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become of such importance that it is an urgent necessity that the head 

 of this office be given a higher rank and be afforded better means of 

 carrying on the great work for which he is responsible. Practically 

 all the great nations of the world have for the discharge of such duties 

 Departments of Education,, presided over by officers that in this 

 country would correspond to the Secretary of Education. At no dis- 

 tant day, the necessity of such an officer must be realized by our gov- 

 ernment. This officer would have the general management of all such 

 funds as those proposed for the education of the colored race. 



It does not seem either wise or politic that an ample appropriation 

 once made should ever be increased. As the colored race increases, its 

 capability of earning money should likewise increase, and consequently 

 the taxes on its property should enhance yearly. The corresponding 

 fund available for schools from these taxes should offset the growth of 

 the race. It would be thus effected that the negro race is not entirely 

 dependent upon the federal government for its education, but only in 

 part, this part being relatively less the greater the growth of the pop- 

 ulation and the corresponding capability of earning money. Thus by 

 the help of the federal government, the negro is given a good chance 

 of making for himself a place in the nation and at the same time he 

 is made dependent upon himself. In the ultimate growth of the nation 

 no people can be expected to assume a responsibility of the education 

 of another people. At the same time the stronger should for a period, 

 say fifty years, lend a helping hand towards the upbuilding of the 

 weaker. 



Just as the religion of the white man has been disseminated among 

 the colored people through negro preachers, so must all principles of 

 morality, culture, ethics, etc., be derived from the white race and trans- 

 mitted to the lower race through the agents of that race. The negro 

 race must be developed along its own line by its own agents as a dis- 

 tinct race and as a separate people. Just as they have their own 

 preachers, they must have their own doctors, their own teachers, etc. 

 These leaders of the people must of necessity gain most of their in- 

 formation from the white man. As all learning is handed down to 

 those in the lower strata of society by those who have reached the 

 higher levels of efficiency, so must the negro ever continue to learn 

 from the white man. That it is the duty as well as the policy of the 

 white man to lend a helping hand no one will deny. 



With remarkable foresight, the framers of most of the recent con- 

 stitutions of the southern states have seen that it was equally a part 

 of justice and to the interest of both races that a representation in the 

 government of political affairs be based not only upon a property quali- 

 fication, but also upon an educational qualification; and so through 

 legislation they have effected that the upper section of the colored race 



