The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-15
They Should Extend :;;'t'81' Their. Their
Help. Right Direction.
HE ENDEAV'ORS
..I TO POINT THIS OUT.
Tuskegee Institute Worthy of Support.
Whetner. Prejudice Or Race instinct
is the Feeling That Separates
the Races, the Sentiment
Of fSoutherners Should
SEX Be Resp ected.
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fRy Asaocjaterl Press. ! Ii


NEW YORK, April II Former Presl-
dent Grover Cleveland was the principal
speaker at a meeting held tonight in the
concert hall Of Madison Square Garden
ilnE the interests OF the Tusk egees Norman
{and industrial titute, iss s q TN 81
+ Among those on the &plat form wit III Mr.
Cleveland were Mayor Low. who preside ed /;
Booker 4. T.3$Washington,9 u dgar8 T. 4 Murphy,
sDr. Lyman Abbott, dent Nicholas
Murray Butler and Dean j, ~ Jan Am
Eringe. Of Columbia; W. II. Ba aldWin,. Chan-
scellorI Nlccracken, OF New Y ork Uniyer--' s
5sity, and George 7. Peabody. Mr. &Cleve-
land sat ingthe gallery with MI. and Mrs.
Andrew Carnegie, whoSare Mr. Cleveland's
Tcsts whlo&he Is Iii tho Gil 81. i,
II Mr.. Cleveland, who was greeted !. with
prolonged applause as he was introduced lt
\ f'CLDYELAND.s SPEECH.
h Mr. Cleveland said ss I5 ti}
e. II have come here tonight as n sin
cero friend Of the negro. and 81 should
.be Very sorry to suppose that my good
and regular standing In such company.
needed Support att this late day either
from certificate ors.con fessl on of tll.|
8Inasmuch. however, II as there may be diff H
ference or thought and sentiment among
sthose Who Eprofes to 2ho: friends o. he
negro, II desire to d clares rlysel as be-.
longing To tlla35 BE oker 5: Yashington- Tl,s-
kegee section OF the organizat tlonssS 1 be-
leye that the days Of Uncle l Tom 81 sScapln
are past. II Y believe that her the de-
cree that made the slaves free nor the
suddenly invested them
with the rights OF citizenship p any more
5purged them OF their raclal and slavery
bred dSimperfectlons and deficiencies than
iC8changed the color of heir kin. ~ be-
.leve that among the nearly nine mil
lions or negroes who have been inter-
mixed with our citizenship, there Is still
IA grleyous amount OF Ignorance. a sad
amount of vciousne ess# and a elnendous
amount Of laziness and BE- thri ftlessness.i
I believe that these conditions inexornbly
present to the white people OF the United
States, to each ilI his environment and
under the mandate ofkgood citizenship, a
fprohlen, which, neither enlightened self
Interest nor the higher motive of human
sympathy will permit them to put aside
~ believe our fellow-countrymen In the
Southern 4 and late slaye-holding Stat tes,
surrounded by about nine-tenths, or near
ily eight MILLIONS, Of this entire negro popu-
!lation, and who regard their material pros
iperity, their peace, and even the afety
5of their cvlliza ton, interviewer with the
negro problem, arc entitled to our utmost
consideration and sympathy and fellow
ship am thoroughly convinced that
the efforts or Booker Washington and
the methods Of 'ruslkegeo Institute point
the way to#a safe and benefcent solu
ton Of the vexatious negro problem at.
the South; and 7 know that the good
people at tho North, who have aided
these efforts and methods. have Illus
'trnted the highest and best citizenship
and tho most Christian and enlightened
philanthropy, i%
! LEAVE IT no TIIE SOUTH.
II cannot. however keep out OF my
mind tonight the thought that all we
of the North may do. the realization OF
our hopes for the negro must, after all,
mainly depend, except so far as It rests