San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-22

PROSTATE before the altar OF KNOW
ledge e t. would have made SUCH "a;
But he merely touched the
bottom dropped the nickle in the
slot, as it were. We have done
the rest. Our children receive in
struction at our own craftmen
who paint them, mend
our buggies till the soil
and look after our industries gen.
orally. Intelligent and educated
ministers PROFOUND to us the true
gospel. Douglass, Langston, Small
and Smith go to foreign lands as
ambassadors, and Bruce writes his
name on orr treasury notes. Our
girls make music from the piano,
as well as the wash-bOard, make
their own dresses, and, together
with our sons, take high rank at
different institutions of learning.
They receive Christian training, go
| to our native land, civiliZe and
| Christianize our kinsmen. At one
of our leading medical colleges,
was recently graduated a young
| cOlored woman, who is now prac-
ticing medicine in Africa. AS one
eminent writer puts it, "The old
| African gentleman who used to
wander sadly around creation,
still longing for de old plantation"
is now in Washington, trying to
have his son, Apollo Nicodemus,
appointed foreign minister"
Standing, then, upon this emil
| hence, be it ever so slight,
but honestly won, after all,
we give thanks to an all
wise being for the prosperous
past and nerve ourselves to the
entering of the untried, the mys-
FERROUS, the hazardous, the I'M
known future. The colored man
then, is essentially the author of
his own salvation; his progress
and prosperity must be of his own
making; he will advance in Just
such proportion as he applies him
self-his destiny plainly rests in
his own hands. This is the con-
sensus of reliable and best opinion.
Is he doing any thing for himself,
and how is it best done? AS a
reply to the first question | need
only to ask you to look about you,
survey for awhile the evidence
presented to you of the Negroes pro-
gress, see him in the various ave-
nues of life, pioneering in some, it
is true, serving his nOvitiate in
other, but there just the same.
Comfortable homes dotted all over
the country show you whether he
is accommodating or not.
He is Cunder protest, perhaps.
weaving himself into the warp and
wool of our great commonwealth
| want to show you not what
white boy, a brown, red, or a
yellow boy has done, but what
black boy has done, I hold in my
hand a picture of steam engine,
built by some of the blacklist boys
in the School of Mechanic Art at
Nashville, Tennessee, at Central
Tennessee college. Here l hold in
my hand picture also of a teles-
cope fully mounted equatorially,
with circles and driving clock and
electric illumination. made by
these self same black boys. This
telescope is now used in the OBJ
servatory at Lawrence university
(white) Appleton, Wisconsin. Re-
/ plying to the second question the
negro is to do something for him
self, not so much by the amount
of fuss he makes, by fiery pulpit
and platform OratOry, caustic
| newspaper articles, or cultivation
of a beligerent spirit, as in the
leading of correct and profitable
lives with high sense of
honor, good morals keeping
the even tenor of his way
by such department that will at
tract not, repel popular esteem,
proving his manhood and worth.
The tendency Of this age is to re-
cognize merit and manhood where
ever found. Though l may refuse
to occupy the same social plane
with you, l cannot and will not
deny that you are gentleman
capable and trustworthy. We want
to tinker lightly with corrupt
political machines,s purn the paltry
dollar of the politician, and Guilt
vate backbone. We want to con-
slider that, as rule, the better
class of whites are with
us, appreciate our efforts for
advancement, and offer substan-
tial aid. The friends CD of the ne
gro can best help him by talking
less of deporting, emigrating