The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-10-27

a received by Principal Booker T.
Washington, trustees, faculty, students
and a great crowd of white and coll
OredSpeople, thousands having arrived
from the surrounding country during
night.
In presenting the president, Booker
Z. Washington said:
THAT the chief magistrate of our be-
loved republic deemedait good and wise
to include Tuskegee institute in his
"Trip through the south, brings to the
heart of every ma and woman of
Y race In this country a degree of
encouragement and inspiration which
II Is impossible for any American citi-
ten not of our race to fully appreciate"
He Sees Great Parade.
Aparade was reviewed by the pres
dent, headed by the institute band.
Then came $500 students in two divi-
efons. The young men We're uniformed
IN blue suits with brass buttons, white
gloves q cadet caps; the young wom-l
IN wore blnesdresses trimmed with red
braid n wearing blue straw braid
oats followed, each bearing a stalk Of
tugarEcane topped with a cotton ball.
III raised in the school OF agriculture.
RE- Immediately behind the student body
tame sfxty-one floats, representing the.
various phasessofswork of the academy
department and thirty-seven Industrial
divisions of the school,. In this way
Examples Sf b work being carried on
all departments We're put in evil
lence.
The president was given a great ova-
ton as he rose to speak, and his adj
Aress was punctuated by frequent ap-
Stlause. The city Of Tuskegee was beau
.Hf,llly decorated. The president made
his speech from the platform made
From cotton bales worth $50, 600. He
escorted to the institute by a com-,
Rany Of state militia and everywhere
greeted most cordially and enthu-
Nast1cally. He said:
Tho Presidents Speech.
the white population as we'll as to
The black lids Of the utmost import
Ance that the negro be encouraged to
make himself a citizen of the highest
ssype OF usefulness. 1t is to the interest
tfa the white people that this policy be
fonSE1entiotsly pursued, n to2the in
tereDt of the colored people that they
Nearly realize that they have oppor-
tunltteS for economic development here
h the south, not nov offered else
where.
Within The Hast twenty years the in
aeugtr1al operations of the south have
S@creased SO tremendously that there.
~ 8 sucarcity of labor almost every
where: 20 tina 1t is the part of wisdom
EeOr4al those who wish the prosperity
sbf the south to help the negro to be-
posnea M the highest degree useful to.
Ihimself and therefore to the commun-
slty In which he lives.
The south has always depended, and
now depends chiefly upon her native
population for her work. Therefore, in
view OF the scarcity II only of COM
mo labor. but OF skilled labor, it be-!
comes doubly important tOttrain every
AVAILABLE man to sbesof the utmost use,
BY developing his intelligence, his skill
and his capacity for conscientious eff
tort.
Hence the work of the Tuskegee
Normal and Industrial institute is a
matter of highest practical Importance
to both the white man and the black
maY.M.andAAWAl worth the support of
both races alike In the southFand in
the north. Your 1,b007students are not
.but-a1so trained to Industrial efficiency.
Mechanics Most Needed.
Every black ma who leaves this in
satitute better able to sdo mechanical
or Industrial work adds by so much to
the wealth of the whole. community and
benefits all people i'm sti1e community.
The professional ana mercantile ave-
nue to success are overcfpwded; for
the present best chance of success
awaits the worker at some mechanical
trade or on the farm, fortthis man will
almost certainly achieve industrial in
dependence.
Viewed from n angle, ignorance is
the Scostliest crop that can be raised in
any part of this union Every dollar put
into the education OF either white man
or black man, In head, I'm hand and in
heart, yields rich dividends to the en-
tire community. Merely from the
economic standpoint it Is oftthe utmost
consequence to all our citizens that in
sstitutions such as this at Tuskegee
should be a success.
But there are other and even higher
reasons that entitle 1t to u support.
In the interest of humanity, of justice
and OF self protection, every white man
In America, no matter where he lives,
should try to help the negro ito help
himself. 1t Is In the interest and for
the protection of the white man to see
that the negro is educated. It is not
the duty of the white man to see that
the negro is protected ! n property, in
life and in all his legal rights. Every
time a law is broken. every individual
An the community has the moral tone
of his life lowered. Lawlessness ia the
United States is not confined to any n
lynching is not confined to any
one section, and there is perhaps no
body OF American citizens who have de-
served so we'll Of the entire American
speopiesas the public men, the publicists,
the clergymen, the countless thousands
OF high minded private citizens who
done such heroic work in the
:soutii5in arousing public opinion against
1awlessness In ali its forms. and espe-
,cialsy against lyncalfng.
Argaes AgaiTtt Lynchisg.
sSsI very earnestly hope that their ex-
ample WtA8count in the north rs we'll
ssHlt aOuth, for there are Ssst as
great evils to be warred against Ia one
Fegfoil OF GU country az iii anotker,
ea~pleeyllss And Whes anybody In q