The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-24
.HOCH AND VERNON
They Are the Star Orators at
QuindarO Today.
Governor Says State Educates
for Its Own Protection.
PLEA FOR THE NEGRO.
Importance of Furnishing Him
With Work.
Dedication of Trades Building
at Western University.
LEA FOR THE NEGRO.

gagged in the dedication exercises of
the new 5000 600 trades building which
was given to the school by the last
legislature.
Among those who are on the pro-
gramme for speeches are Governor e.
w. Hoch. Cyrus Leland, D. w. Null /
vane, w R. Stubbs. Judge L. W. KEEP I
linger, / +. Bradley, Bishop A. Grant /
and William T. Vernon, president of 1
the school, who has recently been ap- I
pointed registrar of the United States
treasury.
The dedication exercises commenced
at o'clock. Governor Hoch expects /
to remain at QuindarO throughout the
day.
Governor Hoch's speech was in part
as follows:
But what is the purpose of an edu-
cation after all2 Why all this effort I
state invested perhaps twenty million I
dollars in school property; why does I
1t spend four or five million dollars I
every year upon its public schools; for /
what purpose are the twelve thousand !
| teachers employed; and why were the +
ten thousand school houses erected in
I this state? Is 1t all mere comph- |
ment to the indiVidual2 No, it is q /
/ piece of pure selfshness, justifiable |
\ selhshness, on the part of the state. |
John Stewart Mill has said, and said !
/ truly, that where ignorance and vice
4 largely predominant a republic is inn
possible and a monarchy is a necessity. |
/ All this educational effort is put forth |
/ by the state for its own protection be- /
/ cause the perpetuity of a republic de-
pends not upon the numerical strength
1 of its army, nor upon the number and
armament of its navy, nor upon its
material resources, but upon its indi-
vidual citizens
For this purpose the state of Kan
/ sas has invested its money in Western
university and unless the finished
! product of this institution shall an
{ HiGp1IGGaH a all
I this expenditure on the part of the
I state has been and will be worse than
( vain. 1t is the business of this school
/ not to make lawyers, and doctors, and
1 statesmen, and poets, and painters. but
/ to make men and women who shall be
an honor to the state. And as the
great majority of men and women
/ must engage in industrial pursuits
rather than in the professions it is an
/ evidence of intelligent progress in
! educational matters that there is a
importance of industrial schools
/ congratulate the state upon the erec-
| tion of this splendid structure, and
! congratulate you upon It's completion.
I Elsewhere in this institution the men,
tai and spiritual welfare of the student
will be conserved. There the heart
! and the head will be supreme, but
/ here the hands will be trained to do
useful things. The way to get further
and greater help from the state is to
! prove through the further product of
this school that past appropriations
| have been wisely made.
| let every student Of Western uni
versity go out from its halls feeling
/ that the reputation of this great school
| is largely in his or her keeping"
Advises ColOred People to Work.
| President Vernon's speech was a very
able effort, and showed the stand which
| he has taken concerning the education
Of his race. He said in part
/ The working with the hands is no
| new theory. 1t is true that for two and
one-half centuries We were the artisans
of this country, but there was not the
brain and skill so necessary in the labor
OF today.
we were then worked, but now we
must work. The difference between be-
ing worked and working is that in one
wrought-while now we think and work
and are thus made independent and
strong.
IN proportion as we put skill into
labor do we become indispsable, and
the Indispensable man is never idle.
Our professionals are necessarily few
in number and must 50 remain until
prcsperous people are produced as eli
ents and patrons
TO my mind the hoDelessne~- IF our
condition viii remain outstretched before
US until the idleness of the streets and
the eriminality unerringly resultant OF
! idleness are at end.
mo one can convince me that Nv
prejudice will forever denv the compet-
ent worthy man employment.
In this racial growth we can only
do as have the other races who now
dominate the civilization of the world.
I'VE will need to work our way up
ward by faithful and efficient labor.
To fit our youth then to be the trained
, ( artisans and mechanics in great num-
/ bers is to provide safe, conservative,
prosperous working class of which this
country will surely be proud and win
finally appreciate at its true worth.
"Such peoples become Self-suppOrt-
ing, tax-paying, law-abiding citizens
and build up a sanctifed home whence
comes the bulwark of any people.
again. I believe that we should
speak the truth and have no uncertain
Z sound in this matter of racial uplift.
Let no negro who sees the burden
shift it to another.
1--WE are nearest this load of un-
\ towardness and hence must lift most
. No negro points the right way for an
t other without in that measure assist
: ing himself; on the other hand not
n one of US neglects his people without
9 in as great measure placing a retard
in his own pathway.
IF we each do our duty we can ask
q for and expect to tread a highway, one
of lefty endeavor, and in this treading
meet justice all along the way.
Reduced to its final analysis-by
worth and merit and our indispensa-
biity we shall finally succeed.
In this work of duty to the citizen,
Kansas is to the fore.
Here on the shores of the Missouri
. near this gateway of the west she is
: building an institution for the training
] 1 of cur youth.
f I'VE here are not only making men
4 tradesmen, but making tradesmen,
men