Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-11-30
---------'----------- -5--,.l5------s
HELP ONE ANOTHER.

See that your neighbor takes HE
Iowa STATE BYsTANDER. You should
be interested in having good paper to
represent you in Des Moines iand in
Iowa. Des Moines should furnish 1000
subscribers alone We can easily get
600 white subscribers. STATE BY
/ sTANDER.
Get the 600 my friend and let the
others go. Our motto is to take what
is in sight. Honesty is the best policy,
get all YOU can and hold fast to what
| you have.
The Negroes will rightly appreciate
| our papers some day. Stick to your
friends. patronize those who assist you
and the world will wag on.-Omaha
Enterprise.
We are working on the 600 constantly
and faithfully, and feel greatly en-
| couraged over the work actually ac-
complished The fact that the Enter
prise and other papers edited and owned
by colored men in the of Nebraska
have been the means of having colored
citizens represented in the legislative
halls of that state lead us to hope that
such incalculable newspaper service
will be appreciated all over theacoun-
| try. Iowa is behind Illinois, Nebraska
and Minnesota in respect to having
men men recognized by their merits instead al
I of by the color OF their skin. We have
material in this state that is not eX-
celled by our neighbors, but twill take
/ unity and constant work to make it
potent force in our midst. Strife and
petty jealousy work sad havoc with any
people Where we have clerks in stores
we should all make it our business to
patronize that place. When we have
men in business we should support
them. When we see advertisements in
colored mems newspapers we should
patronize them and show thatwe value
their efforts to gain such trade. Every
state in which the Afro-American has
gained ground we can point with pride
TO it's newspaper-provided it is run
upon the principle of right and justice,
and not for dough or personal ag-
grandizement. We want to say right
here that if our advertisers are patron
lied literally we can procure more adj
| vertisements and the money which The
Iowa STATE BYsTANDER receives will be
/ put into printing material and in time
will give employment to several OF our
Young ladies and our young men. We
feel thankful for the advice of the En-
terprise, which has fought a good fight
and won great victory in the state OF
Nebraska, and so ably assisted in plac-
ing a good man in the Legislature. In
Iowa there are very few business men
of color to assist newspaper by adver-
tising in it. That support is very i'm
portant, and must come from another
source. But all of them can assist by
subscribing and paying for colored
mans paper and it is their duty. Every
subs criber enhances the value of the
advertising columns
We have in our possession Frederick
! Douglass's Paper which was published
in the SOS, and which was subscribed
and paid for by the father OF
the editor of THE Iowa STATE BY
srANDER. They are curiosities to-day
and some of them will soon find their
way into the Aldrich collection OF the
state capital of Iowa. Talk will not
support the newspapers of the country
or keep the editor and his family (if he
has one) in the best of humor and able
to do yoeman service for the good OF
an oppressed race