The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-10-19
Booker Washington's Work San prs so.e 3 sPsA

equality, much less talk about Il s,as
ii you get an idea like that into I'LL. ','a b
can discover It very soon. and Won I'm 1sac !
emigrate from here He said ~ Aait 70
need TO think OF how social eo,.i;.. % IL
brought about. but you need To ,b;rt can x
| make an honest living and prov;ds NV ca.
bread and clothes and home Rae,s,, All
inston is general. He is more tbsr NJ Nsih
a king. lie rules with absolute an,ho-.,1 =
thousands who attend his school his l., g
law. The discipline Of the school 4, No'a
cent and It takes great generalship to 81, MI
hundred girls and twelve hundred No. s9s's
same great buildings as pupils and run s.a y A
SO little friction. ~ srA
Young Roscoe Conklin Bruce wa. 4, 4
dience that night ! did not meet b;,, y
anxious TO meet him and shake hsn5. w
colored boy who had led the two tho,s.1 wv 4
dents at Harvard college, who had esn.,,.s, "
first honor and the oratoriesl prize Z, ~
with more than two thousand white boys w.
know whether he will take position there !.
professor or not ] understand he /. - 9
fellow OF tne moral character and nss5;ss..ss
brain force He is the son of ex-senatos ' 81
Last Saturday night as | looked pn.s I,
great audience of colored students I u;sLsa q
great world Of men could look and 81 ..s y
/ saw and hear what | heard wish m ,.-',
understood Booker Washington and ,hs s
work he is doing for his race. am told /. ~
100000 a year to pay the running exnsn.s. J,
that school, and his broad brain nust ~ CIV
run that school but raise that money al y WI
doing both, and verify believe that 4 NJ
was a leader to the Israeites Of ola. 60 pn.s.
Washington, by the providence Of God. has NJ.
raised up as the great leader of his race
found Booker Washington. socially "a i.
modest retiring and ] might say humble y.,,'
man. He thrusts himself upon nobody i.
knows his place, and in his place he is king h,
biography is a revelation, his work Is !, X
spiration, and his success is marvellous. hs;,y.
that no man can do these things except cd 4.
with him.
was asked while discussing the matter III
a friend coming away from there, whether ths,
trained artisans from Washington's school vogl
not come in competition with white labor m
thereby hurt the Anglo-Saxon Said he. I'll,
negro will work cheaper than the white man
told him that was another assertion soio,
around that was not true, ! said, ION the bvp
ing that l am now erecting in Cartersyille A.
white man and the colored man, both artisar,
work side by side; their wages are the sam,
and you try to hire the skilled negro for In
than the white man works and you will get M
every time" The negro knows a thing or tso
himself, and he is governed largely by what !,
knows, like the balance OF us poor mortals.n
say these things about that great institution
and its president I am perfectly candid in what
1 have said and if any man feels otherwise, 1t
him go down there and see the thing for himself
and look at the facts as they are, and have 10
question in my mind that he will come away Ike
have come saying, The hall has never vi
been told"
Brother Stuart and myself begin meetings IN
Paducah, KY, October g. They have seated !
great warehouse and we will be there, perhaps
ten days or more. Yours SAM P. JoSEs