The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1911-11-30
what constitutes the backward
20. 900. 900 of the South, the field

Dr. WQlCo SalQ GudO LIS iiI0
devoted to this 100000, am
that he would rather be q facto
in it's uplift than move in tn
most aristocratic circles as {
leader. For ten years he wa
secretary of the home mission
board and gained much expert
ence with the mountain ant
mill people. He considers tht
mountaineers Americas store
house Of pure red blood and o5
unjaded nerves Their names
languages and customs link Us
to the unadulterated Anglo
Saxon of Beowulf.
DR.. White spoke of the eager
ness of the mountain children
for education and their inherent
religious turn, Cold, rain, snow,
mud nor any weather inclem'
ency keep them at home-they
must be told to stay at home In
stead of told to go to school. The
mountain child is a gold mine
waiting for development. There
are no skeptics in the mountains
they take the Book from cover
to coyer.
In Madison county, N, c., uI
to 1900 only one boy had left
that county for an education
and his parents were really not
mountaineers. Since then from
one mountain school in that
county sixty boys and girls
have graduated from outside
schools and universities. When
DR.. White taught in one of the
mountain schools parent made
complaint to the school board
that the teacher was unset
Ting" the minds Of his children
and getting notions in their
heads about leaving home and
going out into world.
The backward class Of 5,000,-
900 who own no land are the
under strata that still needs to
be dealt with. They come from
the undisturbed servant class
brought with the colonists from
other countries, and finding
themselves free in this land, be-
came the poor white tenants of
the plantations, owning no land,
careless, irresponsible, living
upon the business abilities of the
planter.
After the war. says Or. White,
these people began to congre.
gate about factories and mills
where their children and women
could be made available for fam.
lily support. Thus sprung ur
the ignorant, infammable mill
element, though I do not mean
to say that all people who work
in mills are of this origin.
The Atlanta riot, making
regular he'll of human force,
continued the doctor, was com.
posed of mill people. as was
proven by the investigation.
Not one single man belonging
to that mob owned a foot of dirt
This element largely makes uI
the mob of the lawless element
of the Southland.
The negroes make the 10000,
600 of the 100000 backward
people forming a great cloud o1
peril to the South. We brought
them here and keep them here
Any proposition to remove then
would meet opposition: As Ions
as the whitg man makes thu
negro a factor in the develop
ment of the South he must il
common decency give the black
man justice.
Friends exclaimed DR.
White, Il am not so much
afraid the negro will lose hi%
head as I am that the white
man will lose his soul. The gos
pei of Christ only is capable o.
making the relations between
the white AID blacks right
and / mean right by the stand
ard of God. We must rule by
the superiority of virtue aid no
by the equality Of vice The
negroes are practically Baptist'
the world over. Belong to us a
a denomination, and the Bap
lists must practice their religion
on the negro and try to ge
Christ's conception of him.
DR.. White said that while tn
home mission board looked Int
the industrial conditions of theS