Problems of the Present South a Discussion of Certain of the Educational Indu
Problems of the Present South a Discussion of Certain of the Educational Indu
Murphy, Edgar Gardner, 1869-1913
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He is so not primarily as the result of political proscription, but simply because he is so. A race which, while numbering from 30 to 50 per cent of the population, contributes but 4 or 5 per cent of the direct taxes of the State, is as yet in an economic status which does not square with those industrial assumptions which are as important as the political assumptions of a genuinely democratic order. The elementary contradiction of our situation igo THE PRESENT SOUTH chap. Lies, therefore, just... here — m the very presence within our life of the vast numbers of a backward and essen- I tialLy unassimilable people. ^y /in the years following the Civil War the North asserted, sometimes with a ruthless impatience and often through unworthy instruments, but with the sincere conviction of the masses of her people, that the actual political administration of the Southern States must be squared with the democratic assump- tions of the Constitution. And the North was right. The South contended, upon the other hand, that where the choice must be made between civilization and democracy, between public order and a particular form of public order, between government and a spe- cific conception of government, — civilization, order, government are primary, and that any forms or con- ceptions of them — however sacred — must await the stable and efficient reorganization of social life.
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