The Washington bee., 1911-01-28
Public Men AndThings
(By the Sage of the Potonac)

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DIR. jung, the German Investigator,
says every dream represents the full
hllment OF wish that has remained
untitled" Well, now l think this
! ibeer-flled futon speels about correct.
| At least | thought so Tuesday night
when | was at Bethel Literary and
I heard Ed. Morris speak The dream
of my life, for years, was to put
Booker Washington In the down and
out class. That was when was
younger and more active, at least
thought | was active. | used to think
that If | could only catch his Jack
could become great man myself.
As | grew older, and had to hustle all
the harder to keep that wolf from the
door, 1t became palmer to me
that the only way to grow Is TO plow
your own field, SOW your own seed,
hoe your own row, and stop worrying
about the other mans patch over in
the next county. Now at that meet
ing | saw the same old crowd-the
same old. persistent Chateaux en- Es-
pagne builders, and they applauded
every attack upon the Tuskegee COM
=, L.
beat out a bunt on a slow pitched
ball. He tore down, but erected no
skysCraper. One thing that impress
ed me, and sort Of made me start
taking an inventory, was the respect
tul, gentlemanly, and argumentative
way in which Judge Terrell, Jim Cobb, /
and that young man Graves made re-
ply, and the abusive style of the Nor
r1s sympathetiC-strike speakers. Now
alter the people got home, and put
their reason cap on I'll bet they no
tlCed this too Lafayette Hershaw
sat on the platform, and seemed to be |
up IN that seventh heaven we read +
about in Revelations. [ looked down !
on him from the gallery, and he look |
ed so happy that | couldn't observe
even stammeT in his face But the /
whole bunch were simply in a dream
IN which they saw the fulhlIment of a
wish that still remains unhlled-the .
putting of Booker in an eclipse 1t
will take more than Bethel meetings
to put him out. He's got a strangle
hold on success, and you Just can't
shake a man off with mere bellows
action whose got d Strangle hold You 1
luSt lldttlA dliN iidNN ~ 10 more tidH
he has done to make him take the /;
count I didn't get to the banquet
that followed for Johnson and Slaugh- Il
ter, because | couldn't hypOtheCate a /,
promise for a SI.5O, the price per
plate. | am long ways from Treas
IRE Island now. and so have to do s
DennanCe by cutting out banquets,
though it goes awfully hard with me {
10 miss them. They say it was a fine
affair, and that geniality and good
,heer was as thick and abundant as 4
he smoke from the after-dinner ci-
yars, even though the insurgents did, t
n moment of dementia-Americana /
overlook putting a stand !
1atter on the speaking program. Some
u the discussion, or more properly
he conclusion speakers at the Bethel c
meeting, appeared TO be affected with I
'rain-storm, and some appeared to be I
.hasing will-o-wisps, for they did not ]
hscuss Morris paper. But that's Gus
omary at Bethel meetings. !
Referring again to Hershaw-La- !
ayette and | use TO meet and dis /
uss the problem" often a few years c
Jack l want to say to you that you /
an Just bet your tintype there's a c
elbow with the goods on him, and no Y
AIMED goods either. The mistake of S
rs lie was when he came to Wash-l c