Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-24
ps.ads Which the Students Had Pre-.
cared Was Grand suces's-Presi-
cent Praises the Work Of the Insti-
tute and Incidentally Gives Both
White and colorsd Citizens Advice.

dent was received by Principal Booker
r. Washington, the trustees, faculty,
students, and a great crowd of white
ard colored people. thousands hav-
ing arrived from the surrounding
country during the night. The presj-
dsntial party entered carriages and
proceeded to an elaborately decorated
stand, from which the president re-
viewed the educational and industrial
4 psrade, upon preparation Of which the
I students and faculty have been at work
for several weeks.
The parade was headed by the insti-
tute band. Then came $500 students.
lin two divisions, the young men uni-
formed In blue suits. with brass but
tons, while gloves and cadet caps, and
the young women wearing blue dress
en- trimmed with red braid, wearing
blue straw braid hats, followed, each
b,.aring q stalk OF sugar cane topped
with cotton ball, all raised In the
school agriculture experiment station.
Immediately behind the student body
came sixty one floats, representing
various phases OF the work of the
academy department, and thirty seven
Industrial divisions Of the school. In
this way, examples Of the work being
carried on in all the departments, We're
nut In evidence.
aAt the conclusion OF the parade all
!, repaired to the chapel where the pres
ilient.g after being presented by Prin-
cipal Washington, delivered an ad-i
dress r
Washington Presents President.
In presenting the president, Wash
angton said. "This is great day for.
the Tuskegee Normal Industrial In
atttute: to great to be described by
words. we have gathered to hear but
<n,e voice; to see but one face. In pre-.
y oenting our guest to the students,
teachers and citizens, must not omit
is express the gratitude felt by the
4 people OF the Tuskegee Institute, and
Nv the people of both races in this
sIection OF Alabama for THE honor which
1 has been conferred upon them. That
I ta1e chief magistrate Of our beloved re-
1oublic deemed 1t good and wise to IN
clude Tuskegee Institute in his trip
through the south and to spend few
.'tiouring in seeing the work we ARD
doing here, brings to the heart of every
country, q degree Of encouragement
I for any American citizen, not Of our
race. fully to appreciate.
my friends, without further words
or mine, have the pleasure and honor
of presenting to you the president OF
I Roosevelt" :"
4 The Presidents Speech.
Il The president was given a great
j ovation as he arose to speak and the
address was punctuated by frequent
applause. He said.
ITO the white population as well as
s to the black, 1t is of the utmost inn
portance that the negro be encourag-
ed to make himself a citizen of the
highest type of usefulness. It is to
the interest Of the white people that
this policy be conscientiously pursued,
and to the interest Of the colored peo-
9ple that they clearly realize that they
have opportunities for economic de-
'8velopment here In the south, not now
offered elsewhere. Within the last
twenty years the Industrial operations
OF the south have increased SO tre-
mendously that there is, a scarcity Of
labor almost everywhere; so that it is
/ the part of wisdom for all who wish
the prosperity of the south to help the
negro to become In the. highest degree
useful to himself, and therefore to the
community in which he lives. The
south has always depended, and now
depends, chiefly upon her native pop
ulatfon for her work. Therefore. In
/ view of the scarcity not only of COM
mon labor, but of skilled labor, 1t be-
comes doubly important to train ev-
cry available man to be of the utmost
use, by developing his intelligence, his
skill and his capacity for conscientious
effort. Hence the work of the Tuske-
gee Normal and Industrial Institute
is matter of the highest practical
Importance to both the white man and
the black man, and well worth the
support of both races alike In the
south and in the north. Your fifteen
hundred students are not only being
educated In head and heart, but also
trained to Industrial efficiency. for
from the beginning Tuskegee has
placed especial emphasis upon the
training Of men and women In agri-
culture, mechanics and household du-
ties. Training In these three funda-
Inentaa directions does not embrace all
that the ne1ro or any other race
needs hut 4 does cover In a very large
do9ree the field In which the negro can
3t present do most for himself and be
most helpful to his white neighbors
Every black man who leaves this in
oe9tute better able to do mechanical
= 3adustrial werk adds by - much to