Bisbee daily review., 1903-07-22
THE PROOF OF THEORY.

Skepticism has not been lacking in both the south and the north over the practical outcome of the Booker Wash ington theory of solving the negro problem. The Constitution has kept a careful and impartial eye upon the Tuskegee experiment. Instead of dfs- eouraging it We have advocated fair play for it.
 We have but recently had before us the detailed report of the field agent keep track of the graduates and other students who go out from school to employ their trained brains and skill in useful work. The report is very full and explicit in particulariZing the in dividual cases and the conviction we gain from it is that very large per centage of those who have been trained in the school are doing good work in many fields; doing it diligently and with the confidence and respect of the communities in which they labor.
 The Tuskegee plan, in our judgment, is no longer an experiment. The theo- ry that the best possible estate of the negro is that of an educated, moral and industrious worker in the employment so freely open to him in he south is demonstrated, if the records of the large majority of Tuskegee graduates constitute acceptable proof.
 It is an axiom of common life that any animal, human or brute, is more useful and safer presence than the same animal untrained and unre- strained of its natural tendencies in ac- son. This genc- a,ization finds its highest proof in the results of educa- tion in self-mastery, knowledge and gainful skill when they are grafted upon the wi :. e zcni-civilized stocks of men,
 { Education to be effective in any scheme of racial exaltation must be founded upon the natural adaptabili- ties, environments and possibilities open to the race. The gravest mistakes ever made by educators have been made by the optimistic Americans who have thought that baptism of books can supersede physical and psycho- logical facts. AS we have before re- marked such mistakes were glaringly g2ade in Porto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines, but more extravagantly sy the enthusiastic northern religion nt who first established alleged clas- sical institutions for the negroes of the south.
 Taking into full consideration the past employment of the southern ne groes, their present necessities and future interests no scheme or dream Of education can do for them tithe ot the good that is possible from the re duplication a thousand fold of ths methods of school work established a Tuskegee. It has been a misfortune to hundreds of thousands of negroe in the south in the last quarter of century that they have resisted indus trial education. They have self hypnotized themselves into the gener ei gospel that work is slavery and th' man who breaches to them that worl is racial salvation is the tool of tn masterfuI class of the community.
 Booker Washington has had to labc under the handicap, but in spite of has fairly won his way to the front If he now maintains his steady, COT servative constructive course he vii leaven his whole race in the south wit a doctrine that is their only hope 0 redemption from evil conditions-th gospel of every negro to be owner of al education, a home and a trade.-A ianta Constitution.