The Washington bee., 1908-03-28

~" ~'NA@~''S NA4<'iA many lltNlSiAdt4CLA
meetings (Great applause.) Race
building is very much like organiz-
ing and building a business If one
is engaged in the banking business
he will not succeed if he advertises
the troubles and weak points of his
bank 4 race will not succeed If
1t spends too much time and energy
in advertising its troubles and weak
points. The world may pity a whin-
ing man, but it seldom respects him.
The Negro race, like all others. has
the right at the proper time to cry
out against wrong and repression, TO
ask that the Constitution of his State
and the Constitution OF the Nation
be administered in absolute Justice,
but we must depend for our ultimate
success upon our own endeayor.
Friends Not LeG5iHg Us, North or
South.
Our friends are not leaving us in
this country, neither North nor South.
We have more friends today than we
have ever had. We own more prop
erty, more land, more houses, have
more schools, more colleges, more in
duStrial institutions, more churches.
more ministers than has ever been
true III the history of the race. You
have right here in the city of Wash
ington magnificent example of what
the race has been able to accomplish
materially, educationally, morally and
religiously.
Negro Stronger BY Ha9iHg Problem
TO SOlVe.
| realize fully that we have a great
problem before us, one that is serious
and far-reaching; but for one con-
Tess that | would not care to live in
an age or live in a country where
there was no great problem to be
faced and to be solved. | would not
care to belong to a race that did not
have a problem before it. A race
with problem IS more fortunte than
one without a problem 1t is only as
races and individuals face and solve
problems that they are made, strong
for the battle of life.
No Negro Might Riders" No IN
dychiStS, No Black Hands"
This country owes a great debt of
gratitude to the American Negro. Il
IS fast learning that one man cannot
hold another down in the ditch with
out remaining in the ditch with him.
Among the American Negroes there
are no Kentucky Night Riders, there
are no BLACK Hands" there are no
anarchists. (Applause.)
At the conclusion of his remark
able deliverance, bursts of applause
reSounned in wave after wave thru
out the great edihce, and the "Wiz-
ard was compelled to repeatedly bow
his Acknowledgements. Then the peo-
pie crowded to the rostrum, eager to
grasp his hand For half an hour
this impromptu reception was kept
up, until the popular leader had to be
almost literally carried away by the
committee.
The auditorium was tastefully dec
GRATED with draped flags and festoons
of the national colors, and on the
platform potted plants and bouquets
of cut flowers abounded in tropical
profusion. The stately edihce, the ell
oquent exhOrtatiOn to constructive
endeavor, the brilliant audience, and
the perfect order, were all in keep
ing with the proprieties of an occa-
sion which has had no parallel in
the annals OF the National Capital.
Dr. Washington admits that no pre-
vious visit to Washington has been
so satisfactory, considered from ev-
cry point of view.
Side Lights on Social Functions
DR.. Washington reached the city
Wednesday afternoon at AS, coming
on directly from New York, where
he had been delivering some address
es in conjunction with Secretary of
War Taft. He was met at the IN
ion Station by a committee, and ac-
Companied by his secretary, Mr.. En-
NETT J. Scott, was conveyed in an au-
tomobile to the residence Of Mr..
ry Lassiter, 1915 Seventeenth street
northwest, whose guest he was to be
during the major portion of his stay.
At FIVE o'clock an exhibition drill
was given at Seventeenth street and