The colored American., 1903-03-21

fellows who have their habitation in
Washington and Boston, can offer the
race something tangible aside from
criticism. In fact, we rather suspect
that the Doctor will be held to &C
count even more strictly than the
Boston and Washington nincompoops
The fellows who live far away, Of
course, can be dismissed without con-
sideration, because they show the
quality of their bravery by not going
into the midst of the conditions they
criticise and seeking to change them.
DR.. Dubois, however, is entitled to
more praise than the others, because
of the fact that he has given up the
easy ways and superficial pleasures or
the North to accept a position in the
South. 1t is true the good Doctor has
created no school of his own, and does
not seem to be moving in the direc-
tion of creating anything himself, but
he is at least a hanger-On at a place
created by white people, and has
about him young men and women
upon whom he can try his new found
nostrum. Dubois and his publishers
are wise, in way, however. He
seems to have no serious feeling that
the book will sell on it's merits, and
so in order to attract attention to 1t,
they make the claim in the prelimin-
ary advertising that the book is
meant to combat Booker Washing
stand on it's own bottom, it is doubt
full if it would attract any attention
whatever.
1t is we'll for Atlanta University
and DR.. Dubois to come right out in
the open now and declare themselves.
The readers of this paper know that
Booker Washington has been too
great to attempt to reply to any OF
the critics who have continually bark
ed at his heels, and has gone along
building up Tuskegee, leaving to the
devotees of the so-called higher edu-
cation the work of building up their
own schools. He has not sought to
tear any other school down to build
up his own. If Atlanta University in
tends to stand for DR.. Dubois out
giyings, If it means to seek to destroy
Tuskegee Institute. so that its own
work can have success, it is engaged
in poor business to start with; and in
the next place, the assurance can safe
ly be given that 1T will avail them
nothing. Tuskegee will go on. 1t
will succeed. Booker Washington
will still loom large on The horizon,
Notwithstanding the petty annoyances
of Dubois and his ilk. DR.. BumStead
in his Northern campaigns has pre-
tended to acknowledge the efficacy of
of Tuskegee's methods and also to
recognize the necessity of the two
kinds OF education-the very thing
Booker Washington himself does. |
Visitors who were at Tuskegee during
the late Negro Conference will read |
lily remember a speech made there by
DR.. BumStead, in which he declared |
most positively that there was no
friction between the two schools, and |
was also most loud in his protesta- |
tions of friendship and interest. Let
him prove himself by curbing the out |
givings and ill-advised criticisms of
the learned Doctor who is now in his I
employ; that is, if Dubois does not
really represent him and the senti-
ment of Atlanta University. Results
are what are going to be asked for
anyhow, and all the vainglorious pos
turing and pompous attitudinizing of
Dubois will avail nothing. The much
initiated doctor will have to offer
something besides words. words.
words" If he is to be seriously re-
garded in the same category with
Booker Washington, the friend and
counsellor and helper of his people.