The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-22
NEGRO CONFERENCE
FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING AT
 TUSKEGEE. =
Delegates Tell of the Work Bein~ De.~ in Their Localities and thc Pr0Kress the Race fs
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 ference of Tuskegee opened promptly at 10 o'clock this morning. The Con- ference hymn was sung. Am I sol- dier of the Cross" the Scriptures were read by Rev. P. c. Canton of Sylacau- ga and prayer was offered by Rev. Jenkins of Union Springs. The records show farmers present from every Southern State. Most of the prominent educational institutions are represent ed by their principals and other teach ored people from the North are pres ent. Thirty States and the District of Columbia are represented.
 cd, in opening the session, said in part:
 As, we come together from year to year in these annual Tuskegee Negro more with the importance of our cling ing steadfastly to the Fundamental mat ters in life;. that we should let no ever strong. lead us from our moor ings. No matter where we are to live. no matter what conditions may con mSry fhst haye rsw bsen at the bottom of all individual and racial suc- cess which we must not disregard. Sue cess in the fundamental things of life. however long we may be in achieving 1t. will win our victories. Failure in laying the foundation properly will re- suit in our defeat. however alluring may be temporary and superficial att fractions. The element in connection with these meetings and the influences that have grown out of them that has given me more encouragement than any other thing is the fact that every where our race is needing the lessons which these conferences have tried from year to year to emphasize.
 we are beginning to have faith in ourselves. We are beginning to feel that we can do things. The cultivation most encouraging things that has come to us. in the past fourteen years. from these conferences. We should decide wse whore s Ms aas ssogna goaE wifi @ hsver Taa to anything. Get rid of the moving families in your community or show tneir tae own own. Build eomfortahie houses found one man with a half dozen light paS pS roas as 0n %gt hts as hWsif %si pat p so many fishing rods. Stop settling your troubles in the courthouse. Keep your wife and daughter away iron the sary and the blind tiger. some are more anxious to support these institu. tions than tS support sheas soney nomss nae the bank instead of Into the dispensary and blind, tiger. We ought not 10 let the sectarian spirit enter into our pup lie schools I found in one town three poor, public schools where there ought to have been but one good schol. am glad to see that the habit of rais- is iiis growing leSGS Macon county in tue last eight months has raised at least Sz,50g for this purpose. Carry the spirit oi each eati one one of you reach hundreds of oth- CTS" The farmers at once took pos session and thronged the floor with those desiring to speak tiil the close or 'i M F. Brooks of wilcox County, Ala bama thought the people of the coun- schools, churches and methods of farm. acres aar Af of land. nearly paid for. He start ed at thIs 5S eoin eents tRs srf da were nam ed as committee on declarations;
 man; man rJ ". wII,,a%a.. IhI,S,mSs. Alasfiaia; X,reinia; (. e. Hatcher, Alabama; j. H. Palmer, Alabama; A. c. wingate, Florida;
 AadrSM sawysr sSs hs dro% o%nsd sh 46 acreS land, but that many of his neighbors away with the sectarian spirit and were now larger and better than they were before. He lives in four-room log house. but feels a great deal better that was plastered. He Is going to put some money in the bank as soon as the weather gets warm. He makes DalG or cOLIOu hO lnS aCT6 Oh AeltAA eO hiIIy that he can blow the cotton only on one side. They make their school run eight months, the county paying MT. G. Gardner. of Tallahassee. Florida. said the people of his part of the q, sta state o0naafnI,ot.. had not made in Leon County. He started twenty years ago blowing an OK and fed him year on green mulberry bushes and Leon County and not see white man" then bought 40 acres. It was worth 500 acres of the best land in Leon County with s2.oOo worth of real es- tate in Tallahassee.
 buying homes there. They don't allow any one to lose his home. They help each other in trouble. They have giv- en $1so toward the support of their
 E. W. Stone of Selma, said the peo- pie there were buying homes all the time. both in the city and in the coun-
 Rev. J. w. Jeter of Macon County said he thought where the people were living in poor houses it was often be- cause they did not complain to the own
 Mrs Maria Chapman of Tailadega County said a good many of her neigh houses. She owns 800 acres and very very good house of four rooms. She lives six miles from a town, but owns a home in Talladega. She sells milk, but ter, eggs and chickens in Talladega She raised thirteen bales of cotton last year. Another woman said she bought all her sugar with her butter. She makes willow baskets and sells them to help keep her daughter in Tuskegee She said she and her husband once used tobacco and whiskey, but now money into schools and churches.
 Professor Dawklns of St Helena Isl- and, S. C., said the people of the island, as rule, own their land. Their farms sea island cotton The farmers con ferences are a great help. Beaufort County has ten local conferences. They meet once month. Nearly all of the sixty eight teachers in the county are members of the conferences. They are helping to extend the school terms. They will extend the term of twenty i've schools in the county this year. one month each. There are no one room houses on St. Helena Island. County, reported a large settlement of colored people where nearly all own land; She has good frame house. l She buys no meat. She has 500 pounds at home now and fifteen gallons of lard: hogs" She showed three kinds of corn, rutabagas and turnfps. Her first | start was made a few years ago when | she traded small puppy for 8 pig.
 R. H. Copeland of Harris County, | Georgia, said sixty-ei families in | that county owned over 5000 acres of land. He owns 400 acres.
 Frank Hinson of Bullock County | said he attended the conference every |
 J. M. sanffer of Etheiville, Pickens County reDOrtAd l09 heads of famiIfea |