The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-05-16
SOMETHING ABOUT BOOKER
WASHINGTON.
A Shrewd Negro Who Has Worked
Northern Millionaires.
From the New Orleans States.

From the New Orleans states.
Mr.. Gordon Macdonald. of Montgomery.
Alabama. one of the foremost lawyers of that
city and citizen of the highest standing. has,
through letter to the Washington Post, given
the country clear insight into the workings
of Booker T. Washington's so-calIed Indus
trial School for Negroes at Tuskegee. IA The
course Of his letter Mr. Macdonald says
Now having demonstrated who is really
sponsble for the negro appointments IA the
South, let me turn the searchlight OF truth on
the renowned Booker and his doings his
real doings. This wonderfully shrewd negro
has convinced not only the naturally gulible
Northern people that his propaganda is of in
finite benefit TO the negroes and whites of the
South that the aims and results of his IuSke
gee performances are to give young negroes
an industrial education and not Ia incite
them TO dreams of social equality wiih the
whites having obtained ponderouS words of
commentator from the sage Of Princeton,
aud much more valuable cash from Carnegir.
Ogden. ct. al; really fools most OF the South
ern newspapers as we'll Living in Mont
gompry, a county adjoining Macon, wherein
ruskegee is situated, | speak whereof | know
in saving that for one genuine hard working
husuandman or artisan sent into the world 10y
Washington : school it atiIcis this State with
% soft handed negro dudes and loatrrs, who.
earn a precarious living 10y crap and petit
larceny or live on the hard-earued wage of
cooks and washerwOmen. whose affections
they have been enabled Ia eusuare. The girls
graduated at this school arc taught to scorn
hard work while their poor mothers toll over
the washlubs and the cook stoves that their
daughters may be taught music aud painting
God save the mark l--aud TO rustic IN fne
,lr,ssr-s in q miserable imitation ul Hh1e Ia
dies.
In commenting on Mr. Macionald's letter
fn the Washington Post the Macon Telegraph
say, this; b. has been asserted that the number
Of rIskegee graduates who have followed shr
trade, tor which they verr trained has been
about to !, 600 and the few Who DO nat TAKE
naturally 90 ''CBp and f'aid clothes a-H.rr
~ be- LAWYERS. preacher, aui duciurs, They
despise the very trades Tor which thry w-re
trained and wben they leave iaskrgrr a.
once begin 10 seek the easiest Was at 'esdlH-
Rpd cIuthiBz th.1n>.lts, With rh. least pa-~f-
bic work ~ Mr.. Macdonald says
What Washington teaches by Frecepl IS
shown 10 ia results ora ht- scholars. WHIST b.
teaches bv example IS clear 90 any gau Who
!. not an idiot by nature or blinded hy PTs'rr
ence Example Is ever the thoruugh-ss r~sca
~ OF ih- Young. and the example o. Nssh-
inkton Is the most disastrous tN the rls7HE gen
Grafton Of negroes that can br lmsE1Es-tt. -
teaches 20 his iaiuded pupils ihai suela. equal
Nv i possibility ard that i ls near hey
hear 81 hia hsGnobbing go terms uf perfect
equality wlth the President 30 this ssaHify.
They bear ai BIS visiting Ueh NorHef"er, IS
Is favored aud pr''ri GUEST. They bsaT % BIS
getting hiss chijJ into = fashionable ,sao". isf
zhite girls 10 ihe North Can sny 81 hts
friends .ieuy these thi1Es aIth truta
Tar States l- our ot be tvs neaspaEHs-s "a
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