The Afro-American., 1895-08-10
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some aOsf E1cc1fent Advice NV
EsEis0F Offt1le ssEgecOrder.'

i Slowly blik perceptibly, the fact
4 ls dawniiag npon the minds of oul
people that il srder to measure up
to tya other rae ia this country,
"a gsF become moving, acting
IN Iciphtors Ia a the various
<nneslof businessand 4jdde.
K We nlustmake business the foun
dation fsa building a successful
supersHtcture. The lawyers eli
hts vii be few, and those few
dardly able To pay decent fee;
tie phy4ieian's patients mnst eth
er promise To pay for medical SER
1 ..aered on become wards Of
the ffee hospitals; the pastors con-
gregation must support him and
the church poorly and keep the
minister and officers continually On
tie beg, unless We begin to make
0penlngs fol our race III the busl-
ness worla.
Some people say run steamboats,
and operate railroads. What on
earth are You going to do with
steamboats, and railroads, if you
have no means of securing enough
to pay the rolling expenses
n y~-at ia oct something to
/ "a Hore you attempt to put
pa WI TIE road II do the carry
ing There arc. not enough Of our
] people dping business i'll the var
fious sections To keep you busy and
pay sufficient toll to keep you alive
and certainly not, YOU can't expect
the other race, with its innumer-
able carrying facilities, to slight
its traficIand favor ours.
Make business friends.
Support each other II business.
Don't LEE feeling guide you il
such matters You don't 40 this
with tie White man. then, Why ex-
I pect tr sour own
.-a, s9urage tse race III business.
Remembering that We are like
Isheep. fone oflus just seem to
succeed along any particular line
we will find dozens crying along
th same line.
Che woods are full Of lawyers,
ftors and preachers and they are
n Bming everyday. From what can
! Aey expect support! we have no
successful Corporations tLac require
,ss of Y regularly employ |
1t7s S1s.,o o
who are able to PVT
80 b. under the staggering
sllrch and lift it out IF debt. we
~ millions Who can do tile la
slat oh. w precious few to fur
.ssivthing for the toiling mul-
fittge to do. Every day wages,
along tie lines which employ the
laborof our race become less and,
III many places, men, after working
3 whole week, are scarcely able to
meet the current meagre expenses
of their families.
All over the country, the White
man Is aware Of what means we
earn and what use we make OF it,.
Our young men and women come
from menial labor and oto school
fo learn and after they have learn
ed, the majority, if they would
live, must return to just what they
have come from.
If one on two energetic men
eoe along and suggest the bulld- ID,
np Of an enterprise, which will
Re employment to any aPPreci-
able number Of our people, there
will be hli1dredssef Negroes who
q viii standaloof andtry to stab it.
A colored man vii set up bust
ness III alocality and in short
while, if ihe is not oyereareful, he
will be done to death; when he
fails, white man, no matter ri
what nationalit tie more outland-
ish the better, wlll come and set uI
il tile very same spot and. nine
times out of ten, this white man
will make plenty of money out OF
our people. He will take that
same money and buy and build
houses for them to live in, and il
U i few years he is master Of all h(
surveys
Is there any way we Gan reacf
our pevp an this smomentous ques
toni
\Iawyers make 4 grand mis
Aal5eA Nhev al not make this qnes