Putnam patriot., 1912-07-12
Booker T. Washington iu Putaam.

tionai church was hlled with an audi enee gathered to listen to Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee Institute.
 pr. Washington spoke in Pomfret in
 the morning, and heartily responded ! to an invitation to speak tin Putnam. Notice was given in the local church.
 es and by telephone. The service be- gan at four o'clock, the speaker being introduced by Rev. MT. Sargent, the entire hour being given him. At the 1 close of the address many of the audi ence had the pleasure of meeting pr. Washington personally. He left on | the five o'clock car for Worcester,
 where he spoke that evening at the Old South church. The following Is
 an outline of his addisss:
 He said he hasino fears of an upris- ing of men and women of his blood. To illustrate the attitude that the white
 and black races of the South should maintain toward one another, he told the story of the negro minister, who called upon a white driver of a carriage at Columbia, $. C., asking him to con.
 vey him to the railroad station, he being in a hurry to catch train. The negro was informed by the white man that he had never carried a negro in his carriage.
 "Pn tell you what we'll do,h said the negro minister. "You just sit in
 back there, and while l am doing the driving you can do the riding. In this way you will get the'qunrter and will get to the station.n So that is the way that obstacle was overcome.
 "I have long ceased to worry over the details, and they do not concern me- said Dr. Washington. It Is sutfi- cient for me to know that the problem of the negro race is being solved. We are travelling in the right direction, the black and white people are headed toward the railroad station, and so long as the road Is straight, God in his wisdom and providence will take care of all the rest.'
 "Dr. Washington snid among other things: "This is not the first time that I have spoken here, and l feel some- what embarrassed because l am unable to recall which speech l tried to de- liver when was here before. This re- minds me of when | was called apon to go into little country town in the South to settle dispute between the congrega ation and the minister and l discovered that the congregation did not want to pay the minister. The minister had asked me to speak to the people and 1 had consented to do so. made favorable impression upon the audience, which was assembled in one of the little log cabin churches. As l urged the people to pay the pastors salary promptly and regularly, one fellow in the rear of the church arose and said "We ain't gwine to pay him any more salary this year
 own you get up and tell us what the trouble is in this church?' l asked. "'Well, said he, T guess we done paid him for those sermons last year
 "During the past few months the American papers have been filled with descriptions of revolution or insurrec- tion on the part of the black people In the republic of Cuba against the gov ernment and against the mass of the white race of that republic. On the Iland of Cuba there are 600,O0 men and women of the black race. In the United States there are l0,000,000 of black people. For months past the re. public of Cuba has been compelled to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to put down this rebellion. Business of every character has been disturoed and in many cases brought to standstill
 "As have already stated there are i0, ,00o, 600 Of black people in the United States, and during the 4S years of our freedom there has been little disturb ance. No rebellion on the part of the 10, 900 900 of black people, and the gov ernment of this country has not been called upon to put down any rebellion. It is true that business has not been disturbed by any uprising of the lo,- 600 ,0oO of black people. What consti- tutes the difference In the conditions between the black races of Cuba and of the United States?
 "In the very beginning of our free- doua, as a race, the white people have been wise enough, generous enough, to see that leaders from among the black race were educated in industrial and Christian lines and placed as guides for my people.
 wThese leaders were educated and sent out, sometimes as teachers, some times as ministers, sometimes as lawyers; sometimes as doctors, and sometimes as business men, but wher- ever they have gone,- they have held a steady hand upon the mass of the black people. Notwithstanding that in this country my race has received much worse treatment than the blacks upon the Island Of Cuba. 1 repeat that the reason we have had peace and the reason that this black people have maintained this peace, and have con- tTibuted to the commercial and trade interests of this country, grows out Of the fact that the American people have been wise enough to invest money in the Christian and dindustrial education of the race, so that in every center of
 black population we have level