The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-16

woman who have mastered them, i'm
mediate employment and secure their
success afterwards, provided they abide
by the principles of industry, morality
and religions here inculcated. In COM
mon with the Hampton institute in Vir-
ginia, the TuSkegee Institute has been
and is today of inestimable value in
sowing the seeds of good citizenship
Institutions of their standing and
worthy patronage form a Steadier and
more powerful agency for the good of
all concerned than any yet proposed, or
suggested. The practical is here asso-
ciated with the academic which en-
courages both learning and industry.
Here you learn to master yourselves,
find the best adoption of your faculties,
with advantages for advancement
learning to meet the high duties of life.
No country, epoch, or race has a, mon
Opoly upon knowledge. Some have cas-
Ter but not necessarily better opportun-
titles for self development. What few
can obtain free, most have to pay for,
perhaps by hard physical labor, mental
struggle and self denial. But in this
great country, all can have the oppor-
tunity for lettering themselves, pro-
Vided they exercise intelligence and per-
severance and their motives and con-
duct are worthy. Nowhere are such IA
cilities for universal education found IS
in the United States. They are access
sible to every boy and girl, white or
Integrity and industry are the best pos
sessions which any man can have, and
give them to him, or take them from him.
He cannot acquire them by inheritance;
row f them. They Belong to the Individual.
and are his unquestioned property. He
alone can part with them. They are his
to keep. They make happy homes. They
achieve successes in every walk of life.
gets into the police court, or before the
chain gang. They give one moral and
a III q IA
self and command the respect of your fell
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quires the clerk whom he employs to have
them. The railroad corporation inquiries
whether the man seeking employment has
them. Every avenue of human endeaYor
welcomes them. They are the only KEYS
to open the door Of opportunity to Strug-
employment waits on them; capital re-
quires them; citizenship is not good with
out them. If you do not already have
go the pupils here assembled I extend
my especial congratulations that the IA
are so numerous and so inviting Those
who are here for the time being have the
reputation of the institution in charge and
should therefore be all the more careful to
guard it worthily. Others who have gone
before you have made great sacrifices to
will affect not only those who come after
you here, but many men and women whom
training and work here will eventually be
every part of the country.
the time best fitted for the development
both of the body and the mind: What
ever you do, do with all your might, with
will and purpose, not of the selfish kind,
but looking to the benefit of your race and
grateful that it has been your good for
tune to come within the influences of such
an institution as Tuskegee and you are
under the guidance of such strong
the pleasure of visiting this institution.
and I bring to all here associated my
good will and the best wishes of your
countrymen, wishing you the realization
of success in whatever undertakings may
hereafter engage YOU