The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-25

9hNNNllNSI NAAVAt WC AiUNS hletNN U AAAA''AN@ and a half brick this season, The brickmasonry, plasterng, saving of lumber, carpenters work, painting, tIn- smithing, in fact everything connected with the erection of this building Is done by students. In the end we have the building for permanent use, and the students have the knowledge of the trades entering into the erection of such a building. While the young men do this the girls, to a large extent make, mend and laundry their clothing, and in that way are taught these indus tries.
 Aside from the advantages mention ed, the industrial training gives to our students respect and love for labor, helps them to get rid of the idea so long prevalent In the south, that labor with the hand is rather degrading, and this feeling as to labor being degrading is not, might add, altogether original with the black men of the south.
 All will, I think, agree, that one of the results of education is to increase an individuals wants.
 Now I claim that any training that increases the individuals wants, es- pecially as that training is applied to people whose condition is that of the masses of the negroes in the black belt of the south, any education, that in- creases want without increasing abili- ty to supply those increased wants is rather mistake, and wherever it Is done, whether among black or white people, you will find unhappness, un- rest or too often, dishonesty. As we watch from year to year the work of young men and women who go out from these institutions with not only train ed heads but hands as well, we find that so far from becoming drones in society they are happy, strong, pro- gressive leaders in the literary, relig- ious and industrial world, who soon en- nance many per cent. the productive value of their community
 The greatest injury that slavery did my people was to deprive them of that executive power, that sense of self de- pendence which are the glory and the distinction of the Anglo-Saxon race. For 250 years we were taught to depend on some one else for food, clothing, shel- ter and for every move in life, and you cannot expect what was 250 years get ting into a race to be gotten out in twenty-five or thirty years, unless we at best put into their midst Christian leaders.
 In our attempt to elevate the south one other thing must be borne in mind. l do not know how you find it here, but ! in Alabama we find it a pretty hard thing to make a good Christian of a hungry man.
 | One of the saddest things I ever saw was a black boy sitting down in a one room log cabin with practically no fur niture in the midst of poverty and dirt, studying a French grammar It is pretty hard thing for man to read his | Bible and live honestly out of sight of his neighbors when he Is half naked and the rain falls through the roof of ! his cabin and the wind blows through 1 the floor and he is hungry and cold at l the same time.
 We are determined not to let our dis advantages stand in the way of our seizing every possible opportunity There Is custom that prevents black man in some parts of our country from sleeping in hotel or eating in a res | taurant, or riding in a first-class car the average black man has the oppor- ] tunity only to be denied this privilege about twice a year, but thank God there is no law or custom that prevents his building and occupying the most convenient, comfortable and attractive residence and sleeping in the most lux . ,,io nI i,,ip at tbo hoe ant table in his country for S65 days in every year. There is a custom that pre- vents the black man from having the privilege of being invited once or twice a year to sit on the jury in a hot, lily ventilated court room, but there is no custom, thank God, that prevents the black man from having the best straw berry farm the best Jersey COW farm, of producing the best milk and butter to be gotten in his county, and every man that does sit on the jury will soon- CT or later buy this milk and butter. The man that has the property, the in- telligence, the charity is the one that is going to have the largest share in controlling the government, whether he is white or black.
 The negro Cdn dllOIQ CO De WIOHSCu in this country; the white man cannot afford to wrong him. In the south you can help us prepare the strong Chris
 tian unselfish leaders, that shall go among the masses of our people and show them how to take advantage of
 the magnificent opportunities that sur round them. In New England and the north you can encourage that education among the masses that shall result in
 throwing wide open the doors of your offices stores, shops and factories in a
 way that shall give our black men and
 women the same opportunity to earn a
 dollar that they now have to spend it in
 your hotels and theaters. Let it be said
 of all parts of our country that there is
 no distinction of race or color in the
 opportunity to earn an honest living.
 Throw wide open the doors of industry
 We are a humble, patient people; we
 can afford to work and wait. There is
 plenty of room at the top. The work
 CTS up lin the atmosphere of goodness
 love, patience, forebearance, forgiveness
 and industry are not too many or over
 crowded. If others would be little, we
 can be great; if others bad, we can b.
 good; if others try to push us down. we
 can help push them up.
 Men ask me if measures like those be. l 6n mi