“It seems to me that the most important thing in Texas, as everywhere else, is education for all. I, of course, don't believe in forcing whites and blacks together. But both classes should be fully provided for. I recognize fullythe evil of rule by ignorance. Isee enough of it under my own eyes. You are not so much worse off in this respectthan New York, Chicago, and other cities having a large immigrant population. But the remedy is not, I am sure, to be found in the abandonment of the American principle that all must share in government. The whites of the South must do as we do, forget to drive and learn to lead the ignorantmasses around them.”
