The colored American., 1900-05-26
WASHINGTON AZ HISlBESf.
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BeglLLii!4f5o I,uslIegee Institute now owns
. IOp0 g arras of land. OF this amount aDouI
@'cres are this year under culllVdlIoh'
y ara 1IDOn the school GROUNDS Iofty-
hste etr,i}dings. and of these all except -FOUR
gnI - Wholly erected by the labor OF
ave '5ants Students and their instruc-
Il Tqva done the work, from the Drawing
+ba pIans and making OF the pflchs pflcs 70
IN io,rting in of the electric nXtureS:
a5 IRE fiftv wagons and buggles ana
baad Of live stock. The total value OF
,rsaI and personal property IS S5OO,oOO:
a l5 add to this our endowment tund OF
i5oO1, the total properly Is 9fo1sooU; 'I 900
. ,5d TO this the value or the Z0,ooo
W v" If nubIic land recently granted 10
lls s3,s+itntion by Congress, the total prop
+r of this institution is So3O,OOO' me
zr5ants earn by work at thelf Taues 81 1iIu
gIr W j,7lustries about $56, 900 year. The
toI' i,' annual expenditure for carrying on
@ y.@' TrorIL is about 800 900. The total
EII1tbTv eypenditure is nearly $500. The
9oI daily expenditure is not far from
s. -@ thinning with thirty students, the num-
- has grown until at the present time
lbara are connected with the institution
Ebcusand and more students from twenty
- states, Africa, Jamaica, cuba, Porto
- and other foreign countries. IN al Vi
r. denartments, Industrial, academic ana
81 fqioIs there are eighty-eight officers ana
II saebers making a total population on our
POUNDS of about 1,2OO people. .........
~
az been in existence hundreds OF studentS
ave finished the academic and industrial
81 urses and if we add to this NUMBER dpout
mn students who were not aDle TO re-
s. oain and get diploma or cer1Hcate, VINO
q #GvartbeIess got the spirit of the lnStltu-
an ana a knowledge of an industry TO
rcb an extent that they are doing Soou
nrk as teachers, as farmers, as trades
s. oen. as leaders of thought, industry, thrltt'
noraIity and religion, the number can SaIe-
be placed at nearly 1000.
Free From Criminal Record.
Not q single one of our graduates has
Iypr been convicted by any court or crime
H. single one of our graduates has eveI
Ipan charged with the crime or attempting
In assault upon woman.
q At least half of these students are work
e. in part or wholly at the trades or IN
#usries which they learned at 1uShSSec
zR'bether they are working at the lmmedi-
&e trade which they learned or not, al
ave the spirit of industry ana JhTlLt tLd'
#Bakes them valuable citizens. me Iuske-
pa Institute does not cOntine its work &c
h. industrial training. Along with indus
Eial training goes thorough nne.t nnentaI anu re
Agious training. We keep in constant OPP
*sration at which the various students re-
#eive training twenty-eight industries. All
n these are industries at which our stu
ants can find immediate employment as
non as they leave the institution; IN IacIr
= cannot begin to supply the demand fol-
ur graduates, and a large portion or theSe
emands come from southern white men
nd women. We can now erect building
n any size without going off OF the school
rounds to employ a single outside work
nan.
10 Cast Down Our Buckets where
We Are:"
S This Industrial development leads me in a
gcal order to the discussion of the most
ZeIcate part of my subject, that of the per
#anent residence of the negro, the relation
81 the two races and the question of citl-
2 anship.
s. Whether our habitat is to be in the south
be north, or west, the islands of the sea-
ii in Africa [ think you will agree with
be that the elements of strength TO which
81 have referred will be most valuable quai-
lies for us as a race. My own belleI is
lat We are to remain permanently IN TINS
g untry and the great bulk or us at the
Z uth and until those who advocate a re-
pm to Africa prove their faith by their
0rks l shall judge them by their actions,
N btlieVe that they agree with me, that
bis is the better country TO live in because
hey are most careful to reside here them
lives.
$ Nearly all opportunities and privileges
S U50n an economic or industrial basis,
ld when | say this l mean every time
lat this economic and commercial basis
- be fortified anu SuIIOuIIuSo ny AAOh
development and religion. But there
the foundation. This granted, L do not
4eEe with all her fault and wrongs, you
81 find a habitable portion of the globe
here there is such opportunity for bust
rs, for commercial development, as the
gro has open to him in our southern
AleS. The black man who cannot sue
- IN business in the south cannot sue
"a out of it. But you suggest that COM
cree mere dollars, is not all Of life: there
Somtthing higher and beyond mere V1S1-
dccumulatiOn. In this l agree with