The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-02-04

so that all people of every race
and section, can confde in 1t, but
if it becomes a sectional party
imbued with the prejudices OF
that section. I think I can see
it's finish. Such legislation as
proposed by the Fortner bill can
only embarass the administra-
ton of President Wilson. No
democrat in the South would
wish to do that I am sure, hence
/ say, it is unfortunate that such
a measure should have found its
way into the legislative halls OF
a Southern State; aside from the
political viewpoint, I doubt its
wisdom from the viewpoint OF
public policy. There are practl'
cally no schools outside of Char
lesion and Columbia where
white teachers are employed in
the colored schools. In Charles
ton the schools, white and COL
ored, are under the direct su'
pervision and direction of white
men, good. loyal, patriotic citi-
zens, men who give their serv-
ices for the community's good,
they are business men with their
community's interests at heart,
and these gentlemen can be
trusted to manage their local
schools without interference
from outsiders who know abso-
lutely nothing about the condi'
tions, they have not considered
what it means to community
to take it's watchful eye of from
the schools, those who are clam
oring for divorcing white in
struction from negro schools dc
not realize the hard to accure
from the improper training and
possibly improper example. ]
have no idea the trustees of the
Charleston public schools would
for a single instant countenance
social equality, but it is their
policy to have the negro trained
by those who are qualified tc
direct thought in a channel not
in conflict with the community
interested; whereas, if these
people are deprived of the right
to thus direct and mould the
minds of this inferior race, and
it is turned over to their own
race to mould, there is a llkell'
hood of them being misdirected.
and their minds moulded with
views calculated to rise up and
haunt US for our folly.
The late Judge Slmonton,
jurist; soldier, scholar and states
man, gave his sanction to the
employment of white teachers
in the negro schools. Is there
man in the general assembly
or the State of South Caroline
who will say that Judge Simon
ton had any other interest thar
the public welfare? I can men
ton other patriots. Genera.
Connor, Julian Mitchell, M. P,
O'Connor, men who gave the!l
blood on battlefelds, and o1
their means and time for the
States deliverance. Will any
body say these great and good
men gave their sanction te
white teachers in the negro
schools for other than the pub
lie welfare? The more I think
of this matter, the more I an
convinced of the unwisdom ot
the proposition.
True, there are schools in the
State, one in Columbia, where
white teachers are employed
whose conduct I cannot endorse
and if there was some way o.
running them out Of the State
without doing our own people
an injustice, I should support
the measure with enthusiasm
The school I refer to is not
State institution, nor are the
white teachers women of South
Carolina, God forbid, they come
from somewhere else, and infor
nation is. they are not averse tc
social equality, in fact, there
was d photograph exhibited
showing these white teachers
standing in a group of negroes
with their arms encircled around
the bodies Of negroes. These
creatures I would like to see
banished from the State, but the