The news & observer., 1905-10-25
TWO SPEECHES AT .TUsKEGEE
Ono From Il Platform Built Up of
Bales of Cotton Worth $4,000
eBy the Associated Press }

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Tuskegee, Ala, Oct. 24.-President
Roosevelt arrived in Tuskegee at $50
o'clock this morning, his train being
on time. The city was beautifully
decorated. A number OF arches. the
foundation of which were made
of bales of cotton had been
erected and covered with bunting.
The platform from which the Presi-
dent spoke to the people of the city
was made from $50 900 worth of cot
ton in original bales.
The President was met at the train
by a reception committee among
whom were Mayor o. S. Lewis and
DIR. John Massey, president of the
Alabama Conference Female College
Escorted by a company of State mi
litia, the President was driven to the
college, which represented a typical
Southern scene. Cotton had been
transplanted in long rows and two
old Southern negroes, cotton pickers
with baskets on their shoulders were
engaged in picking the staple from the
plants. Several baskets of cotton
were scattered about the field. The
President was greeted at the college
grounds by the students and public
school children.
Address to College Girls.
In his address at the college, the
President said in part:
THE one all essential thing in
America the thing that underlieS
everything else, is to have the average
American a good man or a good wo-
man: and if there is any one thing
that 1 respect more than a good man
it is Il good woman. | think she is
just a trifle more useful, and she has
a harder time in life, and she is little
more entitled to our respect than even
the best man. And there is not man
xyh iS does
not agree with me. Of course, it is
mere truiSm to say that the ultimate
factor in determining the welfare OF
the nation, is the life of home; that
is. the way it is, the ordinary man
ordinary woman performs his or her
ordinary duties of the most sacred in
innate kind if the man is good
father, a good husband; if he is de-
cent and clean in his domestic life;
If he does his duty by his neighbor;
if he is the kind of man whom we
are glad to have as a neighbor, that
man is all right. he is going to be a
good citizen: 1t is just the same with
women; If the woman is a good wife
and mother, she is a good citizen, and
not merely a good citizen, but she is
the very best kind of a citizen that
this country can produce.
I'VE all OF us know an occasional
foolish mother who says: 4 have had
hard time: my daughters shall not
have to work. This is not Kindness
to the daughter. 1t is doing the very
worst thing that can be done for her
Do not bring up your boys and girls
to be useless, to avoid trouble. to get
around trouble. to shirk WoL< The
man or the woman who counts in
life is the man or woman who does
not finish from a task, but who does
the task. who overcomes the obstacles
The boy or girl won't turn out that
kind Of man or woman if they are not
brought up in that spirit from the be-
ginnlng.'
Arrival at TUskceee Institute.
At the conclusion of his address the
President left for Tuskegee Institute
The Presidents train was brought di-
rectly into the grounds of the institute
over its private track.
The President was received by Prn-
ipal Booker L. Washington and mem.
gers of the institute board of trustees
nd faculty. He then entered a car
age made bv tho students of the
ghool. drawn by four horses raised Il,
tb 2 school and driven bv a student il
as' school uniform. The party pro