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About The Weekly banner-watchman. (Athens, Ga.) 1886-1889 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1889)
BANNER - WATCHMAN E6TtBl>ISB£D 1834. Daily, Sunday and Weekly. . irx Dailt B.vsseb-Watchm vx is delivered 1», cMTiers In the city or mailed postage free al **e, * *cek, 50c. per month, $1.25for three month at &.«• a year. Xus Sunday ok Weekly Banxer-Watch- •i ax i* delivered in the city or mailed postage free for $1.00 a year lOimtUKJTioirs of News solicited from all aUile sources Address, MASK COOPER POPE, PkofrieioB, Athens. Ga. 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. WHY! 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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“ •
