Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-27

IF TAFT HAD WEALTH
HE'D UPuFT NEGROES
Schools Solution of Race
Problem, He
Says.

BEVERLY, Mass, August 27.-Presiden'
Taft attended at the home OF Mrs. Robert
g. Bradley, at Prides Crossing. yesterday
afternoon q meeting OF the board of trus.
tees OF Hampton Institute and delivered
an address on negro education. The Pres.
ident especially pleaded for more liberia
financial assistance for schools like Hamp
ton and Tuskegee and their offspring.
Early in the day the President received
informal calls from Gov. Fort Of New
Jersey. who motored In from a neighbor.
ing summer resort, and Senator Lodge Of
Massachusetts,. who ran over from Ma.
hant for little talk on the political sit.
uation.
: In his address to the Hampton trustee,
President Taft said:
II am not q millionaire and 1 have
never had the feeling of one, but some
times ones imagination takes life and
you wonder what you would do IL you
had an income Of 100000 or $lO.O0O.0 0(
year, and had the ordinary feelings Of q
man who wished to help his fellow-men
What He Would Do With Wealth.
1T seems to me that one would like firs'
to find those things to which he could bt
certain he might give his money and gel
a return Of good to human kind, and In
looking about ! am very sure that hs
could not find q place in which he could
for the benefit OF human kind, invest hi:
money with more certainty OF return:
than i'm Hampton Institute.
Hampton has done more than merely
solved the race question in the proper
f,,rn tobn fn ha n.
ucator q type OF school that IL now
spreading throughout the country. Gen
Armstrong was the frst one to put into
practical operation an industrial school
that did the work that these schools were
and it certainly is Interesting, that 1t re-
quired the solution of the problem Of the
education OF the negro to present to the
white educators the best methods of edu-
eating the whites. One Of the dangers
In the education OF the negro Is to forget
the necessity. and the very great neces-
sity, for q similar education for the
whites in the south.
Solution OF Race Question.
Education is the solution of the race
question when 1t is directed toward CIV
ing the negro a self-respect and a belief
in the dignity of labor and In the ne
cessity for his making himself valuable
member of the community, in order that
the white men may then give him what
Is his due. When q man Is a valuable
member of q community as a skilled la
borer, and one who builds up the indus
tries Of the community, then he will get
all the rights that are coming to him.
81 do not like to go into politics. or
discuss the fact. but do believe that the
present situation in the south Is one full
Of hope for the solution of the negro
question, because politics is largely out
OF il, and now that the southern white
man and the northern white man and the
southern negro and the northern negro
are all uniting In this movement 10 teach
the 100000 negroes how to support
themselves. as 1t IL being demonstrated
the race question will have its solution
"No one can read the lectures that
Booker Washington has delivered to his
own people without realizing that he Is
one OF the greatest men OF this century,
and that he dares 10 tell them the truth
i'm order that they may begin to build up
their lives on sure foundation