The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-01-06

more emclent when he Is trained If
you are going to train a setter dog.
don't you first have to make him
mind! And II you are going to work
mule, don't you have to break him?
On the old-time plantations, where
the master was carefud to train his
negroes, everything moved regularly.
In order and with success. On the
places where the master was brutal
and ignorant the slaves had no train
ing and were little better than saw
ages. The respectable and thrifty neg
roes after the war, the artisans and
farmers among them the taxpaying
negroes were those who had trained
to do some kind of profitable work on
plantations owned by men of ad-
ministrative ability.
20 to any town in South Carolina
today, where the superintendent as
sumes the proper control of the neg
ro schools, and you will see that the
colored population generally is polite
and respectful giving evidence of
training in manners Now visit a town
where the supervision is lax or where
they are left entirely to themselves
in their schools and you will observe
tul. | think the subject is an import
ant one when il is remembered that
more than half Cf our population is
negroes. They are capable If properly
directed of producing a great deal OF
wealth. Although l do not believe
that the negroes no matter how we'll
educated over will be serious COM
petitors of the white people under sim
liar conditions. The ignorant negro
may rival the ignorant white man but
the educated negro will never with
the educated white man. Ignorance
throws them on a level: education
Keeps them apart. Which is the sup
erior race? Are you afraid for them
to have an even start with you? No
body proposes to give them an "excee-
dinghy high education" but an edu-
cation that suits them.
Our registration law requiring
property or an educational quail
fication to vote is all right; but the
manner in which that law Is admin
istered by registration officers is all
wrong dead against the interest OF the
white people OF South Carolina, and II
ought to be corrected. These officers
make 1t easy for an ignorant white
man to vote make 1t impossible for all
fcult for an educated negro to vote.
The consequence Is that the negroes
keep their children in school prepar-
ing them for citizenship; while too
many white parents are indifferent
about II and let the ir children attend
school or not just as they please ell
an educated and thrifty
negro electorate and discouraging an
educated white elecLorate; and 1
might add making some very intelli-
gent women think that conditions
woud be better IL they were allowed
to vote. Put the educational quail
fication 70 rthe franchies as high as
you please but be honest in the ad-
of the Law The nan
who fears The resulC the man WHO
th!Lfs tie negro will beat him in Il e
race is a ialghty sorr~ white man
1t is a very short-sighted policy
that would withhold money from the
education of our own children be-
cause some of 1t a very small part of
it goes to the education of the neg
roes. l can demonstrate that 1t is the
wisest economy to educate the neg
roes. 1t pays. Not of course to give
them a education incompatible with
their surroundings and unsuited to
their needs. 1t is not worth while to
teach Greek and Latin and algebra
to negroes. Much time is wasted in
fetching these subjects to many
white people.
AS to Prof Jordan's theory that the
future OF the negro is to be solved in
the mulatto, "a result too horrible
for SOutherners to contemplate"
Every observant man knows that
genuine mulattoes nowadays are found
only in the homes OF the more ignor-
ant and worthless negro women; that
the fathers Of these mulattoes come
from the lowest class OF ignorant
white people-tools OF the demago-
que opposed to compulsory education
and opposed to the honest admins
tration OF the election law.
Spartanburg is one OF the few
In South Carolina that has a
majority OF white people. A night
school was opened In one OF the fac
tory districts OF the cIty last October
for adults and children over IA years
old, who could attend the day schools.
Out OF an enrolment OF So pupils, IT
were illiterate. Many OF them were
born in the mountains OF North
all are now cizens Of South
Carolina.
Not long ago two young white far
mers with negro farm laborer came
into one OF the banks OF this city.
The white men had sold cotton and
had checks to be presented. The neg
70 endorsed the check for them
the pen while the two white
men made their marks.
There Is on record in the probate's
office Of this county a marriage lice
nse upon which a cross mark stands
for the mans signature a cross mark
stands for the wom0n's signature,