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Show MISSISSIPPI GOVERNOR BREAKS OPT AGAIN Declares Negro Srewiig Worse and Monej for Education Wasted. JACKSON, Miss. Jan. 1 Gov Jntnre K, Varduman. In his annual message to I the Mississippi Legislature, which aaaem bled today, again took a strong stand I against spending public money for the i education of the negro, saying In part: ' As a race the negro Is deteriorating morally every day. Time has demon- i Mrateil that he Is more criminal ns a free man than as a sloxe, thut he is Increasing In-creasing In criminality with feurfal rapidity, rapid-ity, being one-third more criminal In LBM than he was In 1KVV Says He Grows Worse. "In the South. In Mississippi particularly, particu-larly, I know that ho Is growing worse every year You can scarcely pick up a newspaper whose pages are not blackened black-ened with an account of nn unmentionable unmention-able crime commlted by a negro brute; nnd this crime. 1 want to Impress upon you. Is but the manifestation Of the negro's nsplrntlon for social equality, in couraged largely by the cbaracter of free education In vogue which the State Is lex xing tribute upon the white people to maintain. Not in Original Plan. "It Is your function to put a stop to the wore than wasting of half-million dollars annually money taken from the tolling white men and women of MI--slsslppl and devoted to the main purpose pur-pose of making something of the negro which the great Architect of the I'nlverae failed to provide for In the original plan of creation." |