The Washington bee., 1907-09-21

ourselves OSSudDiS CitlzSnS Dy CHARACTER,
industry and moral influence was held
up as our primal duty, and with a rigid
adherence to the gospel of work, to get
ting footing in the soil, and digging
deep into the nature that knows no color
line, we can rise to the same heights
that have been attained by other races
who have striYen for themselves with
intelligence and persistence. He urged
that the names of the friends of the
race be made prominent, rather than
the enmeies of the black man. Our
friends are not fewer, and he told a de-
lightful frog story as an illustration of
The fact that our enemies are making
more noise than their numbers would
warrant, and NE must not be deceived
into thinking that they are in the ma
jority, South or North. Race pride was
also urged, and for himself he said that
could he be born again he would pray
tie Almighty to make him again an
, American Negro. He cherished the
strength that came from the solution
of great problems. and priced the power
to lift up the weak and unfortunate. The
floating minister was treated to a Sc
we're dose, but as remedy for the pull
pits that were lacking IN sound material
he advocated the immediate establishment
of large central theological school for
the training of competent and consecrat-
ed preachers of the Word, to be located
sOmeN here in the heart of the South,
where the main body of the race resides
and must remain for an indefinite period.
This thoughtful suggestion was really
the keynote of his address. and formed
the basis for all that was said relative
70 economic, moral, intellectual and in
dustTial development, as a race weak
in the fundamentals Of progress--fnance' !
business and industrial opportunity II
Irust necessarily be weak in moral stam-
ira and the power 10 protect itself
against the encroachments Of the strong
er races All references to politics were
scrupulously avoided. He closed ex-
pressing unbounded confidence in race
whose past had been so brilliant and
productive. both as to the development
of matter and men. The consensus of
opinion among the people, as they
crowded up to grasp his hand, was that
DR.. Washington was at his best on this
occasion and that he had truly made
the speech of his life 1t was with
difficulty that the distinguished educator
could get to his carriage when he was
compelled to desist from the hand-shak- ,
ing and a Gordon of guards was neces- .
sary TO rescue" him from his more ag-
gressive admirers.
DR.. Booker T. Washington, to use
colloquial term, has won a home in
the Nations Capital, and his appearance
before the National Baptist Convention,
and again TO receive the hearty endorse
ment of the representatives of the two
and half millions constituting the great
Baptist denomination, sets at rest for-
ever any doubt that may have existed as
to his acceptability OF popularity as 4
leader of his people
Entertained by Professor Bruce.
DR.. Washington, accompanied by his
younger son, Ernest Davidson, and tray-
cling secretary, Mr.. ]. R. Cox, reached /
the city Friday afternoon at AIS, com t
ing directly from their summer home At t
Huntington, Long Island. New York Il
and were met atsthe Pennsylvania Sta a
ton by a committee of ten from the c
National Baptist Convention, and were K
driven III carriages TO the handsome +
Girard street home OF Prof Roscoe
Conkling Bruce, assistant superintendent c,
Of the Washington public schools. Pro- fl
fessor Bruce and his charming wife T.,
had prepared an elegant dinner, and be- m
sides the distinguished guests there were D.
present during the function several we'll OF
known local citizens, among them Judge al
Robert H. Terrell, Auditor Ralph W.
Tyler, Mr.. r. R. Horner, member of AZ
the Washington Board Of Education, r.;
Mr.. H. c. Tyson, of the Sixth Audi CO
tors Office, Architect W. Sidney Pitt wi
man, Mr. Whitfield McKinlay and Mr.. NJ
R w. Thompson. At the close Of the ,b,
smoker" following the dinner, the spe- IA
;ial escort committee, headed BY DR.. -,
NJ. w. ID. Norman, Drs. w. A. Credit r,r
Walter H. Brooks. A n McEwsn and &C
w. q. Parks, for Dr. Washington. and :
he speaker of the evening, accompa- x,,
ned by this party, repaired to Conyen- oro
ion Hall in four carriages for the ex- 81
;rcises of the evening. Al II pm. Dr. EFF,
Washington and his son and Secretary Hi.
Cox departed for Tuskegee Institute, mic
Alabama, delighted with the thrilling zinc
vents of = day that promises to live csni
II history -,
r W. Thompson. for
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