The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-09-29
The NECRO'SFUTURk.
Booker T. Washington's Wis
Counsel to His People.
INDUSTRY AND INTELLIGENCE NEEDED

He Thanks GeOrgia's Governor FO
His Manly Enforcement of Law
and Believes In the Ultimate
Prosperity of the Race.
ATLANTA, Sept. 26.-Five hundre
negroes heard Booker L. Washington
president of the Tuskegee Normal and In
dustrial School For Negroes at Tuskegee
Ala, deliver an address here last night o.
the Race Problem In the Light of Euro
pean Travel" Among the other speaker
was Governor Gambler, who welcomes
Professor Washington on behalf of tn
state. The governor said he was aston
lshed when he contemplated the progress
made by the negroes during 30 years o
freedom. The cause of the negroes plight
Governor Gambler said, was the dirty
politicians He advised the negroes tt
listen to Professor Washington, as h,
could lead them to attain a position N
politician could ever attain for them.
Professor Washington took occasion t.
thank the governor of Georgia in thu
name of the negro race and all good peo
pie throughout the country for the manly
and courageous manner in which he il
having the law for the protection of hui
man life enforced in this state. The
speaker believed the governor had tbs
aid and sympathy of every man, white
and black, in the state.
with the cleanest and strongest mem
bers of both races standing shoulder to
shoulder in favor of blotting out crimes,
said Mr.. Washington, ''there can be nc
doubt as to the future prosperity and
happiness of each race.
81 heard few days ago." continued
Professor Washington, that it had been
reported that / came back from Europe
discouraged and disheartened as to the
condition and prospects of my race in
this country. So far from this being true,
have never felt more hopeful about the
future of the race than feel at present
If other evidence were needed, the mere
presence of your chief executive and 9th.
er officials tonight is proof that the south
desires the elevation and not the degra-
dation of the negro; that the south de-
sires to encourage him and not Cypress
him. l have unwavering faith in the
providence of God. Who knows but that
events within the last year have been
Gods way of teaching the race that it
must make friends in every manly way
with people among whom it lives and up
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for daily subsistence.
"Our problem is not to be solved by
looking to congress or to the north alone,
but by the reputation that each individu-
al creates for himself in his own COM
munity and county.
$50 long as the negro is permitted I'M
molested to secure education, property,
employment and is given the protection
~ 10 hou ho- 60; ;x
being able to work out our own destiny.
The south has been guilty of a great
many crimes, but l believe that it has
rarely if ever been guilty of numbering
men simply because they sought honest
employment. There is little difference
kStween the slavery that compels man
to work without pay and that which
forces him to refrain from working for
pay.
"Over and over again while in Europe
l had constantly impressed upon me the
advantage which the negro has in the
south in the opportunity to enter success
full business as compared with poor peo-
pie in Europe.
"In proportion as the negro grows in
telligent, Industrious and good at heart in
the same proportion will the white man
be helped. In proportion as the white
man permits himself to Cypress the negro
in the same degree is the white man de-
graded and his progress retarded. In
proportion as the white man becomes in
teligent and prosperous in the same de-
gree does he learn to accord the negro
the rights that belong to man.
''The years that we are now passing
through are serious and trying ones SO
far as the question of the white and
black races are concerned. l may not be
able to advise that which will bring
complete remedy for all our ills but be.
lieve that there never was a time when
the negro needed to give more attention to
the matter of making himself intelligent,
industrious, law abiding and to the culti-
vation of high moral habits"