The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-06

 is difficult to overestimate. That ele- ment should therefore be earthly guarded. fostered and educated and hence improved. It is here to stay and can not be spared even if 1t could be
 Must Advance or Detericrate.
 Neither can 1t be permitted, With safety or profit to exist in ignorance. Unless 1t marches forward It must deteriorate. The question then Is what direction shall improvement take The kegee and Hampton and other similar institutions and has been urged and adhered to by the Moses of his peo- ington. by Principal IFrissei at Hamp- ton, worthy co-worker of MT. Wash ington and by all the teachers of the primarily industrial and scientific. with departments however. in the principal institutions for educating men for all the race are w:je and conservative men; none realize quite as deeply as they the marnitude and difficulty of ths fso nonditidn sops resuisfte % for disehargins the duties of citizenship.
 This must be long task of slow growth. in which the colored masses themselves who by their attainments and conduct are to determine their own political future. The day can
 
 Tnskegee and Hampton have produced and are now producing. will enjoy the suffrage everywhere because educated of citizenship. say to you coiored friends--seek ye. first education. and all rights will soon be added unto you in this country.
 The immediate task in hand has hitherto been to demonstrate whether or not there lay in the colored race ca pacity for improvement. This should nf ho rFA hA NfAW- xf tx,t. A~.t since history shows from what un- promising material are owned among other races Of men has arisen in the scale and slowly reached civilization. but 1t was naturally doubted by those wno had known colored people only as slaves whether they could ever rise to the dignity of freemen. The teachers doctors and members of ali the other professions, the professors seen here and elsewhere in their colleges. the steady increase of taxable property here today give the convincing answer. The negro. just like our own race rais- es himself whenever he obtains free- develops qualities by the exercise of it's inherent the hitherto latent powers. The question is no longer open. Hamp- ton and Tuskegee and several similar institutions have settled 1t for all time.
 It Is always the few who elevate a. race, our own no exception. Someone has to be first in acquiring an art. d handicraft. reading. writing. or know execute. Even every flock of birds, ev- cry herd of deer has it's leader or lead CTS. few In mum Der. and what the most sequently learn. The first man who learned only recently to run the first motor car gave proof that other men cauld learn and so they have learned.
 Telegraphy As An Instance.
 In my own time there was not a living man who could take telegraph messages by sound. Doubters would white man ever could accomplish that seemingly impossible feat Ore man succeeded. and he was considered n fss few naTts wsek tbs Then began to try with the result that to- day no one could get a position as tele- grapher who could not do 1t without more effort than you listen to the Pres
 Now today Tuskegee shows sixteen hundred negro students taught by one race. The coiored race having done this here and in several other similar colleges, and schools in widely scatter
 se of h he sop % Ssnr hs ae ually elevated through education to high state of general civilization, Just as our white race has been elevated by who led the way. cleared the path. beckoned their less gifted brethren on and led them upward to their own high other way: All needed and produced exceptional men to lead them. The col ored race has produced its Washington. Douglas. Langston, Price, Chesnutt. gro is upward and onward under their guidance.
 If there still be doubters they must soon be convinced, for those who like ms today have nnn0rfMnifiaS for qaRtDU what has transpired have all doubts
 We are upon the right path, there- seek the educated and public spirited the members of Southern society to permit us to cooperate with them In expending. the influence of Tuskegee and her sister institutions and in ele- vating the colored race in every way, and we are also right in asking them to cooperate with us as citizens of the ed into one harmonious whole than was ever possible before, when the two antagonistic systems of freedom and slavery prevailed. There does not ex- one in thought and feeling throughout all its wide domains IS our own. May 1t ever so remain. Let us do what we can to increase the sense of brother hood.
 This Is no sectional questional. It is national and we of the North can not eVdue tHe EtSpOHSlDlillleS or the situation. It is our duty to share with our fellow countrymen in the South, the expense and labor of the restoring or establishing among our sorely tried neighbors a harmonious society with free public schools for all. public libra ries. churches, hospitals, colleges and universities. and all the other uplift- ing agencies such IS we of the North generally enjoy.
 Anxious as are to do our part to restore better conditions than those up- rooted, we must keep always in mind that only through cordial cooperation with the advanced of our own race in the South can the results we so ar dently desire for both white and black be successfully attained.
 As closing incidents of the last eX- ercises commemorating the 18th an- niversary of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute here tonight. two presentations were made to the insti- tuition. One consisted of life size bust of General Samuel c. Armstrong; the founder of the Hampton Institute, where Booker Washington was gradu ated. the gift of the Armstrong Asso- citation of New York. Robert c. Og den made the presentation speech. The second was a fund of $1,00O presented by the Tuskegee Institute Alumni As sociation to the school.
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