The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-27
II TAFT WERE A MILLIONAIRE !
HE'D SURELY 10 SOMETHING
BIG ron NEGRO EDIClTION.
Tells Trustees % Hampton That the
Head of the Institution shouldn't
HaN~ 10 Go About Hunting MOne,.
Nor should Booker =. Warrington.


Nor should Booker =. Washington.
REvFRtY Mass Aug "a -Pr"sident
Taft attended a NESTING ~ the trustees %
Hampton Institute. one Df the hiR colored
institutions II the country. az the HON" 81
Mrs Robert = Bradley at Pride = Gross
ing near here this afternoon.
Before leaving the President talked
at luncheon with Gov. Fort 81 New Jersey
and senator Lodge Of Massachusetts.
Gov Fort was making a formal call and
senator Lodge wanted 20 discuss Mas-a-
chusetts and general lsohtical conditions.
The President IA his address 10 the trustees
said
/ am NOT a millionaire. and I have
never had tho feelings Of ona. but some
times ones imagination taxes life and
you wonder what you would do Y YOU
had an income 81 five or ten millions a
year. and had the ordinary feelings of a
man who Wished 90 help his fellow men.
1t seems To- me- that one would look
about first 20 find those things 90 which
he could b. certain he might give his
money and get q return % good tn human
kind and m looking about I am very sure
that he could not find place in which he
could for the benefit % human kind invest
ms money with more certainty 81 returns
than IN Hampton Institute.
L think It does not speak quite well
for all the gentlemen who are contribui-
ing generously to various causes that the
head 81 an institution lik. Hampton.
which is the beginning Of great move
Tnsn' To solve the race question in thus
country. should he obliged 20 60 about
gtf,v a "A hmFdeFl
on himself that nobody appreciates until
he mas mad 10 get that money IN this
wav
One hundred thousand dollars a year
u the income uf certain number Of
millions and Hampton ought TO nav" mad
tho-. millions lpng ago IN order that IN"
head 81 the institution and u u the same
with 1usk"g.-- as with Hampton may not
vast" his life IA raising tn money nu,
NAV drvot" hl- attention 20 the good
which h. can do IN carrying on such a
school and making II mor- efficient
Hampton has done more than merely
aolv" the rae" question IA IN" proper way
IL furnished Ia the American educator
Twp. 81 school that u now spreading
throughout the country Gen Armstrong
was the first one to put into practical
operation an industrial school that did
the work that thU-.- schools were IN
tended TO do
- interesting that u required the solution
81 the problem of the education OF the
negro TO present TO tn" white educators
the l,sst methods ot educating IL" whites
One Of tho dangsr- that we are likely
20 fall into IN tn. North in the education
Of the negro IL TO forget tn" necessity and
tbs. very great Necessity Tor a similar edu-
cation 81 the whites Ia the south
Education j. the solution % the race
question when II IL directed toward giving
the negro a self-r-spect and a belief ia tn.
81 entity of labor and In the n"C"-sity for
hi- making himself valuable member
OF the community IA order that the whit"
man may then give MIN what - his due.
When a man ~ valuable member
II a community a. n laborpT as n skilled
laDorer ana On" who builds up the in
d'lStries IT the community. then h. will 7
get al che ~ ght- that are coming 10 hun .
I Do not ike - 90 into politics 0r - .
a lacuss the fact hut do l,@lievs that the
present situation in th" South - IN" full
81 hope for the solution ~ the negro
question. because politics - largely out
81 a. and now IN. southern whit" man
and Northern white man and the southern .
negrp and the Northern negrp are all .
uniting IN the movement u teach the .
10 M. 0no negroes how 90 support them
selves. how - support the community .
in which they live. and when th~u value
IN the community II demonstrated. as .
~ - being demonstrated tn" race uu"s-
ton will have IT. sDlutlun.
No one can read the lectures that 4
Booker Washington has delivered 20 has
own people without realizing that b" H.
pn.. II the greatest mon uf this century. .
and that ne dart-s tell them the truth 2
IN order that they might psgin % build .
mp their lives IN sure foundation