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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-05-10
PROF. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.

song rolled up along the rafters. And
as soon as silence came. found my
self in front of this extraordinary
mass of faces, thinking not of them;
but ofSthat long and unhappy chapter
in our countryss history which fol
lowed the one great structural mis-
take of the Fathers of the Republic,
9thinging of the one continuous great
problem that generations Of states
men had wrang1ed over, and million
men fought about, and that had So
dWarfed the mass of English men in
the Southern States as to hold them
back a hundred years behind their
fellows in every other part Of the
world England, ii Australia, and
in the Northern and Western States
] was thinking of this dark shadow
that had oppressed every Iarge-mind-
ed statesman from Jefferson to Lin
coin. These thousands young men
and women about me were innocent;
victims Of i. ], too, was an innocent
victim OF 1T. The whole Republic was
as|yictims Of that fun amenta1 error Of
Airiea into America. 81
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held firmly to the first article of my
faith that the Republic must stand
fast by the principle Of manhood suf-..
frage; but recalled the wretched
mess that Reconstruction had made Of
it; recalled the practical nullifica-
ton Of the post-b el1um amendments
40 Mississippi and Louisiana, and the.
low level of pubic life in all the.
black States Every effort of phi
lanthrop y seemed to have miscarried,
every effort at correcting abuses
seemed of doubtful value, and the race.
difference was asserting itself more
and more. Here was the century-old
problem in all its pathos seated sing
ing before me. Who were the more
to be pitied these innocent victims of
an ancient wrong, or and men like
me. who had inherited the problem?
= had long ago thrown aside Illusions
and theories, and was willing to- meet
the facts face to face, and to do what
ever in Gods name q man might do
towards saving the next generation
from such a burden but felt the
weight Of tMenty vel hopeless.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-05-10

of Mr.. Washington's success is, then,
not his teaching the pupils Of Tuske-
gee, nor even gaining the support of
phIlanthropic persons at distance.
but this-that every Southern white
man of character and of wisdom has
been won to a cordial recognition of
the value of the work, even men who
held and still hold to the conviction
that mere book education fyr the
Southern blacks under present condi-
tons is positive evil. This is
demonstration OF the efficiency Of the
Hamp Tpskegee idea that stands:
like the demonstration of the value
OF democratic Institutions themselves
"a demonstrations made so clear in
spite of the greatest odds that it is
no longer open to argument.
Consider the change that has come
in twenty years in the discussion Of
the Negro problem. Two or three de-
acades ago social philosophers and sta
tisticans and welLmeaning philan-
5thropists were still talking and writ
ing about the deportation Of the Ne
groes, Of about their settlement with
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-05-10
THE GROWTH OF HIS INFLUENCE
~ He LIVES A TEXT AND PREACH
80 Ts ES No SERMON

He has reached world wide fame,
at an unusually early age. His story
OF his own life already has the dis
tinction of translation into more lam
guages, think, than any other Amer
lean book; and suppose that he has
as large a personal acquaintance
among men of influence as any private.
citizen now living.
biography how the late Mr.. C. p.
Huntington, when he first met him,
gave him 81, and when he last met
him, $4,000. This is a good illustra-
ton of the way in which the man and
the idea that he stands for have
grown in many minds. At first he
was regarded as the head of school
for co1ored youth. But there are hun
dreds and hundreds of such schools. and
many Of these have men at their head
who are earnest and capable. With
better acquaintance he grew upon the.
friends he made as something more
than schoolmaster. The large sig
nifcance of his work--its economic,
and patriotic significance slowly
shaped itself into a philosophy in the.
minds OF those who understood it..
Yet Mr.. Washington himself has.
never formulated this philosophy in
systematic way. He lets fall re-
marks that indicate his understanding
OF il, but he has worked it out better
than ne has ever expressed it. He.
says, for instance, that the proper.
training Of the Negro is as important
Tor the future. OF the white man in the
South as for the future of the Negro.
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4 - - az EsEs
years Of thought and reading and OBJ
servation for the old difficulties re-
NAMED and new ones had sprung
up. Then i saw clearly that the first
way cut Of a. century of blunders had
been made by this man who stood
beside me and was introducing me to
this audience Before me Nas the
material he had used All about me
was the indusputahle evidence that
he had found the natural line Of de-
sFelopment. HeA had shown the way
Time and patience, and encourage
ment and work would dc the rest
1t was then more clearly than ever
before that understood the patriotic
significance of Mr. Washington
work. It is this conceptions OF Il and
of him that I have ever since carried
with me. 1t is on this that his claim
to our gratitude rests .s sssI
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Mr.. Washington speak than any other
private citizen of the United States;
and he is often described as an elo-
quent speaker. But he has not the
oratorical temperament. There have
been many men of his race who had
it, the late President Price. for in
stance, of Livingstone College at
Salisbury, North Carolina He surely
was an orator He struck fire when
he spoke, and threw you into the
heroic mood. An orator is a man Gf
i may use one of DR.. Cprry's interest
ing "reminiscences who can do what
General Robert Toombs' did in the
Confederate Congress. He proposed
and elaborated a plan for. the yicto-
rious ending of the war by the Con-
federacy which was SO brilliant that
after he took his seat the Congress
instantly adjourned under the spell
of his oratory. But that was the last
of the matter. The plan was emo.
tionally perfect, but it. was never
translated with i action Now Mr..
Washington never turned an audience
topsy-turvy in this fashion. But the
moral earnestness of the man-v,,.1ch
is. his power-has done better things.
1t has won cash, and sympathy, and
lasting esteem for his wisdom. But
his talk is not oratory. 1t is akin to
the Notwithstanding kind Of talk,
not to the Toombs- Douglas kind
Tuskegee will be his monument, and
a lasting idea will be his bequest,
not a memory of oratorical triumphs
nor volume of speeches.
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that had heard all my life; but /
had never before heard them sung
by thousand voices nor by the,
voices of educated Negroes n had
associated them with the Negro Of the
past, not with the Negro who was
struggling upward. They brought to
my mind the plantation. the cabin. the;
slave, not the freedman in quest of.
.education. But on the plantation and
in the cabin they had never been sung
as these thousand students sang them.
i saw again all the old plantations
that I had ever seen; the whole his
tory of the Negro ran through my
mind; and the inexpressible pathos Of
his life found expression in these
songs as had never before felt it.
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in some restricted area. or about their
settling in all parts Of the Union; or
about their decline through their neg
lect of their children, or about their
rapid multiplication till they should
expel the whites from the South-of
every sort Of nonsense under heaven
All this has given place, to the simple
plan of an indefinite extension among
the neglected classes of both races of
the Observation-Disclosures system of train
Ing. The problem in one sense has
disappeared. The future will have for
the South swift or slow development OF
its masses and of it's soil in proportion
to the swift or slow development of
this kind of training. This change of
view is true measure of Mr.. Wash
ington's work
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HAS Wayo
. MhonaIi -
The characteristics of the AT

In a company of half a dozen men
OF wide experience in life, among them
a merchant, a financier, the manager
OF "a large corporation, and man of
letters, the conversation lately turned
on living great men in the United
States. Many interesting obserya-.
tons had been made about men of
noteworthy success and of strong per-
sonailtles, when one of the company
said: . - '.-'1
Great is too vague a phrase. But
l think hat Mr.. Booker T. Washington
IS the most useful citizen of the Re-
pubilc. He has done several things
or historical value. He has proved the
constructive and executive ability of
the Negro in large way; he has
worked out a successful plan for the
building up Of his race; and he has
done more to remove race-friction in
the South than any other man of his
generation" -, 4
And another added:
He is not learned man, of course,
IN any academic sense, but am dis
posed to think that he is the wisest
man | know. BY wisdom mean the
quality that enables him to see a sub.
Ject on many sides at once, and I'M
erringly to subordinate a temporary
advantage to large purpose. He has
unmeasured PATIENCE as he has
proved by dealing successfully with
the largest social forces I should put
as great confidence in his Judgment
of men as in any other mans that I
ever knew" =
And the whole company agreed that
ne was, perhaps, the most useful man
now living in the United States. n
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TRANSPORTATION OF THE BEGGING
METHOD-PATRIOTIS

Ihe necessary method of doing this
has not been a pleasant one-the
method of begging money. But there
was no other way to do it. Mr.. Wash
| ington has always succeeded in put
| ting his appeals for financial help on
the proper basis of patriotism. He
| has not asked help for himself nor
for a private enterprises; nor has
he asked aid simply to train
certain number of young men and
women of his race, but he has
asked help to prove the soundness of
| great idead. His philosophic grasp
OF the import of this work was strik-
ingly shown by an incident that I
shall take the liberty to tell, since I
did not hear it from him. Several
years ago man of great wealth sent
for him, and told him that he thought
OF giving part Of his fortune to
further the education of the blacks
He asked Mr.. Washington's advice on
this point and on that, and several
hours passed in talk When Mr..
Washington was about to go away the
conversation took a turn somewhat
like this:
MAY volunteer one piece of ad-
Weep ~
Certainly" ....s
IF you are thinking Of giving any
considerable sum of money for this
purpose, I hope that you will not give
it for the education of the Negroes
only" -.
: But that is what had in mind y
+ Give it equally for the education
OF the whites in. the South The
whole country must be built up to-
gether." ~
AT this time Tuskegee Institute
was sorely in need Of money to meet
current expenses. x
| have seen d telegram that Mr..
Washington sent to a ~benefactor of
his own school, asking him TO give,
money for a library in a Southern
school for whites; and he took pains
that the school should not know that
the suggestion Of the gift came from
him.
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INNOCENT VICTIMS OF ANCIENT
WRONG. AND THE MAN WHO
SHOWS The FIRST sNAY ss
(1IfrEJXy u n
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-07
TO the Dogs and the Devil With All
Such Bosh"

To the Editor: Are not you gentlemen
of the press stretching magnanimity to
the extreme limit by giving space to the
insidious carnations of Radical leaders,
or rather misleaders of current thought
in the political field? A case in point
has just come to hand. A chronic aspir-
ant for Congress of that persuasion, in
long-winued communication to his
competitor, ostensibly looking to a joint
canvass, takes occasion to inject an ex-
parte stump speech into his note, setting
forth in ex-cathedraic and assumptive
style his peculiar views as to how the
joint canvass should be conducted, not
emitting TO interlard this precious doc
ument with the most plausible and CO.
gent argument why his party construc-
ton is the only possible correct one, and
sequentially himself the only legitimate
aspirant for the honors incident. So far,
barring taste, so good, but straightWay
this unique production is given wide
publicity by Democratic papers, without
a word of criticism or comment, notwith-
standing it is more pregnant with insid-
ious mischief than dozen of. his cam
raign speeches, at the best, could possib-
ly be-
In repetition, does party courtesy or
maudln sentiment require such Excess
sive obeisance at the hands of the PEN
dip of the man in the 'sanctum? For
one. | opine otherwise. AS General Jim
Leach of facetious memory was wont to
say when stump forensics were as well
understood as in these degenerate days:
Let each side supply its own literature
It's with such stuff as that referred to
that weak kneed Democrats and mon
grel embryonic Republicans are wont to
be RECALLED. Let those of the sterling
faith stand true, and put aside such New
England pabulm as they would poison.
So-called protection for the few with
its false and deceptive prosperity hook
is only baited to catch gudgeons or cod
fish, whilst the great schools of the lit
tie fish are left to feed on an occasional
gnat or a mouthful of fresh air. To the
dogs or the devil with all such 'bosh.'
w ]. GREEN.
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COuLDN' TSEDUcEH|M
Little Bill Bryan Rebuked
by Hector Mclean.
Because Mr.. Mclean Failed Of Senatorial
Nomination, Iii. | Bill Made Over
lures 10 Him.

In the Twenty second Senatorial dis
land thought it was entitled to name one
of the State Senator's this year. Accord
ingly it held a primary and Mr.. Hector
Mclean who had twice represented his
people in the Legislature, was selected
At that time it was not supposed that
Chatham would present candidate.
When the convention was called, Chat
ham presented Maj. Henry A. London as
candidate. He received the vote OF
Moore, Chatham and some of Richmond,
and was nominated. The people of Scot
land county felt that the nomination
ought to have been given to their coun-
~ But they are Democrats of the best
type, and they are supporting the nomi-
nees with loyalty, and will give them =
large majority.
Not long after the convention was held,
the Rep-pop gang, measuring him by
their yard-stick, determined to try to Sc
duce5 Mr.. Hector Mclean from Democracy
by offering him the nomination for State
Senator. And SO Little Bill' Bryan wac
instructed to open negotiations. Here Is
the letter he wrote to Mr. McLean
'Moncure, \. c., Sept. s. 1902.
Hon Hector Mclean.
Dear Sir--I understand that their is
split in the politics of your county, and
for that reason l want to submit the fol-
lowing questions to YOU:
list. TO what extent is the split and
what on?
''2nd. Would you run as an Independ-
emit for the Senate?
'3rd If not who would you suggest az
a good man?
18th What is the name and address or
Mr.. Patterson, who is a legislative cam
didate in your county?
9Th What is the vote of your county
in last election? great many of our
people of all parties here are very de-
sirous of putting out an Independent
Senatorial ticket, I would esteem it a
great favor if you would give me an
swers to the above, also your views on
the political situation in this district for
Senator.
4 assure you that your answer win
be treated with the strictest confidence
unless otherwise desired by you.
An early reply will greatly oblige
Yours very truly,
81. E. BRYAN"
Mr.. Mclean is one of the truest men
in North Carolina. made model mem
her of the Legislature and is a Demo-
crat of Democrats. His brief Veply was
characteristic OF the man. He will stand
true to his convictions always and under
all circumstances. Here is his letter:
"Laurinburg, N. c., Sept. IL, 1902.
''Mr J, E BRYAN:
Dear Sir--Yours of the 7th to hand,
and questions noted. In reply will say,
l am Democrat and could not think Of
mixing as an Independent for the Sen
ate.
Respectfully,
HECTOR MCLEAN"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-07

For LaGrippe and Influenza
use CHENEY'S EXPECTO-
RANT.
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Qualities.


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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-07

SEPTEMBER sales the largest in the his
tory of the famous Blue Ribbon Lemon
and Vanilla Extracts.
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Cresswell, Tuesday, October 18th.
Arcadia. October 18th.
Taylorsville, October 18th.
Claremont, October 14th (night)
Morganton, October 18th.
Nealsville, October 10th.
Morgan HILL October 18th.
Arden, October 18th.
GOVERNOR CHAS. B. AYCOCK, HON.
L. PATTERSON AND HON.
S. l.. ROGERS.
Marshall, October 9Th.
Bryson City, October 9th.
Webster, October 10th.
Franklin, October 18th.
Murphy, October 14th.
Hayesyille, October 18th.
Asheville, October 10th (night.)
Hendersonville, October 18th.
Brevard, October 18th.
HON. SOLOMON GALLERT.
Dysortville, October 18th.
Marion, October 7th might.
Old Fort. October Sth.
Black Mountain, October 9Th.
Alexander, October 10th.
Waynesville, October 18th
Murphy, October 17th
Hayesville, October 18th.
Robbinsville, October goth.
Bryson City, October 21st.
Webster, October 22nd.
Hendersonville,. October 23rd.
Brevard, October oath.
HON. KoPE ELIAS.
Smithbridge, October 18th.
Bryson City, October 21st.
Hayesville, November 1st.
Murphy, November 3rd.
HON. w. T. CRAWFORD.
Hendersonville. October 10th.
Mills River October 10th (night.)
Brevard, October 18th.
Marion, October 18th.
Rutherfordton, October Hath.
Henrietta, October 14th (nignt)
Ellenboro, October 18th.
Old Fort. October 18th.
Canton, October 18th.
Crabtree, October 18th.
Bryson City. October 21st.
We H. d. w EIts
Albemarle, October 7th (night)
Salisbury, October 8th (night)
Asheboro. October 9th.
HON. FRED A. WOODARD.
Clarkton, October 18th (night.)
Register, October Sth.
Maxton, October 9th.
Hallsboro, October 10th.
Chadbourn, October 10th (night)
Cronly, October 18th.
HON. F. M. SIMMONS.
Snow Hill. October 18th.
HON. S. ]. DURHAM.
Ellenboro, October oath.
Henrietta, October oath (night.)
HON. J. D. MCCALL.
Rutherfordton, October Goth
Bostic, October goth (night.)
HON. w. c. DOWD.
Lincolnton, October nth.
HON. GEO w. WARD.
Robersonville, October 25th.
HON. p. N. HACKETT.
Hammers Store. October 18th.
HON. r. B. GLENN.
Greensboro. Wednesday (nighD, O.
tober Sth.
High Point, Thursday (night), Octt
Der 9th.
Townsville, October 10th (night)
Leaksville, October 18th.
Raleigh, October 18th (night.)
Hillsboro, October 18th.
Wilmington, October 18Th might.
Fayetteville, October 10th (night.)
Red Springs, October 18th.
Lumherton, October 18th.
HON. B. H. KIRKPATRICK.
Henderson, October 10th.
Mills River, october 10th (night.)
Brevard. October 18th.
Canton, October 18th.
Crabtree, October 18th.
Bryson City, October goth.
HON. ]. REESE BLAIR.
jackson Hill, October 18th.
HON. THOMAS w. MASON.
Louisburg, October 18th.
Creedmore, October 18th.
Durham, October 10th (night.)
Haw River, OCTOBER 18th (night)
HON. D. r. LACY AND HON. j. BRYA
CHIMES.
Warrenton, Wednesday, October 9Th.
Henderson, Thursday, October 9th.
Oxford, Friday, October 10th.
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