The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-03-21
WASHINGTON 7 !
AddT TeSSeS SEiar-
{. ward Men !.
Spoke of Maryelous Prosre..
Made by Race in Forty Years
Under Difficulties (, =

lopOSA0l <ANNOCdLO. ~
Boston, March 15.--Dr. Booker T.
days IN Boston this week. On Mon
day evening, he spoke to nearly 81
900 students OF Harvard university
l>at the Harvard, Union, the largest
and most popular club connected
with the university. The topic Of his
address was ''The influence, of Edu-
cation" He was introduced by
President Charles w. Eliot, who pub
licly advised the students to read DR..
Washington's book, ''Up From Slav-
ery.'' :. f. r. z; ,.}S> ...I -. ! =.
> 1t was. remarked, after the meet
ing, that. in his Introductory address,
President Eliot exhibited greater
emotion and spoke with more ferry
ency and feeling on the: Negro Dues
t1on than has ever been known Of
MIN before on any occasion. Presi-
dent Eliot characterized the institu-
ton OF slavery ASA horrible mire pit,
the most horrible condition to which
man can be subjected; and then,
putting a question to his audience,
with fire In his voice, he said:
Think OF a condition when a man
has no right to his own labor and the
Negro woman lis at the mercy Of
white masters! Is it remarkable.
that the" family life Of the Negro is
not always sound and pure? 1t
would would be a grtater wonder If
these people who came out Of this
terrible mire pit were sound and
pure, Education Is the only thing
that Willrlift the Negro to q point Of
setf-eficiency and self-respect. The
Negro. Is going to rise by acquiring
education. skill and high sense Of.
honor. {. Facts show that education
has the same good effect upon the
Negro that 1t has upon the white
race, but we shall have to be patient
with the Negro of the south. - :. :
1 Or. Washington was greeted with
enthusiastic. applause: r His address
was forceful and inspiring. He indi-
Gated the. marvellous advancement
made; by the Negro race during the
past forty years and portrayed Yiy-
idly. the many di tf1cultie {mambers OF
his TRea had overcome In their 5slip4
ward sstrtvfngg. = < 4: 8. ~; :,
He said in{part: >'In The present
stage 0f Negro development IL is
most Important that all@of zus stick
to the fundamentals OF civilization
and OF racial progress, without
which no race can get upon its feet
and take Its place in useful endeay-
ors. Whenever I am at my home 7,
seldom let a week pass without dtg-
ging in the soil, coming In direct
contact with the cows, the fowls, the
pigs--that is, Il like. to be sure I
touch the real things Of nature as
often as | can. - r. ~. = 80
There is , one thing about the
black, race that perhaps is not true
In so large a degree Of any other
race. That is-the Negro wants ed
ucation and wherever school house
ls opened to him the Negro will, All
the house. Through the efforts OF
the hundreds and thousands Of men
and women who have gone out from
such institutions as Tuskegee,
Hampton, Snow Hill, Fisk and Tai
ladega, the Negro has made wonder
fun progress. So rapid has been his
progress along material lines that
the Negro race owns in the United
states an acreage Of land that Is
equaf to the combined acreage of the
Kingdoms Of Holland. and Belgium.
Not only this, but the Negro owns
and operates 121. drug stores and
thirty-one banks. Within forty years
the Negro race, through the help Of
friends north and south, and his own
efforts, has blotted out fifty-six per
cent of his illiteracy. .e. .-.:...
Everywhere | urge the leaders Of
my race not to suffer themselves to
grow bitter or discouraged. The
embittered race, like the individual.
loses o. large proportion of it's power
to influence the world for good. The
world shuns an embittered people as
it does an individual. 1t is only by
self control, hard work, patience,
courage and the exhibition Of gem
erosity OF spirit are we to win our
battles. Ignorance and racial hatred
never solve a single problem. So
long as we are continuing to give the
people more light and skill and
higher degree Of Christian spirit,
we arc travelling in the right direc-
tion." ...
After DIR. /Washington's address
the twenty-one colored students, now
In Harvard university, held an infor-
NAL reception In the spacious rooms
OF Walter s. Buchanan, of Alabama
and. K. +. Tyson, Of Washington, d.
C., In Walter Hastings Hall.
Or. Washington in an address to
them emphasized the importance Of
young Negro college men striving
first to achieve individual success be-
fore attempting to solve the entire
race, problem. He said a single in
diyidua.l success is better contri-
button to the solution of the race
problem than a hundred speeches do
liVered by men who had never
achieved anything worth while in
their lifetime. He told story Of
an interview he had with friend