The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-25
SOUTHERN WHITES MUST
 SOLVE RACE PROBLEM
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| what I have seen today. I want to tel you that 1t is liberal education Jus
 to come here and see this great focu' of civilization Again when he was arguing witt his negro audience, the necessity
 the negro helping himself He turne'
 to veteran in the rear of the plat
 form saying, You, sir, you have had part in a great war, and you, too Judg Jones( addressing Judge Thomas G
 Jones, who sat on the platform) yo' l men know that you can give help to comrade, but you cannot do all Tor nm , If he is down you can lift him up an set him on his feet, but you can't carr him. He must do something for him self. The trouble with a great man. | people has been that when you star
 out to do something for them the.
 wind up by wanting you to do every
 thing for them"
 Again as he was impressing upon thu negro the necessity of the negro's do
 ing something to help himself, h. broke off quickly and exclaimed, "Oh I didn't come here to f1atter. I came here to preach"
 Again he interpolated an epigram when he exclaimed, "The minute you get a man who tells you that society owes him living, tell him that it's a bad debt"
 
 l Tn speaking of the obligation resting upon the white man to help the negro and secure to him his rights the Pres | ident broke loose from his prepared l speech to pay an impressive compli- ment to Judge Jones. I'm going to say somethintA here to man, which, I suspect, he doesn't want me to say. He Is a modest man, as I have found out. But I want to tell you people that the negro owes a great obligation, an ob- | ligation he can never pay, to Judge Jones for his infiexible courage, his in- flexible stand for righteousness in as- surfing to all men their justice and their rights. And as great a debt as | the negro owes him the white man owes him still greater obligation. Judge Jones, you have been a potent | factor In the upbuilding of righteous l ness and of Justice to all men. It pleases me to be able to tell you this.'' These remarks of the President were | heartily cheered and an effort was | made to get Judge Jones to step to the | front of the platform but he declined | and remained seated.
 | Preliminary to his address at the Tuskegee Institute, the President said: MT Washington and each student and graduate of Tuskegee:
 l Inspired by What He Saw. You cant be as much inspired by | dhyt l may say dS l nave been ln- l spired by what I have seen here Mr. Washington, 1t is liberal education | in itself, first to come here and see this great focus of civilization Now I had l read good deal of your work, and I believe In it with all my heart. I would not call myself a good American if I 1 did not.
 | T was prepared to see what would | impress me and please me, but I had no idea would be so deeply impressed so | deeply pleased as I have been. did not realize the extent of your work: I did not realize how much you were do- ing. wish I had the time not merely to go around and see the buildings and l grounds, but to zee the finished product outside. I would like to go around and see the houses that are being built up by those who leave this institution. | T would liks to see the effect in ac- tual life of the Sraining here and wish that some man with the gift of descrip- tion would come here and go from here out where the graduates go and visit l them in their homes and find out what they were doing and describe 1t all. l think there could be nothing better than that so as to show what Is being done, and Mir. Washington while have always stood for this institution now that have seen it and realize as had never realized by the descriptions of It, iil that u tutdISs l WILL TOT II more than ever"
 Speech to Negro Students.
 ITO the white population. as well as the black, it is of the utmost import ance that the negro be encouraged to make himself a citizen ot the highest est of the white people that this policy | be conscientious!y pursued and to the | interest of the coIored people that they | clearly realize that they have oppor- tunittes for economic development here | in the south not now offered elsewhere
 Within the last twenty years the in | dustrlal operations of the South have increased so tremendously that there l Is a scarcity of labor almost every l where. so that 1t is the part of wisdom for all who wish the prosperity of the the highest degree useful to himself The South has always depended, and now depends. chiefly upon her native view of the scarcity not only of com | mon labor but of skilled labor. 1t be- comes doubly important to train every | man to be of the utmost use by devei- l oping his intelligence, his skill. and his | capacity for conscientious effort.
 "Hence the work of the Tuskegee Normal Industrial Institute is q matter of the highest practical importance tc both the white man and the black man and well worth the support of both Your 1,500 students are not only being educated in head and heart. but also trained to industrial efficiency. For from the beginning, Tuskegee has placed a special emphasis upon the training of men and women in agricul- tural, mechanics and household duties | Field for the Negro.
 | Training in these three fundamenta | directions does not embrace all tha- the negro or any other race needs, but
 it does cover m a very large degree the field in which the negro can at pres
 ent do most for himself and be mos helpful to his white neighbors Ever | black man who leaves this institute | who is better able to do mechanical ol industrial work adds by so much to thu l wealth of the whole community anC
 benefits all the people in the commu
 'The professional and mercantile ways to success are overcrowded: col the present the best chance of succe es: awaits the intelligent worker at some mechanical trade or on farm; for thi, man will almost certainly achieve Ill
 dustrial independence.
 II am pleased. but not in the leas
 surprised to learn that many among these men and women trained at Tus'
 kegee find immediately employment q. leauers and workers among their owr
 people and that their services are gen | eraily sought by white people tor Narl
 ous kinds of industrial work, the tie,
 mand being much greater than tho supIpii%; Ipi%yn, ,ro,,, onv .rs,e icnorarco i, | the costliest crop that can be raised ir any part of this Union. Every dollal II man or black man, in head. in hand anC in heart yields rich dividends to tn, | entire community. Merely from the economic standpoint, it is of the utmos | conseuuence to all our citizens that in.
 stitutions such as this should be sue.