The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-04-08
THE TUsKEGEE ANNIVERSARY.

II HE senty-fh anniversary founding of Tuskegee In
dustria School just celebrated notable manner
President Booker Washington and his fourteen hundred stu
and of Andrew Carnegie large number of Northern and South
viii men, educators, phlanthrops and clergymen
From very beginning, madeover barn twenty-five
wears ago the grown into complete equipment tor
teaching mechanical trades and all of the rural industries
related to the tng When thinks OF the needs OF
negro population and of the effort OF this
school supply lift industrial independence
the task hopeless But Washington has looked only upon
the work he has undertaken and with high
and has oed at his sechosen task
with industry and intelligence that mark him as one OF the foremost
Of the age .
We in the West slight appreciation of the difficulties
that beset him the beginning and that multiply as they are over
The Southern not the negro described IN the Tecen
"reminiscences OF John > WISE Nor is ne the negro OF nc
Toms Cabin He certainly not the negro OF the V war aDde
faithfully plantation while his fought in the Confed
army GUESSING Yanks heartily Shareholder
Nor he the immozed the thrilling description OF the
Henry Grady of Georgia That has passed away with the
slavery which gave him discipline and certain dignity
Of character The ties that were between INN and ms master ao
his masters family all severed hat faithful creature who guard
and children OF the South while the went to
has passed into history pathetic faithful dgnhed and 70
figure
slavery he know anything about the bondage OF his
the hard side OF it conured by his tropical magma
immoral unsteady and unfu the problem
the difficult the appalling and discouraging that the
Washington had been present his adult strength
and preparation IN 1905 to begin his work on the material
by freedmen persuaded that this problem would not
the country But he born in slavery then
the and aters Of aherless bow whose slave mother in her
ignorance hssnes still her duty and did it, her humble
hapes child He had grow up through and by his
mighty all of the hard and sordd conditions which
he there be
guidance of the affairs of him. for only
who had suffered the burdens of
for the hard task of his fell
misery ignorance and misfortune He took his diplomas at
Hampton Harvard but the diploma he the hard and
pless school OF misfortune and poverty is the that made him
great the work he has undertaken
Tie that could produce such deserves
tunit1 equip for that opportunity. He
folly of so-caled social equality and the
folly OF the negro looking politics for the things need
condition Escewng these he declared that serespect
morality industry qualities possible under skn needed
To mpart these qualities Tuskegee founded Let
honored for The white people of that State made
possible the experiment which century has attracted the
attention and the admiration of the world
Looked from affair." it small OF light vast
gloom study of its methods and their effect dispes dcour
Its students go every
graduates carry light into the communities in the
They go back whence they finished and sklul
pene blacksmhs architects and builders scientific
farmers dairynn machn plumbers painters, skilled in the
of head hand knowledge With
they book learning that equips them for
their earnings the trades Greater than this
by the high spirit of their school
determined live oneoomed howell not to lead
immoral thless and idle but apply their now
and their practical education to the making OF homes
and the living OF right lives.
darkest South hun
dred lighted hopeful sunshine of Tuskegee In
that light leading reaching the midst of the
millions negroes They the light and follow it to its
PRAYER good and North Unlike the negro politicians
period he holds false lights to lure his
undong His let politics and Office hold
ing good His teaching that the white
will respect the when the respects himself And
hat o be the law and the prophets