The Washington bee., 1901-09-21


you with the idea that you have done
great things. you consider to yourself
What great thlngS you have done and
hen make a comparison with what
your neighbOr has done After thirty
'iX years of freedom he is unable to
show one rail road owned and con.
ItrOled by a negro; one steamboat,
cotton mill, or tobacco plant. This of
tself does Lot speak very we'll for the
ndustry of the negro. The negro has
made a good and brave soldier il is
rue, an excellent consumer, and a
great producer of natural gas. He
can produce more natural gas and say
more and do less than any race of peo-
Die on the globe Heis the great con
yentiOn producer and resolution
s sIdOptOr, with less enforcement than
any nationality. There are a great
slumber of negro representative in
his country who would rather beupOr
dress parade telling you what they
8haye done and telling you what you
ought 10 do than TO be shutin, in some
sSaTret, trying TO invent something tC
be handed down to pOsterity. To al
SsXtent the preachers are Just as bad
INSTEAD of building such large and ex
apenSive structures, aud having mem
9 aOf IheeS churches mortage their homes
sto pay for them, they should build
factories and employ our boys and
girls, then God would b.ess then
smore bountifully. This would BE the
result of true religion. There is as
much deception in the negro pulpit, a:
there is in democratic AMI republican
po itics. One is sche ming to outdC
the other. So it is in the negro pulpit
and il the negro politicians would tel
the truth TO the masses the condition
aof the negro would be better Lei
me say Just here, live on friendly
sterms with your neighbOr. Those
negroes in the North, over eight hun
dred miles from you, tell you to use the
torch and the winchester. Extend to
them an invitation to come down and
stry it themselves. The negro is weak
financially and physically, and it is
just as easy 10 live in harmony and
peace with his neighbor as it is to
1--we in diScOTd.
THE NEGROES FUTURE.
1t is a question to be seriously con.
sidered, what the future of the Negro
will be. There have been all kinds o
theories advanced, but none have
solved the problem. In the first place
8 the masses of the Negro must not b,
deceived by crafty and misleading pol
sucians and these quasi organization
hone of which have advanced an,
sdeas which have proved profitable l.
! the Negro. There was a time whe
81 opposed the doctrine of Booker 7
Washington because his mode of eX
pressing himself placed him IN the po
sition of an apologist and trimmer. Il.
was advocating a doctrine that was de
,rimental TO the Negro and which tick
lied the fancy of the southern white
man who was inimiCal TO our interests
zNow, he is acting the part OF man
Sdnd a benefactoT of the race. He /,
practically solving the great Negro
question.
The Negro has been asleep since IN:
Emancipation. He has just been a
sroused from thirty years slum0ef
Aand begins TO realize the importance
sof depending more upon himself and
leach other. Don't you know tha
ISlnce the EMANCIPATION OF the NcRIO
with his boasted intelligence and qHaS
leadership, he has been dOmestlc an6
national beggar7 If he has a celebra
Stion of his emancipation he appeals Il
4his white friends to defray the ex
spenses; if he builds a church, Schoo
S house or college he asks his whit
: sneightors to assist him. The North
ern philanthropists have been yer
generous. but still some of them haV
7concluded 10 allow the Negro 10 woT
out his own salvation, build hls Z"
4churches, school-houses, and college
zHe must establish his own industrie