Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07

n race that partc with our dollars as soon
as we get them and sometimes before,
and sometimes our hard earnings are spent
for mere superficial. vain show, for the
unimportaht things OF life rather than the
fundamental things of life.
More and more, throughout the cities Of
the north, I want our petple to realize
that they can help the people of the south
by living strong, high, clean and moral
lives. we must draw the line between the
clean and the unclean, the moral and i'm
moral, We must put a premium upon moral
loving and our condemnation upon IMMORAL
life. Above all. we must get rid Of the
idlers.
All BE Optimists.
you, who live here in the north can
help up again in the south by looking at
the bright side OF life, instead OF the
gloomy, dismal, disappointing side. There
aresome people who never see anything
except clouds.
"our race, all things considered, is max
Ing tremendous progress north and south.
True, there are wrongs to be righted; in
Justices to be overcome; but we must rec
ognlze the fact that we will gain more by
emphasizing our opportunities and our
privileges fatnef tnhn our ulsduNdilhSSS
and discouragements.
w are gaining friends everywhere in
the north and souAh. You must not get the
idea that the negro has no friends among
the white people in the south. In my recent
trip through Mississippi 1 found thousands
Of white men who are Just as much inter
ested in the progress OF the negro, in seeing
that he gets Justice as men are in any
other part of the country. We should ad-
vertise our friends more and our enemies
less. In proportion. as the world sees that
we are determined to succeed, that we are
holding up our hands, that we are going
forward in spite Of difficulties, the world
will come to our relief"
stay by Mother Earth.
IT have been trying to teach the black
race to keep its feet on the earth," declared
Mr.. Washington in his address at the First
Congregational church I'm the afternoon at
the regular session OF the social science
department OF the Wonlan's club.
IT myself rarely spend a day at my home
down in Alabama he said, without taxi
ing a hoe and shovel into the fields 20
work in the corn. After weeks of travel
in the east, in the big cities Of the east,
e. Is good again to get some black old
Alabama mud on my shoes.
1T is important to teach our race to
keep its feet on the earth.
"When Tuskegee saw It's beginning some
OF our people protested that our courses
In farming, in domestic science and the
like were not what they wanted. We have
had 60 teach them that being worked
means degradation and that working means
civilization. That is the difference that We
ere teaching at Tuskegee. There is no
hope for any race. white, black, yellow or
blue, until It learns that am form of labor
Is honorable and that any form of ldleness
is a disgrace.
nEvery race knows it's strength, The
negro knows ne is down and wants to get
up. II is far better than being down and
thinking you are up. Let me tell YOU that
the whites are as much interested in the
uplift Of the negro as we are.
Minimize the had.
"Yo hear Of the negro who burns down
a house. but little of he who builds one
you hear OF the white man who kills a
negro. but little OF those who are helping
the negro up"
MT. Washington spoke OF the Industrial
and commercial Importance Of his race.
He said that the negroes OF the south pay
taxes on property -conservatively estimate
at a value OF S550.Ooo.O0O. This he pointed
out was little short OF marvellous in view
OF the fact that the negro has been ac-
curing property but little more than forty
y~ears-forty years out of absolute poverty
and abject ignorance.
The closing OF the bars Of the southland
and the general effect Of the reform wave