Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-24
FOR NEGRO TRAINING
MARK TWAIN CHEEHED WITH
WASHINGTON AT A MEETING.

| Interest YVES divided Monday night at a
great meeting in Carnegie Hall, New York
city. between Booker T. Washington and
/ Tuskegee Institute and Mark Twain's defini-
ton of the word damn" The enthusiasm
| was for Mr.. Washington but the laughter
| was for Mr. Clemens. At every mention
| of the name of the head of Tuskegee In
| stitute the applause was tremendous, and
| when he rose to speak he had to wait sew
/! era minutes before he could proceed.
| In opening his address Mr. Washington
| told of a negro community near Mobile,
Ala, where live negroes brought from
| Africa in the last ship, who, he said re-
| tain Their tribal language and customs.
He compared this colony with Tuskegee
! Institute, at Tuskegee, in the same state,
| which in April will keep the twenty-frst
| anniversary of its founding and which has
| sent out six thousand trained and educated
| negroes and now has Lass students from
| thrty-six states and nine foreign coun-
| tries whom 1t is educating in agriculture
and thlrty-five other branches of industry
| He continued:
Demand for Trained Negro.
THE demand In the south for services
of the negro who is thoroughly trained Is
sometimes tremendous We are able to
| supply only a small fraction of the demands
| made upon us. The south is passing
| through a revolution in it's industrial and
| economic development, and the negro, VINO
| is one-third of the population, is potent
factor.
| Not a man or woman who holds
| tiploma from the Hampton Institute, in
| Virginia, or the Tuskegee Institute is IN
| a penitentiary, and in the existence OF more
| than fifteen of the largest and Oldest col
| leges and industrial schools IN the souln
| only three graduates are reported as HaxI NJ
| been sent to the state prison. IN virginia
| only one lynchng was committed last year
| in Alabama only three, and IN tennessee
| where Fisk and other colleges are situated
| only three In twelve years the number OF
| lyncbines has been reduced from 80 TO 90
| 1--WE are through experimenting ana
| specializing as to where the ten Inliiiolls
| of black persons are to i've we nay
| reached an unalterable determination to
remain in America, and the greater, part
| of us are going to remain in the south.
Gentlemen and Profanity.
Mr.. Clemens declared that man could
swear and still be a gentleman. Serious 1or
| the moment he described Christian public
| morals and Christian private morals Men
| generally live up to the latter 3G'' days IN
| the year. he said, and to the former on the
| remaining two days-when they vote Tor
| an unclean boss if he is his partys Moses
| and when they swear off their taxes. He
| told of swearing off an assessment of So
| coo with seasoned "deacons" who had mil
| lions.
| I'VE all swear everybody, including the
| women; including Dr. Parkhurst, that brave
! and excellent citizen, but superflclaily edu-
! Gated For it is not the word that is the
| sin: ii is the spirit back of the word. When
| an irritated woman who has Just missed her
| train says OH the spirit hack of 1t is
| Damn! and that is the way 1t is going to
| be recorded against her; but If she says
| Damn in an amiable, nice way 1t ism
! going to be recorded at ALL
| Joseph II. Choate, who presided. made
| stirring appeal for funds for Tuskegee Bob
| ert c. Ogden, president of the board of
trustees of Tuskegee, said the annual ex-
| pense was $4,000. The fixed income was
| only $50, coo, and an equal amount had to be
| raised outside. The present endowment was
! 81 225 664 and he appealed for subscriptions
| which would increase 1t to S3,00o,vDo.
| Thomas Dixon jr., author of The Clans
| man." yesterday in a letter to Mr.. Wash
| ington offered to give $4,000 to Tuskegee
! Institute provided you give complete proof
| that you do not desire social equality for
| the negro. and that your school is opposed
| to the amagamation of the races" No
comment was made in the meeting upon
| the communication.