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Roosevelt To The Negro. The President Admonishes' the Negroes to Behave Themselves and Have Confidence in the White People of the South?His Spee?h at Booker Wash ington's School. Tuskegoe, Ala t Oct 24.?The President arrived at 8:30. The city was beautifully decorated The pi a' lorm from which the President spoke to the people ol the city was tnade Irom $30,000 worth o! cotton in the original bales. Escorted by a company of State militia the Piesident was driven to the Alabama Confer ence Female College, which re presen'vd a typical Southern scene. Cottou had been trans planted in lonsr rows and two old Southern negroes with cotton pickers' sacks on their shoulders, were engaged in picking the staple from the plants. The President was greeted at the col lege grounds by students and public school children. The President's address was short, and at its conclusion he lett for 1 1 i uoncg,<-c xi ui in<11 ituu i iiuusi rial School. AT TUSK EG EE INSTITUTE. Tuskegee, Ala., Oct. 24 ? Prsident Roosevelt reached the grounds of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute at 8 30 o'clock this morning, and alter a brief stop in the town ol Tuskegee, where lie was received b\ the Muvrtr ntlior iticl it? iriiicli. ed citizens of Alabam-n, lie spoke I warmly and felicitously Irom ? plntlortn in the grounds of the I Girls' College located here. The! President's train was then car-1 ried directly into the grounds of the institute, ov-r its private track which connects with the main line. From 12 o'clock las! night until morning great crowds ol country people, white and black, have been coming Irom all see tions ot the surrounding territory] to Tuskegee. The President was received by Principal Booker T. Washing'O" and members of the institute j board ot trustees and taenltv I He then entered a finely built 1 carriage, made by students of the, school, drawn by horses raised1 at the school, and driven by a student in the school's uitorm Four other earriases, alsoj made by the s.udents, in which! members of the Presidential party were seated, followed. The party at once proceeded to an j elaborately decorated reviewing! stand, erected in iront of the! office building, surmounted by j the President's flag. The President spoke in part as! follows: "To the white population a* well as to the black, it is of the utmost importance that the negro ijc e iiuuu r^tru iu in UK o nimHeji a citizen of the highest type or usefulness. Ii is to the interest I of the white people that this! policy he conscientiously pursu-j td, nod to the interest of th?colored people that they clearly realize that they have opportunities for economic development here in the South not now offer ; >. / I ed elsewhere. Within the la<t o twenty years the industri I n operations of the South have in c creased so tremendously that i there is a scarcity of labor aim s f< everywhere; so tliatit is the part t of wisdom lor all who wish the t prosperity of the South to help s the negro to become in the high v est deg ee useiul to himself, and o therelore to the community in a which he lives. The South has t always depended, and now de- e pends, chiefly upon her native t population for her work. There- ' hire in view of the scarcity not b only of common labor, but o! i skilled labor, it becomes doubly ? important to train every avail ! able man to be of the utmost use, by developing his inteili ^ gence, his skill and liis capacity t for conscienioous effort. Hence t the work of the Tuskegee Nor 11 ma) and Industrial Institute is a 1 matter of tlie highest practical M importaoce to both the white d man and the black man, and well c worth the support of both races i alike iu the South and in the v North. Your fitteen hundred ' students are not only being edu ' eated in head and heart, but also ' trained to industrial efficiency, o for from the beginning Tusk? a gee has placed especial emphasis a upon the training of men and a women in agriculture, mechanics ti and household duties. Training " in these three fundamental direr- a tions does not embrace all that ? the negro or any other race needs t< but it does cover in a very large h degree the Held in which the I negro can at present do most for p himself and he most helpful to s his white neighbors. Even 1 1 black man who leaves this insti | ? tute heller aide to do mechanic il| WAN I1MII? | | The Tradintr Pt b - We liave tlie ftig? Cheapest Stock of 1 ever had. We bouj cotton was cheap higher prices, an such being the cas more goods than us Our stock of dress / S NEW AND I We pride ourselve medium priced lin ING in the town. I well assorted and \ r>KiNrx<^' FIIR And at prices that tion?quality cousl When you think of srio Think of us. We carry them styl es and quality. We hau Shoe for men, and Kippendorl pair guaranteed. Give us a call; we welcoi or not. Yours, with Honest Good; Fundei / r r industrial work adds by so nuch to the wealth ot the whole ommunity and benefits all peo le in the community. The proSHi-ioual and mercantile avenues o success are overcrowded; tor he present the best chance of uccess awaits the intelligent worker at some mechanical trade >r on n farm; for this man will ilmosf certainly achieve indus rial independence. I am pleas<!, but not in the least surprised o learn that many amount the nen and women trained at Tub :egee find immediate employnent as leaders and workers irnong their own people, and hat their services are eagerly ought by white people for various kinds of industrial work, the .lie demand being much greater han the supply. Viewed Irom iny angle ignorance is the cost lest crop that can be raised in ny part ol this union. Every lollar put into the education ol ither white man or black man 11 head, in hand and in heart, ields rich div'dends to the enire community. Merely from he economic standpoint it is ot he utmost consequence to all ur citizens t hat institutions such s this at Tuskegee should be a uccess. Hut (here are other nd even higher reasons that en me 11 u> our support.. in the iterest ol humanity, of justice, ml of self protection, every rhite man in America, no mater where lie lives, should trv to elp the negro to help himself, f is in the interest, and for the rotection ot the white man to ee that the negro is educated t is not only the duty of the Continued on lJ.*ge Seven. 4 " TJEJD j iblic to Know jest, Best and Goods we have jht goods when i, anticipating d, of course, ie, we bought iual. GOODS COMPLETE. ;s on the best e of CLOTHWe carry a up to date line NISHINGS. defy competidered. 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