Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-04-15

best authority In the world on the
prospects of the negro race is he who
founded and is now at the head OF
Tuskegee institute, and is the most
notable representative of negro adj
vaneement"
Al the conclusion of his address
Mr. Cleveland introduced Edgar G.
Murphy, who said in part:
A Great Work Greatly Done.
Il think that wise men everywhere
are recognizing in the principal OF
Tuskegee one of the greatest moral
assets in the life of our country to.
day. The south has not applauded
him with undiscriminating agreement
OF with monotonous, thoughtless,
profltless acclaim. The south has
sometimes blamed him. But the south
is too fair to him and to his race to
allow these occasions of disagreement
te distort the broad perspective in
which She has viewed and appreciated
that arduous public service through
which for 20 years, in cheerful pa
thence and unaffected modesty, he has
labored for the upbuilding of his hum.
bic and untutored fellows. He has
greatly done great work in response
to great need. North and south
there have been those who have seen
peril in the negroes progress. But if
the progress of the negro bring peril
with it that peril is nothing in COM
parison with the perils attendant on
the negro's failure"
DR.. Lyman Abbott, who followed,
said that the south deserved great
credit for taking up as it had an I'M
tried problem in helping the negro to
help himself
scant Credit from the North.
"And the north,' he said "has given
her scant credit. She has given him
schools that the north has refused
him and done many other things to-
ward his future that the north never
thought Of"
DR. Abbot next spoke of the great
work of Booker T. Washington and
praised him in the highest terms. de-
elar.ng he had done as much for the
wits race as for the colored. His
Wor.l had .'eally brought about the
union of the north and south in the
work that ne had taken up as his life
task.
Mr.. Cleveland, in introducing Booker
T. Washington, the last speaker of
the evening. said:
81 have to introduce to you a man
too we'll known by every man in the
United States, a man who has been
spoken of zoo frequently and too ia
vorably for It to be necessary for me
to say more than-Here is Booker T.
Washington.
Mr.. Washington said in part:
THE Tuskogee normal and indus
trial institute at Tuskegee, Ala. is
the outgrowth of the efforts of Gen.
eral S. c. Armstrong, of the Hampton
institute, in Virginia. General Arm
strong was one Of the great seers and
prophets who realized that the task
of the nation was not fulfilled when
the shackles of physical slavery were
struck from The limbs of the millions
of slaves of Inc south.
Honor Due to General Armstrong.
He realized that nine millions Of
human beings STEPPED in ignorance,
minus experience, could be but half
free. He foresaw that the nation must
have new birth and a new freedom,
and that this regeneration must in
clude the industrial, intellectual and
moral and religious freedom of the
ex-slaves. Further, in refusing to re-
turn to his comfortable northern home
after the surrender at Appomattox,
and in deciding to remain south to
help in fighting for freedom in the
larger and higher sense, General Arm
strong appreciated as few Americans
have that the north owes an untitled
duty to the south.
General Armstrong said by word
and action that it was unjust to leave
the south With its industrial system
disorganized and overturned in the
midst of poverty that forbade the
proper education of the white youth.
to say nothing of the millions of re-
Gently emancipated black children.
In this connection | am glad that
we have another great American and
Christian statesman in the person of
Hon. Grover Cleveland, who is mani
Testing by his presence and words
that he, too, is conscious of the fact
that the lifting up of the negro is not
alone Tuskegees problem, not alone
the negro's concern, not alone the
south's duty, but is the problem Of
the nation, because the whole people
We're responsible for the introduction
and perpetuation of American slav-
cry"