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126 THE CRISIS

"At Tuskegee he merely taught the Negro to help himself, to be more valuable as an artisan, a servant, a laborer. To fit him for this he readily obtained funds from southern white men. That he told the less sincere sources of income in the North that he was making doctors and lawyers and great intellects in Tuskegee was thoroughly understood in the South and not criticized. Washington was practical; he knew that to reach the pocketbooks of people who were not intimately acquainted with the Negro and his problems and his tremendous needs he must appeal to their imaginations. So he did. This was misunderstood in the South for only a little while. Investigation of what was going on at Tuskegee ironed out all misapprehension." - Macon (Ga.) Telegraph.

"But there is a second kind of limitation from which the three groups of the disadvantaged suffer, the limitations of an inner kind, resulting from a spirit that is less than free. To the breaking of the bonds that lay about the spirits of his people rather than those that tied their feet, Booker T. Washington gave his life. Themselves he would have break the bonds of sloth, of fear, of ignorance, of appetite.

"If he seemed to underemphasize the difficulties growing out of external political and social restriction, it was rather due to his increasing cry that the kingdom of power and wealth and dignity can rest finally only on spiritual achievement, self-control, foresight, thrift, the practice of the common virtues. No breaking of the outer bond can alone free the spiritual slave." - A Kentucky White Woman in The Survey.

"The North has been misrepresented by a small class of fanatical and impracticable doctrinaires. Its supposed historic attitude toward the Negro race is a lie-not a conscious lie reduced to the terms of an equation, but a lie nevertheless. This Booker Washington had the wit to perceive and he turned it handsomely to the account of his people in the South. Wealthy northerners saw, or thought they saw, the expediency of localizing the Negro problem. Washington was a handy and a willing instrument to carry out their plans. We are not saying that either they or he was wrong, that only the future can tell, but the  course taken was the natural one, the line of least resistance. It may be best for all concerned that the process go on." - Columbia (S.C.) State.

"He was a great man. Not great in a comparative sense or in that narrow judgement which merely records him as one who achieved well considering the circumstances that he was a Negro, but regardless of all limitations. His career must stand as an ample answer to the theory that the Negro is not capable of high intellectual and spiritual development, because he blazed his own way to usefulness and fame....

"The southern white people are ultimately to have as their neighbors many millions of black people ignorant, immoral, criminal, inefficient, filthy, diseased and hopeless or they are going to have as their neighbors a Negro race that is intelligent, virtuous, efficient, honest, patriotic, friendly, Intelligent men and women know that the South needs the latter. Washington strove for the better choice and he has blazed the way that the leaders of his race will surely follow with patience, earnestness and determination." - Houston (Tex.) Post.

"He worked out a set of ideals for his people, and to a remarkable extent made them follow those ideals.

"He gave them what they needed. he told them the truth about themselves, even while he recognized their higher aspirations. He kept them from the specious lure the 'white man's culture' and the petty and irritating demand for 'social equity.' He bade them develop their own capabilities. His theory was that the Negro should make himself an imitation white man. And in that doctrine, and its successful preaching, lay another triumph of democracy." - Tulsa (Okla.) Democrat. 

"During the period of his leadership in his efforts to create a place in the world for his people, the race has made wonderful strides. The South, no less than any other part of the nation recognizes and appreciates this. The thou-