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E6TtBl>ISB£D 1834.
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EDUCATED WORKMEN-
De. S. P. Ricliardsoa is a deep
thinker and able writer. ' He goes to
, first principles and his deductions are
sonaii and trustworthy. He is some
times called old fogy, but the present
generation has wandered far from a
proper standard in many things.
His article in yesterday’s Banner-
Watchman struck the mark, and
while it may be impossible to rectify
many of the evil tendencies he points,
yet some of his suggestions are prac
tical and should be worked out. That
©nr free school system is, in many
respects, a farce is unquestionably
trae^ but it has been incorporated in
our organic law, and it were better
at this stage, to try and rectify the
«vils of the system than tear it up,
which would be impossible. It has
many advantageous features, these we
must try and improve while we weed
out as far as possible the evils. Our
present school system is not as effi
cient^ through the State at large,as the
©M. couanjon schools were. The State
is making an effort to teach her chil
dren but the effort thus far is weak,
and the establishing of free schools,
has destroyed the common schools
while not furnishing a satisfactory
substitute. Efforts are being made
to improve and extend the system,
and we will await the final outcome.
The pith of Dr. Richardson’s arti
cle. wag the development of the fact
diat many ot our people are being ed
ucated beyond the sphere for which
they are best suited. We need pro
ducers, workers and not loafers. We
do not intend to convey the impres
sion that our young people are being
c located too much, but we do mean
that much of the education of to day
is in the wrong direction. We need
educated hands, skilled mechanics.
We need schools that-will teach men
how to work and assist in the devel
opment of the manufacturing and
material interests of the State, schools
that will teach young men that it is
more honorable to wear the mechanic’s
apron and the forge’s smoke than
sit idle in an office or loaf aimless
arotutd a street co~ner.
We need diversification and to this
end must have skilled workmen. Our
school of Technology in Atlanta has
abigb mission and a broad field of
usefulness. May it live long and con
tribute many skilled hands and will
ing workers who shall appreciate the
needs of our sectios, and go to work
sxanfully, to woric out our great des
tiny which is full of promise and
goLL
PRESIDENT HARRISON.
Benjamin Harrison has been offi
cially declared the next president of
the Huited States.
After four years of the most try
ing but successful administration
Grover Cleveland retires on March
4tli, aud Mr. Harrison assumes the
reigns of government. The office of
chief executive of this great republic
is not a position to be thoughtlessly
aspired to. It is the highest posi-
ia flic gift of auy people, and its re
sponsibilities, rightly appreciated and
creditably met, are as great as the
position is high.
Few presidents have long survived
their official career, owing to the ter
rible stain of mind aud body to which
they are subjected- Though a man of
wonderful physique and powerful
brain, Cleveland has been put severe
ly to the test, and it is said that his
health and strength have been serious
|y impaired by the excessive strain of
©See. Already President-elec*; Har
rison has felt somewhat the exacting
ds&es of the office to which' he has
been raised. -It is to be hoped that
be will prove equal to his duties, and
a. worthy successor of Mr. Cleve
land.
Aa to his official acts we trust he
wifi, know no sectional or party lines,
but will be a president of the whole
The country is living in har-
d general good will—his pa-
i can have immense influence
closer these sovereign
:ople of kindred hopes
sts.
EDUCATION AND IMMIGRATION-
I wrote an article under the
above heading in the Banner-
Watchman, a part of which was
copied by the Constitution and favor
ably criticised. I fully agree with
the Constitution in its views on limi
ted or restricted immigration, and
would add that the South would be
benefitted by the transfer of notliern
farmers, who would buy land.and set-
t e among us, . and more _ stir, the
South greatly needs a class cf well
educated, skilled mechanics.
The Constitution very wisely says.
"After all, the question is, are we
any nearer the remedy than we were
before.” We must first- define the
disease before we can apply the rem
edy. Trace effects to . their causes.
What is our form of civilization, and
our socialism? IIow came we to have
our present environments,socially and
nationally? This country was all
settled by Europeans. The North
and South were one people and one
nation. The selling of the- negroes
by the North to the South changed
the social relations of the North, and
then the South was left with the old
civilization to manage the negro, and
themselves, as best they could. The
North finally developed a new and
entirely different civilization. This
new and old civilization were both
ruled by the same laws. If the South
had been let alone she might have
managed her own affairs, at least for
another generation, but now, ^all at
once, the South has had precipitated
upon her, a third form of society, or
civilization entirely different from
both the new in the Norfh and the
old in the South. Two races, nearly
equal in numbers, as widely different
as white and black, and yet all equal
before the law. Superficial thinkers
have thought it marvelous that
this transition state, so suddenly
brought upon both races, produced so
little friction. The negro by educa
tion could not at one bound, rid him-
sSlf of the chaius of slavery. Nor
could the whites in a day change all
their life long training into other
forms of social and political relations.
Therefore there has only been a seem
ing change, while the old relations and
civilization still remain. After the
negroes were set free, they said "old
master,” as aforetime and felt the
same, and "old master” felt the same
for the negroes. The real issue has
not yet been made. They might and
would certainly have adjusted them
selves to their new and untried rela-
tionsjand while that adjustment might
have been attended with more or less
of the severity of former times, yet it
would not have subjected them to
trials and privations half as much as
the other methods, and their progress
and relations would have had the ef
fect of permanency, because of their
natural adjustment. The negro is
forced out of his natural relations by
politicians, and fanatical religionists
and educationalists. There is noth
ing natural about the education and
political and attempted social rela
tions of the negro. The negroes
antecedents positively forbid the
possibili y of his ever being able to
appreciate or adjust himself to such
conditions.
The whole religious, educational
and political movement for the negro
is a backward and not a forward
movement. There is no antecedent
preparation or natAkal conditions for
such forward, sudden movement to
rest upon. The negroes in the long
run must be put back, and therefore
be the sufferers. The fanatical re
ligionists and educationalists have
assumed in their fanatical ignorance
that the negroes are really five *hun
dred years fa advance of what
they really are, and from this false
mythical idea, are wasting time,
money and sympathy to still advance
the negro to a mythical altitude of
which they cau have no conception
Only fools cotlld conceive the idea that
the Africen race, just out of the low
est forms of barbarism into slavery,
could from those states, in less than
a half generation, attain the highest
education and civilization; states that
it took the highest forms of humani
ty, Greeks and Saxons, centuries to
attain. It may be replied that many
among the mulattoes and negroes
learn more rapidly than the whites
This may be true in part, hut all
teachers, who know anything about
the nature of mental book training,
also know that in most cases after all
t is only automatic or machanica 1 .
Book knowledge can only be an ad
vantage when predicated of antece
dent conditions by which this learn
ing can be utilized. Farmers, mer
chants and mechanics reach a place
in their occupations when the knowl
edge of arithmetic becomes impor
tant to their business, and the knowl
edge of it enters into and becomes a
part of their occupations. Negro
boys and girls afe put m the school
horfse from six to eighteen, £wben
they come out, they have no money,
trade or occupation. But may not
the same be true of the whites. Only
1 ve at home.
More anon.
This paper is too long.
S. P. Richardson,
in part. The whites, by natural and
social environments, stand on a plane
and in relations to life the negro can
never reach in this country. The
negro is limited to relations for which
his higher book knowledge does him
no good.
To the social and political aspects
of the question. Here we have a
tangled hank, and if we are "not
nearer the remedy” we are certainly
neater the worst forms of the disease.
Two races, nearly equal in numbers,
in the new generation, have grown
out of and past che old civilization,
with all its social relations. New
social relations must be formed but
those relations must be clearly de-
fiuded and as clearly accepted by both
races. When an l how wide shall
those.lines be drawn? I would sug
gest, let the lines stand where God
has fixed them. This is the best
country in the world for the negroes
as well as for the whites, if ignorant
religious fanatics, educationalists and
spoil-place-seeking politicians will let
each race stand in their lot where
God and nature have placed them.
The conflict i* not between the races,
but the superstitious, ignorant med
dling with the races. There is more
and better work for the negro in the
South, and the outlook is better for
him than any country on the globe,
if he will first of all admit the fact
that he is a negro, and that he must
live and grow from the negro, his own
created personality, and not the white
man. In this tangled problem
there are some four or five formida
ble difficulties, with which Southern
people have now to contend, in formu
lating the new civilization.
First, The negro is dominated in
his religion by Northern religionists
who know really nothing practically
about the negro,or his religious wants.
Second, The freedmen are domi
nated in their politics and separated
from their people and section by
Northern place and spoil seeking pol
iticians, who have no affinities for the
negro, know nothing really of his po
litical relations and wants, nor do they
care; all they want is his vote.
Thirdly, The fanatical religious question. I believe that you must
philanthropists are constantly disturb- f lirn ish not on y the men, but you
ing the colored people by trying to ! mu st furnish the rule by which this
force them into social relations which j race problem shall be solved to the
God in nature never intended them j satisfaction of the people and to the
to occupy. These constant distur-! g i or y 0 f God. In order to do that
bances from without naturally alien-!. we niust cultivate in every man aper-
ates the two races-at home, and con- I 80na i pride, in every home a family
stanly weakens those mutual relations J pride, and in every individual a race
between the races, which is so neces- j pride. The true solution of this
sary to the protection of the weaker,' problem is education for your head,
and the mutual prosperity of both religion for your hearts, money for
races. The remedy for these evils is ' your pocket*and integrity for your
to be found in the whites using proper ■ conduct. Time must also be consid-
methods by which they can keep the ere d as a necess ry element in the so-
negro out of the grasp of these outside Jution. These four ingredients taken
influences, and make the negro a citi-
THE ANNEXATION OF CUBA-
It is feared that should Blaine be
come prime minister, he will put his
"vigorous foreign policy” into effect
by trying to annex Cuba to the
United States. This country is too
narrow for Mr. Blaine’s powers. He s
English, you know, and must have a
hand in the affairs of other na
tions.
What this country wan‘s with fever
infested and tax—ridden Cuba can
h&rdly be surmised. It is said that
the commerce of the island is in a
very unsteady and decidedly decay
ing state, and that bankruptcy stares
tlie whole nation iu the face.
The sugar industry, which is the
main stay of the island is being rap
idly absorbed by the increasing sugar
production of other countries. Eu^
rope produced 3,000,000 tons of beet
root sugar last year, and the effect
was very decided on the sugar indus
try of Cuba.
Spain will certainly not give Cuba
up, and tbis country can neither af
ford to buy nor take it by force.
A COLORED BISHOP’S COUNSEL-
At the recent convention of the
African Methodist Episcopal church
in Charleston. Bishop Arnet used
the fo lowing words, which should be
read by every colored man in the
Sou h. Bishop Arnet and all such
colored men deserve and have the
respect and admiration of all good
men, white and black. He said:
"Remember that you and I have a
part in solving the great race prob
lem of this country. The African
Methodist church is one of the great
est factors in tlje solution of this
zen of his own section. As the negro
now is, in all his relations, he is a
foreigner living in the South.
' As to out financial condition and the
poverty of our people, we have both
experience and observation as to both
cause and effect. Why have the
Indians always been savages, and the
Arabs always Arabs? Simply be
cause the Indians all beat their own
corn and each Indian makes his own
moccasin. The Arab has been a
shepherd and nothing else for four
thousand years. Sheep and goats and
nothing else—no diversity of energy
and labor. Society and government
are only an extension of the individ
ual. The old planter, like the Indian
and Arab, had but one idea and that
was cotton. The South bred a similar
class of statesmen who had but one
idea for their great section, and that
cotton. When they stated that the
South was only fitted for agriculture,
their ignorauce reached stupidity.
Such narrow views of the South par
alyzed her great God-given resources
in their wonderful possibilities, bio
section on the globe offers such won
derful advantages for diversified labor
as the Southern States. Climate, soil,
variety of useful products for both
man and beast,, minerals, forests,
streams, and spacious harbors, with a
benignant government,with some wise
statesmen, ready to afford protection
to all infant home industry. But the
all cotton man, and his small states
man, said, "no, let us eat leak and
onions, hew wood aud draw water and
make the raw material for the world.”
I am not dealing in fancy and exper
iments, hut in demonstrated facts.
New England took the advantage of
the carrying trade, and built ships.
The South had negroes to work, more
and better timbers and harbors but
built no ships. Educated young men,
.but no ship builders. New England
took the advantage of the little gbv-
ernment protection and diversified her
labor, grew 'rich, and bred a class of
the most cultured and efficient n e
chanics in the world. All this they
have done right in our presence, with
less than half the natural possibilities
we have here iu the South. The South
is and always has been in a state of
stagnation for want of diversity in
labor. We have thousands of book
educated men, bur more lawyers than
practice ; more doctors than patients;
more merchants than customers —
mountains of energy piled up for want
of suitable outlet. The educated young
man, whose advantages, he thinks,
has placed him beyond the plow hand
le 3 , smokes and loafs and hunts for
business, not work. Such young
brains and energy might find depth
and breadth in building a ship or run
ning a factory, if they had been edu
cated for a purpose. What the South
every morning, noon and night for a
reasonable length of time, would solve
the race problem. One of the true
duties of the minister of the church
is to. teach the people that labor is
honorable, and that God has said that
by the sweat of your brow you shall
make your bread. If we could only
stop-the stream of immigration to the
towns and cities we would subserve
the best interests of our people and of
the State. Ever since the proclamation
of freedom our people iu the souht
have been going to the towns, leaving
the country, leaving their farms,
leaving theirhomes; standing on the
corners and lean!- g against the cor
ners, going to jail and some to the
penitentiary. Let us teach them that
it is just as honorable to labor in the
cou .try as in the town, a''d that it is
just as creditable to plant rice and
pick co:ton as it is to carry the hod
and wait on the table.
"The time has come when we must
not only enjoy education, hut we
must pay something for it, and show
our appreciation of the opportunity
by assisting the friends of the race
ia maintaning among us schools for
children.”
APPROPRIATE.
On the tombstone of the late Mr.
Tightgrip appeared a bass-relief like
this: .
“That’s old Tightgrip exactly,”
said Jones as he surveyed the monu
ment. "He never ordered more than
one beer at a time in his life.”—Terre
Haute Express.
This ambignuous symbol on the
tomb of a miser reminds one of
ihe symbolic angles found frequently
in the cemeteries with outstretched
wings and finger pointing heavenward.
And it recalls the remark of an audar
cious wit, who, after reading much of
the literature on tombstones, ob
served saicastically that the inscrip
tion; "Here lies,” has a significant
double meaning.
A crisis is expected in Germany.’
Emperor Fredrick is in had health
and the Iron Chancellor is growing
weak and feeble.
The introduction oj .a resolution
endorsing the railroads in their ef
forts in behalf of the melon growers,
and deprecating unwise legislation,
cieated a commotion among the far
mers at their meeting in Brunswick.
The yeomanry thought they
saw a
__ shot at the Olwre bill and put it down
needs is, to make what she needs and by postponing it indefinitely.
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G eorgia, clarke county-wH
W. Rush, administrator of the aj
John Eherhart, late of said county. ^
has appli d to me In terms of the IswWI
charge from said administration M
therefore to cite and not fy all conero
charge sh< uld not be granted and saidsj
trator dismissed, A
Given under my .hand and official sCT
this 31st day of January, 1880. A
2-5oam-3m 8. M. HKKR NGTOJMW!
U BOR. * 1 A—CL AR K K COU Nl Y^J
lie Mathers widow of Robert D*
Isto of said county deersperi, t pr-W* *
perm anert le-tera of ndministrs-ienh:
tate ol said decessod. These «r* wjj
cite and admonl.h alt concerned tr '■?
■;t rh-r reeular term of the cou it o'
tobi held In aud furstid cou”tr inM**
why said letters about : b • grrn‘‘d W 1 *
my hand at dfflr e. thl.i 3rd. day of
ASA. M JACn
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CBBt®]
A ll nerso-nshiving deiuinds ngatnsl&J
of Nathan Hoyt Weir, lvte of CU’«l
Georgia, d-'-re&std, are hereby noilM'J
der i i their damai di to the under
ing to law, and all prisons irdtfb““5
estate, are n quired to mr-k 1
ment. This Uth day of January, 18” J
John"’
NOTICE
O BE LET to the lowest bidder.^
Court House door in Athens,
Unit Tuesday In March next, lh«^
building an additional brick room totwj
house of the sheriff, the same to te
and of same height as main building'*
covered with tin roof and painted to
with said main b tiding, said work »
in a good workmanlike manner. **
seen at this offiee The right Is rescj^
cept or reject any and all H“ s -J£
office, January 24th, 1889. S M Heuiu-
2-19 1
NOTICE.
rt EORGIA, CL » RKE COUNTY-M*
IT F.Thomas, administratrix of JoW;
deceased, has applied for leave to s*“
estate of said deceased and I will pa>
same at the regular March term,
Court of Ordinary of said c< g£ ty B iuCl
2-19 S ’ M ' * ^
Piso's Remedy pob CwwS*
gives immediate reliet CWjrwj
virus is soon expelled
tem, add the diseased action oi ^
mucous membrane is replan
healthy secretions.
The dose is small. One P-- M
contains a sufficient quantity w*
long treatment.
A Cold in the Head isrenev^fl
an application of Piso’s rein^AM
8»!'ASfiA-
-oil by mail. •
E. T. Hazeltktsi Y. T arrt“ •
