The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-06
ANDREW CARNEGIE
 MAKES ADDRESS Discussed Education of Negro
 at TuSkegee Institute SILVER JUBILEE CLOSES A Number of Notable Men Make
A Number of Notable Men Make Speeches on the Closing Day. Northrop and Garrison Dis
 euss Acknowledgement.


 the two sessions of the day and even Ing included several notable addresses, concluding with that of Andrew Carnegie this evening.
 The morning session was marked with a spirited issue between President Cyrus Northrop of the University of Minnesota, and William Lloyd Garrison The former speaker in commenting on the work at Tuskegee expressed his interest in the education of all the people of the south. l He concluded his remarks by saying: Outside of education there can be formed no solution for the race problem l do not subscribe to the doctrine that the more ignorant a man is the more effici- | ent he is a worker
 He expressed the opinion that the en- | franchsement of the mass of the negro race at the close of the civil war was a colossal blunder. Sharp issues was taken by MT. Garrison in a dramatic ten-minute address. He contended that the way ito | teach a man to vote is to put the ballot l lato his hand"
 l Other speakers were Principal Hollis |! Burke Frissel of the Hampton Normal 1 and Agricultural institute, and pr. S. G. | Atkins, secretary of the board of educa- l tion of the African Methodist Episcopal | church of Winston-S Salem, N. c.
 At the night session the principal speakers were Andrew Carnegie and Bishop Charles B. Galloway of the South ern Methodist church.
 MT. Carnegie spoke on ''The Education of the Negro, a National Interest" 1 The very closest attention was paid the famous financier. He said in part: l Mr. Carnegie Speaks.
 ! "We visitors from the north are here upon the quarter-centenary of this re- | markable educational institution for the | colored people, not because we are more | deeply interested in that race than in | our own white race in the south. but be- l cause we feel that the problem is one that vtaly concerns our own race and it is to their cooperation in the south | we chiefly look for it's solution
 Tt is impossible that educated south ern white people could find life agreeable or inspiring and fruitful yielding all It's | sweet graces surrounded by an inferior | race sunk in ignorance and squalor. Hu- man society is one great whole and the degradation of one part lnjures and low CTS the lives of the others.
 We of the north have on our hands a somewhat similar problem. The hun dreds of thousands of immigrants now reaching OUT shores from the backward | nations of Europe would soon prove a | menace to our peace and happiness were their children not instructed in our own ideas. The great preservative Is that | every child has access to an excellent | public school. But the educational work | does not rest here. The work done by the l Jewish Educational alliance, for instance is most commendable. I have conversed | in English with young Russians, Italians l and Hungarians after only six months l tuition. All speak 1t more or less after | q month or two in this school. Last | year this one school taught four hundred and fifty-five thousand immigrants. Those | of us interested in this work consider it essential not only for the foreigners but ourselves and for our country. When the southern problem Is thought of or spoken of, 1t is not the coored people alone. nor is it chiefly that branch that arouses our solieitude. Those of our race interest and concern us The poor whites of our own blood. equally with the poor blacks, demand our attention.
 Cheering Expanse In South.
 "In the north the school system is al- ready omnipresent The steady eXpan- sion of the public school system now taking place in the south is most cheer ing. The ideal will not be reached until ! every child, wherever born, white or black. has access to a public school edu- cation. In this connection 1t is gratifying to know that in southern cities public sentiment is now demanding public libraries maintained at public expense by | taxation and in some cities free libraries for colored people arc also established. My secretary informs me that we have given the south seventy-one libraries al- ready, distributed among eleven states. I hope the demand is to increase tenfod.
 ''The rapid growth of the south in agri- cultural wealth, especially cotton, these few years past and the development of her manufactures must produce a de- cided effect upon the conditions of human life. With this increase in wealth must come the increasing desire in the people to Improve themselves, for much of the refinement and elevation of life rests | upon material prosperity, a fact which is often overlooked. Money may he the root of all evil in some sense. but 1t is also the root of all the universities. col
 eges, churches and libraries scattered throughout the land No one can tell us better than President Washington from personal experience, that without mate l rial prosperity and therefore increased | wealth. Tuskegee could not have arisen. | A new day has begun to dawn upon the | south and if I mistake not the next l twenty years is to witness an advance, | not alone in material lines, but as con | sequence of material prosperity, in all | that elevates, refines and renders human life more worth living. Owing to obvious reasons. the north for q generation has enjoyed prosperity In far greater degree than.the south. but the day of the south s | prosperity is now upon us. In this new | era of progress and mental development | the colored people are to prove an indls- l pensabe element
 Valuable Asset for South
 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 of the first l essentials for material development of the south is plentiful supply of labor. | Without that there can be none Not l only shall the present southern popula- tion. white and black. he needed, but l millions more to meet the rapidly grow ing world demand for cotton and other 1 products. The desire of southern rail- |