The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-13
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Or. Booker T. washington. the negro orator.
made the principal speech at the meeting held
in the concert hall of Madison Square Garden
last night under the auspices Of the Armstrong
Association Of this city. The object OF tho
meeting was to awaken interest in tina work OF
ths Tuskeegee Normal ana Industrial School
in Alabama, Of which DR.. Washington Is prin-
cipal, and in the Hampton Institute in Virginia.
The address OF DR.. Washington was preceded
By speeches euloRistic of lincoln and OF Ger,
Armstrong, the founder Of tho Hampton Instf
tute. by the Rev. DR.. Charles Cuthbert Hail and
Robert c. Ogden. William +. Dodge presided
in the place Of Grover Cleveland, who had been
announced as the Chairman, but did not come.
Mr.. Dodge aroused great enthusiasm by his
reference to the work which was being done for
the colored people by Paul Dunbar. the negro
poet, who was in the audiences; by Turner. the
negro artist, in Paris, and by DR.. Washington.
IT believe that the second birth. this nav
baptism of the race into the best methods.of
agriculture, mechanical and commercial LIE
pator whose birthday we celebrate here.
able employment, intelligence, bring a seif.rs-
spect and confidence without which no race can
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knowledge Of chemistry will mean most which
will make forty bushels Of corn grow whore only
twenty bushels have grown; that knowledge
OF mathematics will be most helpful that
will mako q throo-room cottage to 70.
place the one.room cabin; that litera-
ture most potent which will give the girl n
thorough knowledge of modern household coon
omy. The race sees 1t, the race wants it-you
push tho button and we will do the rest. All
this not ms an end but as a means TO the higher
life. 1t 10 beyond our duty to set metas and
bounds upon the aspirations and ACHE ements
of any race, but 1t Is our duty to see that the
foundation ia ftly laid.
into a hungry man. There is one thing in which
my race can. excel yours: you can beat us in
thinking; in feeling We can beat you.
Those who revere the name of Lincoln
should see TO IL that we do not fail in the reap
ing of the full fruit OF his life and martyrdom.
In this matter let US take high ground: Tho ne
tenfold greater than the white man who has
learned to hate a negro. propose that the ne
CRU shall take his. place upon the high and I'M
disputed ground OF usefulness and generosity,
and that he invite the white man to step up and
occupy this position with him.
From this position / would have the negro
emit. From this position / would have him teach
that no race can harm another race without
itself being. dragged down. So long as my
race is submerged in poverty and igno-
rance in the black belt Of the South,
so long as with hooks of steel will we
in the South. II the Negroes degradation tempts
one TO steal his ballot, remember that 1t is the
ono who commits the theft that Is permanently
injured. You owe IL not less to yourselves than
TO your white brethren in tho South that this
load be lifted from their shoulders"