The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-13
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l-ad his audience to consider the differ
snce of opportunity which faces the white
hov who has graduated from college and
u.ho returns home to begin his career,
and those which faces the negro, who has
Graduated from the same college, and with
evsry educa tional facility given the white
how is simply beyond comparison. The
white boy returns to take a place in the
Community, perhaps in a business estab-
rsned by his father or GRANDPA Their, in a
LAWYERS or a Doctors office or in some
o.ber line in which his course is clear.
NJ place has been created for the negro
graduate, no business has been established
for him. he is not taken into the office OF
an established practitioner, he cannot OBJ
tain a clerkshlp in a railroad or a COM
nerc.al office. He must struggle for a
fcotho.d. and the struggle is a very un-
equal one.
III IS necessary therefore" he said
chat we should give him the educa tion
which VIII enable him to create a bust
ness. and 10 establish a place for himself
and those who shall come after him
While l am not discounting the value of
higher intellectual education, we mus
recognize the fact that there is but a lin
tied demand for men of this caliber.
Almost the only avenues open to the ed
ucated colored man. are the pulpit and
the school, and both our pulpits and our
schools are fully supplied. We must rec
osuzc that there is a difference because
of The differences in the past"
Starting from this point Prof Washing
ton gave some attention to the evils of
overeducating the young men of the col
ortd race dwelling especially upon the
mistake which has most commonly been
made of taking the boys out of the coun-
try and educating them 10 point where
they are out of sympathy with their sur
roundings. In this condition they drift
to the towns and cities, where finding
avenues of intellectual employment closed
10 them, they can only live by their wits
II IS in this way thet many leading coll
cred men" are developed. men who have
10 employment and no visible means of
Import, who exist upon the la Dor of their
wives and mothers and sisters, and pose
before the community as leaders of their
race. The speaker was sarcastically Sc
we're in the picture which he drew of the
leading colored man."
Instead of educating the boys out of
sympathy with their surroundings, he
said, it was much better to teach them
agriculture and horticulture. the knowl-
edge of plants and fruits, of cattle and
useful knowledge generally. Teach them
TO work as the white man works-how
rot to work hard In other words. how 20
accomplish more by the use of modern in
ventions ana Improvements than their
fathers are accomplishing by hard manual
labor.
II the race, or any portion of it. were
10 remain in idleness, he told them, il
were better for them to remain in igno-
rance as it is cheaper for the community
to support an ignorant man than an edu-
Gated one
Idle pers1n in this community is supper e
by the c,mmuni y. That is true and the
people Who work are supporting the oilers.
You never saw a starving colored man.
Somebody feeds him. There are a let CT
de groes in this town who get their
food out of the white mans kitchen, and
the white people are largely responsible
for his state of affairs. They should cut
OF The supply, Let them lock their kitch-
e-s and their rantri S and make the idle
s2Cundrels go to work. Our women want
Il stop supporting these idle rsscals Let
them cease this sort OF thing and there
will be less idleness and less immortality"
The speaker alluded with regret 10 the
fact that so few opportunities for skilled
labor arc open to the negro in the coun-
try, North as well as South. and men
toned his recent visit to the cotton fac
tory in Charleston, which is being oper-
cited by negro labor with the expressed
hope that the young men and young
women of that city would prove worthy
of the oPpor tunity offered them. As an
Illustration of the necessity for the colored
man to learn improved methods of labor
he told how the negro had been practical
lily driven out of a number of trades at
the North which he had practically mo-
nopo.ized al one time, but from which he
had been driven by the white man with
his improved processes and more skilled
methods. Re told of seeing a white man
in Boston washing sixty shirts an hour
with the aid Of an improved laundry ma
chine, and reading a newspaper at the
same time, and predicted that if the col
cred washerwomen did not learn i'm
proved methods and take advantage of
modern inventions that they would soon
BE- driven out of the business.
Al present, he said, the negro is be-
barred from the higher forms of produce
tive labor. largely because OF his I'M
skillfulncss. He must prepare himself to
labor in all fields. Industrial prosperity
must he his goal. He must be taught
the nobility of labor. 1t Is impossible for
any race to rise without an industrial
foundation. The good fortune of the col
ored people of Savannah in having an
industrial school located at their doors
and the good work being done by shis
institution was dwelt upon, and they were
urged 20 take advantage OF it to the full
est possible extent.
In conclusion, the speaker criticised
some Of the well known idosyncrasies of
the colored people in a good
way The difference between a negro
and white man. he said, was the white
man was always thinking about how 10
improve his business, while if you ask a
negro what he is doing he will tell you
he is preparing TO die. This explained a
great deal. he said. He alluded humor-
ously to the number OF colored societies
which exist mainly to bury their mem
oers, and said the buryng business was
being badly overdone. LET us teach our
people how to i've" he said. God
viii take care of the dying
susiness." Instead of putting their money
INTO these societies to bury them, they
mad better put It into building decent
homes, getting out of the lanes and al
eys. and thus decreasing the death rate
Re living, not a dying race he urged.
one of the weak points of the colored
race, Prof. Washington told them, is that
they have not learned to control their
children. You exercise too little control
81 them" he said. you trust them TOO
lar and YOU trust them too much. You
'Hlnk everybody's daughter will go astray
out your daughter. but this is not so.
our daughter is no better than any 9TH
er mans daughter. Keep your children
al nome when they are not at school,
ana when they finish school keep them
ehp'oyed If you can put them where