The new age. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1902-190?, 1902-08-09
BRUCE'S BREAK.
HARVARD COLLEGES COMMENCE
MENT ORATOR CERTAINLY
MADE A BAD ONE.
Roscoe conkIins Bruce Starts Out in
Life With $500 a Year Job at
Tuskegee-Booker Wash.
ington and Lynchers.

oil the country, edited by w. NJ. Trot-
ter, son of James Monroe Trotter.
(deceased), author of the race work.
Some Musical People" and ex-re-
corder of deeds in the District of Co
lumbia, contained the following edi-
torials in its issue of July -:
Why He Left Tuskeeee.
We note that our whilom fellow
townsman, Mr.. Charles Alexander.
(now at Wherefore university, Ohio,
sometime of Boston, but late of Tus-
kegee, the great. has been made to ,
beat a hasty retreat from that insti- !
tuition, and this he did between sun
and sun. 1t would seem that Mr.. |
Alexander, who has for some time had
charge of the printing establishment
of the institute, told some one of the
townsmen, who addressed him rather
endearingly, Charlie" that the time
had gone by for that, and that hence
forth he, (Alexander) would be ir.
Alexander to him 1.-THE townsman).
This apparently harmless demand for
respect brought the threats of the
aggrieved party against the head
printer and when he looked appeal
ingly to the great Tuskegee magnate
for protection, why Brother Booker
he lay low, or rather told Charlie
he'd better skedaddle. Charlie"
obeyed without murmur, of course,
and we shall no doubt have him again
with us soon. Very likely, if Char
lie had owned three or four houses
and a snug little bank account they
would not have hesitated to call him
Mr." 1t will not, however, have
escaped the attention of the reader
that no effort was made on the part of
the Tuskegee authorities to adjust
the matter. This is a common habit
there. 1t was only last year that
some of the townsmen, driving by, OBJ
served the students playing tennis
on the campus and demanded of the
principal that they cease, and word
went forth that no more tennis was
to be played there. A year or so back
the townspeople of Tuskegee, being
DESTROYS of some fun, attempted to
lynch a student, who broke away from
them and escaped into the institute,
but Principal Washington gave word
at once that the student be returned
to the lynchers. And thus it is that
one after another of every manhood
right is yielded there. The whole
policy and motto of the school seems
to be in the language of Brother
Acooe. 81 surrender all" and with 1t
the head printer, Alexander.
Where Bruce Was Worst.
Along with the many compliments
verbal and literal, which the Guardian
has received for its review and strict
lures on little Mr.. Bruce's class day
speech out at Harvard the other day
comes word that strong as the edito
rial was, it did not go far enough. and
the following is instanced as especial
Nv meriting condemnation in the
speech.
THE sons of the freedmen
through no fault of their own. are, II
the highest sense, not yet free. There
: upon the southern plantation is al
American in black, bound hand an'
foot by ignorance and unthrift; slave
to the untutored impulse of the pres
ent. he is also slave TO the accumu
lated impulses of his past; beinI
slave to an unillumined self, he !
slave to a merciless master
Our correspondent holds that IN
above is the worst attack that coul
be made on the race. He holds tina
while the colored rae is being denie
every right by others through ever
known device and chicanery, such
statement from a Negro on such a
occasion is the most severe blow We
: dealt. This is transferring me caus
J of the races handicap from tn
4 wrongs of our social and economi
i environments (Which is UNIVERSAL
u admitted to be the Negro's creates
K drawback to a supposed inherent cor
\ genital weakness. Thus by one para
u graph Bruce liberated the white rae
Y from every responsibility for it
X treatment of the Negro in the pas
II and placed the whole cause upon IN
" Negro himself. Was there ever
II worse stab given 20 a people fe
- was severe. but the little fellow e
A bis nrice for it. Young Bruce wi
n begin at Tuskegee with a salary
!, 81 500 a year this fall. Thus re vi
IL begin the great sacrifice work