The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-04-21

+erpal world that life does to the form
It is language of moods and emotions
out of which develop actions. No man
can listen to good music and not feel
it's uplifting and refining Influence. Its
power is too subtitle to be measured"
That's what Hubbard says and l am
sure we all ag@ee with him. "Music
hath charms to SCOT he the savage |
breast" 1t is music i'll it's mothers
arms that lulls the infant to sleep. 1t
is the stirring strains of martial music
h a cheer soldiers n o glorious
victories in the face OF overwhelming
odds. 1t is music that causes the feet
of the wedding pair to march to the
altar in perfect rythm; music it is that
soothes, softens and s W tens the
strange and struggling vicissitudes OF
life. Music cheers us on to dangers
and through them and when the final
day arrives when our wornont teLe-
mt nts of clay are laid away in Mother
Earth it is to the air of the funeral dirge,
solemn and sonorous that the casket
containing it is lowered into the grave
You will observe from this that like
music. am not musician. l cannot
even play jewsharp, but / am lover
of music-even the kind that is pro-
duced by phonograph-some of which
sometimes is very good.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie-you have all
read about him. He has been threaten
ing the world to die poor. He has CIV
en- away something like the modestsum
of $l68, 900, 10000, but if death should
suddenly overtake him at any time soon,
it is quite certain his estate would have
to pay an Inheritance tax on the mere
trifle of about $500 OO0O 10000, Mr.. Car
negie visited Hampton Institute re-
Gently and among other things said
'The colored people have the sweetest
singing voices of any race on earth.
When go to Heavtn-[N Note tiat-he
sc ems to have no doubt of it]-when l
90 to Heaven--I shall be perfectly hap
4 py if the celestial choir is made up of
colored voices" | am quoting from
memory, but believe l am correct in
sentiment if not precisely so in words.
AS the French say, "to return to our
, muttons." In my humble opinion il
: makes no difference what the color OF
all artists skin may be, so long aS he is
all artist. Have any of you ever en-
. joyed the privilege of hearing the late
l Frederick Douglass deliver speech
, Well. have. heard his speeches al
} national conventions on several occa
2 sions. Frederick Doug lass was the sol
of coalblack nanny by white faith
t er whom he never knew. He was th'
4 foremost crater of magic elOqnt nee o
e this country until he died. No white
t man ever possessed the sweet, far-car
: rying, musical and mellfluous tones o
l. Fred. Douglass voice. He never ha'
S a days schooling in his life-was bOrl
# slave-and yet by his own efforts an
d native ability became foremos
IS American orator of his time-hOnore
n at home and abroad, the friend OF Lii
n coin and first aid to the Great Marty
1t President in the liberation of four mi
t, lion human sOuls-since swelled
numbers to fifteen millions. NatuI
ID recognizes no color line in the distribl
tiOn of her favOrs.
~ Booker L. Washington, another gret
lg colored man, honoIed with the highe
ne degrees of Harvard University, and r
n ceived by the nobility of Europe say
Id Commerce chases the dOllar-net II
st man." The only American who "ev,
b. won first prize in the exhibition of pain
a ings at the Paris Salon turned out to
IN u colored man from Philadelphia.
I'd shall say nothing here of the valor
the colored troops during the civil W.
he and the Spanish imbrogl
ne and its consequent strife. The celOr'
he man is here-he is here to stay-al
IT. concretely, he is among us, of us al
,st with us in this Institution. How sh.
ce we treat him-like a slave-or like
an manY That's the question!
es- Nature is mysterious and beyond o
ul, ken. She lavishes special gifts in h
ng own peculiar way. Therefore, ss
nd wherever you find genius-grab it-al
he never mind the color of the Owne
sp- skin. 1t goes without saying that
ess man is permitted to select his own p'
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