The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-31
FAMILY LIFE
IN THE: Home
Theme Of Presidents Address to-
Students at Hampton Nor
NAL Institute.
THEY SANG REVIVAL HYMNS
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Speaker Declares Negro Criminal
More Dangerous to Colorcd
Than White Race.
THEY SANG REVIVAL HYMNS
Speaker Declares Negro Criminal
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| HAMPTON, VA, May 3o.--A notable
| address was delivered to tho students Of
| Hampton Institute this afternoon by
| President Roosevelt. He dwct particu-
| larry on the necessity for the development
OF character. not only In the negro, but
| In the white man as well, maintaining
that education alono would Mt neither for
decent citizenship unless accompanying
| it there was the right type of family life
| III the homo.
Tho President and Mrs. Roosevelt and
their party arrived off Old Point COM
| fort In the Nfaynower shortly before 1880
o'clock, and was taken ashore III launches.
Tho hundreds Of negro and Indian stu
\ dents Of both sexes were assembled In
| front of the administration building Of
the institute, ana received them with n
! cordial welcome of song. The buildings
wore handsomely draped with flags. The
President was escorted to the vcranda
OF tho administration building, from
which nc made his address. Before the
address the students sang with remark
able effect some characteristic songs. At
the conclusion Of one OF them. "A Great
Camp Meeting In tho Promised Land.
| the President applaudcd heartily and
siioutcu, NlOFc, more. Sa'1 nc students, In
response, sang I'VE Are Climbing Jacobs
Ladder
Or, Frissell. the principal OF the insti-
tute. introduced the President saying In
conclusion: I'VE believe In you; we honor
you; We love you. We believe you arc
come to bring peace on earth and good
Will to all men,
President Speaks.
President Roosevelt spoke cxtempora-
neously and with deep earnestness.
He began by saying that after the stu.
dents have given cordial welcome. that
they We're no more anxious for him to
visit them than he was to visit the insti-
tute. Speaking directly to the negro stu
dents, no said:
Now, the first thing upon which I
wish to lay emphasis Is that q school
such as this, which strives to raise the
colored man and colored woman to mako
them better men and better women. bet
ter citizens. Is pre-eminenty in the In
terests Of the white man. There is Moth
ing that can be done better for the white
man, who is to live side by side with
the colored man, than to train that coll
ored man UP to be good citizen. The
good man, who is a white man, by his
presence, Is a benefit to every colored
man In the community. >and the safety
fof the white man is in having the col
man. From the standpoint Of the white
man, the safest and best thing that can
happen is to have tho colored people
around him become thrifty, Industrious.
fome-makers and home-keepers, for you
never yet had any quantity OF criminals
from people ofslocality where the aver
tage.Stype was the * home maker and tho
home keeper. 'tEt q e i5f
b So that from the standpoint OF the
w.hitenan, nothing better can be done
than to give to the colored man that
real education, that real training, which
he gets here at Hampton and all similar
institutes. from the standpoint of the
colored man. the real way to help him
* to help him help himself. In the long
run in this world, no human being can
he carried. What this Institution doe sis
to- train young men and women to yalx
By themselves;
H3w to Help.
+ The colored man who helps his race
nest, Is he whip helps teach the lf1em-
bers OF his race how to conduct them
selves with self respect as hard working,
intelligent, law-atiding citizens. 1t is the
humble virtues that count in the long
run. No race, no nationality ever really
raises itself by the exhibition Of genius
in few men; what counts is character,
tho character of the average man and
the average women. If we can develop
in the average colored citizen those quail
ties OF character, OF courage OF truth
fitness, OF sense OF obligation. of willing
ress to work. Of desire to behave decent
~ to those round about you. you have
taken the longest and most effective step
toward securing for the people OF your
own race their own sei1-respect and the
respect of others, which will follow inc
vitality in the training Of that seIf-re-
srect.
You have sent out from Hampton IN
stitute in oil something like six thousand
graduates, and, IL I remember rightly.
there are but two of whom you have
record who are criminals, and that fact
is an all-suftlcient answer to the blind
people, who say that no good will come
from educating the negro. So far Is that |
from the truth, that 1t may be said that
the only real hope for the negro. u S we'll
as for the white man, is in educn ton. II
only we understand the meaning OF edu-
cation In Its proper sense.
Industrial Work.
at is often said that the true place
for the negros is in industrial work.
That is the place for the average negro.
That is the true place forxAhe average
negro, and 1t Is the true place OF the
average white man, and We VIII not
get our civilization upon q proper basis
until VIC root out or Inc MlnQ OF tue
average man and Of the average SRI, OF
VIVA tever color the belief that to become
< moor clerk is better thing than being
a flrst-class hand-worker, frst-elass
mechanic or a first-class agricultural
"The wrong twist that has been given
to our education in the past mas Iesn
largely responsible for the very healthy
development Of the city at the expense
Fof the country, 533
"Neyer in the past has any nation
been permanently great when me c'sy
population has been enormous ~ size q. as
compared With the country gep farua