Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-11-12

Statement From MIR. G. D.
Wins Concerning Educating
1 Negroes.
4 Editor The Advertiser: / notice
4 on your front page of this week an
article from Andrew Simkins Ia
/ very good negro) referring to the
! matter of educating the negro chill
dren. 1t appears that Andrew thinks
the negro children are Untitled to
4 more money, and more education.
The facts are that the negroes Of
] the south get their full prorata of
! school tax fund, and in hundreds
and thousands of cases far more
And in addition they are bene-
fniaries to the funds donated to ne
gro schools by some Of onr north
fern philanthropists who have more
l1noney than brains. Andrew has
fsarely forgotten that the whites and
blacks started on their financial
tionrney on we'll nigh equal footings
| I'm 1855, and if the negroes are not
fnow able to educate their children
bhe cause is in no wise chargeable
Ito the white people. The negroes
Ewere turned loose in this broad
Hand with equal chances to work
land accumulate property of those
lof any other race, and there is now
Eatthis date no excuse or logical
treason for the negroes of this coun-
l:try2to beg the white people to edu-
cate their children. And if Andrew
]swere student Of the races he could
lreadily understand that education
lof the negroes in a general way
fserves only to develop the worst
felenients within them. While edu-
icatSon Of the white race de-
Iyelops the noblpst and best ele-
lments. And therefore all the money
Iand all the efforts on the part of
1.-THE Whnes to educate the blacks
lhas resulted in cultivation within
Ithe negro aspirit of relentless en-
Unity against the common law and
Ethes white man, and such education
iis therefors the most internal nui-
{ GeiX;e ever perpetrated s=oE encoRrag-i
Ted In any country. The learned
Booker Washington undertook to
show that education would solve
tee negro problem. where as mat
ter of fact the learned Booker is
about az dark horse as ever trot-
ted down the pike.
Take the statistics Of the negro race
before and since his freedom. and
note the tremendous increase in
their crime since freedom. What
has brought about degradation and
heastly tendency? Nothing is plain
er than that it is due to his edura-
tion which begets within him an
idea that his education should keep
him from work, and in his idleness
he becomes AT open criminal. Our
prisons are teeming with educated
negro criminals, and the more you
educate the negro the more pro-
found is his tendency to commit
crime. There are of course some
exceptions. The negroes who are
half white are sometimes easier of
control, and are more obedient to
law, these trait5 are due to the white
man ingredients in their compost
tiyn.
The foregoing refers to what is
sometimes called Book Larnin''.
believe every negro should have
training in field, shop, or other vo-
cations of labor, wherein he can
an honest living, and in way and
m inner viii the All.wise hand
made him. And 80 far as The ne
gr g support, or render aid to our
state or fedora government,
the facts a-e that it costs more to
prosecute and maintain tn" negro
criminals than their taxes III that
direction amount To. Aud now,
where is there anv srnSe or reason
in The act of taxing the white peo-
pie Of this county t." educate a race
the children Of which ar. taught
by their parents u disnbey and
hate the white p opIe. We see this
every day ami everywhere among
us. No sensible man will neny it.
If this country waI owned and con
trolled by the negro race in less
than fifty years carnibalism won'd
be the order, Just As it is in the land
Of darkest Africa.
And now, in the face of all the
money spent for the negro educa-
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