Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-01-12
MARIASNA FLA. Dec 8 1900.
To All the Country and to Every Ne
gro Especially;

To All the Country and to Every Me-
gro Especially;
We wish to call your attention to the
fact hat your hsnces 70 become 0
race and q great capitalist. The
CLEANERS TO do so o detail, fret to unite
and all the necessary preparations to
firm iron combination OF rsce unity
will then attach itself thereto which is
enterprises OF q fiasaeial nature OF
avery class of thu kind that 10 estsh.
lished in q commercial world and IL
neiI & operated to-day by the Anglo.
Saxon: To become great capitalists
after doing the thing named above is
Co organize such institutions Is VT
have reference TO in writing this arti-
Gle.
The Florida Ocean Investment Com.
pany which is Irw running and has
neen successfully running for several
years: setting out the basis upon which
this corporations life has been kept.
In the first place it having at the heso
OF il one of the most allie financiers
and the best business manager not on
ly amNrg the Negroes but in all the
south among men. In addition to this
feet il attaches our business rights.
First, we sell real estate, we make
loans on real es'ste, we act as renting
agents for real estate. We CONTRACT
for erecting strucl ures both large and
small and we NJ Ike large grading con-
uscts. We bui d railroads. We also
set for orphans ard for widows and
| make bond to csre ully look after their
business and hold deposits for any or
ell people as any other bank.
Now, II any person reading this srti
Gle would like to tDtrust ne to do for
them either one r ali the given rights
named above, We would be pleased
to have you cell or write US.
Second, we also have several certih
Gates stocks, Lopds that we issue: fret
seriee instslment stock upon which
sou can pay one dollar or fifty cents
! per month for 81 month";. Then
you can withdraw one hundred or fifty
dollars. just see the great help this
stock is to every poor man and woman
whose wages are too small TO lay eside
dollar for the rainy days.
ANY time Of, er your certlficste Is six
months old, zoe can borrow 1879 uf the
amount you have paid in or If you
you have got vacant lot, you can bJr
row money to build house and in
this way you can get house without
q great strain. Poor men and women
| DONE let this opportunity pass you for
saNbO NNb y oAt hAO uAu ukC Is ~.
Ihud. what sbrut our bond, which
has the same title to you and do the
same good though you be here or in
any other part of the world that an
improved piece OF real estate would b :?
In fact these bonds are better for the
holder thereof for he or she does not
have to pay any tax on them but all of
the income on these bonds to the
| hold er thereof in the way of dividend
Is net pr, fit at about fifty per cent.
Mothers and fathers, uncles and
sunts forget the steps that have been
already trod and on higher plains
vi &c your way. Don't say as the old
sayins ssid. Let my children do IS
dir for your ehildren's chances are
different from yours This is largely
true by your pIAnping for them WIlI
you, one and all. accept the opportu.
nifty while il is in reach and take one
| of these bonds for your son or your
daughter, nephew or niece that it may
be the starting of them in life as il
will be an income % long as they shall
liver
At the present stage Of the Company
the dividends are about twenty -four
dollars r year on the hundred: and
when che Company grows the divi
de nds will be larger. You can't in
vest your money so as to make larg
er per cent on it than this. l know No
Company that will pay as much. /
speak these things knowing the duty
OF the Negro and what every Negro
ought TO do. Whether you do your
duty towards thi i1stitution or not
can't tell.
Whether you do now or not the dsy
will come when you wish you had for
fathers and mothers, uncles and aupts
| are largely responai lie for the condi
ton of their cons and daughters to-iaI
negiectiDg along these Ines and
letting them 60 in the way they are
acting for the want of these great pro-
tections.
May God speed the day when not
only the mothers and fathers, uncles
and aunts but those who are styled as
leaders OF the Negro race, both men
and women. with these projections
mentioned above will dan up the
stream that is h1wing so many boys
and girls Co hell. The day is now
when The Negroes should give their
business to their business Negroes
which would advances the Negro race a
large per cent in every sense of the
word. Make your calls, send vonr
correspondence to No. 8% WhitehalI
st., Atlanta, Ga. ! aca respectfnIjv
yours for the Negro race,