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ATLANTA, July 2S.-Brooker T. ] Washington has made another great speech in behalf of his race. He was one of the leading speakers at the Ma tional educational convention at Buff falo, N. Y, last week and his speech on the future of the negro was one of the greatest hits of the entire gather ing. Washington's talk was sensible, and practical. Among other things, he said: "At Tuskegee we are not saying that education in the classics of min isters, lawyers and octors, is neces- sary and important, but we are saying with every atom of our being that since 90 per cent of the black race de- pend at present upon the common oc- equations, and that since 85 per cent of our people live by agriculture and are in the country districts of the south, it is of the utmost importance that we supply them as fast as pos sible with educated leaders with the highest training in agriculture, dairy ing, horticulture and the mechanical arts. With us as a race this is a ques- tion of growth or decay, life or death Within the next two decades it will be decided whether the negro, by dis carding ante bellum ideas and methods of labor, by putting brains and skill into the common occupations that lie at his door, will be able to lift up labor out of toll, drudgery and degradation into that which is dignifed, beautiful and glorified. Further, it will be de- cided within this time whether he is to be replaced, crushed out as a help full industrial factor by the fast spreading trade unions and thousands of foreign skilled laborers that even now tread fast and hard upon his heels and begin to press him unto death.
 ''This question is for Christian an alysis to help decide. And in deciding remember that you are deciding not alone for the negro, but whether you will have 8,000,000 of people in this country, or race nearly as large as Mexico, a nation within nation, that will be burden, a menace to your civilization, that will be continually threatening and degrading your insti- tutions, or whether you will make him a potent, emphatic factor in your civ ilization and commercial life.
 What was 300 years in doing can not be undone in thirty years You cannot graft a fifteenth century civil 1zation into a twentieth century civil ization by the mere performance of mental gymnastics. An educated man on the streets with his hands in his pockets is not a whit more benefit to society than an ignorant man on the streets with his hands in his pockets
 "If, in the providence of God, the negro got any good out of slavery, he got the habit of work. As is true o1 any race, we have a class about bar rooms and street corners, but the rank and file of the negro race works from year to year. Whether the call fol labor comes from the cotton fields or Mississippi, the rice swamps of ttht Carolinas, or the sugar bottoms O. Louisiana, the negro answers that call Yes, toll is the badge of all his tribe but the trouble centers hereby reasol of his ignorance and want of trainin, he does not know how to utilize tn results of his labor.
 Coupled with literary and religion training must go a force that will re
  terial and industrial condition.
 "In Alabama we find it a pretty har thing to make a good citizen out of hungry man. It is only as the negr is taught to mix it with his religion fervor and emotion habits of industry economy, land, houses with two o three rooms, and little bank ac count, just as the white man does, wi he have a Christianity that will b worthy of the name.
 No member of your race in an part of this country can harm tn weakest or meanest member of min without the proudest and bluest bloc in the Anglo-Saxon race being. de graded. I have little patience wit those who are merely concerned abo1 the negro's soul in the next world. an are ready to damn the negro's body i this world.
 "In considering the relations of tI race in the south, thank God that have grown to the point where I ca sympathize with the white man { much as I can with a black man; whel I can sympathize with southel white man as much as I can with northern white man. To be man
 but a man for a that and a that
 propose that no man shall drag n down by making me hate him. \ race can hate or oppress another ra without itself being narrowed al hated.
 Those who died and suffered on u battle field performed their duty h roically and well, but duty remai