The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.4, page 462, Sept. 1898, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers Prof. Washington spoke of the high morality that must prevail amongst ministers and teachers if they hoped to succeed in their work of uplifting the race. He said that it was much better for the colored people to correct and improve their ways within the race than to spend their time abusing another race that is now above it on account of superior education. The colored boys and girls should be taught useful occupations. The want of employment leads hundreds to immorality and early death. The girls should be taught housework, sewing, cooking and laundry work. The boys should learn to! be carpenters, blacksmiths, masons, etc. The young should not regard this instruction as first steps towards ''making servants'' of them. The wealthiest woman should be able to keep her own house and the colored man with a trade is very much more likely to own his home than one who grew up in idleness. Speaking of the high death rate of the colored race, as compared with the white in the same cities, Prof. Washington said the chief causes for this difference were bad whiskey, poor food and poor houses. In many of the latter the ventilation was altogether insufficient. He urged the leaders among the colored people to teach aIld preach cleanliness of body and in the home. He spoke of the alarming mortality of colored infants, less than one year old. The figures showed the ratio to be four to one against the colored race. This certainly must be due to a lack of care and attention, and the employment of unskilled and careless attendants. All these things should be studied by the ministers and teachers. and the colored neonle should be brought to a realizing sense of their importance. The speaker was very earnest and his impressive manner and plain statements certainly made his hearers think. After the lecture many of the prominent leaders remained to talk with Prof. Washington and here again they showed their appreciation of his efforts on behalf of the colored people of the South. AT OLD BETHEL Mrs. Booker T. Washington spoke to the colored women at Old Bethel M. E. Church yesterday afternoon. Her address was heard by a very large assemblage of women and was a plain, earnest talk upon the condition and prospects of the colored women of the South. In substance Mrs. Washington said: ''I want to say in the beginning that I do not come before you to 462