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IN THE INTEREST 
OF HAMPTON. 
Meeting at the Residence of T. J. 
Coolidge, Jr. Tuesday, at 
Which President Taft 
Presided. 
A meeting was held Tuesday 
afternoon at the residence of Mr. 
and Mrs. T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr., 
Manchester, in the interest of 
Hampton, the well known institu- 
tion of the south. President Taft 
presided at the meeting and about a 
hundred of the North Shore cot- 
tagers were in attendance. Miss 
Harriot Curtis, who was the leading 
member of the committee arranging 
for this meeting, said yesterday that 
she thought pledges amounting to 
between two and three thousand 
dollars would be received. 
President Taft took occasion to 
declare his opinion that ‘‘the Negro 
ought to come, and is coming, more 
and more under the guardianship of 
the South.’’ He said he did not 
seek to curb or eriticize ‘‘ Northern 
generosity’’ toward the Negro and 
Negro education, but added ‘‘those 
of us who study the question know 
that the hope of the Negro is in his 
‘white neighbor in the South.”’ 
The President’s speech was made 
in introducing Governor Mann _ of 
Virginia, who was present as the 
representative of the Commonwealth 
under whose law the Hampton In- 
stitute has prospered and done that 
good work which the President 
viewed as pointing the way, per- 
haps, to the solution of the Negro 
problem. 
Among other things Mr. Taft 
said: ‘‘Ilampton Institute, as you 
know, or ought to know, is the first 
large successful vocational school 
that was ever organized in this 
country. It is an interesting fact 
‘that the industrial education of this 
country began and grew out of a 
problem which was presented to 
teneral Armstrong in his attempt to 
educate and put on a living basis 
a great number of Negroes who had 
collected in Virginia and were de- 
pendent upon him and those who 
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would work for their well-being. 
He concluded that the only thing 
that he could do was to teach them 
how to be useful in their communi- 
ties, how to work and work to a 
purpose, and he established, with 
great effort and persistence, this 
school at Hampton. 
‘‘As President Eliot said, at 
Hampton Institute was established 
the first successful industrial school 
in this country. Now at its head is 
Dr. Frissell, who succeeded General 
Armstrong, and he has to go about 
the country begging enough money 
to support that institution. I al- 
ways come in with a living protest 
—a protest of indignation—that an 
institution so useful as that is 
throughout the country, forming, as 
it does, the basis of our industrial 
schools, and suggesting a remedy 
and method of meeting the Negro 
problem, should still be on a basis 
necessitating the organization of 
such meetings as this and the beg- 
ging by such men as you see before 
you for money enough to run it from 
year to year. 
‘“We have lots of millionaires in 
this country, and why cannot the 
contributions be sufficiently large to 
put such an institution as Hampton 
on a basis that shall be self-support- 
ing? Hampton graduated Booker 
Washington, and, as somebody has 
said, if it had not done anything 
else that alone would entitle it to 
the gratitude of the country. Book- 
er Washington established Tuske- 
gee, and from Tuskegee have sprung 
many schools of a similar character 
throughout the South. Now Colonel 
Chureh is here in order to plan for 
the spread of education among the 
Negro children in the South of a 
character that is commending itself 
to all the Southern States. 
‘Northern generosity and dona- 
tion with reference to Southern edu- 
cation and the education of the Ne- 
gro, have, of course, these fruits, and 
T don’t want in any way to diminish. 
the desire of those who wish to 
give. But those of us who study 
the question at all know that 
the hope of the Negro is in his white 
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neighbor in the South. Our interest 
grew out of the war—grew out, 
perhaps, not of the real prejudices, 
but of the deep feeling engendered 
by that contest, with our interest 
naturally for the Negro. The Ne- 
gro is a citizen of the South, a very 
important part of the industrial 
make-up of the South, and the Ne- 
gro therefore ought to come and is 
coming more and more under the 
guardianship of the South.’’ 
Governor Mann followed Presi- 
dent Taft. He was very proud of 
his ancestry and of his state. He 
is the first governor of Virginia that 
ever visited Massachusetts, and he 
was glad to do so under the condi- 
tions in which he did so at this time, 
with the President of our great 
country in attendance and presiding. 
He lamented the fact that this well 
known southern institution is com- 
pelled to look to the North for sup- 
port, but hoped this condition would 
not last many years longer. 
Col. John W. Church of Kentucky, 
who is associated with Dr. Frizzell 
at Hampton, spoke of the work of 
the institution and of the plans for 
the future. 
Major Henry Lee Higginson was 
the last called upon by Persident 
Taft. He struck right into the heart 
of his speech immediately and told 
the gathering he wanted their 
money,—or pledges. 
A meeting similar to this one was 
held last year at the residence of 
Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Bradley, 
Pride’s Crossing. 
Through the efforts of Director- 
General Collier and the Southern 
Commercial Congress to promote 
westward travel via the southern 
route, the whole South has become 
greatly interested in San Diego’s 
plans. A big convention of southern 
commercial bodies will be held soon 
in Memphis, to take up this matter 
and adopt comprehensive plans for 
directing travel to San Diego 
through the new South, which is 
teeming with opportunities that it 
wants to show to. strangers and 
homeseekers. 
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