The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-19

Now the property al Hampton institute
Is valued at over 100000 and the en-
rollment is 1000 q year. In the first five
years the Freedman s bureau spent
nearly $1,000, 900 in its educational
work. Under the direction of the gen
eral Government il established over
1000 schools, installed 5000 teacbers and
started nearly 100000 children on the
road to learning With the readlust.
ment of the South came the building
of the present system Of society on the
wreck of the old aristocratic, semi
feudal system. With absolute impair
tiality provision was made for the negro
children rs well as the white, and at
present the educational rights are the
same for black and white.
Long before the negro was free. and
before there was much discussion of the
matter, Thomas Jefferson proposed that
slaves be emancipated and taught the
things that would give them industrial
freedom. Frances Wright, philantbro-
pisI, free thinker, lecturer and member
of the famous New Harmony settle
ment. looked down the years aud saw
that If the negro were ever freed he
must be prepared for it by first making
himself industrially independent TO
this end she established near Memphis,
Tenn, in 1925, the first training school
for negroes in the world. Marquis La
Favettc was one Of its trustees, and the
plan was TO teach certain number of
negroes until they were able TO take
care of themselves, free these and then
teach others The plan failed, because
the negroes did not fall into the spirit
of the thing, and because it was badly
managed. Miss Wright chartered r
ship. took the colony to Porto Rico and
freed them.
Nearly fifty wears after Miss
Wright 3 Nashoba school came the
founding of Hampton, and in 1881 came
Booker t, Washington TO found Tuske-
gee and prove, as he stated, that
his people needed rot only book
learning. but knowledge of how to
live, He came TO teach the conuec.
tiop between education and work, and
on him and the men and women like
hIm depends the future of his race He
began with no land. no funds but
the $4,000 allowed him by the Alabama
Legislature, no assistant, and thirty
pupils. Tuskegce now has 1000 acres
of land, eighty-three buildings, an
average attendance Of over 1900, and
property valued at nearly $4,000 600.
1t is an enterprise ofhcered entirely
BY negroes. 1T oducates industrially and
intellectually. it inspires agriculture
throughout that section by promoting
fairs and farmers meetings, and by
publishing a farmers paper II is
said that no graduate from Tuskeeee
has ever been found in the criminal
courts. and that only 10 per cent have
proved failures in the work they have
undertaken,
1t was in 1919 that the first twenty
negroes were brought 10 Jamestown and
-NlI al,,- i Ia
ago the German government employed
Tuskegee graduates 10 teach farming
10 the negroes in the settlements of
West Africa. In inc time between the
coming of the first negroes aud now,
the twenty has grown to 10000 900,
over 100000 of whom are engaged IN
gainful occupations Fifty-two per
cent are in schools. and to these the
doors of all Northern colleges, with the
possible exception Of Nassar and Gi-
rard, are open with the same privileges
that are accorded white students.
The Fifty-eighth Congress provided
for the education of all children in
Alaska, Eskimos. Indians and whites.
Last wear the Government maintained
there thirty-hve schools, supplied forty
one teachers, and had over 1000
children enrolled. American interest in
Hawaiian education began in 1919,
when a band of New England mission.
aries accompanied the Kings son
home after he mad served several
years in the American navy, and be.
gan teaching there. BY 1924 1000 pco.
pie had learned to read and write, and
others were anxious TO learn. The first
girls boarding school was opened in
1887 and the same year a manual
training school for boys Since the
creation of the Territory Of Hawaii the
educational system has followed that of
this country.
In the Philippines over 500 900
children are rapidly learning the Ameri-
can language and customs uuder the
direction of 5000 teachers. four fifths
Of whom are natives. Porto Rico.
| about half the size Of New Jersey.
had the reputation Of having So per
cent Of her population unable TO read
This is q difficulty. however, that the
United States is helping her outgrow.
The American schooh teacher is playin g
| most important part in the great
work our Government is doing in all
! tho lands that have recently come
under our flag
Doctors Mayo and Wherry wish to
announce the removal of their offices
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