The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-13
PUT MONEY IN THY PURSE.

Talk as we may, think as we please, of
one thing we may be certain-that very
little headway can be made in this cold,
stern, rigid world of ours without money
or its value This is true of individuals,
true of communities, true of nations. A
man may have learning, he may have
brains, he may have all the better quail
ties of head and heart, yet they will avail
him little in life's comfortable progress if
he have not substantial means, or cannot
turn these personal advantages to the ac-
QUESTION of individual means. So also of
communities or nations. In either case,
possessed of all these qualifications, which
are quite essential of themselves, still they
become but mere gangs of learned beggars,
brainful spectators, softs, dreamy philoso-
pliers, to be taken advantage of by any
monied power within whose grasp theymay
chance to come. They are the mere cogs,
wheels, and spindles, or serve to make up
the machinery by which the monied power
works and increases its own strength and
there is no escape from this state except by
the possession of the essence of that power
money.
Andwhat is true in this general statement
is eminently true in reference to the Anglo
African as class OF as an individual. His
greatest disability to-dayis a want of and
a right use of money. AS for learning, the
mere learning of the books, he has as much
as the common run of his Anglo-American
fellows, and enough for all practical busi-
ness purposes-enough, at least, for his
present business necessities. His only diff
fculty in this respect is that he has no
available business learning. AS for tai
ent, no one at this day will deny him that,
however misdirected it often is T; and as for
his goodness of heart, why that is conceded
Oh all sides. He has, too industry. The
Anglo-African is not an idle being. He
may be improvident, but not idle.
What, then, lacketh he There is but
one answer to this question, and that is, he
laclzeth money. In this is comprehended
all that we need in connection with what
we already possess, to make us even with
our Anglo-American brethren. To that,
then. to the various means and devices by
which we can get and hold money, and
make it contribute to our own personal ad-
vantage, and tell upon the community and
the nation, let us from this day forth de-
vote ourselves, hand, and mind, and
strength.
Let us not be misunderstood Wewould
not have the Anglo-African bate one title
of his efforts in learning, in art or science,
or of his progress in any of the higher
qualities of the heart; but we would have
him, in addition, get more of the power and
strength which underle the polity Of the
community and the nstion-MONEY. Does
any body believe that, in addition to what
he already possesses, the Anglo-African
could not gracefully open every car door,
place his chair to every hotel table at the
first sound of the gong, have his choice
birth in every steamboat on our waters, or
obtain any other common right now with
held him, in less than six months, with the
possession of right application of money
If there be any individual so green as to
entertain such belief, he puts very false
estimate upon, and does great injustice 10
our money-loving, money-seeking, money
getting, money-worshipping Anglo-Ameri
can brethren, who now have and hold boil
the money and the power of the land.
We say again to the Anglo-African
"Put money in thy purse" Begin witt
small beginnings. The world was no
made in day, nor can fortune. A few
pennies at first; then dollars, and these
will soon roll up to hundreds, and these il
time TO thousands Let us begin with oul
children. Learn them that there are sucl
institutions as savings banks-even ten
cent saraa IS banks-and permit no one o
them to arrive at the age of twelve years
without book and deposit in some one
of them, and thus learn them to estimate
the value of every cent that may chance
to fall honestly in their possession