideration. The people of
Mississippi do not need to look to
Booker Washington and his
negro equality friends Of the
North for ideas and impressions
that are both educational and
humanizing." The standard of
education was established in
Mississippi long before the editor
of the Boston Transcript or
Booker Washington came into
existence. and it is the proud
boast Of the people of the state
that they are fundamentally the
ideas entertained by the Tran
script and its class.
Nowhere is the negro more
humanely treated than in Mis-
sissippi, but as long as he re-
mains here he will be treated as
a negro.
Education cannot elevate him
above this rank in the social
scale.