The Detroit times., 1914-02-07
Back TO the Dark Ages
Crrom the Columbia. ;. e. stnte>

The bin 10 prohibit white persons
from teaching III Negro schools were
better called LII TO drive the Ne.
groes OF South Carolina back into the
original sayagery from which they
came.
The southern Negroes know nothing
Of civilization that they nave not learn.
ed from the white people.
To say that the white people are
teaching Negroes in schools TO aspire
to social equality or commingling IS
idle and absurd.
The pending legislation is indefen-
sible in morals anti inexeasabie as a
device o. eXpedieacy.
Snail q white minister be denied the
privilege OF goius into a Negro church
10 carry the Gospel OF Jesus?
What is the church unless IL IS the
school OF God?
From ST Paul. the Apostle, to the
Gentiles. down 10 the lowllest timer
ant preacher. was there ever minis
ter Of Christianity VITO was not fret
OF all. teacher
Is the legislature OF South Carolina
prepared 10 be consistent and add TO
the proposed legislation an inhibition
against the teaching OF Christianity Is
human beings?
How low are We falling in South
| Carolina? Who shall sound the
| depths?
Thu teaching or Negroes. though in
schools. implies no teaching OF social
| equality To say so Is 10 pat the
| brand OF race treason on our grand
mothers and their grandmothers who
! taught the little Negroes on the plan
| tations for more than TWO centuries.
The number OF northern white teach
ers in Negro schools OF South Carolina
could be counted on the AageEs of- the
! two HANDS Even were II proved that
! two or three OF them associate on
terms OK equality with Negro children,
Il would afford no excuse 10 the state
. OF South Carolina for shutting the
! light from these poor people. There
are devout white women, natives OF
South Carolina, teaching Negroes IN
schools Is II ONE 10 this that South
Carolina places the stamp OF crime or
the act OF extending the helping hand
20 the weak?
There is not q white woman In South
Carolina employing a Negro cook who
is not teaching her the domestic arts
and how TO be : better woman. too.
There is not plantation IN South
Carolina having white landlord that
Is not an agricultural school for Negro
men. women and children. Shall TINS
teaching OF Negroes be abolished? II
not, why not?
Common sense and the instincts Of
healthy nature should tell Legislators
that white people rather than Ne
groes may be expected 10 teach Ne
groes that they may not hope for so
cial equality.
The pending legislation has no place
In modern times. One must seek the
records OF the seventeenth century for
It's parallel
There is no argument-yes, there is
one--in its favor. IL the design IS 10
make conditions so hard and cruel IN
the state for Negroes that they must
fee from IL. IL may be defended, but
liz that be the argument why is it not
stated with manly candor? II this
measure is to be the beginning OF q
policy, and that is what II would IN
dictate, making life for blacks intoler'
able in South Carolina. so that we
may be free OF them, why should we
not say so? And IL we would be rid
Of cur Negro population. why stultify
ourselves with the retention OF Law
making the enticing Of Negroes to
leave the state criminal act?
There will be men TO say whenever
a newspaper cries Justice" for the
Negro II is "Negro-loyi In their
Ireeking ignorance the poor blind fools
are objects Of pity They shall not de-
ter The State from warning the peo
pie OF South Carolina against entering
upon a course ~ war with the eternal
laws OF light and holiness.
There is no likelihood in any case
that white teachers In the Negro
schools will multiply. Already we
have provided against that by fixing
a scale OF wages for teachers in them
THAT would starve all other than Ne
groes.-
With all his faults and frailties, who
shall say that the Negro OF South Car
olina In his present state is not better
than in his savage state? What wo-
man or man IN South Carolina will
feel safer with the Negro cut off from
the white mas civilization and de-
graded 70 his sometime African gross
ness? Yet with that policy the pend
ing measure IS. charged. II is a decla.
ration for the Negroes debasement; II
lis at deadly enmity with the spirit
that would lift up mankind and we
Icannot adopt or endorse It without
dragging ourselves down with II.