Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-15
TUsKEGEE INSTITUTE
BIG MEETING HELD IN ITS IN
TEREST.
Cleveland Among the
Speakers at Madison Square
Garden, New York.

A dispatch from New York last night
| says: Former President Grover Cleveland
| was the principal speaker tonight at a
| meeting held in the concert hall Of Madison
Square Garden in the interests of the Tus-
kegee Normal and Industrial Institute
| Among those on the platform with Mr.
Cleveland were Mayor Low, who presided
Booker T. Washington, Edgar G. Murphy
DIR. Lyman Abbott, President Nicholas
Murray Butler and Dean j. Van Amringe OF
Columbia; w. H. Baldwin, Chancellor Nc
Cracker of New York University. John De
Witt Warner and George F. Peabody Mrs
Cleveland sat in the gallery with Mr.. and
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, who are Mr.. Cleve-
lands hosts while he is in the city.
Mr.. Cleveland was greeted with prolonged
applause as he was introduced by Mayor
Low. tf-
Mr.. Cleveland said, in part:
L desire to declare myself belonging to
the Booker Washing tDn-T uskegee section
of the organiza ton. believe that the days
of Uncle Toms Cabin are past. l believe
that neither the decree that made the
slaves free, nor the enactment that sudden
ly invested them with the rights of citizen
ship any more purged them of their racial
and slavery-bred imperfections and deficien-
cleS than it changed the color of their skin,
Il am thoroughly convinced that the eff
forts of Booker Washington and the
methods of Tuskegee Institute point to a
safe and beneficent solution of the vexa-
tious negro problem at the south; and
know that the good people at the north
who have aided these efforts and methods
have illustrated the highest and best citi-
zenship and the most Christian and enlight-
ened philanthropy"
At the conclusion Of his address Mr. Cleye-
land introduced Edgar g. Murphy
Mr. Murphy said, in part:
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 today.
The south has not applauded with undis-
terminating agreement or with monotonous
thoughtless, profitless acclaim. The south
mas sometimes blamed him. But the south
is too fair to him and to his race to allow
these occasions of disagreement to distort
the broad perspective in which she has
viewed and apprecia ted that arduous public
service through which for twenty years, In
cheerfu1 patience and unaffected modesty.
ne has labored for the upbuilding of his
humble and untutored fellows He has
sreatly done a great work in response to a
great need.
North and south there have been those
VINO nave seen peril in the negroes prog
Iess. But II the progress of the negro
prlnS peril with it, that peril is nothing in
negroes failure" VAN
DR.. Lyman Abbott, who followed said
mat the south deserved great credit for
,ahlng up as 1t had an untried problem in
helping the negro to help himself. 80 -.
ana the north he said, has given her
s sS credit. She has given him schools
that the north has refused him. and done
many many other things toward his future that
the north never thought Of"
Dr. Abbott next spoke Of the preat ,,ori,
OF Booker I. Washington, and praised him
III lhe nlgnest terms, declaring he had done
as much Tor the white race as for the col
oTeo race His work had really brought
ABOUT .he union of north and south In the
work that he had taken up as his life task
Quotng remark made by Henry Ward
Beecher to the effect that he should make
inc negro worthy first and then give him
SURFACE DR.. Abbott said: I'VE made the
mistake Of giving him suffrage first. and
lne unfortunate negro has had to suffer
ever since. What the negro wants is edu-
whether the negro will be a shackle to orr
1eet or wings to our body"
w. n. baldwin, jr., treasurer of the Tus-
hesee institute, announced that soon as the
Ihsetlns mad begun he had received two
ccelesrams, one announcing gift of $40 600
rom IN woman in Ohio and the other a gift
OF $l,OoO from woman and man in iba
south. He said that $40, 600 had been need
ca TO pay the Indebtedness of the instit,,.
.ioil ana mat taking the gifts into consid-
elation there was the small sum of So 600
M le LOT winch he made an urgent plea,
aS wen las as Tor a further endowment sum.
Mr; cleveland, in introducing Booker r .
Wv, masiinston, the last speaker of the even
ing, SAID: Il have to Introduce to Won q
man too we'll known by every man in the
Gnlted states: man who has been snol,nn
oI 100 frequently and too favorably for II
20 NC necessary for me to say more than
mere IS booker I. Washington"