Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-12-22
DR.. GRAHAM TAYlOR'S
ADDRESS AT TUSkEGEE
NOTED CHICAGO EDUCATOR
SPOKE TO FACULTY AND
STUDENTS At COL
oRED iNSTi1 UTE.

Tuskegee, Aia.-Dr Graham Taylor
professor OF civics In the Universit!
OF Chicago. was a member OF the par
~ that accompanied Mr.. julius Rosen
valid to Tuskegee Institute recently
| One OF the most helpful talks MADE
to the students and teachers during
the visit or Mr.. Rosenwald and others
to the scohol was that made by Or
Taylor.
Or. Taylor has been connected VIII
every movement tor the social upin
of Chicago. lives In the Hull House
district, and was member OF the re
cent Chicago vice commission, whose
report stirred the country. because o.
its exposure OF social conditions II
| Chicago. He spoke as follows:
You would not expect one OF my
age. speaking in public on the stage
to be the instructor OF some OF these
venerable teachers OF yours-the chap
lain and pastor OF this great congre
cation, Mr.. Whitaker; the man who
has charge OF your library, Mr.. Wood
and the man who is sizing up your
work and your social relations, Mr.
Work, but am not ashamed OF these
three men or to have had something
to do with their valuation, though
must confess that all OF my students
have taught me quite as much as
have ever taught them.
Il want to congratulate you, not
only on having such principal as
has. been described here by Mr. Rosen
valid, DR.. Hirsch. Mr.. Cooley and
others, and would even add to the
description, ii had the time and the
tongue, but would like also to con-
graduate you upon having this stan
OF instructors. These men and women
who are like the cabinet OF the presi'
dent OF the United States. who are
like the staff OF the general OF an
army, for a general Is not much good
after all without an army and without
a staff in between Ei2 and the rank
and file. SO am not goisg to take
anything from Mr. Washington, not
bit, but think be will rather agree
With me, as a teacher, that his col
leagues help to make the institution,
and that without them and the grad
ual accumulation OF training and dis
cipline and study, neither Tuskegee
nor any other institution would be
possible, so | congratulate all OF you
students on the men and women VINO
are teaching you, and they. with you,
will congratulate themselves and your
selves upon the splendid leadership OF
the man who is leading you, not only
you, however, but who is leading a
whole lot of us all over this land into
larger vision and into a higher life.
You need not think that all the
race problem Is down here. You can
not even have a monopoly OF that,
even If you want to. | come out from
as fierce a race struggle as any OF
you are in. | live in one OF these
great cosmopolitan wards OF Chicago
--25 different nationalities are around
me in that great apartment house, all
speaking different languages, a per-
feet Babel, and wish to assure you
that there is quite as deep race feel
ing between the Irish and the Italian,
or the Pole and the Greek as you will
find betweens-well will not men
ton whom.-this side OF Dixie.land
There was an immigrant who met in
our parlor one evening with lot OF
men to the manor born. that Is, they
thought they were. and he said:
You men here seem to think that
and my race are problem. He
further said, I deny that We are a
problem at all. We are solution OF
the problem. You seem to think you
have given us work We have not
only created the industry by which
we live, but by which whole lot OF
you fellows live besides
Il shall never forget the tremen-
dous and direct confusion that fol-
lowed that charge by that Russian
Jewish neighbor OF mine. 1t was
quite true that his race had really Gre
ated this great industry. and | can
never fail to feel the thrill OF graft
tude and appreciation when creators
OF industries, and better still, pos
SCISSORS of spirit, such as you and your
race have always shown against prov
ocation that has sometimes seemed to
me intolerable, Yet through all that
terrible upheaval OF the war. through
all that dreadful reconstruction pc
Rod, this race OF yours never raised
a hand OF disloyalty though they
might have had much against that
flag waved over their heads, though
they might have had cause for deep
and active resentment. Their pa
tience, was inexhaustible, | have
never stood more like Moses at the
burning bush with head bare as in the
presence OF Almighty God, as | have
before the divine patience OF your
race You have taught US and all
other races how to be patient as God
Is patient
As DR.. Hirsch was speaking OF
Gods great creative work, | thought
Of that Galileean who said: My father
worked and l work. and so work Is
one Of the common denominators OF
the race problem or any other prob
lem in civilization; but more than
work Is the right spirit toward God
and fellowman, the spirit of patience.
the spirit Of forgiveness The spirit
Of everlasting and never-failing love
is the common denominator which will
solve all the great factors OF our
great problem. and no nation has a
greater problem than we
Regard your own phase Of the
problem only as a phase OF the one
great. mighty problem that has been
placed BY God on America as on no
other land The mixture or orr nnn,,.