Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-08-27

/ words OF W1N0Om Co His n8ce-AA ahcS
Would be Prosperous They Must ne In.
dustrlous and Intelligent, Grasping the
/ Blessings of tho World and Developing
| Perfect Character.
| WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.-Irving Park
is camp-meeting resort situated be-
tween Washington and Baltimore.
The negroes have been holding forth
| there for some days past, during which
Fred Douglass paid the camp g visit and
delivered an address, in the course OF
which he said:
For fifty years or more / have earn
estly advocated the advancement of the
| colored race and urged what I have
thought were the best means OF pro-
noting their friendly relations toward
the white people. The best sentiment
| that l can utter is your sentiment
There is but one race and we are one
variety of that race. Temperance is
good, but whisky proves that we are
all of one race, for it has just the same
effect upon negro as it does upon the
white man. If you never drink you Will
never be drunk.
Camp-meetings are good things, for
they not only call attention to religious
matters that pertain to this world. but
also to the other things that pertain TO
it. We should grasp the blessings OF
the world and develop perfect charac-
ter. If we do not use this world right,
what guarantee is there that we will
use the other one right? It is important
to know how to make the best OF both
worlds. If you make the best OF this
world you will be ready for the next
There are many motives for good con-
duct. Earth, air and sea all preach to
us of what we should do and know.
The earth has no prejudice. The fields
will grow just as good a crop for col
ored man who will work as for anyone
else. The sun shines for all and the
rain descends on all. We should add to
our faith virtue and to virtue knowl-
edge.
Self-indulgence is what they blame
us for, and they say that we can not
control our appetites or govern our
selves. There is some apology for that,
for there was time when we could not
indulge ourselves. But if we make
good progress we must be industrious
and intelligent One hundred dollars
is 100 DAYS ahead. One of the curses Of
our race is poverty. Money is not ex-
actly the root of all evil We must ac-
quire property. and we must leave
something Every dollar laid up is one
day ahead. Baltimore is beautiful
city, but / remember when the highest
house on Fells Point was three stories
high. Now in some parts of Baltimore
they are running them up to ten stories
high.
Everything has some way of acquir-
ing property. Why, that tree out there
is putting out its roots to get the fer
tility of the soil and use it 1t stretches
its limbs to catch the sunlight on it's
foliage and thus develops and grows.
Even the pig will teach lesson. I
have seen boys with elbows out and
hat crowns in running after brass
band while pig hunted along the
street and found a cabbage Leaf. The
pig got more than the boys did. The
birds teach lesson. They make
nest and get married We should also
make nests and get married, and stay
married. We should learn how to think.
If there is no thought there is no
invention. If there is no inven-
ton there will be no progress. You
can't make an empty bag stand
when it contains nothing but wind.
Wind must give place to steam. know
a minister who used to borrow $40 every
Saturday night and pay it back Mon
day morning. When asked why he did
that he replied: 81 can preach better
when have $40 in my pocket
A boy in New York once wanted to
go over to Brooklyn on the ferry-boat
He asked gentleman please to give
him few cents Haven't you any
money!" asked the gentleman. mo,
sir" said the boy, mot red cent"
well, l won't give you any money"
was the reply, ''for if you haven't any
you might as we'll stay here as go over
there One without money is of small
account anywhere. Poverty may excite
pity at first, but when it is established
poverty can not win respect
The best way to keep man out of
the mud is to have his boots BACKED. I
once visited England. France. Italy and
Egypt, and 1 found that whatever a
mans complexion is the same condi-
tions of sobriety, industry, fidelity and
knowledge that will improve one people
will improve another. We are vet on
trial. Some say that we have not the
capability of self-government, but the
progress of the negro must not be
measured by the progress of the Anglo
Saxons. We must be measured not from
the heights, but from the depths. Two
hundred and forty years of absolute
bondage and q long life of barbarism
behind that. There is where we came
from. Then, too. when we were
emancipated we were set free under
the most unfavorable circumstances.
We were not emancipated by will Of
our owners, or either by a settled sem
timent in the country. We were eman-
cipated by military means for punitive
to punish us but to punish
somebody else. When the Israelites
were emancipated they were told to
borrow jewelry from their masters.
and they have been in the jewelry bus
mess ever since. When the Russian
slaves were emancipated they were
given three acres of land each and
tools to work with, but we were turned
loose without hoe or a Ratchet. We
were told that as the Yankees had freed
us the Yankees might feed us.
Senator Butler talks about sending
us away but they need us right here to
do the rough work that tender, taper
ing fingers can not do Fifty-three
years ago Massachusetts, was as clearly
as Maryland, and when we
went from one place to another we had
to go In the Jim Crow" car At church