The colored American., 1903-04-25
MAN ON THE MONUMENT.

MAN ON THE MONUMENI.
About the mast aggravating thing in
the world to the Intelligent, cultured
Negro, is the fact that the Anglo
Saxon race will not understand why
We cnnOt gracefully accept an abridge-
ment of our rights as citizens so long
as We have a chance to make our
bread and live. Rev Gee. Lee tells a
good story of a slave who was making
tracks for Canada and in conversation
with a friendly white man, in Ohio,
the following cClOQuy enSued:
What are you going to Canada for,
did you not have a place to sleep,
clothes to wear and plenty to eat, ali
at your masters eXpense?" Yes
sub, ah had all that well. said
the white man, Il have to work hard
for everything l get. l wish l had
some one to do for me as your master
did for you. Look heah, boss
said the slave, "as de place [ left is
still vacant, if you will only show me
whar is Canada and help me to git
dar. l will apint you to de job l lef
and you kin go to work on the first
of the mont
Even so soon there are faint indi-
cations that our modest effort in last
weeks iSSus to arouse the Christian
the establishment and maintainance
of a Y. NJ. G. A, is bearing fruit
From conversations with a few lead
ing ministers and other prominent
church people, it is evident that the
reason there is no such organization
in Washington, is due more to the lack
of some one to take the initiative than
it is to any wan of interest in the
matter.
The only way to get a thing on foot
is to go to work and put it on foot.
The COlOred American will. therefore
shortly issue special call to every
minister in the District to appoint a
committee of three of their earnest
and bright young men to meet in con-
VentiOn, to effect an organization. each
minister to constitute the chairman of
his committee. In the meantime we
respectfully solicit for publication,
an expression as regards this con-
templated movement The logic Of
events in the social. political business
and religious world demands that the
Negro should get together. AS long
as we don't get in touch we VIII re-
main legitimate prey to be touched. -
There is a large sphere of usefulness
for any kind of a Negro organization
The white people are arrayed in solid
phalanX against the Negro in every
field of effort. They take all and
give substantially nothing Our young
men and women are denied even the
miserable chance OF competition. Be
tween the bright Negro graduate of
the Business High School whose par
ents spend probably a thousand dol
lars q year with Blank & Co. furnish
ing store, and some dumb white boy,
who may have nothing under the sun
to recommend him but a white skin.
We all know that the latter is given
the preference invariably. Aside from
other objects, what a powerful and
CvershadOwing factor might a strong
and prosperous Y. NJ. c. a. not be in
diverting and concentrating Negro en-
ergy in Its own behalf? Much more
than ever it deVOlveS upon the up
right and virtueus Negro manhood of
Washington at this time to wipe out
the contemplate infamy imposed up
on the race by the scroundrelism of
the late Capital Savings Bank af
fair.
Never have listened 10 a more
delightful woman than Mrs. Walker.
of Richmond, who made an address