The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-06
THEY NEED CULTURE
BOOKER IT. WASHINGTON DIS
CUSSEs RACE PROB
LEM
BISHOP ADDS HIS ADVICE
Reception of Negro by President Is
Brought Into Prominence Again
by a Notable Meeting
in New York.

NEW YORK, March 5.-Bishop Potter
was chairman and Booker T. Washing
ton the principal speaker at q meeting
held tonight at Carnegie hall in the in
terest of Hampton and Tuskegee insti-
tutes, auspices of the Armstrong asso-
citation.
Robert c. Ogden, president of the Arm
tutes, under auspices of the Armstrong
association.
We must deal with the black man as
problem, not in fragments, but as a
whole. l must confess that the first
man who entered my mind as l entered
Ihls nall was the senior senator from
South Carolina
We ought to realize that the main
thing that divides the negro from the
white is the lack of culture, and that by
giving him this culture W will ennoble
MIN and raise him to a level of intelli-
gence and creative citizenship.
Mr.. Washington was introduced by
Bishop Potter, who said that after the
president had entertained Booker r.
Washington as his guest he telegruphed
him as follows: Il congratulate you up
on your guest. He was a guest at my
table last winter and never entertained
a worthier one"
Somehow or other" continued the
bishop my message became public, and
since that time I have received numer-
Gus letters from people south of the
Mason and Dixon line entreating me
not to show myself in their neighborhoed,
as their citizens had no desire to enter
tain me-"
Mr.. Washington was received with
great applause.
Biames Ignorance for Crime
Mr.. Washington said:
If We should discuss what IS Known as
the race question with any degree OF
peneht we must reach the point where
We can so far rid ourselves of sectional
or racial prejudice that we can in a large
| degree place ourselves in the position of
the southern white ana at the same
Tune put ourselves in the place of the
negro. Nothing Will be gained for either
race or for any section of our couu-
try by bitter criticism For $50 wears
the negro was worked. What he wants
TO learn now is to work. There is a vast
difference between working and being
worked. For one to learn that work is
honorable and to be idle is dishonorabl BILE
is the foundation OF civilization
1t is not the negro who has been prop
erly trained in hand, head and heart who
commits crime 1t is the ignorant, shift
less negro who has no occupation who
mas not learned to love labor who does
not own home, who is usually the
criminal When the man becomes the
owner Of piece of land and a decent
mouse and bank account, l notice. he
/ becomes at once a conservative, law
abiding citizen, and one who can be
trusted to vote intelligently for the best
$500 0N'No "a TIC community III WHICH he
lives.
Blacks Salvation on the Farm.
With the negro. as with every weak
and inexperienced race. it is important
that he be taught. that his salvation is
| IN learning to own and cultivate intelH-
gently and skillfuly the soil no the
negro just now this is the wheat. all else
! Is the chan. Agriculture VIII prove our
salvation. and the race should be slow
to abandon the farm.
Just now a large proportion OF the
race needs that education which will
: make the youth return to the farm and
produce fifty bushels of corn where only
twenty-five grew before, rather than
yield to the temptation to go to a city
and attempt TO live by their wits. Those
who would help save my race should use
their influence to keep the negro out Of
\ the large cities, and especially the cities
of the North These are some OF the
! lessons that Hampton and Tuskegee in
stltutes are constantly teaching
The time has come when we must see
to it that all the people in the South
| have the fullest opportunities for the
| very best education. All must be edu-
! Gated without regard to color Out OF
her poverty the South has done well but
the tremendous demands upon her for
the education of two races should enlist
! your hearty interest and support. Pro-
! Viding for education in the South is not
| a matter Of giving or mere philanthropy.
I 1t is a matter Of business that concerns
| the whole country.