The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-02-21

rant OF the character and purpose of
this school, and of the character and
kind of training it will give the negro
This is school, owned by the State,
and its policy run by the white men
of Louisiana. 1t will be planned to ed
ucate the negro in the fields of en-
deavor into which the white men and
the economical conditions of the south
have placed the negro.
The school will make better farmers,
better mechanice, more intelligent help
ers in the field and In the shops, and
in the home.
To say that school dedicated to the
purpose of making negroes better farm
res, better blacksmiths, better helpers
would injure the community in which
it is located, is silly and absurd.
1t comes to us, after New Orleans,
where it was located for a generation
and where it was not doing the right
character of work to help the negro
race, protested against it's removal.
1t comes after invitation from the
police jury of East Baton Rouge par
ish, after action by the citizens of Bat
on Rouge and after resolution from
the chamber of commerce
1t is placed here by such men as
Governor Hall, State Superintendent
Harris, DR.. T. P. Singletary.
1t is absurd to say that these men
would do anything harmful to the
white race in any community.
There are negro colleges located all
over the South. Many of them are
educating the negro along false lines,
with an academic course that does not
lit the negro for the field work, in
which he is permitted to display his
talents.
But in spite of this fact, the location
of these negro schools have done no
appreciate harm to the community in
which they are placed.
There is one right in Baton Rouge
the Baton Rouge College-and yet the
most exclusive, and only modern resi-
Dental section that Baton Rouge has, +
is located right on the border of this
negro college campus. It's presence
has not detracted from the desirability
Of Roseland Terrace as a popular.
modern home building site.
Many, if not majority, of those
who protested to Governor Hall against
he location of the negro school, live
our, five or six miles from the loea-
ion of the proposed school.
The result of a negro industrial
school, properly run and built upon ;
light lines, maintained by the state,
owned and operated by the state, {
would add to, rather than detract from,
he value of property in that ward.
To argue that an ignorant, lazy crap 4
hooting, contract jumping negro, liv.
ng in town off the white folks kitch. /
n, or what he can steal, is better than l
good workman trained to the inteIli-
ent use of the pillow, or the hammer S
nd saw and Ak, is to argue against the /
acts of history
We of the South have long appealed. t
nd now demand of the North that h
hey let us solve the negro problem, s
nd handle the negro 1
We do not want Northern money and O
[orthern teachers coming in our midst I
hen it gives a false education along \
alse lines to the negro. 8
We have told the North that we pro. b
ose to handle the problem ourselves s
nd to train the negro into the field p
endeavor to which we have DER. p
lifted him to go. E
To make him competent to handle a
lmself intelligently in this field, to II
Zach him the habits of sanitation and B
eanliness, will not injure but will Il
clip any community. b