What Ignorance Costs
The Georgia Legislature has before it a
bill, recently introduced, proposing to greatly
reduce the amount of money annually appropriated
for the education of the black youth of
that State, on the ground that it cannot afford
to spend so much money for Negro education.
I would reverse the proposition. I would say,
with all the earnestness of my soul, that the
State of Georgia is not able to let the 800,000
Negroes within her borders grow up in ignorance.
It will cost Georgia more not to educate
them than to educate them.
Address at Thomasville, Ga.
