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A Universal Justice.
Let me lay down a second blank
in the platform ON which we NAV all,
stand. No civilization can ultimately
rest on any other foundation than
universally applied justice Justice
alone is at last tolerable in human
society. Can any one be found who
wiI seriously take the negative or
that proposition for a debate?
Apply that'to our immediate sit
uation. There can be no solution OF
the race problem in America but a
lust solution-a solution Just to ev-
cry person concerned. We must ali
patiently work at and work out that
problem. The only way anyone can
stay up, or rise higher is by helping
his neighbor up. .:-
The Interests OF the city Of Nash.
vile and Of Fisk University are in
no respects divergent. but rather. CO.
incident. The fact that so MANY OF
the citizens OF Nashville those who
are helping to make it a city OF DOW
er and influence. are here present,
would seem to Indicate that we could
work together. Hitherto nearly all
OF our support has come from the
north where there is larger wealth
than exists in the south: but that
condition ought gradually to be
changed. This institution is not for
the north anywhere nearly as much
as it is for the south 1t should be-
COME moro and more 4 Tennessee In
situation. Their is abundant evil
dence that the people Of the city Of
Nashville are very proud Of this
great college here.
What FISK is Doing.
AS one hint Of what Fisk has
doing there are our graduates teach
ling IN the schools Of Nashville,
thirty-oisht, and In the southern
states more than two hundred. Yet
more explicitly Of our work on this
campus.
FIRST /. Fisk University has stood,
and still stands and proposes to stand
| for the higher education of such
T members Of the Negro race as may
seek such education. This is dis
tinctlVely Fisk's mission, along with
a very few closely similar institu-
tons
| AFTER all our discussion and q,
| the end Of all our ambitions, can we
not agree ito stand together on this
10! a final plank in a common plat
form? Looked at in the largest way,
with all the command Of vision DOS
sible at this time in the history of
The American people, this great prob
EN- seems likely to- work itself out
Il the direction OF the Negroes Gull
ivating an ambition to build for
himself civilization, a social life,
Van industrial life and educational
J, life of his own in the midst Of and
as an organic part of the civilizations
OF our land. The details no man ,liv-
3ing,ts now prepared to fiji out. ri,
more this great body Of Negro peo.
! Die living here in the southland and
continue TO live here can believe. in
| he"Eelves and in their ability tC
build for themselves their own life
land institutions, the better i. will be
not only for, themselves, but for all
Just as. long as any people will con-
tent themselves 10 lean upon and
We suDDort1d by another civilization
than their own. so long will they be
In a parasitic position with all the
weakness that parastism exempt
lies. The reason why Fisk Univer.
Sity was planted, has been cultivated
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the Negro people to sterling self-re-
7pect. The institution is here to
fight no battles, tC cherish no preiu.
1lces or its own, to avoid. so far as
possible crossing prcjudices, but in
the modern and christian spirit to
try TO obey that ancient and reVer-
'nt commandment to help our neigh.
bor,' and to help IN the best and
highest way"
Other speakers WAC brought q
word OF greeting we're: Dr.. Carl Kel-
;ey. University Of Pennsylvania
William Adams Brown, Union Theo-
cgical Seminary: Rev. II. II. Tweedy
yale; James NJ. Wilton, New York
Prof. VIM. S. Scarborough, WILDER.
N' "hi''l"'t9' "hu III II. Paui
| Douglass.
Distinguished Visitors.
A special pullman car was run
FROM -New~Forl1 bring prominent
educators and others here for the
ceremonies. Those composing this
Iparty were:
DR.. Carl kelsey, professor Of soci-
ology at the University Of Pennsyl-
valla, ad Mrs. Kelsey, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
Rev. Henry ITALIAN Twccdy, pro-
lessor of practical theology at Yale,
New Haven, Conn.
Rev. Dr. William Adams brown,
representing the Union Theological
Seminary, New York City.