The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-12-15
.Rev." Evans Makes Unlimited Demands for
Money to Put Through His Strange Scheme.
HE PUBLISHES A VERY UNIQUE PAPER
With All Sorts Of Promises and Remarkable
inducements He Vctimizes a Credu-
lous and Gullible Following.

duces himself on the first page under
the modest head Majestic Staff of
Editors Rev. Justus James Evans,
Editor-in-Chief, No /. and Director Gen
eral, office 122 West Broad Street, Rich
mond, Va He takes two columns of
headline TO crowd in this beautiful
thought: These are They Who Have
Sent Gifts First Following this is a
list OF those who have entered a race.
horse. foot or bicycle, doesn't appear. 1t
is explained after this fashion:
THE greatest Prize lace ever
seen Before the Negro race is the
one effected by the United Builders TO
RAISE MONEY TO BUILD the great Ne
gro National College of Wisdom.
Just think; 1850 men and women Of
the Negro race may enter the race at
once at 10 cents per register. X copy of
the paper shows the particulars. Ad-
dress the Editor. with cents in stamps
ONE or HIS SCHEMES.
Under the head of The Paradise Home"
the Rev" jim opines thusly:
We win have TO come to it, my Gear
people Why not come to it voluntarily?
What do we want to wait until We are
drove to it for?''
Then he says the negro race must pro-
vide for the negro race and that home
for young negro women and widows must
be built eve have named this home
THE PARADISE HOME, and we ask
all who want to help US to help us now
to bullt, it."
Immediately following this is another
yeip for money couched elegantly in part
as below:
ANOTHER CALI
81 now inform you that it will be very
easy for and you to gather the money
which we aim to gather when we get
these pictures of our great National
Negro Business Training and Industrial
College Building of Wisdom ready to de-
liver to them who give to our general build
ing fun0; and il l can get each one of
you that are interested to rush us in an
extra gift in January right at once it Will
not be many days before We will have
those great pictures in your hands to give
to those who contribute to our building
fund
Rev Jim has protest, after which
the second page is worth reading. This
protest is a gentle intimation to those
who are yearnfng to hear his silver
tongue that they can only do so by send
ing the aeedful wherewithal for ex-
pense2s.
HIS DEFT TOUCH.
On the second page Evans unwinds this
little bit Of lattery:
In order to raise Sf,500.GOo, fifteen
hundred thousands OF dollars, by Sep
TENDER o., A. D. 1901. for to build the
Great Negro National Industrial ana
Business and Training College OF Vision
and Distress Treasure Fund for the
negro race of America, the leaders and
managers of the great movement. under
the advisabilty of the Rev Justus j.
Evans, the Encouragement of the work.
offers as an act of sound wisdom the
view of giving great and large rewards
for the faithfulness and such shrewd-
ness as it shall acquire to prompt to I'M
mediate action the whole wisdom of the
wise women Of the negro race OF America
in behalf of the great victory sought for
Beyond this he goes at some length
into the papers desire to increase its
| circula ton by 100000 subscribers during
the year now closing, offering $4,000 as
| prizes for those sending in the name
which will complete specified thousands
of subscribers. It's a lovely scheme.
HIS MODESTY.
Further on Evans declares ne is bur
| dened with q message from Heaven,
! which he threatens to turn loose for the
necessary money. His modest reference
to himself as having written a message
| that is glorious and dreadful, yea, it
| is exceedingly great" is q. touching
! thing.
| Il wish to state to our members and
| clubs of the II. T. A. Wise Wonder work
| ers and United Builders in the United
!
| God I have prepared for publication IN
/ this paper now in a few days is very.
very great commandments pages of it
! and there is a fortune in it for you II
| YOU will seek for it. The message is
| glorious and dreadful-yea, it is exceed
! ingly great.
NO man can produce anything that
| will equal it, and if it was put in print
Is or % cents per copy, and more than
! 10 or 20 Gets per copy, and more than
| three or four million copies of it could
| be sold, for every nation and people I'M
| der the sun will want Il copy of it, and
| it could not be furnished them in print
| free of charge; therefore. if your friends
| or mine wish to have them printed IN
| from a thousand to five or ten thousand.
! lots. there is big money III it for YOU. so
! you who can. You may put in from 81
| to 81 in the investment each and have
| them printed in pamphlet form, if you
| will do so now at once. so speak quick.
SUDDEN PROSPERITY.
| Along on the next page Evans evident
| X has money for in startling headlines
| he shrieks thusly: Prosperity: Pros
/ perity. Prosperity: Great Prosperity, al
| ter which he naively asks: Have you
| any money you want to invest?' and
| talks in this fashion,:
AND we say to you. and each of you