Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-05-29
CAPITAL, HOW SHALL WE GET IT9

In this age of Money Kings, Rail
way Magnates and Merchant Prin-
ces, it is impossible but thatan in
digent people should realize the
want of an increased capital. It is a
well-established maxim that "The
poor must suffer oppression and os-
tracism.n It must be conceded that
a crude people, without practical
business training, must move slowly
in the midst of great people well
up in all the methods and crafts of q
superb civilization; and to be can
did, it may be better in the one sense
that we are not in possession of
greater capital without the required
business training to insure success.
Yet we are compelled, if we are to
survive Saxon civilization, to acquire
both, since our influence will neither
be known or recognized until we are
known in the money market, the
business channel and upon the COM
mercial highway as well as in the ed
vocational arena, The first great
) barrier is, the lack of capital. The
second is, the lack of careful bust
ness training. It will be a laborious
task to acquire the named require
ments, under existing circumstances.
The Saxon is on the ground fully
equipped and ready to give any one,
no matter what his nationality be, a
warm reception, who attempts to ell
bow his way into the field of opera
ton. | do not wish to discourage
any one by saying cit will be a labo-
rious task" but rather to nerve the
arm which must strike the decisive
blow. There are but few colored
men who have practical knowledge
of business, or understand handling
large sums of money to advantage,
or are conversant with the workings
of the great financial system Of the
country. Before we are power in
this country, we must have expert
mental knowledge of mercantile
transactions, commercial operations,
and know how to manipulate the fl
nancial affairs of great corporations,
none of which we can obtain, in de-
tail, without opportunity; and the
only way to opportunity is to make
it. Saxon doubt Of our ability will
bar us for long time of their eXpe-
rience and companionship in bust
ness. To enter the business arena as
competitors seems almost suicidal.
Yet we must enter. There is no
vacillating. The farm, the shop, the
store, must all be occupied. The re-
cent labor troubles all over the land
point with significance to the chat
ing which labor begins to feel and
the enormous capital being piled NJ
in the Golfers Of few individuals
and corporations The same spirit
of oppression which characterizes
monied corporations of the old world
seems to be stealing perceptibly up
on ours, and the poor of our land be
Gin to see in the concentration o.
wealth an ominous foreboding Of the
degradation and money soon to be-
transplanted from those countries il
this rs their heritage. That capita
will and must exist is equally as ne
cessary as that labor shall exist
but its transcendent power must b'
circumscribed by just and wise legis
lative enactment, and labor must b.
directed in wisdom to the great oh
iective point-peacable selfprotec
ton. 1t must see that no indigen
class can escape the calamities tina
are adjunct to waste and improvi
dence, and no people need to be i'm
pressed by this great truth NOR
than we do. We must learn the Sc
cret Of copartnership and natal pre-
ference The German, the lrishmar
and all nationaities understan
these, and without these concom