The Washington bee., 1908-01-25

NOthing IS 10 De expected from Tie
rushing hot-house process, or from any
artificial arrangement; everything IS 10
be hoped from nature LETT to herself
unvexed By misdirected political con-
sideration., uninhuenced by outsiders
teaching false PHILOSOPHERS over the or
oinary laws of common honesty and
common sense.
The Negro in Africa has scarcely
burst the chrysalis of the primitive state
OF man. In America he Is yet in a state
Of racial childhood As he realize. this
the faster he will grow, the quicker
! ne will learn, the sooner he will reach
| his racial manhood In less than half
century he has achieved wonders.
Before the century we have just begun
is half over, he will have achieved
greater still. He has yet and up an
extensive scale to learn habits of meth
ed and order; habits of tenacity and ac-
QUESTION; habits of sustained industry
and sobriety without which no race
white, red, brown, or black-or any in
dividual man-can get on and prosper.
The Religion of Brotherhood
He is a bad white man who will not
help his neighbor black man when that
nighbor black man show tn spirit to
help himself.He is a bad black man who
cherishes hatred in his heart against the
white man because he is a white man.
He is foolish black man who thinks
because the mirage of social equality,
which would prove a curse rather than
blessing, is denied him, that the white
man hates him. Social questions the
world over create their own laws and
settle themselves. They cannot be fore
ed 1t is idle anywhere for anybody TO
contest. or quarrel, with them No man
should wish to go where he is not
wanted; true, self-respecting men dis
miss the very thought of it, going their
own way, hocing their own row, and
giving praise to God that their happiness
is within themselves and beyond the
reach Of any man, be he white or
black, king or vassal
And now, my friends, | have said my
say. | beg you to go hence this night
believing these imperfect thoughts and
poor words the honest emanations OF
one who has journeyed much. and far
and wide, in this great land of ours.
| was born and grew up in the Ma
tional Capital, contemporary with the
veXed slavery agitation. l saw the I'm
ion severed and made whole again. And
since then | have been in every State
and Territory of that Union, and | have
yet to come away from one of them,
north, south, east or west, where l
had not found something to make me
proud of my country.
| know that the proyincials of Fifth
Avenue, like the boulevardiers of Pa
ris think themselves exceptional. They
are as a matter of fact chiefly excep-
tional in their ignorance of everything
outside the great white way" Their
boasted superiority is largely the lido
syncrasy of clothes. They should study
geography and learn that New York's
every blood essential convertible terms
six months, and a change of raiment,
readily converting a typical VeTmonter
Thye need to travel more on this side
and less on the other side of the At
lantic Ocean; to learn something OF
their own people; the most homogene-
Gus people on earth; differeing only III
externaIs, in local conditions and hab-
It's; Massachusetts and Mississippi as to
INTO a typical Texan.
Forty years have been preaching
this gospel, sustained by the best in
telligence and manhood of the South.
/ commit it to your intelligence and
your manhood unreservedly and whole
heartedly 1t embraces the one rescript
by which our vast domain can be per
manentIy welded together ,instructing
each of its sections to respect the 9th
ers to love the others and to leave the
others to keep house for themselves,
ready to help the needy only in case OF
need Thus, and thus alone, shall We
escape the pitfalls of the dark ages, and
come forth no less a blessed than an
irresistible world power. black men and
white men equally standing behind the
guns, one God and one flag and one
law for all
Booker T. WdShingt0H's AdViee.
Booker 7. Washington said in his ad
dress:
What is the one great need of the
race today? In my opinion it is strong,
unselfsh, intelligent Negro leaders and
workers. We need in increasing num-
bers men and women of common sense
who will go out among our people in
the country districts and teach them
first of all the dignity Of labor; who