teachers of this race, fit to promote its elevation, must be a slow one.  Teachers of various industries, such as agriculture and the mechanic arts, will be more readily trained than teachers of the rudiments of learning in the common schools.  It is a very grave question whether, with some exceptions, the school and moral training of the race should not be for a considerable time to come in the control of the white race.  But it must be kept in mind that instructors cheap in character, attainments, and breeding will do more harm than good.  If we give ourselves to this work, we must give of our best.

Without the cordial concurrence in this effort of all parties, black and white, local and national, it will not be fruitful in fundamental and permanent good.  Each race must accept the present situation and build on it.  To this end it is indispensable that one great evil, which was inherent in the reconstruction measures and is still persisted in, shall be eliminated.  The party allegiance of the negro was bid for by the temptation of office and position for which he was in no sense fit.  No permanent, righteous adjustment of relations can come till this policy is wholly abandoned.  Politicians must cease to make the negro a pawn in the game of politics.

Let us admit that we have made a mistake.  We seem to have expected that we could accomplish suddenly and by artificial Contrivances a development which historically has always taken a long time.  Without abatement of effort or loss of patience, let us put ourselves in the common-sense, the scientific, the historic line.  It is a gigantic task, only to be accomplished by long labor in accord with the Divine purpose.

        “Thou wilt not leave us in the dust;
        Thou madest man, he knows not why,
        He thinks he was not made to die;
        And thou hast made him; thou art just.

        “Oh, yet we trust that somehow good
        Will be the final goal of ill,
        To pangs of nature, sins of will,
        Defects of doubt, and taints of blood.

        “That nothing walks with aimless feet,
        That not one life shall be destroyed,
        Or cast as rubbish to the void,
        When God hath made the pile complete.”

THE INDETERMINATE SENTENCE—­WHAT SHALL BE DONE WITH THE CRIMINAL CLASS?

By Charles Dudley Warner

The problem of dealing with the criminal class seems insolvable, and it undoubtedly is with present methods.  It has never been attempted on a fully scientific basis, with due regard to the protection of society and to the interests of the criminal.

It is purely an economic and educational problem, and must rest upon the same principles that govern in any successful industry, or in education, and that we recognize in the conduct of life.  That little progress has been made is due to public indifference to a vital question and to the action of sentimentalists, who, in their philanthropic zeal; fancy that a radical reform can come without radical discipline.  We are largely wasting our energies in petty contrivances instead of striking at the root of the evil.