The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-18


No my friends some solution more
practical than either of these must
he secured
Though as a race we have had
many disadvantages we have still sew
eral advantages, think We have the
distinction of being the only race that
was sent here on an invitation and in
addition had our passage paid for
Now wouldn't 1t be ungracious. unkind
and impolite for US to leave this land
when we have had all this done for
US No, we are prepared to remain
right here as American CITIZENS we
will help to tunnel the mountains, to
heW the forest, to till the soil. we
have purchased our right as American
citizens to remain. Now that we are
here the problem is, how can we pc
elevated to a vital part of the American
people.
let me give you in brief what we
have done in Tuskegee. From start
of thirty students and one instructor
we have now 1900 students distribut-
ed among thirty-two states and seven
foreign countries with 156 instructors.
A college community of 1000 Souls
We own and operate our own water
works system, our own electric light
plant, gank and postof1ce and built our
first railroad this year. 1t IS true that
it is only one mile long put II is as
wide as the Santa Fe. We have sixty
nine buildings on the college campus
erected almost entirely by the students
And I feel safe in saying that we
have property now which represents
$2OOO.OO0 We started in 1881 under
less favorable conditions than did the
Industrial school here and there is no
reason why your school should not
grow as Tuskegee did.
They Must Get Land.
"Eighty-fve per cent of our people
in the south are without land and
without a home. Take two men, one
coIored and the other white, and send
them to college and when they secure
their diplomas watch them Nine
cases out of ten the white man goes
into some business which his father,
grandfather or great gran dfather
founded. The colored man finds none
awaiting him, he must go out and start
it for himself. Therefore L beHeVe they
should be trained in the technicalities
of trade. We must use skill, brains
and dignity in order to hold our jobs.
My aim in promoting Industrial edu-
cation in the south is for the colored
man to plant corn like the white man
plants it in the north. I don't want
you to be only tolerated but to be
needed; and the way to do it is to
do a common thing in an uncommon
'sRemember you have a hard bat
tie in the north as we have in the |
south. You must learn to spend less
than you earn. Get your home, get |
a bank account Don't spend your
money on superficial show, you can't
fool the world.
eve have to draw the line sharply
between the vicious and virtuous and |
to begin right in the pulpit. There
has been nothing which has held
our race back more than the fact that
so many of our men in the cloth
have been filthy in their private life |
In that value which we place |
on the clean and the virtuous in that
proportion will we be honored.
1--WE are getting rid of the burnings
and the other horrible practices in /
the south and it is largely due to the
efforts of the educated .colored peo-
pie. When everything seems dark and
ing let US remember our be-
ginnings.
Banquet to Washington.
Following the address at the Audi |
Washington in the rotunda on the /
fourth floor of the state house by the |
of Topeka and the Cosmopoh-
tan club a colored literary and social |
club. Plates We're laid for 200 guests. /
JAS. H. Guy, the attorney and presi-
dent of the Cosmopolitan club, acted as
POSTMASTER The following toasts were
given:
Vim. R. Carter, Topeka industrial /
g. F. Clinkscale. principal of Buchan-
an school. 1.-The Schools Of Topeka
Nathaniel Sawyer, 1.-THE Literary
Outlook of the Colored Race"
Rev. E. A. Wilson of Kansas City,
''Signs of the Times"
DR.. A. C. Brisco, THE Topeka Bust
ness Mems College,
J. NJ. Allen, Original POEM"
Rev. NE. F'ishback, 1.-THE Churches of /
Following this Bishop Grant of the
A M. E. church and w. T. Vernon Of
the Quindaro State Institute for Color
ed Youth. made brief addresses.
About Is prominent coiored citizens
from Kansas City, Kan, Leavenworth.
Atchison, Lawrence and st. Joseph at
tended the banquet
The guest Of honor then save the adj
dress of the evening to those assem-
bled. He said in part:
I'm regard to the ballot repeat here
what I have often said in the south, as
to my position I do not approve of the 7
negroes giving up anything that is fun
damental and that is guaranteed by the /