The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-01
EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO
PRESIDENT BooKER 4. WASHING
TON SPEAKS FOR HIS RACE.

Describes the Condition of the Southern
Negro-work of Education Carried on at
Tuskegee Institute-Music by the School
0uartette.
The meeting held in the Church of
the Redeener last night in the interest
of negro education in the black belt of
the south, as represented by the Tus-
kegee Normal and Industrial Institute,
was very successful. A quartet from
the school, composed of Messrs. G. G.
Harris, A. J. Shoates 49, E. N. Broad
max '9S and Marcellus Fost 99, render
ed several selections with pronounced
success.
Mr. Albert J. Shoates '97 Of the insti-
tute, made a brief address, stating his
reasons for beginning his studies at
Tuskegee and telling of the benefits he
has received at the institute.
Rev. Dr. w. L. Phillips then intro
duced Mr. Booker T. Washington, and
his address, in brief, follows:
Mr.. Washington, in preface, said, re-
plying to a statement of DIR. Phillips,
that just so long as ignorance remains
in the south, so long will the negro
be deprived of his ballot, and so long
will the law mean one thing for the
white man and another thing for the
black man. But the white man. by OPP
preston and ill-treatment, is lowering
himself, and if it continues there will
be not only one race problem in the
south, but two--the white and the black
land he did not come, therefore, any
more in behalf of the blacks than Of
the whites.
Mr.. Washington's address was replete
with amusing and at the same time il
Illustrative stories of the blacks condi-
ton and of the various means offered
for disposing Of them. An interesting
proposal, second only to Dean Swift's,
follows:
"A friend of Mr.. Washington, and
this friend is an editor suggested that
the negroes be assigned a tract Of land
somewhere, and that they stay there.
Mr. Washington said in reply that it
would need wall all around this reser-
walton to help the negroes from going
out and two or three walls to keep the
white man from going in, for the white
man follows the negro everywhere, es-
pecially if gold is anywhere about. File
said:
1--WE negroes are stronger than you
whites; we have a. greater power of at
traction. Whoever heard of a man who
had a speck of black blood in him being
assigned to any other race than the ne
gro race?
"The Tuskegee school is in the black
belt, and it is peculiar of this section
that where the negro abounds there the
mules are most in evidence.
''When we founded this school we
had one teacher and thirty students.
Now we have 300 students from TWEEN
ty-two states and seventy-nine teach
ers The average age is eighteen and
one-half years.
eve believe in systematically study
ing the needs of our people and edu-
eating them accordingly. Our school
would compare favorably to northern
or eastern high schools, with the ex-
ception of the classics, in place OF
which we put industrial labors and
religion-every-d day religion, for we be-
lieve in practicing what we preach.
This industrial system works well
for our students can work out a part
of their expenses. Six hundred acres
of land are cultivated by the students
They learn the chemistry of the soil
and to cultivate trees, make bricks, an6
every brick of our chapel recently built
was made by our students, plaster
paint and saw lumber, and we ever
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