Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-28
cARNEG,e's GIFT TO TusksGEE.

CARNEGlE,s GIFT TO TUSKEGEE.
MI. Carnegie's gift of 100000 to
Tuskegee Institute is among the most
notable of his innumerable benefac-
tons. 1t is not a gift entirely to the In
stitute n the colored race, but to the
cause of education and the good of the
whole country. The Tuskegee school as
conducted by Mr.. Washington has long
attracted the attention of political
economists and others interested in the
industrial future OF. the negro. 1t has
been a beacon of racial progress and
incentive to hope and effort to the col
ored people. 1t is matter for general
congratulation tina; tho school has at
last attracted the attention OF phiian-
thropists. The gift is as much Booker
T. Washington's as MIR. Carnegie's.
Washington made the bunefaction pos
sible by his marvellous ability as an Or
ganizer and teacher in the long up-
hill fight which went before the recog-
milton of the school as an influence in
the upbuilding and regeneration of the
negro. Few believed in the Industrial
capacity OF the negro Until Washing
toms graduates settled in town and
country forced conviction by their quiet
success. Washington Wits the pioneer
whose untiring assiduity and unfailing
- - n rr,,ifftp1
soil where Mr.. Carnegie might sow his
accommodations secui.e in the promise of
a rich return. Mr.. C%arnegie's liberality
does great credit to himself and greater
credit to the founder of the institution,
the inspired negro working patiently
for years toward the uplifting of his
fellows in race and color. Mr.. Carne-
gle and Booker T. Washington are both
patriots and phflanthrppists, blu the
greater of these is Washington.
The principle of the uskegee school
is the proper principle fer all schools.
AS population increases and professions
already overcrowded become q still
more uncertain means OF livelihood the
necessity Of Industrial training in the
public schools not only for the children
of the poor, of the middle classes, Is
certain to become apparent. The strug-
gle toward the bargain counters of pro-
fessional and clerical work is due ere
long to abate and the hsndicrafts pre-
..~s1 re NE y,rl.;,& "a ~ o,,s- eoonn1 ar
rather schools modelled IN Mr.. WASH
ington's ground plan might be inaugu-
rated in every minor city of he our
try for the use of the poor who are un-
able to attend schools of technology and
special training, more students able as
well as willing to he useful might re-
suit from their establishment. Such
schools are the pillars OF our general
civilization. which must depend upon
the happiness and prosperity of the
masses.
The donation will leave Mr.. Wash
ington free to plan and work as he has
heretofore been unable to do. There
has been a deficit at Tuskcgee of $4,000
annually which to raise and collect has
occupied much of his time. Even Mr..
Carnegie's ,liberality fails of complete
endowment. There is Eeeded $4,000
yearly at the Tuskegee Institute. Per-
haps the Initiative taken by the great
ironmaster may stimulate others of his
class to complete the, establishment of a
fund sufficiently great to enable Mr..
Washington to spend his entire time in
the solution of the race problem of the
south.