Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-04-05

systematic education in our schools and COL
leges; and hence, something should be done
to educate them in the industrial arts on a
larger scale. How can it be done2 / clam
that much Of the good work can be accom-
plished by the business men OF America, Let
the enterprising, large-hesrted, Christian men
Of our country, who have for years con-
tributed so literally or the moral, intellectual
and religious elevation of the cOlored race,
take our young men into their employ, and
thus give them the opportunity to become
good business men. The experience Of many
proves most conclusively that such a move
ment, if general, will have two-'old effect
First. it will aid the colored race
by giving many of their num-
Der an industrial education; and second, it
will help. to increase the trade or business Of
such as hire colored labOrers. So the simple
reason that the race will most generally pat
rouize and encourage such as manifest a
willingness to help the negro
Subjoined, are a few letters from some of
our own city business men that speak for
themselves:
feel that in employing colored help,
have not only had eminent satisfaction with my
help, but fiud that my trade is much increas-
ed thereby. M. DoxNKLL.
We have employed large number of color
ed men in our business for the past twenty
years. As rule they have been Industrious
and honest. Some of them having been with
US four or five years, and We have had satisfac-
ton in the employment OF colored labor
We also employed a colored girl who was
with US several years and was very efficient,
a good cook, very neat and strictly honest.
@. c. TAYLOR.
have found. in ny experience with color
ed employees, that they have been faithful,
and their services satisfactory; and, moreover,
have . good trade among the colored people
which is duly appreciated.
Nv. PLA1rENBURG.
We have in the past fifteen or twenty years
employed . large number OF colored men
finding them as a rule to be good workers
and honest. Some of them working for US
from four to six years. B. J. HOLLOWAY.
We take pleasure in saying that we have
several colored men in our employ. and that
they give us satisfaction. They are honest
| and industrious and in every way good
citizens. ]. d. ULRICK BRo.
For Five years have had in my family a
colored gentleman Of honest and industrious
| habits. also have q colored boy in my
grocery. Both give satisfaction. Moreover,
l have good patronage from the colored peo-
pie generally. WV. Dixon.
Many other business firms write me that
they are not only well pleased with their col
/ Ill rls h,,e xh.~ L. E-d 4.
much larger number Of colorsd people trading
with them than do those firms that have no
colored help.
Now, in what have said o. this subject, l
do not wish to be understood as saying that
that the colored man should be engaged Is q
laborer because be is colored; nor that the
white mau should be turned out to give his
swarthy brother q chance, Not 50. Such q
desire in any man is base and mean. be-
lieve most emphatically in the Survival OF
the fttest." The best and most skillful work
man should always be preferred. to the
black or white. But every close
observer knows that there are those
in this country, who often refuses the services
of good mechanics solely on account IF their
color. Nothing else prevents our young
ladies rom being engaged as cashiers and
clerks in our millinery and dry-goods estab-
lishments. Morally, they sre well developed,
and not few OF them have carried away the
honors in their several classes at school.
have merely broached this sll-important
subject in a general way. l have touched
only upon what regard q theme of grea,
moment to the American people at large. An
uneducated. unskilled, and idle race OF beings
is necessary burden 10 any community
As nation our progress is seriously retarded
so long as the masses are kept in ignorance,
The world may exsect to find among my race
as among every race, sIbstrsctum of the
idle. the vulgar, and the vicious; bu,
shall the better and more refined
class be ignored ard kept forever
in the back ground on their ACCOUNT Shall
these young and sprightly boys, who are
now playing about my window, and who are
perfectly ignorant of the amount of hardship
their parents experienced while in bondage
shall they, born in q Christian land, and
reared under Christian influences, be ignored
and forsaken because God, in His wisdom,
saw fit to give them Q dark hIe2 Surely the
intelligence Of the age will not tolerate such
An outrage. Yours for Humanity.
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