| Show i fOUL EDUCATION TI T THE f ft CURSE t OF f N NEGRO OI GOY Gov Vardaman of Mississippi In Iii Strong Stron Terms So Says In Iii His Hs l Inaugural Address Address r u IS INCREASING Jr Time has lias ls Demonstrated tr That He Je Is 19 IsMore 1 More Criminal as a Tree Free Man ManThan ManThan Than Titan as a Slave WHAT SHALL SI LL BE DONE ABOU ABDU IT ITHe I 1 V I II II Ile I I r He lie le Declares the People of or be the Nation Mitlon Should Rise Hise Up and Demand Re Repeal peal Jeal of time the Fifteenth Amendment j s 1 Jh 1 Jackson J Miss MI s Jan 19 In his In Inaugural augural address delivered today be before before fore tore a II joint session of o the tha Mississippi legislature Gay Gov GO James Janies K IC 1 Vardaman Th declared that the thc th growing of or J I time the negro legro to commit criminal assault on omm Ot white women Is I nothing more or orless orless I H less hair thc the manifestation of oC the racial desire for or social equality In strong stron terms h he declared dl that education I IOl lout tion Ol Is the time curse cure of oC the thc negro race ani n k urged tinged urge 1 an aim al amendment to the state con comm that will wil place the thc distribution of or the thc common school fund solely oleh with within wih in the power of oC tho tIme legislature Con Comm Continuing COl his lila discussion of time tho negro I Gov GO sold sud i As An a race he Is deteriorating morally I every day Time has demonstrated that he lie Is II more criminal as M a n free tree man manthan manthan li than limit an as a a mu I that he lie Is 18 Increasing In criminality with wih frightful rapidity 1 I being more moore loro criminal In 1530 1800 1 Ii than thamm hi hl urns In 1880 1850 I J Time Thc he startling facts revealed by the Ibm census show that those who can cami read reHI i fi ii uld amid ml write me ame P more marc criminal than halt I the which It Is true of or no n other 1 clement of ot our population 1 am ad advised I 1 that time the minimum Illiteracy I among tho time negroes is lH found In New No England where It Is per cent The Tho Ii Is I found In the black blok belt m I Mississippi anti and South Caro Carolina lina Int where whew It Is I ter per or cent ernt and yet et t the tho negro In New Ingland Is II tour four and anti inc unc JC half times more criminal hundred for tor hundred than ho Imo Is I In time the black L il I belt h I In jut 11 time the south Mississippi 1811 particular particularly I I I II ly Ir I I 1 know ho lie Is grow In worse every 11 You comm cun CUl scarcely pick mick ik up a it 1 news newspaper nelll i I paper haper whose pages are arc ne not clot blackened with the thc account of ot an all unmentionable crime committed by Ii n a negro brute dm 11 this I want walt to Impress upon you 01 I II Is I but time the manifestation manlle of or time negros i i aspiration for or social equality encouraged I mJ aged largely largel by the thc of ot free Cree roe In vogue O UI which the state Ii is II I Ito lev Inn tribute upon the white people Im to maintain l I IThe The Thc better heter class 1 of or Ii i 1 not I m ill responsible tar fur this terrible condition nor or lor or the tho criminal tendency of oC theIr race Nor or do I wish to 10 hl hot o understood i ilS I us Its lS censuring them Item for Cor It I I J am runt nl not I J anybody nor tier urn ama I Inspired I Iby by Ii lii I will fur for time the negro but I am nm slam sim simply i iII ply lii II calling attention to 10 n a 1 most unfortunate ji amid anil unendurable condition of at 1 affairs What shall bo bl done domie about It I 7 I M My 1 own Idea Is that the tho character of ot the time education for tor the negro ought to tobe tobe I Ibe be changed d If tC after years rR of oC earnest t I I effort and the expenditure of ot fabulous i q of ot money to his head I If 1 i ive ve c f have hare only In mucking making a Il I 1 criminal out of 01 him him fn JI i his usefulness und amid is as 1 a labor laborer er en wisdom wl could suggest sl est t no we 10 make Inlo another and see If Ir wo we ian ami iannot I ui not improve him hll by b educating his hil hand i i and his heart beurl Thure must bo ho 10 a j substratum upon which h to build or you OU Jj h cannot him n mm desirable citizen ii Tho Ihl governor also declares that tho i i jh the thc nation should rise tise I people of or naton Ilse up tip and Ild demand the tho repeal of the thc fifteenth iJ amendment limit ii ti I t 11 |
