Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-28
SOUTH MUST EDUCATE
MEN TO. Be STRONG
That Was Chancellor Bar.
rows New York MESSAGE

In his speech at the annual banquet
of the Georgia osciety in New York
recently, Chancellor Barrow, of the
University of Georgia, had this tc
say:
One Dread Passed Away.
Last month I stood at a gathering
OF negroes. told the people there
assembled that the negroes of the
South were beyond comparison, the
finest specimens of the negro race
and that they should bear this in
mind and behave themselves as lead
ers in a race. AS it CHANGED, there was
present one Of the three commission
ers sent by the president to investi-
gate conditions in Liberia. He told
the audience that what l said was
quite true, ending with the remark:
You are living in another world from
the negroes of LIBERIA
L mention this story to show that
the freedom of the South from negro
domination has not been accomplished
by the degradation of the negro, but
further that the people of the South
have developed the best strain of ne
groes, if you will excuse the lam
guage of husbandry, which can be
found.
After we became free from the fact
and then the fear of domination
amalgamatlon became our problem.
This we have legislated to prevent,
preached against and outlawed in ev-
cry way we can. 1t is my opinion that
this great danger and evil has passed
from the public mind as a matter of
dread
1 come now to discuss the phase of
this question which l believe is al
present working, has always been at
work, and which is the final and
deadly harm which operates in such
subtle manner that it has never been
sufficiently met to counteraot it's bale
full influence.
Danger From Comparison.
For lack of better name l will
call this the danger from comparison
l explain that the constant association
with an undeveloped race, tends to
lead people to think that no great eff
fort is needed to excel In our efforts
to interest people in education, par
ticularly in higher education, we
find a strange apathy, based on the
belief that they already know enough.
Because / am more intelligent than a
member of a poorer developed race
is not a reason for being Indifferent
to the necessity for greater advance
in education, but we find it hard to
make people see this. This is not
pleasant talk. l do not like it myself.
would much prefer to dwell among
the honeysuckle and think of the dog
wood in the pines. 1t must be said,
let us say it ourselves. Let us real
5ze the danger and then we will be
prepared to meet it. In our African
continent we find the invasion of the
white race by the black man and the
story is not old enough to see the end.
We can, however, learn something
from tie invasions of the white man
in Africa.
AS school boy I learned of Car
thage, queen of the Mediterranean,
growing richer and powerful with the
power which riches gave. Carthage
was separated by the sea from her
equals, and she grew in outward pros
perity by exploiting negroes, or ne
groids, if you will. AS Rome strug-
gled up, with constant struggle, I'M
til sic became to look like the rival, |
war became inevitable. Carthage
could not use the people by whom |
she was surrounded, and upon whom |
she had grown rich Her hired ar
mics were splendid, indeed, but they
were hirelngs. The wars were long
but tl3a end was inevitable Those
accustomed to the competition of the |
weak could not PERSIST against the
strong. l asked a Latin scholar if |
my deductions were authorized, and
his reply was, eve know little Of |
Carthage" l could talk of Egypt, |
but will not, for the lesson is the
same.
I will mention one other nation, a |
modern nation, the brave and hardy
Beers. No effeminacy came to these
fine people; separate and resolute
thy stood and stand. Yet the evil
of comparing Themselves with the
Africans by whom they were surround
ed seems to have wrought them inju-
ry in another way. They felt they
were stronger than the others because
they were so much stronger than the
African. They did pot advnace; why
should they What need of educa-
ton? They had good rifles, they
knew how to use them, but they We're
not prepared to meet the nation that
was constantly comparing herself with
the strong people of the world. Mar
rowness caused the Beers to go
down.
l find in our state a satisfaction
with educational conditions which
causes anxious thought. Is Georgia to
go the way of the Boer? Are purity
of Anglo-Saxon ancestry, courage and
endurance to dwarf in narrow salts
faction? I pray not.
In these twenty-twentieths white
men states 1 see great interest and
pride in the institutions of higher
learning. RicrI men lavish their
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