| Show r I P r THE NEGROS FUTURE I A Clint with 3 T Washington About His Hia Pace Raco arid and ILs Hs Ha Advises Industrial Education for fortI forthe tI the o and nd Pro Porto Negroes of tim tho South al Union of the A Negro Pr nt Is ha tim the Colored Milt Man Naturally I Moral and Their Effects Upon Upton Crime Education I t Etc Ete Etc I 1 Copyrighted by Prank Frank 0 Car Carnen Carpen pen nen ter D C 0 Dee Dea Z 2 1699 I had n a long chat this with Irot hooker Booker T Washington of at see Is tolla today the leading man of oC time the All AS an orator he has taken the place that Frederick Doug Datil Douglass lass hold for so ninny years and at time tho same time lie he Is doing moro inure In n a practical way to the problems of the future of time tho negro than any man who has hns yet et re J Born Dorn n a slave raised In a log cabIn getting his first education at night school ISy toiling ii lie tha mines ot of West Virginia hundreds reds of miles from the to the sea soa In order that thal ho might enter the sChool at lie he Is now at attHe atthe tHe age nse of forty at the head hoad of on one of at the great education iii l InstItutions of bt country lie He has e established and built buill industrial all school at Tuske Tuskegee gee aee In which there url arc now more one thousand students coming front from States and Territories amid also tram from J Jamaica Cuba Cun Porto lorto Africa and l to teach In a shanty his InstItute Is noW buildings the Iho most ot of whIch have been heen IUt up b by the students themselves It Its Is valued at atoo oo and the school more than 2000 acres of land landIn landIn In the schools colored students student over are given II a practical Indus Industrial trial education The They and religious training but bul at athe atthe the he samoa time are oro taught such Hueh trades and tuB will make them self supporting The rhe Ill pay a part of their It Iii labor Last year the they made more than one million bricks than c hundred thou thousand thousand sand garments werf vere washed In time the college laundries l and seventy COWS were milked daily In the Ihl dairying alan sion The students are ure bring taught all sorts of oC trades trade such uch as farming masonry carpentering and carriage making there are ure do dC of at co cooking dairying anti drawing and painting shoemaking stock raising tailoring and tinning innIng amid ond In fact t all sorts ot of ratios which wilt make mako them The fhe school has done dono wonders to for thin tho race tn Alabama colleges have been established and In the future there thero will vili probably be simIlar Institutes throughout the tho South FARMS FOR PORTO PORTORICO RICO AND AD filE fUE PhILIPPINES My with Booker T began with the discussion of at time the Improvement or of time the natives ot of Porto lUre IUra and the PhilIppines I asked him whether In institutes like this would not do much to make these good American citizens lie replied I doubt whether an any other method l can which wilt will so soomi ac accomplish the he desired results There Thero Is only ono one solution of time the race and that thal Is to sho the people ho how the they cnn can sup oil themselves to edu educato cato their hands andl ns as wil as their heads to give gho mental and religious cul culture culture ture and nt at the tho kame arne time Industrial trainIng We must teach thorn first how to make n a living make mak them In independent dependent and show them that labor laborIs Is both manly and profitable I have you OU hud had an experience with the Cubans and Porto RicanS Washington I asked Yes we 0 have hae a number ot of them In our chooh The They do fairly well and I cannot see why h they should not be edu educated Into being good American citi citizens cItizens zens though such a training must necessarIly ls arlly lie he 1 a matter or of time We have ono one Porto Hlenn who was quite savage when hf he first caine to Tuskegee lie He carried n a knIfe with him and he hall had halla hada a way of becoming very er angry raging raSing about and flourishing his knIfe lie He attempted to vent ent his rage Ullon one ot of our boys bos whereupon the young oung American took the knife from him and gave h m a good thrashing From that time on the ho Porto changed his methods lie He learned to control I S S ASS A A A St aSS u www himself and l is OJO or of the quietest boys bos In time tho l TilE TI TILE 1 NEGRO How about yoUr y work In the South Mr Can you ou site et any material change In billie tho condition of time negro os as a r sult of at It There is 11 II a change In was ns the 10 lib Ye We can see Iee seethe the change In the tho character ot of the tho tip Ip for tor admission to th time school I 1 first many or of those thORO who sent their children wera anxious to liae them books and nud expressly mid Haiti that the they did not want anI to be taught to work They hill had the Ihl idea Idell that they should he be educated on only fur clime cine the Ill law or the minIstry Is nil The students now enter with the Iho Idea ot of learning to work and time bov O would lo lose o caste who reu refused ed to We have havo already about thousand studena and are now scattered all over the South how Hol about the tho negroes generally Are ro they thoy growing better botter J I think so said Mr Washington TIle The have learned that time road to advancement Is along alons the line IIno of indus industrial trial and success and not wholly along the tho lines JInes of polItIcal work workIng Ing They RO nea that their future do ponds upon themselves The are Ing to bettor their conditions and amid man manot many ot of them are doing so flO I 1 believe thus race will work itself out just justin In proPortion nR as time the maui man b by rca rea reason son ot of his skill and char actor con mu show himself the equal fual of the tho or can produce what whal the lie white man wants As s our people tic cumulate property you OU will find that the they will be re respected The negro who has hns to lend will till not want for friends and customers among hIs while The black mon mann that spends a year In freight charges can secure s accommodations In iii a railroad CPr or the company will on a Pullman II car for him It Itis II is the same with other timings things when oUr people have hae elevated along In Industrial lines anti educational lInes tile the will 11 have improved time the best Southern white people do not want to keep keel time the negro down ll It will ill hI be the same in all al fields continued Booker T Washington hn time black man b by tt reason ason of oC hl his knowledge of oC chemistry tr ot of the soil and Improved methods ot of agriculture can produce tort forty bushels of at earn corn on an acre or of land while his white brother produces only twenty bushels the will como come to time the black man to learn and the they will be rood friends An n In Instance Instance stance of this kind recently happened In Alabama not tar fur from rom mc Inc A black blackman man I know produced n a crop of bushels ot of sweet potatoes train a single acre of land This was waR twice as much ns an hay man in that community had lira iro and one or of the tue dozen ozel whIte men Inca who ho carne came tOI to see e how It was done WAS wan ready to 10 taM ort off hili hi hat to that black man manI I 1 dont think the people ot of the north quito the situation of oC the he color colored d man In the ho In such re rc The lis there are aro perfect Iy to do th business with the Th They will n A colored grocer j ba as nil as they cm a white grocer Thid who has the he hebest best store and keeps the best goods gets the tho trade It is IR the same with the col colored ored mechanic and With the colored businessman NO o RACES The differences I suppose are en entirely social Yes almost altogether so said Mr Washinton The two races are aro In Inthis inthis this respect apart aport Will they thoy continue so or do you OU think conditions the will ever er be such uch that the Iho races will wll Join Will the blacks be bc swallowed up In the whites whiles I 1 think the tho two races raes will continuo continue to be distinct as aR races was the tho reply They Thoy do not nol mix In an immoral man mannor nor mr so much IS as th they did during the tho In matters ot of days das or of slavery though mater business education and things that tend to Improve tIme the general character or of both races ther there Is more union nt at atthe the present time In the south than has ever eer existed I 8 ay this lag Ing th the fact that I am aware ot of the I many outrages which have hae been per against our people In some portions of the south during the last laRt lastor two or thre three years The negroes ar time Increasing rapidly I think the last census showed that the were increasing more rapIdlY In proportion to their heir number r than the tue whites whiles Of OC couse course I it is 18 to lo be considered that the I negro does not have nn any accession to his numbers b by reason or of Immigration while the thc white race does Sold Said I there not come such sucha I a number time when they would equal us In I have some doubt as to that The Tho I mortality ot of the blacks In the cites cities at atthe atthe the present time Is very err great although we 0 n a higher birth rate than time the Wo We are I 1 beleve believe equal equally In th the country districts As 8 the negro gets education the death rate decreases Do you 01 think the day ay will 1 corn come when rhen the lie black man wi will be the equal or of the white man In al all respects throughout the United 1 B That Is n a blE big question anti and time wl will have hao to answer It In Il a measure I 1 see e no nn reason however hoever why te the ne negro sro gro should not strive to be the equal or of the white hlo man In al all that 1 is best bestIn bestin In our American life c As soon as ho he I shows himself to possess the tho same qualities that the tho white man possesses 81 he wi will be given many man opportunities that are now denle denied him Do you OU thIng Mr that the black child Is naturally endowed I wih with intellectual faculties equal to the tho white chIld I do replied tio O negro ro I am speaking ot of cour course or of the aver average age of at both races lut professor do you OU not think ther there is 18 1 a limit to tim the PossibilItIes of the tho colored In the United States Do you ou think the he time might ever r come that nm any circumstance ml might ht ever eer arise hr which n a black man might bloome become Pr of the he United States I should hope so 80 was the rep reply but this II is another very big ques I ion ton TiE TIlE NE nO IS A MORL HElm Ho flow about the moral ot of the tho black Inn latin Is ho born bom wih 1 a conscience equal to that or of There Thero Is no doubt In my mind m as to that thal matter replied Booker T asb In ington ton The Tho color colored man Is ii naturally rl relIgIous lous Our consciences I aio some somewhat what I a Jatter matter ot of education and put our moral condition Ii ill lar largely iI inflUenced b bour by our surroundings What state of nio mo or practical Christianity coul could you OU expect where as many 1 as six eight or oven even ten rook cook cat alep P got t sick lck and die In on one rom room I it l is oten often charged that I a black man hl has rather loose Ideas of property rights as regards the white man But a look at former fonner conditions While we se were In slavery our People reasoned thus My body belongs to my master and taking mas ter chIckens chicken to feed eel by body I is not stealIng Inde Indeed one old colored colon colonI I u IMI maim who was wall discovered In such a theft by his master said Now mussa Its true rule ou got ot a afew few tew less chickens but bul 1188 massa dont you 01 se see Jot got a good deal more inure nig ger r Somo onto ot of our ro reason on that ho wealth ot of time Iha whiteR minnie the work ot of the blacks black anti there therefore foro this equitably belongs to thOl Of at course ure time tho beter better of our hll have e no luch such Ideas but you OU eln can leo see hoW among the Ignorant fuch such thoughts affect their ideas ot of mine and yours our at WOI D ABOUT LY CINO At this point t I nake Ir Washing Washington ton whether hll he thought this the negro hal imad justice In this the south uth lie He replied Not always but I con consider that lint mutters ar are growing betor better In his direction While ho he doo does not always get Ju justice ce In time the sOuth it Is to bl be brne borne In mind that In inmany many cases In the tho north lie ho does not got get justice especially Is this tro true in regard to securing employment Time Tho negro hH has a far nr beter better opportunity In Inthe inthe the south to earn a living than h ho has hasIn hasin In the north rho trades unIons Iro mire not there to bar him out of employment In the tho same degree that Is true of at the lie north hile theme are arf many things that are not yet et 11 us they ho bo It itis II is nn an encouraging sign to note that many of oC the most intelligent and southern white people are begin fling to take hold with n a view of In Irn proving IlA Its ne negros rs condition Mr Washington then went on to speak of which have been 10 so common during durin time the last few ew years BRil Said he Time The entire people of the south have hao felt folt keenly the injury Injun that hn has beep been done to It by reason ot of tl and I feel that hat tare there II is nO now nowa n a general effort being put forUm to blot This Is especially true truo In the or of Georgia which his has had mor more recently than nn any other State Governor Candler deserves 1 a great deal or of credit for tor hil his reent recent of In and In orts forts stopping hll Public expressions of condemnation Many Inn or of the lie bet best white people feel that th zo arc not only hurting us In the eel eyes of at time the world but In Iii our moral and material growth A short lma time ago I lloko plainly tl Muther southern white papers on thIs subject I 1 was surprised to note the frend frendly friend friendly ly In which the southern pres commented editorially Illon what I 1 had to la laI sits II I ha have been gathering some somo upon tile tie subject of Mr Washington continued Within ix he years almost a as lany many wore fre lynched In time Southern States ns as time tho number of soldiers who lost their lives 0 In the war ivar In Cuba Culm The Tho number Wit was nearl nearly nine hundred In 18 U were ere Last year Ear were ere killed In this wn way The PeoPle eol of the United States have hUo tho lie Ioa idea that lynching Is resorted to on only for crimes women and that the they are arc conOn confined d to negroes Of those lynched last year ar twentythree were whiteR and two tio were Indians and ani only ot of the whole were for lor crimes or of that nature of the lynch lags were vere for lor murler murder thirteen for being suspected of murder and six for tor theft heft During one last sprint thirteen negroes In ono one ot of the Southern States were accused ot of murder or house burn burnIng burnIng Ing and lynched Th The were killed without being allowed to go before a acourt court COUlt so o tha that their innocence or guilt could bo be tested Within the Past til sIx years eOr 1 a hal halt dozen colored wOlen women have hae been beon lynched Inched and I is now be beIng Ing resorted to In some eases b by black people eople lS as al as whites But I tam am glad to state that during the lat last few months we have hav had very er few tew ings amid here Is a stron strong public DubUc son sen groWing In the South against this lila and I 1 within a few years time tho aid or of tho best ne grou groos and time tha helt best white It wi wiil bo be blotted out What effect tO does 8 lynching hoo have upon crime I 1 d whether It matri ly 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