Chariton courier., 1909-07-02

less from those who pay for
them. Yet the founder of this
school wanted, and ives the more
deceived, if he did not have thu
consent Of local white men be.
fore coming here. The cpposeri
misunderstand the sohool's pur.
pose. Colored people felt that
domestic service, both in fields
and homes, was the thing in
good demand and heI ce we'll. to.
do employers would Welcome
such q school, even though it did
not cost q penny to anybody but
the negroes and suoh Christisn
white people % cared to Aid
them. N. G. Bruce is not the
only negro concerned. Several
local colored men and women OF.
Dalton, Bowling Green and
Missouri townships, who own
], $50 acres Of land and upwards,
and who tend over twice this.
number of acres, have money,
tim, and labor invested in this
school. They, like me, verify
believe they are doing the will OF
God by having their own chill.
dren given such Christian and
industrial training ss this school
offers. They would hate to have
the school Of their own planting
SO few miles away, and yet alb
I have had business with seem
to want only just aud righteous
deal. We have involved $8, 600
in lnnd, $1,000 in new houses
and equipment, So. in labor.
new barns, etc., and improve-
ments. Total in actual cost,
S14, 600. To-day it is worth
$4,000 to our people and the
town and township. But we will
q willy cordially give the
opposers q chance to take over
all our property at what it has
cost US up to now 80 far as l
have influence. This, / under.
stand, is their proposal. l go
forward for peace, disturbing no
man.
have been very careful to OBJ.
serve and l know Of no Negro
school anywhere whore any OUT
side families moved in to the de-
probation of land nor to the hurt
of white trade, nor to the menace
of white supremacy. Negro
schools are bound to be orderly
and this one will be il il is NOT
BOUND. White majorities will
always be powerful enough to
restrain disorderly colored peo.
pie in Missouri and TO justly
punish negro violators oflaw AMI
order. The righteous and just
white people are also powerful
enough to see that the birthrieb.
of all Americans, black ard Whit
to life, andliberty, and to o 6anare
build for their chlldren's prop az.
Christian education, is vouch-
safed.
j / have talked to over 100 Of
those who signed against the
school for various imaginative
reasonsand but three, neither Of
whom can yet understand our
American ideas, were opposed to
} the school as explained, Will
nearly all who seemed oppose !.
had been made to believe thss
negroes would over. run Bowling
Green township and sCharitoI
county, when the truth is 80 good
! working boys will tend all the
land we can tuy in several dec.
, ades. Yet if numbers of good
hands were trained, kind, firm
treatment OF our people by white
. people has always paid and al
ways will, for we are q simple,
loving, loyal, laboring race, who
respond joyouely to fair and
kindly treatment. / myself,
have not and will never give any
person, white or black, any ex-
cuse to rightly blame me or mine
, for lack of respectable deport-
ment. But we are citizens, this
is our school, we mean, and will
do no harm to any man, butiwill
save many Of ours from crime
and from idle, useless, burden. !.
some lives, and save them for
. good service to those who need
honest, faithful laborers.
AS soon as opposers sre ready,
honefiedlv tn dO what vo,I NJ