The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-03

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polite to leave, so they stayed. He
said that if there was an attempt
made to place the colored people on
an island they would have to build a
wall to keep them on the island and
FIVE walls at least to keep the white
man out.
A Growing Race.
1--WE are a growing race, we have
the future before U.s., not behind us.
Why / wouldn't change my skin and
be q white man for anything said
he. az would rather belong to a race
that is growing than one that is eth
er going back or Is at a standstilI.
Every race and every individual has
what might be termed a silly period.
For a long time the negro was in the
silly period, but he is just getting out
has been a free man he has done won
ders. You will find scarcely a small
town in the south that does not have
a colored man running stores and
other businesses, yer to banks. ]
have been able to get some idea of
what they r doing and what they
have been doing in the past SO years
since they We're freed and the figures
show me that in the south today the
negroes own 500, 000, 900 worth of
farms and business. Doesn't that look
like a progressive race? My race
hasn't much of the past to look at but
it has much of the future.
Must Be Lifted Up.
There are ten millions of use and if
VIZ are not lifted up we must of ne
cessity drag somebody down with us.
It is a glorious privilege to belong to
a race that has a future. We are try
ing to teach our people to keep their
feet on the ground. Why every day
when / am home / get-my shovel and
hoe and go out into my garden and do
some work. / like to feel Gods soil
under my feet and know that I have a
part in it. We teach the boys how to
farm down at Tuskegee, not to be ag-
riculturists. We teach the girls
cookery. not domestic science. There
Is a vast difference in being worked
and working. My rac has learned
the disgrace of idleness and the dig
nifty Of labor. We cultivate 1000 acres
Of land and the boys and girls get a
chance, and when they leave our in
stitution they are fit for something.
There is one man kept there whose
business it is to keep watch on the
boys and girls who graduate from
there, and with only two exceptions
he has found them living decent re-
spectacle lives. We had 1000 students
on the grounds all the time.
There's a Differences.
"In some places in the south / have
found where 1t costs $22.55 a year
to educate the white children and
the same locality the expense is So
cents for -coIored children. See the
difference? When we can catch up
with the American white man there
will be no other race to catch us. You
hear of the worst things that happen
to the negro in the south, seldom do
you hear of the good that Is in them.
has its future before it. For years
the church peoples of the north were
sending money to the south to the
freedmen. but it did no good. The
kind of work that brings them to see
where they are is the work that is
done in the Tuskegee institute" and
in closing DR.. Washington made
powerful plea for his great place of
learning. Collections were taken up
at both the Grand and at the church.
It was one Of the most entertaining
and instructive addresses that the
people of Fargo had listened to in
some time. The address was virtual
ly repeated at the Presbyterian
church. Miss McLelland during the
evening rendered several vocal solos
which were very pleasing and Mrs.
III. II. Wheelock also favored the audi
ence with several selections in her
usual enjoyable nj During the
interval between the time the servic-
es at the church were concluded and
the arrival of Mr.. washington the
was spent in song service
which was enjoyable.