The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-23
TUSKEGEE CONFERENCE
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Notasulga, brought fine samples of corn. potatoes and syrup. raised on some of the poorest land of Macon County. He explained how he could keep sweet potatoes an entire year by wrapping them in paper, after talk ing them out of the bank, in the spring.
 At this point, D. Booker, president of the Baptist College in Little Rock. Ark, made the following report on
 First-We have much to be thankful for. The Negro in forty years. accord ing to the census returns, has saved more than sSoo,O00,o00 worth of tax States he owns 173.S52 farms By tax ation, personal effort and philanthropic help an Htcreasingly large, number session several months each year. He has organized and supports 2S,000 churches. There is no evidence that facts indicate his possibilities.
 Second-The almost total disappear ance of lynching during the last four months. due largely to the co-operation ment in favor of law and order, is especial reason for gratitude.
 Third-There are certain elements of progress so Fundamental that we can not refrain from calling constant attention to them; viz: buying land. discardtng the one-room cabin, di- vefsifying crops giving increased at- l ing, avoiding crop mortgages and use- | less expenditures and starting bank accounts. The census returns !gratify- ingly show that an increasingly large number of our people are productive | wage-earnest. We would urge con stant attention in this direction, We discourage the use of all intoxicants and urge our people to resolutely set their faces against intemperance | ,Fourth--While representatives of the race should be educated in industrial 1 schools, colleges and professional in- | stitutiOns, we must remember that it l Is the public schools on which the masses are dependent. We believe. that our young people should also be 1 taught the Fundamental Industries l trades, agriculture, and household economy--regardless of the. character schools in the cities and larger towns l are reasonabl ygood, those in the coun- | try are generally poor, being without 1 school houses or well trained teachers; l year. receiving in many cases a sum | per capita pathetically inadequate.
 Fifth--To remedy this we must keep l in close touch with the school officers. | pay the assessed poll taxes, build | school houses, and lengthen the school terms. In this connection we would have refused to pass laws dividing the l school taxes on racial lines.
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 We must make our labor more reliable. The moral and religious standards must be kept high and infexible by putting a premium on right living, ] and condemning wrong living. I The l constant cultivation of pride of race l is an element which we should not | overlook in the training of our chill dran.. We believe the exercise of pa- | tience, cooperation, mutual forbear- ance, and hard work, will bring us | success.
 l R. L. smith of the Farmers Improve ment Society, of Texas, summed up the results of the Conference in an inter- esting manner and Father Daniels, an Episcopal minister of Arkansas. and pr. Bowen of Atlanta, Editor of the Voice of the Negro" spoke of encouragement to the farmers and their friends,
 Every inch of the great gymnasium Twas occupied and large numbers stood at the windows all through the session of nearly six hours.
 The first Conference was a great sue cess, but the one just closed has been the most successful of all This is not strange. The Conference is not mere casual meeting, but real institution, IcarefuIiy planned and every detail most learnestly worked up. Though 1t lasts but a day it has in it as much of sys- tenn and purpose as though 1t were university to run whole year. Into no part of the varied work of Tuske-
 
 thought and cousecrated labor than in to this.
 From the beginning one of the best men of the institution has been em- ploved as Q Conference Agent" Dur | ing the entire year his time is given 1 to furthering the interest of the Confer ence work During the year just closed | he has visited twenty-three counties of Alabama and organized forty local con ferences. Many of these sent dele gates to the Conference today. Out of l the conferences have come, not only the buying of land, improvement of home, school church and manner of living, | but, also, a growing system of county and neighborhood fairs, the establish Texas, and the opening of a short nid- winter course in practical agriculture at Tuskegee for farmers and their wives and grown sons and daughters. This has. just closed its second annual | session, with large attendance and Imost excellent results.
 A great bargecue was served. Ta- bles were prepared for 1000 people. be- sides those who ate in the various din- ing rooms and with families. sThe school bakery prepared $500 buns l About three barrels of coffee and 2,500 pounds of meat were consumed. A package of Conference literature and i five varieties of garden seed were dis ftributed to each one present.
 | Tomorrow the Workers Conference will be held in Douglass Hall. The large number of prominent educators present and others who are deeply in- lterested in the great questions to be considered make sure that the meeting will be one of unusual interest. 1 Hannah Elias and Cassie Chadwick