Show NEGRO THRIVES S ON EVERY SOIL SOll V 1 t of the People of This his Country Are Black 5 V NUMBER CONSTANTLY GROWS V BEM STATEMENT OF OFT BOOKER aO KER T WASHINGTON G ON V V V f 5 New Tork York Feb 22 Booker T Wash Washington W sh ington was the orator at ata a Washington memorial meeting held tonight t in the Academy Ac of Arts and Sciences a fI The speaker devoted his to tp the con oon consideration consideration V of the race ri a said in part V V Unlike the Indian the original Mex Mexican Me Melean lean ican or the Hawaiian the negro so far from dying out when In contact cont t with a stronger and different nt race raie ra e has con continued continued to increase In numbers cumbers to such an extent that whereas s the th race en entered entered bondage twenty Jn in number numb r there are now more than go O I Tant want to emphasize the truth that whether we ve are of ot northern or or southern birth whether we are black or white hite we must face frankly the hard stubborn fact that in bondage and In freedom the negro in spite SPI te of a all 11 predictions ion to the contrary has continued year by b bea year ea to increase in number until he now forms about of the J entire population and there Isk Ia no sign Ign that the same s the ratio riU of or o increase win will not at hold in the he future i t re than this despite of or all the changing un uncertain certain ceda n conditions c through which in the therace therace race has passed and Is passing you ou will find that every year Since sI e the black man came Into this country whether in bondage or in freedom he has made VO a steady gain gut in owning Downing I property habits of industry and Chris Chrin Christian han tian character V To and V nd directly with the affairs of my own race I believe V that both the teachings gs of history as aswell aswell aSwell well as the results of o every day ob observation o observation should convince us that we shall make our most enduring progress by laying the foundations carefully careful patiently and in the ownership of soil sell sellin oll ollin in the exercise of economy the saving of money monet mone the i securing of or the most complete education of hand and head and the cultivation of o Christian virtue V VI I cannot believe bellee that a country Into which enters almost every type of European from front the highest to the very lowest and gives them shelter protection and the highest encourage encouragement encouragement ment will refuse to accord the same to her black citizens Th negro R s g no noI I special privileges All that he asKs js Opportunity that the same law Jaw that is made ade by b the white man and applied to toone toone toone one race be applied with equal certainty certainty taint and exaction to the other The age for settling great questions either social or national with the shot phot V gun torch or by J has passed An appeal to such methods is unworthy of either race rac I believe the time has come and I t believe it Is a a perfectly practical thing when a group of rep representative representative representative white men both south and north should meet find and consider with the tle greatest calmness and business sa sagacity the whole subject s as viewed from every ever standpoint |