The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-08
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In the midst OF u sentiment he
unwittingiy created among the race he
endeavored to the very last to sle-
vate. Booker T. Washington Is no
more; and his work of stupendous
proportion follows him. Perhaps we
shall not see his IKE again in this
generation. There viii rise up many
who VIII try to initiate his manner
leadership through sycophancy,
but there will be few who will do
so with the sincerity of purpose which
prompted his every action for the
betterment Of his people and the
whole country.
DR.. Washington was born in a sec
ton OF this country, and lived and
nbored In It. in an age and time
that required a subtlety that only
those who are brought up in it with
the white man can use to enable them
to succeed In an undertaking neces-
stating their constant presence among
southern people. This subtlety Dr..
Washington possessed in remarkable
degree. He knew how to tickle the
white man Of the south to cause him
to laugh. and when he laughed to get
what he needed from him. and through
MN others who gave, not as Chris.
tan duty to the institution he found.
ed, but because Washington had in
Jected his personality into their favor,
ana because they knew that there were
few other schools where the Negro
could get the instruction that is given
for his uplift at Tuskegee.
AS a monument to his faith in the
capacity and ability of his race to do
what other men Of other races have
accomplished, and his interchangeable in
dustry to bring about results, Tuske-
gee will multiply her army of educated
men and ring out to future generations
the name Of the man self-named. and
who brought 1t into existence.
The management Of this institution
has been without reproach. but its
founder has not always been credited
with advocating the best interest of
the race In regard to the higher edu-
cation OF the youth. Be that as it
may. for himself he has left behind an
enduring monument of his work on
the minds Of men. and we suggest
monument of enduring marble be cree
ted in the sight Of those whom he has
helped by starting subscription by
all the people of the country, and
have it placed In the capital of the
MISUNDERSTANDING.
The Rt. Rev. Samuel d. Ferguson,
first man of his race to be made a
bishop by the Protestant Episcopal
church. who died the other day at Mon
rovia, Liberia, though a Negro, and
born In South Carolina, was never n
slave. His parents were free persons
IF Color he wds SIX yedrs old when
they accepted the inviting offer of the
National Colonization society and
went to Liberia. He was educated
In the mission school of the Episco-
paIians at Cape Palmas. He watched
our Civil war for the freeing of the
slaves only at distance. He worked
with all the ciyilizing forces in land
where about $4,000 Afro-Americans
dominate a real African population of
2,O0O.OOO; worked with the Methodist
bishop, William Taylor. who first de-
veloped Industrial education there
worked with ]. J. Roberts. long presi-
dent, a man nearly white. but devoted
to popular advancement worked with
Arthur Barclay, born British sub
ject in the Barbados, pure-blooded
black. who succeeded Roberts; worked
with the present president, Daniel
Howard. BE saw the establishment Of
Presbyterian and Baptist and Metho-