The new age. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1902-190?, 1902-05-30

ms pOslliOl TODAY
- an important factor and elemen, in
our body polite. MANY po,,,,o =.
nave Oeen produced nalmos- every
avenue of life. Men who as,d, ,.ou,
'ne mere social recognition have left
'neir imprint and influence upon the
fundamental life of our nation In
cholaSue circles, Harvard Yal4 ar,
our leading universities now irdu,i,,o
recognize the ability Of the Negro
ne mas carried off the highes, ,oro,s
'na' 'hese colleges contained and in
after life have become our Ric,ard n
"ueners' our Courboughs, our Du.
Ooises and others; in diplomacy IT has
produced a Douglass; in politics its
congressman and seantors wbito
murray Bruce. Lynch have been felt
IN almost every phase of our civic
Ire; In art it has evolved our Tanner
recognized in that highest criterion Of
the art world, France, as a genius; in
poetry the humor, pathos and mic.
'ureSque life of the plantation Negro
as protrayed by our Dunbar has been
read the world over; in music its
is now the sensation of
the musical world of England; in law
Morris. Judge Stroker, F. McCouts
stewart have all national renown.
In science the productions of Carver:
In botany and agriculture; Hoffman in
biology and FGilchrist Stewart IN
dairying and bacteriology. are re.
garded Is authorities in almost every
avenue of life the Negro is forging
TO the front, but of the many famous
characters of the Negro race, the one
VINO represents the acme of its capa.
bllities is the Wizard of Tuskegee.
born in the slave kingdom of West
virginia. He has been entertained
and spoken before the kings and
queens of Europe. Not even a college |
graduate, having only graduated from /
the Hampton Normal and Industrial !
school of Hampton, Va, he is con-
one of the leading scholars
OF the country, showing the extent to
which a man may educate himself.
Or the vastness of his work, of its
scope, of the great benefit accomp.
Iished, of its influence upon the Negro
problem and the industrial life of the |
South land, there are a comparatively
few people who have the least con.
ception of its great significance.
The cardinal principle of Booker T.
work. one which he
early saw from the conditions in
which he was bound and reared, was
hat the Negroes first step toward the
goal of a higher plane of civilization.
culture and standing in our nation
must not be the spasmodic produc-
ion of few Greek and Latin schol- |
RS. or a general and superficial knowl. I
'dge of books, but was to build a solid
of material progress; that I
is the skilled mechanic, the high S
lass artisan who form the backbone 6
nd sinew of any races progress. v
Show me your MOSES and | will :
uess the future of your classes" said
n ancient Roman philosopher. The .
Iegro population o. the country is to-
ay approximately 100000 the ma
Ority of whom are in the South The
Iegro problem specifically consists IN
ow to make the masses self reliant,
Intelligent citizens, and bring about
roper relation between them and the
'hite citizens among whom they live.
founded his school at
uskegee, in the center of the BLACK
cit of the South" where in the rural
istrict you can travel for miles and
OF get a glimpse of white face, in
1881 with about fifty pupils, which
as hardly an atom of the number in
lat locality and throughout the South
no desired an education, but who are
ndered for the lack of school IA
lities and the means to acquire an
lucation. For instance, the school
of Georgia reported to
e last legislature that there were
29S,000 children be