Arizona republican., 1898-12-26

I something along thsr line, but th=y
 take the student into a cOl5ge course,
 net in.o q training SchOc. Tfey gre i expected to mako him 9 scholar al-ng agricultural and mechanical lincs. The | Tuskegee schcGl bSgins further down and pIepares it's own students
 thoroughly before thsy are introduced
 to the sciences.
 "A very interesting hint cones to the | people Of the Unitsd States from Tusk- | egee at the present t-me. We will | 0
 responsible t9 the world and the Make
 Of the world fer 10000, 600 Of colorei
 people in the sevlTal islands new Gn-
 der cur flag. The very hes. s9rv.ce that
 can be done by the United States to i thosc islands is to teach their people t0 work, just as Becker Washington is | teaching the colorcd people ol Tusk- l egee to work. We have not hld marked ! success with he Indian, because he would net work. We gre working peo l pie ourselves. A man has scarcely re- spectable standing in the United States
 who doss nct contribute by his head C. his hands to the welfare of the re- public. But the colored man ". Il work, and just as rapidly as the psCple Of those islands can be helped in this 6i- recticn, success will come to the ef- forts Of the United Sta. es in trying to do th~m gCCd- Just in what way Ccl gress may d5sm wise to manage thcse islands no one can tell. Perhaps cen
 gressmen cannot tell trlzmEeives yet But education towards the indus-Iias s is what the people Of the island are
 all needing.
 "The scientist has scarcely turned
 his attention tc any Of the prcduc cf
 the tropics. A bacterial disease at
 f9o 1-rsI &Ia,a fsc Tnr f1Ix
 years ago and swept them from the
 face of the island. Had enc of our
 Washington depaI tment Cf agriculture pathologists been there ,.a could have stopped the thing at its inception. A scale was destroying the orange trees along the river Tagus in Portugal. Dr. | Howard of the ,dspar,m nt Cf 2glicul- | turo introduced an insecl that lived upon the scale and saved the orange trees of that valley, and has received | the gratitude of that pcop.e. Bu5 no-t body has made any study Ci the in sect pests Of tiose islands. The soon- e ;ha brighter people in the several islands have their attention turned to these things the more easily they will be governed, and the s5Cn5r they will be ready to govsrn themselves sub stantially. It is diff1cu1. to imagine progress and happiness smCng any peo pie who do not study the soil from whiCin they draw thelC sustenanca, the relations of the plant t. that s1:l and the animal life thas soil will sustain. This is all being done at TusAegae. | is not b-ing done in any C-e Of the islands that are ROW so much talked of by the American people and so much writtsn about by cur newspaper fir ends and so much ag-1izsd ever by thc2e who regret that they cannCe see fur ther in the future than the.r neighb
 Booker Washington with his Tusk- egse schCCl has given Us ths key to success if W take the h Tt and set 1gc:ng the iniuenCGs !; q. will educate hose pscpie. It is net enough ncw2- days to teach 2 man m3 them2t:cs, phil oscphy and belles !ettrcs. TIh2 world has 2 surplus Of people edIcatsd that way. Our country IS fsFnCus for edu- cated artisans. It i5 net famous for tillers of the s3il. N5arly all the people of thcsc islands must live by tilling the soil. We 3 e nov educat ing in the scie1c-S relating . to agriculture young msn in half 3 hundred institutions in th- United , States. We will have 2 surplus teach ing force Of that kind presently who . will be competent td man is itutions. > IS WIG did net Have them forty years agc, when congress endowed coIeg s Q educate toward industries"