nalysis will
always produce crime. The master and Bible theory will not solve it,
because the criminal and lawless Negro does not attend church. There is
but one true solution and that lies in compulsory education for all the
children of the state with religious, moral and industrial training. If
the South is sincere in its efforts to help the Negro, or even if the
ministers and other citizens who are now filling the daily press with
suggestions as to the practical solution of this problem are sincere,
they will advocate the enacting of compulsory educational laws and see
to it that all children between the ages of six and fourteen are kept in
school. They will also advocate a more equitable division of the school
fund between the races. The great factor in the solution of this problem
is education and the Negro schools are the hope of the race.

_The Attitude of the North Towards This Problem._

Just now, the attitude of the North towards this problem is that of an
onlooker and well wisher. For a number of years the South has been
saying to the North, "Hands off, we understand the Negro and we can
solve our own problem." The North, seemingly, has heeded this injunction
and the press and politicians of the North, barring a few, have been
inclined to take sides with the so-called conservative class of white
men of the South.

The philanthropist of the North, however, while being a friend to the
white South has been none the less a friend to the black South, and has
kept constantly aiding Negro education and it is the schools thus
supported that are doing the most effective work in the uplifting of the
race. It was the wise guidance, judicious and calm leadership of the men
in these schools that saved the day at Atlanta. All of these schools
have the record of their graduates and ex-students opened to the public
for inspection. And an impartial inspection of these records will show
that these students and graduates have made since leaving school,
according to their circumstances, as creditable a mark as the graduates
and ex-students from any of our Northern schools. These schools do not
give college training.

In these perilous times when the race is passing through such trying
ordeals, and when the souls of men are being tried, I trust that our
friends will not forsake us. Our industrial schools and colleges and the
better element of the race, need their sympathy, encouragement, and
assistance now as never before.