The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-13

he, If you get an Idea like that into your head I can discover It very soon, and you will have to emigrate from here He said You do not need to think of how social equality can be brought about, but you need to think. How can make an honest living and provide meat and bread and clothes and home?" Booker Washington is a general He Is more than that-he is a king. He rules with abso- iute authority the thousands who attend his school his word is law. The disci- pline of the school Is magnificent and it takes great generalship to put twelve hundred girls and twelve hundred boys In the same great buildings as pupils and run them with so little friction.
 Young Roscoe Conklin Bruce was in the audience that night. did not meet him. was anxious to meet him and shake hands with a colored boy who had led the two thousand students at Harvard college, who had captured the first honor and the oratorical prize in a race with more than two thousand white boys don't know whether he will take position there as professor or not. I understand he Is young fellow of fine moral char acter and magnificent brain force. He ia the son of ex-Senator Bruce
 Last Saturday night, as I looked un- on that great audience of colored stu- dents I wished the great world of men could look and see what I saw and hear what heard. I wish the world under stood Booker Washington and the great work he Is doing for his race. am told f4 AzIr
 ming expenses of that school, and his broad brain must not only run that school but raise the money, and he is doing both, and I verify believe that as Moses was leader to the Israelites of old. so Booker Washington, by the providenca of God has been raised up as the great leader of his race.
 I found Booker Washington. socially. to be a modest, retiring and, I might say, humble gentleman. He thrusts him. self upon nobody. He knows his place, and in his place he is king. His bio- graphy is a revelation. his work is an in- spiration and his success is marvellous. I believe that no man can do these things except God be with him.
 was asked while discussing the matter with friend coming away from there. whether these trained artisans from Washington's school would not come in competition with white labor, and there by hurt the Anglo-Saxon. Said he, ''The negro will work cheaper than the white man." told him that was another as- sertion going around that was not true. I said, "On the building that I am now erecting in Cartersville the white man and the colored man, both artisans, work side by side; their wages are the same, and you try to hire the skilled negro for less than the white man works and you will get left every time" The negro knows a thing or two himself and he is governed largely by what he knows, like the balance of us poor mortals
 l say these things about that great institution and it's president. I am per- fectly candid in what I have said, and If any man feels otherwise, let him go down there and see the thing for him. self and look at the facts as they are, and I have no question in my mind that he will come away like have come, say ing "The half has never yet been told"
 Brother Stuart and myself begin meet ings in Paducah, Ky, October B. They have seated a great warehouse and we will be there, perhaps, ten days or more. Yours
 SAM P. JONES.
 Cartersyille. October R. 1902