The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1903-01-18

can't afford it, the negro SAYS: L Rwine
10 nave 1t; l amt got but one time to
i've. We must learn that we can't keep
up with the white man in dress.
When fellow wears seven dollar
shoes and his wages are four dollars
week he wears a lie on his feet When
fellow wears finer clothes than the man
who employs him, he wears a lie, on
his back.
Take the negro who owns nothing,
and is nothing. and does nothing. He
STANDS on the corner and pirates about his
rights! what are his rights? America
is composed of land and water, and here
Is darky who does not own an inch
of ground nor a drop of water prating
about his rights! What rights has heY'
(School boys in the amen corner: He
has Sno rights.')
That's right. boys; he has no rights
because he has nothing to represent
rights.
THE man who adds material to the
strength and growth of the country is
the man who has the right to rule. And
rule he will, despite sentiments to the
contrary.
Negro preachers should preach less
about Jonah in the belly of the whale
and little more about the necessity of
Johnny in the cornfield
The great question confronting the
negro is not how Jonah Jared in the belly
of the whale, but how he is to fare in this
moving, advancing, competitive age.
me place for the negro is in the
South. If he can't win here he can't win
anywhere l am reminded of an old
preacher who came upon his son lthn
playing cards. In his righteous Ir,iigna-
ton he snatched the cords from John
and placed them where he knew Iuhn
could not find them--in the pocket OF his
baptizing gown. The following Sunday
he had to baptize several converts IN a
creek large crowd was present on
either side of the creek to witness the
sRpFnpnnlU ha IL
forgetting the whereabouts of the cards.
AS he solemnly waded into the creek the
ace slipped out of his pocket and fioated
down the stream in the sight of the
crowd Then the deuce bobbed up, fol-
lowed by the Jack To the CONSERVATION
OF the preacher and the merriment of
the crowd there floated down stream from
the preachers pocket, Ace, Deuce and
Jack. The preacher, looking at his son
John, who stood in the crowd, said de-
murely: Nov, John. you see what you
have done John replied: Pa. If you
can't win on that hand you can't win on
anything.
I'm the South the negpo has ace, deuce
and jack. and If he don't win on that
hand he amt worthy.
The negro must quit Sinking respon-
sibility. He will send his mother to the
poorhouse and go off and declare she is
dead. He will disown his sister In order
to live easy. l once heard a darkey say:
1 doan't need to work, because | got
wife and two chillens to pend on.
Il see some good In American prejudice.
1t drives negroes together 1t makes them
help each other. 1t develops race pride
and preserves race identity. Where race
prejudice is strongest there the negroes
are closer together and are doing more
to help each other in business.
The South denies the negro the pri Vi
lege to stop at n hrst-class hotel where
white people stop. but does not deny him
the opportunity to make the money with
which he can build a frst-class hotel OF
his own and for his own people
The negro has begun life at the wrong
end of the road. The white man begins
with economy, thrift and frugality. The
negro luXuriates at the start and finishes
with nothing. He is pleased with a rattle
and delighted with straw. lie will drop
the substance for the shadow at any
point of the road. He aspires to appear
and not to be.
"A Northern man heard that negroes
in the South were denied the privilege
TO work in the factories. He went to
South Carolina and built a factory and
employed only colored labor. Everything
moved Ola smoothly till the picnic season
rolled around. An excursion was adVer-
tiSed to leave that town in which the
factory was built. The very announce
ment made these coured laborers rest
less. The day previous to the time for
the excursion to leave a brass band with
martial strains and flaming banners pass-
ed the factory. Every darby quit work
and ran to the windows. Then a train
passed. putting and blowing. A negro
said as he sat in a window of the factory
building: You may pun an you may
blow, but l gwine to ride you tomorrow
And. sure enough, tomorrow the factory
had to shut down on account of that
excursion. That Is what makes the ne
gro an uncertain quantity as a laborer
1T is an established fact that the race
passes through the stages and expert
ences of the individual infancy, child
hood. youth and manhood. The negro is
in his childhood He must pass to man
hood through the same stages and pro-
cesses that other races have had to pass
through There is no royal road for a
race; there is no royal road for the ne
gro. He must take his place in the world
of competition with other races, and rise
as they rise or go down as others nave
gone down. The sooner the race dnder-
stands this the better it will be for all
concerned"
Professor Lucas was frequently inter-
rupted by the generous applause of his
intelligent and appFeeiative audience.
He has charge of the missionary 0e-
partment of Cannon Theological Semi
nary, Atlanta, and has been lecturing
thirty-five consecutive nights, and has
appointments months ahead
There is talk IN Ieavenworth ~ run
ming the Honorable Mtkschaekial Prey