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ize
LET TH E CONSTITUTION ALONE. Sf 2SwS^
friend
the adoption of nation-wide prohibii- oDnreZon
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se
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for the colored race
uiuvui ThaJt01101 Hampton and Tuskegee have
don
states '^K^ifa 2S?,SS
or dry territory bujfcis general. It tion as to the harm they have also
seems to us that the passage of the done
bill detriment of "the freedom
tor colored men. Tus
ui we Hampton in Virginia empha-
humilit
kegee in Alabama emphasizes non
01 me resistance and deep respect
southern traditions.." Such men as
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et
wan many others have built
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a
and do maintain Tuskegee because
they hope through it to uplift the
colored race and in a measure solve
Rouble with
this policy^ is its one-sidedness. 'Theseemehl
Patient while the whit
tconstantly
rac h,fa
up
^i
is asking a little too much of his party. SeT 2 iSZ^S^SSi
In a speech at a dinner recently given the southern white
maen i"friend"
his
and this whit
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"besti
his
ri ^hip by
oppression, violence and death. Be
sides these^ evils both Hampton and
Tuskegee stand for the kind of edu
cation the south is half wa'y inclined
to tolerateindustrial training,
teaching the nigger how to be a
good servant." From Tuskegee a sen
timent of this kind goes out over the
country. The head of Tuskegee must
stand for this sentiment or fight like
a man and quit or acquiesce like "a
good nigger*" and be allowed to re
main. No one can sit and hear a
lecture from Hampton's teachers with
out being impressed with the fact that
all of the effort of that institution is
to make the colored people patiently
receive whatever the whites or the
sduth may give them They are fos
tering a sentiment of inferiority of
the black man to the white man, urg
ing the colored youth to accept this
as a fact and prepare to make useful
his life under such conditions. THIS
IS WRONG! Within Hampton itself
this inferiority of the colored to the
white is emphasized. We are reliably
informed that even a little advance
agent, white of course, secured for
Major Moton, after he was chosen
head of Tuskegee, a very humble stop
ping place in Syracuse, N Y., but he
himself stopped at the "Onandaga,"
the most expensive and exclusive
hotel in that city. 