Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1911-07-21
GREAT HARVEST
WATTS REAPERS
Booker Washington, Speaking
on Ohio Soil, Sends Mes
sage Of Warning.
SOUTH A GOLDEN LAND
THERE 2,oco SHOE STORES. 1000
MILLINERY STORES AND 1000
BANKS ARE NEEDED.


Wilberforce. O.-The commence.
ment exercises Of Wllberfofce Uni
vcrsiiy. better this year than ever be
fore in the history OF the school. came
20 close with an address y booker
T. Washington that fairly took the
audience on It's feet. The occasion
took the form ~ a memorial to the
late Bishop Daniel A. Payne. perhaps
IN his lifetime Or. waahinglons clos.
eat friend In the early days Of Tusk.
egcc. More than 1000 people we're
out 10 hear the leader talk Of the
character Of the races greatest
churchman or this number almost
onathlrd waa made up Of white
friends from ali sections u the state.
Dr. Washington took as the basls
Of bid remarks passage from the
Scriptures The heavens we're
opened and ! saw visions Of God lie
MAS never NOR" eloquent. never more
efEeetiYe. ard himself spoke With =
eieIpnx feIlverlng doubtless the most
inappffans address BE has made since
TIC famosu Atlanta speech. lie vas
checred sIme after time.
Sic said tn part.
am glad % be Ia the state Of ohio
again and al the University u VII.
berscrcs. am glad 70 have = part IN
the celebration o. The i0ott annlYer.
sary o. the late Bishop Daniel A
PANE. founder OF vllburforce uni.
tersi,g and one Of The Leading spirits
n the establishment Of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church
BISHOP PAYNE GREAT MAN.
bishop Payne uan a great man. a
man Of character. a man Of vision
u - impossible FOR any Individual OF
any race 20 have ans large degree OF
snccexs without Visions. without faith
n The present and faith in tha future.
There y little room In this world for
ihe pessimsas: for the man Nho haa
90 fnlgh IA the present or future. re.
psas that Bishop Payne vaa = man OF
iason. We. as race. must follow
iia example,. aud TO be race and 10
posseas visions. we must believe IN tho
present aud future Without faith In
bis race and In his county Bishop
Payne never could have laid the foun.
cations ~ wilbeFforca university so
securely 80 be did
have iitfle doubt bur that say back
IN the dark days Of slavery. when the
foundations 81 this instifution we're
laid. bishop Payne pictured 70 himself
even then the spacious grounds. the
~eii.planned n-d welleanipped build.
ings. the Industrial and academic de-
partmenfa OF this institution. as they
exist today IN such iiourishlnK eond..
ton. We have little doubt bur that be
pictured 10 himself that the day would
come when on commencement coca.
alons their would be gathered here
thousands. ~ there are today. OF the
best typos of white and black people
representing the state OF Ohio and
nearly every section Of our country.
BISHOP pAYhE's VISION.
have little doubt but that Bishop
Daniel A. Payne saw In vision the
time when ,hero would be few In any
part of America 20 rise and oppo6s
the education 81 the negro. whether
II be industrial education. academic
education or professional education
sometimes fear that we. as a race.
do not rightly appreciate the adyan.
fages and opportunities which we en-
JOY IN this country. Since the great
bulk OF our people. 100000 at least.