The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-24
NEGRO THRONGS
HONOR PRESIDENT.
Roosevelt Visits Tuskegee Insti-
tute, Booker T. Washing
.
tons School.
DECLARES THE NEGRO
RULES OWN FUTURE
President Addresses Colored Peo-
pie on Problems of Their
Race.

'Tuskegee Institute, Ala, Oct. "a
President Roosevelt reached the grounds
of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial
institute today after a brief stop In
I the town of Tuskegee, where he was TT
ceived by the mayor and other distin-
guished citizens of Alabama. The presl-
dent s train was brought directly into
the grounds of the institute over it's
private tracks. .--
From midnight until this morning
great crowds of country people, white
and black, were arriving from all sec
tions surrounding Tuskegee. A motley
assortment of vehicles brought hun
dreds of persons and were allowed to
come into the institute grounds where
the president saw the collection and
seemed amused by the sight.
Received by Booker T.
The president was received by Prin-
cipal Booker T. Washington and mem
bers of the institute board of trustees
and faculty. He then entered a car
riage made by, the students of the
school, drawn by horses raised at the
school, and driven by a student in the
school uniform. Other carriages, also
made by the students, in which were
seated members Of the president s party,
followed. The party proceeded immedi-
ately to an elaborately decorated stand
in front of the office building, sur
mounted by the president s flag.
From this point President Roosevelt
i viewed the educational and in dustrial
parade, upon the preparation of which
the students and faculty have been at
work for several weeks. This parade
was headed by the institute band led
by Bandmaster Ebert B. Williams of
the Ninth United States cavalry, who
ho1 Of loI to Tnclx hyy
war department.. Then came 1900 stu
dents Of the school in two divisions, the
young men uniformed in blue suits with
brass buttons, white gloves and cadet
caps; the young women wearing blue
: dresses trimmed with red braid and
wearing blue straw-braid hats, each
bearing stalk of sugarcane topped
4 with cotton ball. all raised in the
4 schools agricultural experiment sta
n ton.
Floats Showed Schools Work.
Immediately behind the student body
4 came siXty-one floats representing the
n various phases of work Of the academy
4 department and thirty-seven industrial
divisions of the school. In this way
examples of work being carried on in
all departments were put in evidence.
s Among the more striking floats were
ID those representing the broom making
h and basketry, millinery, blacksmithing
shoemaking, electricity, machinery, the
( last float carrying an engine in opera
f ton made by the students. Printing
brick masonry and plastering, architec:
tural drawing, experiment station and
experiment teaching division, dairy
truck gardening, nursetraining, history
Is and library, chemistry, training schoo!
+ for gardening were represented as wei!
( as the department of agricultural dl
e vision. In addition a Hambletonian
stallion, five brood mares and colts, a
pedigreed jack and mule colts repre-
sented another branch of the agricul
tural work. The herd of Jersey ano
other fine strains of cattle was also in
line.
Roosevelt Saw Grounds.
After the parade had passed and the
students, faculty and visitors were re
pairing to the chapel, the presidential
party was driven hurriedly about the
grounds and was shown the extent anc
Scope of the work being carried on by
the institute. Then to the chapel the
party was taken, where the students
s led by the institute choir Of $50 voices
sang a number of plantation melodies
Principal Booker T. Washington the1
presented the president in the following
words:
'"This is a great day for the Tuske
gee Normal and Industrial institute
TOO great TO De uCSCIlDeu ny WOlos
We have gathered to hear but one voice
to see but one face.
''In presenting our guest to the stu
dents, teachers and citizens, / must no
omit to express the gratitude felt b.
the people Of the Tuskegee institut
A and by the people of both races In thu
section of Alabama for the honor whic
has been conferred upon them. Tha
the chief magistrate of our beloved re
4. public of 8O0OO,OO0 people deemed
-good and wise to include Tuskegee III
stitute in his trip thru the south, an
a spend a few hours seeing the work W
are doing here, brings to the heart Q
every man and woman OF our race
this country a degree of encourage
ment and inspiration which it is impo
sible for any American citizen not c
II our race to fully appreciate.
"My friends, without further wore
~ of mine, 1 have the pleasure and til
\; honor of presenting to you the pres
dent of the United States, Honorab
Theodore Roosevelt
The Presidents Address.
President Roosevelt said:
"Viewed from any angle, ignorant
is the costliest crop that can be raise
in any part of this union. Every do
A liar put into the education Of eitht
white man or black man, in head,
hand, and in heart, yields rich div
dends to the entire community. Mere]
from the economic standpoint, it is
.4 the utmost consequence to all our cit
zens that institutions such as this
W Tuskegee should be a success. b
there are other and even higher re
49, sons that entitle it to our support.
E'In the interest of humanity, of ju
|tice and of self-proteetion, every viii
man in America, no matter where
A; lives, should try to help the negro
zN3 help himself It is in the interest al
for the protection of the white man
n see that the negro is educated. It
mot only the duty of the white man, b
lit is to his interest to see that tt
negro is protected in property, in Ii
s and in all his legal rights.
Lowering the Moral Tone.
Every time law is broken, eve
Individual in the community has Il
moral tone of his life lowered La,
lessness in the United States is not co
4 fined to any one section; 1ynching is n
confned to any one section, and the
Es, perhaps. no body of American eli
z -zens who have deserved so well of Il
entire American people as the publ
men, the clergymen, the countless tho
sands of high-minded private citize
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