The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-06
The Noted Phlanthropist
 Makes a Speech.
NEGRO SCHOOLS CELEBRATION
Spirited Issue Between Northrop
 and Garrison.
Bishop Charles B. Galloway of the Southern Methodist Church One of Those Who Speak At the
 Night Session.

Tuskegee. Ala, April 5.--The thlrd and concluding day of Tuskegees oi- yer Jubilee was marked today by the continued attendance of an immense throng, representing the varied types of citizenship which are interested Tn the Tuskegee Normal Institute. The program for the two sessions of the day and evening included several mo- table addresses, concluding with that of Andrew Carnegie this evening.
 The morning session was marked with spirited issue between Presi- dent Cyrus Northrop of the University of Minnesota and William Lloyd Gar rison. The former speaker in com menting on the work at Tuskegee, ex- pressed his interest in the education of all the people of the South. He con- cluded his remarks by saying: Out side of education, there can be no so- lution for the race problem. I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the more ignorant a man is. the more efficient he is as a worker"
 He expressed the opinion that the enfranchisment of the mass of the me- gro race at the close of the civil war. was colossal blunder.
 Sharp issue was taken by MT. Garri- aon in a dramatic ten minute address. He coptended that the way ito teach man to vote is to put the ballot into his hand" and he was greeted with prolonged applause.
 Other speakers were principal Hollis Burke Frissel of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. and pr. S. G. Atkins, secretary of the board of education of the African Methodist Episcopal church of Winston-Salem, N
 At the night session the principal speakers were Anda ew Carnegie and Bishop Charles B. Galloway of the Southern Methodist Church.
 MT. Carnegie spoke The Educa- ton of the Negro, national interest q The very closest attention was paid the famous financier. He said in part:
 Speech of Carnegie.
 We visitors of the North are here remarkable educational Institution foI the colored people. not because we are more deeply interested in that race south. but because we feel that the problem is one that vitally concerns our own race and it is to their CO operation in the South we chiefly look
 It is Impossible. that educated Southern white people could find life agreeable or inspiring and fruitful cd by an inferior race sunk in ignor- ance and squalor. Human society Is one great whole and the degrada- tion of one part injures and lowers the
 We of the North have on our hands a somewhat similar problem. The hundreds of thousands of immigrants backward nations of Europe would soon prove menace to our peace and happiness were their children not in- structed in our own Ideas. The great nraearVafiUn is that child a access to an excellent public school. But the educational work does not rest here; The work done by the stance. k most commendable. I have conversed in English with young Rus sians. Italians and Hungarians after it more or less after month or two fin this school. Last year this one school taught, four hundred and fifty us interested in this work consider 1t essential not only for the foreigners but ourselves and for our country of or spoken of. 1t Is not the colored branch that arouses our solicitude. Those of our race interest and con con, blood equally with the poor blacks, demand our attention.
 In the North the school system Is pansion of the public school system now taking place in the South Is most cheering. The ideal will not be reacn- white or black. has access to public school education. In this connection it is gratifying to know that in South ern cities public sentiment is now de; at public expense by taxation and in some cities free libraries for colored people are also established. My secre- tary informs me that we have given the South seventy-one libraries al- ready, distributed among eleven states I hope the demand is to increase ten fold.
 Rapid Growth of South.
 The rapid growth of the South in agricultural wealth. especially cotton these few, years past and the develop duce decided effect upon the condi- tions of human life. With this in- prove themselves. for much of the re- finement and elevation of life rests upon material~prosperity, a fact which the root of all evil in some sense, but it is also the root of all the universi- ties. colleges, churches and libraries can tell us better that President Wash ington from personal experience. that without material prosperity and there arisen. A new day has to dawn upon the South. and. if mistake not, the next twenty years Is to witness an ad- vance, not alone in material lines, but as a consequence of material prosper ity. in all that elevates, refines and renders human life more worth Iiv- ing. owing to obvious reasons the north for a gen n,ration has njoyed prosperity in far greater degree than the South but the day of the Souths prosperity is now upon us. In this new era of progress and mental deyel- opment the colored people are to prove an Indispensable element.
 We sometimes. but not often now, hear of projects for exporting them to one or another tropical home. How short-sighted this view is, One 6i the first essentials for material devel opment of the South is a plentiful sup he none. Not only shall the presnt Southern population. white and black, he ] eeded. but millions more to meet the rapidly growing world demand for cotton and other products. The de- sire of Southern railroads to attract immigration along their lines today is an indication of what is coming. ask those who think of expelling the negroes to consider what Britain would give for them in south Africa. Infe- rior as they may be today as rule, to educated white labor, the differ snce is not nearly so great between white and black labor here as between white and Kaffir labor in Africa. In the nine millions of eolored people, the