St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-10-20

was taught that he was the ah,.,
equal of the White, not only that Ihs o nut;
an equal right to be protected in hi; n' mad
suit of happiness; but he intarn.pur,
equality" to mean that he wac ;h p.eIed
moral just as good. Such te eacb as
produced spirit of insolence and i; lung
lence among the most ignorant bI a iiuo'
But now, out of the chaos we saa.,
beginnings OF specialization sbon,; sue
that substance is there. We see wing
emphasis being laid on industry, WV \ asw
the leaders of the race LEADING tba; see
nighted and deluded brothers baoi, oe'
regain what they have lost in tbe e., 70
of industry and morals. And see;rn ne'IS
heights which the upper strata If tIe
race have reached l reaffirm that tbot tHe
suggestion of the heights to which " us Is
deluded and benighted may be drawn 'D'
EDUCATION.
Hook for the solution of the nroh,..
in just such educational work as R o"I.u
T. Washington is doing for his neonI oA 81
the South today. His is an idea of r. ed, III
cation so broad and deep that it amonn ns,
to Christianization as we'll as mers
tellectual training or, as he expresses
ian education of hand. heart and headS'
He has no use for an idea of educat;on
that begins by teaching the negro
Greek, Latin. French and Tbeoi0sgrV
These in their place and time, but he be- be-
lieves that race now starting ONT !,
its career must begin with the hash
things He teaches them to become skill
full brick makers and brick LAYERS skilled
carpenters, architects, plumbers, agr.
culturists.
Such training as this will make the
black man one that will command rec
pect. The political parties in the South
today are generally speaking line I'D of
blacks on one side and whites on the
other, two hostile camps. The blacks
are Republicans and the whites Demo
Gratis. But let the black man own prom
erty and pay taxes and there will soon
commeuce to be split up on economic
issues, intelligent blacks and whites alike
standing together to approve or to on.
pose certain things.
So finally. want to say that the
black man must commend himself BY
showing forth the spirit of industry and
morality. He has suffered much but he
must be patient, and he must learn that
in localities where he is in the maorityor
in those where he is in the minority, in.
dolence, bumptiousness or insoleuce, will
only harm him and his cause. Only man.
illness and worth can overcome prejudice.
The South must be patient. 1t has
suffered much at the hands OF the negro
and much from the mistake of the North.
There is much reason for the South de.
veloping some men with blood as hot as
that of Tilman. But lack of patience
and malicious prejudice will only compli-
cate matters.
The North must sympathize with and
aid the South in her burden. Because Of
climate and economic reasons the burden
has largely fallen upon the South. But
so far as the crime of slavery concerned
the North is nearly as deep in the mud as
the South is in the mire. Ii the first
slaves were landed at Jamestown, Va,
by the Dutch, yet. startling as it NAV
seem, the first American slave ship was
built and fitted out in the old abolition
state of Massachusetts. 1t set sail from
Marblehead in 1863, only seventeen
years after the arrival OF the Dutch slay-
cry previously referred to. This ship was
called The Desire symbolic fear ofanun-
holy desire in the hearts OF its owners,
The crime of slavery was national and
aggravated by the mistakes OF the North.
We too are mot without sim Largely
by accident the guilt and burden have
been saddled on the South.