The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-12-06
THE NEGR0'S RISE
BOOKER r. WASHINGTON OF TUs-
kEGEE SPEAKS 70 LARGE
c:r11c0 AUDIENCE.
Says 100000 Men Of His Race own
Their Homes In South and
Operate Farms--sees Great
er Harmony Near.

negroes of the south, especially, that
OF the graduates OF the Tuskegest Nor
NAL and Industrial Institute, wfpe d.
tailed by Booker It. Washington, the
institutes principal in series Of lee.
lures In different parts Of the city
|, yesterday, the most important OF
these being In the. evening, when he
addressed the members Of the Chi
cago Sunday Evening Club in Orches-
/ ira Hall.
Out Of "siiiy" Stage.
"The' southern negro has passed
through the silly stage,aethe speaker
said, in his address at Orchestra Hall
years ago when a young negro put
nijpatent leather shoes, red vest
and other highly colored garments
land walked through the streets peo.
Pile said to themselves, There's an
educated negro for you,' and immedi-
ately made UP their minds that edu-
caion was harmful to the negro race.
"The race has undergone remark
able change in he last twenty-five
years. Every race has its silly
stages and the negroes have passed
through theirs. s
Knows BY Experience.
why, can remember when | was
liz years old thought was SO smart
that used to attempt to give my par.
ents advice on family government
That is an indication of the silly part
of mans life.
when Abraham Lincoln freed the
slaves only 2 per cent of the negroes
could read or write. Now over so per
cent of them can read and write
Only in two instances have graduates
of my institute been sent to prison
for breaking the laws. Today there
are over $4,000 negro ministers in
America. The negroes today pay
taxes on sabout $6eB,eeesoee worth OF
property. Twenty years ago there
were but two banks in America
owned by negroes. Now there are
| tifty-two.
In the southern states about 400.-
600 farms are owned and operated by
negroes, and in these same states
they own over 100000 homes.
Persons of the white race look at
a negro and in most cases what do
they see? The negro walks slow,
talks slow and thinks slow. But you
must remember that, being raised
among southerners, the negroes
copied heir ways Of living. Except
for the color of his skin "a negro Is
exactly like a southerner in every
thing he does. qwEuI
! eYol, have read of the negro that
Eurns Houses and is mobbed, but you
don't hear of the negro that builds
houses. Why. in the southern states
when you see a prosperous negro
man ask him who started him in busi-
ness. Nine times out OF ten he will
tell you that some southerner loaned
him tie money. The southerners and
the negroes understand each other
much better than the northerners un'
derstand them. rHr
wLabor upIift Agent. '4t
"The negro race has got rid Of the
idea that labor is undignified and now
realizes that it is the uplifting of it
Over 5000 of our graduates are now
! occupying positions in all walks OF
/ life today-mechanics, school teacn
ers, and almost every service you
can think of.
Years ago you could go through
the southern states and you would
find that hardly any Of the negro chill
dren went to school more than four
| months of the year. All that has been
| revolutionized. The negro children
of the south are given every oppor
tunity to be educated, and their par.
cnts ere awake to the fact and insist
on them attending school for the en-
tire term each year The southern
negro Of today has learned to save
ibis money to provide homes for his
family
Nov, when you think that this has
been accomplished In fortylfve years
LIT is surprising. Compared with the
races Of southern Europe, the negroes
fare far ahead In everything. When
the negro race catches up with the
| white race, then there will be n.
other race for it to overcome.
| Sees Harmony Near.
"A negro is not a foreigner, He
doesn't wear blanket like an Indian
nor eat with chopsticks like a China
imam. The negro race of today is rap
idly learning the ways of the white
trace, and when 1t has them fully un
derstood the negroes and the whites
Twill be in harmony with each other