The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-25
se whom I am proud to honor

blaze of those whom I am proud to honor AS my fellow American citizens.
 The President and party proceeded at once to the Tuskegee Normal and Indus trial institute, where they were welcomed by Booker T. Washington. The Presideht reviewed the parade of floats represent ing the various industries of the institu- ton, after which he spoke thus:
 You can't be as much inspired by any thing I may say as l have been inspired by what I have seen here. MT. Washing ton 1t is a liberal education in itself flrst to come here and see this great focus of civlliza ton. Now I had read good deal of your work and l believe In It with all my heart. 1 would not call myself a good American if I did not l was pre- pared to see what would impress me and please me. but had no idea that 1 would be so deeply impressed, so deeply pleased as l have been. I did not realize the eX- tent of your work; I did not realize how much you were doing. l wish l had the time now merely to go around and sec the buildings and grounds, but to see the finished product outside. l would like to go around and see the houses that are being built up by those who leave thls institution. I would like to see the ef- feet in actual life of the training here, and wish that some man with the gltt of description would come here and go from here out where the graduates go and visit them in their homes and find out what they are doing and describe it all, I think there could be nothing better than that so as to show what is being done. and Mir Washington, while l have always stood for this institution, now that l l have seen 1t and realize as l had never l realized by the descriptions of 1t, all that | it means, I will stand for It more than l ever"
 Citizen of Highest Type.
 '.,To the white population as well as the black it is of the utmost importance that the negro be encouraged to make himself citizen of the highest type and useful ness 1t is to the interest of the white people that this policy be conscientiously pursued and to the interest of the col ored people that they clearly realize that they have opportunities for economic de- velopment here in the south not now of- fered elsewhere. Within the last twenty years the industrial operations of the south have increased so tremendously that there is scarcity of labor almost everywhere, so that it is the part of wis dom for all who wish the prosperity of the south to help the negro to become in the highest degree useful to himself.
 'The south has always depended and now depends, chiefly upon her native pop ulaton for her work. Therefore, In view of the scarcity not only of common labor but of skilled labor. it becomes doubiS important to train every man to be of the utmost use by developing his intelli. | gence, his skill and his capacity for con seientious effort Hence the work of tho Tuskegee Normal Industrial institute i' a matter of the highest practical impor tance to both the white man and th' black man. and well worth the supper a1;l ha ArtI o,,s the south. Your 500 students are no only being educated in head and heart but also trained to industrial efficiency.
 Training of Tuskegee.
 "For, from the beginning, Tuskegee ha placed a special emphasis upon the train ing of men and women in agricultural mechanics and household duties. Train ing in these three fundamental direc tions does not embrace all that the ne gro or any other race needs. but it doe cover in very large degree the field il which the negro can at present do mos for himself, and be most helpful to hi white neighbors. Every black man wh' leaves this institute is better able to d, mechanical or industrial work. adds b, so much to the wealth of the whole com munity and benefits all people in tn community. The professional and mer cantile avenues to success are overcrowd ed; for the present the best chances O success awaits the intelligent worker a some mechanical trade or on a farm, fo this man will almost certainly achiev industrial independence. I am please, but not in the least surprised to learr that many among these men and womei trained at Tuskegee find immediate em ployment as leaders and workers anon, their own people, and that their serv ices are generally sought by white peo ..I-. t... a-1 the demand being much greater thai the supply
 Viewed from any angle. ignorance il the costliest crop that can be raised il any part of this union. Every dollar pu into the education of either white mai or black man, in head in hand and il heart, yields rich dividends to the entir community Merely from the econom standpoint such as this Tuskege should be a success. But there are othe and even higher reasons that entities i to our support. In the interest of hu manty, of justice and of self-protection every white man in America no matte where he lives. should try to help thu negro to help himself. It Is in the interes and for the protection of the white mai to see that the negro is educated It i not only the duty of the white man. bu 1t is to his interest to that the negr is protected in property, in life, and il all his legal rights.
 Moral Tone Lowered.
 Every time a law is broken every in divdual in the community has the mora tone of his life lowered, Lawlessness il the United States is not confined to an, one section, lynching is not confined t any one section. and there is perhaps n, body of American citizens who have de served so well of the entire Americai people as the public men the publicist the clersymen. the countless thousand of high minded private citizens who hay done such heroic work in the south il arousng public opinion against lawless ness in all its forms, and especial,