The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-18
MUST HAVE LAND.
Booker WashingtOn's Advice to
His Race.
Learn to Work as the White
Men Work.
AUDIENCE WAN LARGE.
At Least 1900 People Heard
the Distinguished Negro.
Topeka Ind ustrial Institute Re-
ceiVes Good Words.
WAN LARGE.

Booker T. washington has been
graduated from the self same school OF
oratory in which Theodore Roosevelt
enrolled. He is a strenuous speaker.
He wraps his body as well as his
thought about his words. At the lecture
given by him at the Auditorium last
night for the benefit of the Topeka In
dustrial Institute he proved himself the
earnest, forceful, shrewd speaker and
thinker. The attendance was all that
could be hoped for, in the face of coun-
ter attractions and strong ones too at
that. 1000 paid admission.
A number Of prominent people were
on the platform, among whom were
Mayor Bergundthal, Chancellor Strong
Of the state university, President J. \.
Wilkinson of the state normal, Bishop
Grant Of the NJ. z. church, whose head
quarters are in Kansas City, T. A Nc
Neal, W. I. Jamison, Representative
Stone, J. B. Larimer, John NJ. Wright
and w. r. Carter, principal OF the IN
dustrial Institute.
T. a. NfcNeal officiated in the abb
sence of Governor HOch in giving the
governors absence, Mr.. McNeal said:
Ladies and gentlemen, have an an
nQuncement TO make which is some
thing In the nature of an apology. 1t
was the intention of the governor to be
present and introduce the speaker OF
the evening but the editorial associa-
tlon have evidently taken a cue from
the Saturday Night club and invited
themselves out to the governors house
without his previous knowledge. He
could only under the circumstances
claim that he was delighted to enter
tain them though nothing would have
given Governor HOch more pleasure
than to introduce the speaker OF the
evening. I will have to therefore hum
bly, serve in his capacity
An invocation by Bishop Grant fol-
lowed.
Mr.. McNeal announced the next num-
Der on the programme as a quartette.
At his words five young men from the /
Industrial school fled on the stage. At |
ter rendering the selection A1cNeal said, |
"Humph, evidently one of that quar-
tette is a twin
President Wilkinson and Chancellor !
Snow each made a brief address.
President Wilkinson review the ca
reer of Booker T. Washington in the
National Educational association. /
Twenty years ago that association /
gave him a place on its platform for /
the first time" he said. That happened |
also to be the last appearance of Gen. /
Armstrong of Hampton Institute before /
that body. Industrial training then was
comparatively unknown. No public |
school in the country offered such in |
struction. In this period there has 4
come such appreciation for this kind /
of work that we are now able to vel |
come Mr. Washington to a city whose |
most magnificent school building is Tor |
provides a fund to aid city manual
training schools and which prepares
manual training teachers at the states
expense.
when Mr.. Washington came on that |
platform twenty years ago. and its oc-
cupants were shaking hands with him /
as we did tonight, the most distirg- |
u1Shed state superintendent the south /
has ever produced, refuse his hand but /
no man since that time has refused to |
shake hands with Mr.. Washington in
the National Educational association. |
Instead Of the small audience at that |
meeting twenty years ago, the associa- |
ton gave Mr.. Washington at St. Louis /
last summer all the great festival hall |
would hold, and there need never be |
ANY fear that we shall fail to recognize |
Mr.. Washington as contributing in !
9iuences Of the most beneficent charac-
Ter in the light Of what is needed by /
both the white race and the black"
Chancellor Strong said in part: It
am glad to be here to testify my in !
ferest on this occasion. Since I have /
come to the Kansas university I have
household and from seeing them work
and watching them in their duties they
have often made me think of what I
have seen in Booker T. Washington's /
book. The colored man very seldom |
betrays a specific trust The develop
ment OF race is very, very slow, and /
you have to pay for it what we had to /
pay for 1t in tears. blood and much !
sacrifice. The colored man. if he is
wise, will see to il that he stays close /
TO the soil He should see to il that he |
becomes the owner of the soil which he |
IA this world if you pay the price for
st."
The formal introduction Of Mr.. Wash