The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-04-27
Booker T. Washington Declares
Enlightment Of Colored People
Has Kept Peace Be-
tween Races
MRS. STOVES SON IS HEARD
Asserts That Negroes Are Gaining in
Wealth, Education and lntelli-
gence and Rapidly lmprov-
ing Whole Race.

Boston, Mass, April 27.-Dr. Booker
T. Washington, president of Tuskegee
Institute, was one OF the speakers yes
terday at Fisk University day" of the
World i'm Boston Missionary Exposi-
ton" In urging support for the negro
college at Nashville, Tenn, DR.. Wash
ington said:
"Forty-ive years Of Fisk University
means forty-five years of progress for
the negro race. Perhaps il is true that
the life Of few institutions in the south
are more closely linked with the pro-
gress of the black people than is Fisk
University. il was among the pioneer
institutions planted i'm the South for
the benefit of our people. During for
| ty-five years IT has done its work wise
ly and successfully through the grad
uates and ex-students who are now at
work for the uplifting of humanity in
every part of the South.
Few people realize 10 what an ex-
tent the nation is indebted To the edu-
Gated colored man for the maintain
ance of peace between the races. While
many race wars have been predicted.
no serious and prolonged racial con-
flict has taken place in recent years in
the South. II has been in a very large
degree the influence of the educated
negro who has counseled patience, for
bearance and sympathetic co-opera-
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vented dlsgraceful outbreaks and has
resulted in securing and maintaining a
large degree of peace and harmony be-
tween the races.
"The people of this nation should
Remember that the negro is not a beg
gar as far as his personal needs are
concerned. He supports himself in
clothes and i'm shelter and has done so
for As years. The only call that he
has made upon the public has been for
aid in the dimction of education
moral and religious training; that call
/ believe we have the right to make
through Fisk University and such a
call will be answered"
Charles Edward Stowe Talks.
Charles Edward stowe. son of Har-
riet Beecher stowe. immortalzed as
the author of Uncle Toms Cabin, spoke
in behalf of the higher education of
the negro. In part he said
shortly after the close of the Civil
War, General O. O. Howard was adj
dressing a Freedman's school at At
lanta, and asked the pupils what mes
sage he should take the north from
their school. Tell 'em we's rlsin mas
sa, called out one little negro.
1T was true then. but still more
manifestly true today that the negro
is rising. Day by day Is this fact more
apparent The negro is gaining i'm
wealth. in education, i'm intelligence
and i'm all that pertains to more
abundant life There is no more ef-
fective witness To this fact than the
cries of alarm. almost hysterical in in
tensity. that come from those who op-
pose negro education.
"Not only justice but self-interest
demand the euucatlOn ol lHe HcSIp. ~
shut the door of opportunity on the
negro To relegate him to the lowest
place and shut the door of hope upon
him is to make him desperate. The
man who has intelligence property
and social position is manlfestly less
likely to develop criminal instincts
than the poor wretch who lives a mere
animal existence.
I'm the last forty years the negro
population of the United States has
nearly doubled. IL is still increasing
rapidly. The two races must dwell side
by side. The negro is not the problem
of the South: but the problem of the
whole country.
"The idea of deporting him TO the
land of his fathers is more than alb
surd as time goes on. Many negroes
had Irishmen for fathers; shall we
send them TO Ireland? Many negroes
have the best white blood OF the
South i'm their veins, and are i'm the
land Of their fathers already The ne
gro Is here and here to stay The ne
gro is not here of his own motion; but
tbo ,vbfta man hrought hin, here -