Evening star., 1904-03-18
CAUSE OF EDUCATION
MEETING HELD ~ INTEREST OF
INDUsTRIAIlcLAssEs.
Booker Washington the Guest OF Honor
Addresses by Representative
PorterIand Others.

Prof. Booker T. Washington was the
guest of honor this morning at meeting
held at the residence of Mrs. Henry Kirke
Porter in the interest Of the southern in
dustrfal classes, which are being directed
by Mrs Elizabeth Hopkins. The guests,
numbering more than 100, were addressed
by Mr. Washington, Mr.. Porter, Dr. Horace
Butterick of the Southern Educational
Board and President Gilman of the Car
negie Institution. Mr.. Washington later
took luncheon with Mr.. r. H. Terrell, at 326
street northwest, and, with his secre-
tary. Emmett Scott, will leave for New
York city tomorrow.
Representative Porter welcomed the
guests in behalf of Mrs. Porter and, in
referring to Mr.. Washington's career. said: !:
Il know of nothing stranger than the con-
trast of his stay in Richmond, struggling
on the wharves of that city in 1872 and
sleeping under boardwalks, while endeavOr-
ing to make a little money to get to the
Hampton Institute, and coming back to
Richmond some twenty-five years later to
deliver public address, listened to by the
councils Of the city and the Legislature of
the state, both these bodies having FORM
ally voted to attend that meeting. Picture
all the struggle of boyhood days and of
later life as well, with the receptions at
Atlanta, at Boston when the Shaw monu-
ment was dedicated, at Harvard and at
the Chicago Auditorium at the close OF the
Spanish-American war. Surely right hath
her victories and character it's triumph
For is not the highest quality of our friend
the noblest trait in his character-that no
measure of success has ever blinded him
for an instant to the great work given him
TO do, and which. none sees so clearly as
lie, is but just begun.
Necessity for Cooperation.
His clear conception of the absolute ne
cessity for cooperation Of all the people
OF the south in order to insure a happy
and successful solution of the momentous
problems before them is a lesson to US ALL
And his work in the school at Tuskegee has
commended itself so greatly that seed after
It's KIND has been widely scattered and,
win palnstak1ng care, has been cultivated
In many another field'
1t. Butterlck gave an account of his ex-
perlences at Norfolk, where his efforts in
the line of industrial education are concen-
tated. he declared industrialism to be the
only method by which the masses Of untu-
tored eolored people could be reached
Dr Gilman, who followed, indOrsed every
tmng Dr. Butterick had said, and added
some OF MS personal experience with the
industrial education idea as chairman of
the John F. Slater fund
Prof. Washington's Address.
Mr.. Washington was then introduced. tre
said in part:
A very large proportion of our people
at the south live by the work of their
hands. This is true now and will be true
1or generations to come, Just as the case
IS with any race, black or white One of
the ways OF bettering the condition of nv
people at the south is telling them to do
wen Wen whatever their hands find to do, in
teiiing them that there is no disgrace in
any form of labor, but that there is dis
grace in all forms of idleness
The work being done under the leader
snlp OF mrs. Elizabeth c. Hobson through
her southern Industrial classes in Nor
ioik, Va, as their center, has, in my opin-
Ion, two special values. First-It is hard
to understand how 1T is possible to lead
ahd teach over 1000 individuals with so
small an annual outlay as is true of these
industrial classes; second This work
must eommand-th confidence and inter-
est or all the people who are interested
IN IA NOT only the education of my race. but
In making conditions more heIpful at the
south for my race Then. the teaching is
taken right into the homes into the com
live. themselves
This is a work in which not onIv tho
negro is interested, not only the northern
"hlte people, but one which should com
mand the special interest of the southern
whlte people. They depend upon the
negro almost wholly for evervthinr ~
the direction of domestic work Everv-
thing that tends to elevate and imnrove
domestic service of my people is of direct
oenent TO every white family in the
south. - 'Ao
Other Encouragement.
And another thing which is encourag-
ing our people to seek after industrial
educatlon Is the fact that southern white
women, who few years ago rather
spurned such education, are now enterine
INTO the spirit Of methods of it with de-
votion and earnestness. 1t is my opinion
that we are not very far from the dav
when many forms of domestic work which
poth races have heretofore turned their
backs upon are going to become popular
among the most intelligent class of neo-
PIE. L DO not believe that it will be long
pe1ore cooking, for example. will be taken
up by college graduates of both races and
classed as a profession instead of drude
cry, as 1t has been in too many cases
classed in the past.
Finally. i repeat that whatever ,;ebt
ems the burdens of the one race What