SCALE OF HUMANITY.
NEGRO NOt THE LOWEST. By Telegraph.— Association.— New York, October 20. Mr. Booker Washington, president of the Tuskegee Institute for the Training of Negroes, declares that the results of his European tour show that the negro race is by no means the furthest down in the scale. Mr. Booker Washington is probably the mo:t eloquent, negro puhlic speaker, in America. He once addressed an audience of 16,000 at Washington. On another occasion he travelled from Tuskegee to Atlanta in order to make a five minutes' speech. Mr. Washington, whose boyhood was spent on a slave plantation, has a great dislike to public banquets. "I never take part in one of these Jong dinners," he writes, in his autobiography, " that I do not wish that I could put myself back in the little cabin where I was a slave boy, and again go through the experience thereone that I shall never for-get—-of getting molasses to eat once a week I from the ' big house.' "
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14507, 22 October 1910, Page 7
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