New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-01
ADVICE. TO COLORED MEN.
VIGOROUS APPEAL FROM A WORKING
MAN OF THEIR OWN RACE.
URGING THEM TO LEAVE THE CITIES AND THE
SOUTH, MAKE HOMES FOR THEMSELVES
IN THE WEST, AND GAIN INDEPEND.


SOUTH, MAKE HOMES FOR THEMSELVES
IN THE WEST, AND GAIN INDEPEND.
ENCE THROUGH INDUSTRY.
To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir; The colorcd man has had more than twenty
I'VE years Of political life. He plainly see that
politics without labor will avail him nothing Broad
eio'h and cigars never make man. lie can see
mat he enjoys more rights and privileges than
ne dld thirty years ago. Let me tell HIN great
ruth. He has got to leave the cities and villages
and go to the farm, not for others. but for himself
Let me speak through The Tribune. direct to tho
men Of my own race.
We must take up Government land in the Great
West, or buy cheap railroad land. We must become
PRODUCERS instead OF consumers We to-day.
hemember that We not permitted In many places
ol pubic business in the cities and villages OF the
United States; and that II Is much on account
Oh our present condition, as non-producers, as 1t is
OF our color. find that many tribes Of Indisns are
passing us in the race Of life A people that few
years ago were rowing savages now becoming
our supcriors. Why Because they beginning
10 TIL the soil that they roved over years ago.
ihoy have become producers and we. "a consumers
are supporting them. The Indian has more indie
pendence and happiness his Western farm than
inc best dressed coiorcd man that walks SiXthave
Tho Indian in his twodolsr suit of bucEskln is
really mora OF man than colorcd man
III nftydOllar suit on the street corner.
Why is that? Because the white man knows that the
Indian is making an endeavor to become indie
pendent man by his labor.
Now, remember that there thousands Of POSI-
tons that colored ought TO have in the Northern
States, on railways, especially, industry that en-
ploys million but the only part that a
colorcd man seems to play in that industry pays him
almost less than nothing. Thirteen dollars month
and beg the passengers for the balance. You would
rather do that, IT seems than to get out on the farm
and endeavor to make manly living for yourselves
and families. You being crowded out Of your old
places as BARRIERS and walters in the large cities and
villages by the genius Of the opposite race.
Now, colored men are all farmers from the cradle.
1t matters how well dressed they are to-day. every
one can plough straight furrow to manhood and indie
pendcnce in good fertile prairie soil. Remember this
land costs almost nothing. There are thousands OF
women among our race that are to-day dependent
upon the very lowest sources for their support all
ovor the county and It Is all on ac-
count of the young men OF tho colored race
and their disposition to walk the streets and
lounge about the saloons and on the corners OF the
streets OF the cities. Is It not time that some ono
should show up our worthless ways, that have de-
graded many Of the women and young girls OF
our racer Where are all our educated young men
and women that have cost their mothers and fathers
the last dollar they had earth to educate them?
Twill tell you. Some OF them at their old stand
behind the barber chair: others are singing and
dancing and acting, anything but manly, hait ciothed
and half fed. Why Is this! In the hrst place they
did get the proper instructions In their various
educational institutions. Ii the young mon had peeh
taught the great importance of becoming their own
independent propcrty-holders If they had been
taught the importance of colonization In those west
States and Territories, and OF becoming 1arners'
and OF building up villages and cities Oh ther own
they would have been guided right For the young
graduate would have found utility for his cultivated
talent in tutoring the rising generation OF his race
or keenjnp store supplying the wants Of his colony
then he wouh not have only benefited himself by MS
talent but he would have greatly benefited his fehow
race Surprising the heads OF these coiegos hau az
vsed the graduated young woman to seek cohpahiop
by taking the hand of a colorcd farmers son. ono "iio
could take by his labor from the soil OF hunnreo
an1 sxtv acrcs Of Western land at least three meals
day for her. and keep her from other peoples WASH
this would not that advice have sounded oetter IMAM
~ diserace the college and the race by the ADVICE 70
start out and sing Ministries and then "iho up N
common street walkers, and bootblacks ana Darpefs
and waItersl
All OF the MAGNIFICENT business blocks OF the great
cities OF the United states, the thousands OF psia'ai
mors,ops the thousands OF miles OF railway, the
wealth of all kinds In this great country, nave oil
como from the soil And who has wrought tnese iron
the soll The white man, except where inc "h'''
man has compelled the negro to do Tor hlm' ou' new
once the negro himself! l have been toid uhaC uio
colored man cannot stand the climate oil the NoF'u.
western country. / deny that assertion Inc coioreu
man can stand any climate of the United states thst
a white man can stand. They served their Ior1hef
masters I'm frost and ofmes in snow, without Snoo
IN their feet and now their former masters Tell mo
that coloed men cannot live in the Northwestern pos
ton of this country where thousands Oh the inoh WI"
used TO own them live and prosper ha'o oooh
Southern white men that were born and falscn III
southern States living in every State and Territory
Of The West and Northwest engaseo &"
every branch Of business, from the farmer 70 TIC
banker, and yet those men say that colored men cau
not live and prosper where they do' NeVcr lou al,
nan make YOU believe IT, For my part have lived
N all parts Of the United States and have iouna
hat the people in the West possessed better hea'n
and more energy than the people in most parts Oh ths
south. 4. o.. |
sJO 900 600 to get rid Of the negroes In the SCUM
ind YOU know that the cities OF the North nave h no
more Tor you except for political ess xou
iong something for and by yourselves. than nave
7ou tramp the in idleness Now for me Sane
literally begs as as a race to make an effort In NE.
70 become men you cannot begin III pe ma ~ |
han WIN M plough Sayr s shops and street cor
lcrs. and 90 TO tho evor-growing and fertile mess
day the slaughter OF Dnf beSn never utter
word Of complaint fearful les, you Hd shUga stands
customer from barber shops ana Doolnidon So, -. LII
For my part never wish to old situation that VIII
letter me from dcn0uncng crime -. sC
no South has never done my race Jusuoot,
lever has and never will. VIII do All tnat i
AN do to get the last colored man out OF me IN.
south: not 10 the cities OF the North, Dut to the
road acres OF the western country Congressman
Dates Alabama claims that the eoored man , Sno tbe
be DISTINGUISHED since he cannot be sold run wv
,nctlon block to he highest bidder and since he has
earned how to vote the Republican ticket ne IS nos
ii TO be a citizen of the United statcs ~ The
quicker you leave the better for yOl ~ ! sSh 81 "
Iou Is to keep out of the Northern cih1s u ~ VII
ears time, Government or railfosd ldhu, a. ond
hank yourself for the move you nave nsuu' our
viii pass the who have roOnea you pbo ~ wants
intellect and your wealth. Think OF man " nv Mai 10
O disfianchisc people for being litersc; whe, m NO
himself Is responsible in part for that rnvrr thinks
ion OF the majority OF our race! az ~ crime
Il the time when they adopted laws rlakhs thn.
cood person learn the sPhase. IN The south
tate and now because they are ,erd i,rsns of The
rners claim they are not no to DC c!nN.s n man