The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-16
MR. MURPHY SPEAKS.
Appnnss AT yrADIsoN SQUARES
 0AnpUM, INV YORK.

App0DGg AT MADISON SQUARE
 aAAp1N, INV YORK. The Neero Problem and the Work
 Now Being Done by Booker T. Z Washington 'at Tsksges
 arc Discusssd.
 N s~e-
 New york. ApraI M.--At the conclusion of Dr. Lyman Abbott'e address, ex-Presi- dent Cleveland introduced MT. Edg4r Gardner Murphy of Montgomery. Aas- sfr. Murphy eaid:
 Tn the North or In tHe South it is Alwass pleasure to speak for TusiEegee. 1t is also . privilege to speak, North or South. in sincere appreciation q the de- voted lsbOrs. the noble usefulness and the disinterested sagacity of its tyundsg. In what is called "the race .robiem' the consclence of the land feels. or cught to feel, the challenge of . great .nd appAll- inx task. For the accomplishment of this task think that wise men every where arc recognising in the personality of the principal of Tuskegee one cf the | greatest moral assets In the life q our "Ths south has not applaudea him with undiscriminatinE agreement. or with monotonous, thoughtless, progtlesa ac-' clait.a. The South has sometimes hltme4 him. But the South r too fair to him os disasreement to distort the brcaA perspective in which she has viewed and appreciated that arducus public service' through which, for twenty years. In he has lsbcred for the upbuli1ing of his humble and untutored fellows. He has greatly done . great work in rssponse ta q great need.
 who have seen peril in the nesro's pro- gress. Our century will not readily be- lfeve that the truo interests of one race. however strong, can be 'mperriied by the true prcsrsss oi A an9tnsr f:.ce. eow- s in humanity. and in the solidarity cf
 .sut. q the grosrsss of shs negro brins peril with 1t. that peril E ss nothing in | the negro's failure. If these ten niil- | Hons of people are to fail and die, let us remember that they die h uur land. If | thls negro life ts decaying. the rotting ssUsps.rs sSas Ss s ss Sssss FSs asash . transplapted race must throw it's cling | ing horror over vast provinces cf our own domain; for where race suffers mora! and physlcai decay where vast If, therefore. this negro race ts fall | ing, Is passing Into moral. physical. tn- | dustrial collapse. # Is not the negro alone who must he concerned about t All shall any section of our country rear the | fair fabric of happier systems and of broader institutions upon a scene biighted | by the fetid masses of despairing. mori- country's sake. for our childrens sake, | the negro must be helped to live nd to succeed. If there is concern anywhere. therefore, at the thought of the. negro's psIS ppslpaSis psrils @ " of T sis Si failure. a' The The cause of the negro's sound and legitimate | welfare, is the cause not only of the negro. but of sweeter, happier. more
 wholesome conditions tor ourselves and
 "Ths negro race in America is not r.ss. | ing into extinction Slowly. painfully, but surely 1t is making progress; progress ip numbers, progress in efhcient life. That such ,e institutions as M Hampton and Tus- lzegee have faced the situation precisely
 as 1t is, have put those things first which all life has made first and, without
 ss Sroaasr & politieSi SP.s CT sducassonsi h.r. | tage of the race. have taught tn season and out of season the creed of thrift, the l paramount importance of plain accom-.
 sssn as s Ssnsg Ss cSs ss sy s
 decent, sober and contented Ewing.
 The negro has many sorrows He is entitled to many aspirations. Hampton
 and: .Tuskssse hsys dsRted neisssr s tns .
 fiuences have but served te prevent the growing of the negro's aspirations in the soil of his sorrows; have led him to fnd
 his deepest incentives not in hts evident and have helped him to face lie .,st as every man any every woman of every I race must face it, knowing that hate is
 inpoteiit and that only patience is
 sT Believe. tAeretore, ia Tusksgss's g
 work. because the institution has faced tho situation precisely as t 10, and has
 met this situation ct the point of acutsst
 r.sas s' o z ssrS sss to fl s Ais s soundly based, is bottomed upon the solid
 foundations of economic adaptabillty, of practical efficiency, of industrial self
 h ,ins aas srs ssasnt .ua s uses SeIss es
 ideas and ideas Into brawn and muscle;
 t has taught the doing of tninss just by doing them.
 "All men who think far and who think
 "If in the North or in the South there is gro may lead to some abhorrent policy st sTslsamas,sSn rcr ws may vel rsmsmDe. e in seif-respect. not in hope. but in despair. It is peculiarly the policy by which the lnegro would forsake his race and forget | lieves in himself finds in his self-respect the ground of his faith in the integrity. the Individuality, the distinctive destiny of his people. When you have made broadly possible the negro's self.respect you have made impossible to the negro any deliberate abandonment of his racial | standpoint. The basest crimes of the ne- gro are committed not by those who have hope. but by those who have it not No graduate of Hampton or Tuskegee has ever been accused of assault upon wo- man.
 "The man who has SO much time to waste that he can afford to waste time in morbid apprehensions as to the Iurid perils of racial amalgamation is the very last man who can afford to refuse ap- proval to Tuskegees work. For Tuske- | gee is peculiarly an institution which. amid all the bewildering and rasping nom | sense df pro-negro sentimentaiity, has stood with incomparable dignity and sam | ity by the great evident landmarks of ra- | cfai and personal self-respect.
 "If there are those in the North or ih 1 the South who would not keep the negro at the storm center of political agitation, | then surely the sympathy of these also must go out to tho work of sn institu- | tion which has served as much as any other infifiuence in American life to hold ! the deeper interest of the race to no vague dreams of impossible political do- miflion. but to the elementary prerogatives | of industry, integrity and property.
 | "But my friends, friends Of the North | and of the South, has not the time come, in all sobrlety and all justice, for eivili-