The colored American., 1903-03-28

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VINO VIII say, Let me fill NV rno,ett
and COD viii open it," He needs -
ministers who are consecrated 70 .Ls ois
| calling, who feel that 1t is somo,hio
| divine and sacred; and he needs Ia-s
| preachers who love the minjstrv -
| cause they can get chicken 70 *.
| without being compelled to work baot
| or pay their respects tn naiobLnI'u
| hen houses.
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He needs more business around ,ho
Dank and less around the police court.
he needs more scholarly, eIoouent 90
nigh principled clergymen like tho
Rev. Francis S. Grlmke; he needs nc oue
| prelates like Archbishop Ireland 11he
| believes that the merit of the indiviS
| uaI rather than the color of the skin
| is the test of manhood; he needs IaS.
| Caucasian clergymen like Dixon tho
| author OF the Infamous Leopard's
spots; he needs more prominent re-
puplicans, ike the chivalric President
| Theodore Roosevelt, the lover of foIn
play and justice, the friend of ran
| and the noblest Anglo-Saxon that evar
| sat in the presidential chair; he needs
fewer friends like the republican San,
ators who skulked and showed the
white feather in the Crum case.
hCcuo more educators like the
| Tuskegee Wizard" with tact nat,anco
| and optimistic faith in the Negro'C
| future, and fewer doubling Hannibal
Thomases; he needs more men with
a genius for business like William Y
Taylor, the popular and energatIn
President of the True Reformers He
local branches of The National Bust
| ness League; he needs True Re-
formers Bank IN Washington.
He needs more dashing. brilliant
Iasclnaung and eloquent educators
| like William Henry Harrison Hart
| the 'picaIlinnies' daddy" and rescuer
| of waits; he needs more physicians
like Dr. c. B. Purvis, who can get
S5OO,O00 appropriations from Con.
| gress for colored institutions; he
needs more scholars like Kelly Miller
| a mathematician and PHILOSOPHER. he
needs colored Assistant District Al.
| torney, in Washington; he needs
| colored member of Congress.
He needs more Literary Presidents
IKE George W. Jackson, OF The Bethel
Literary; he needs more colored
statesmen who talk sense and less
street cornr colord politicians who
| pump out nothing but wind and hot
air; he needs fewer barber shop poll.
nave IAciT 0TdLOTy 60
| 10 be turned on at will and more poll
tlclans who take off their coats and
hustle at the pools
He needs less society leaders who
| possess the thin veneer of culture
without having the genuine article;
ne needs less society leaders who live
beyond their means and make big
display without the cash to back 1t
up; he needs more people who save
their earnings, and less who buy furn-
lture on the instalment plan; he needs
| more people who run up a bank ac-
count instead of an account at the
can get heart to heart talks with men
grocery store; he needs more clubs
IKE the Pen and Pencil Club, which
IKE Archbishop Ireland; he needs
more 1nterlopers like Slaughter and
Houston, Of the Pen and Pencil Club.
VINO nave the git up and git style; he
needs less men who wait for some
thlng TO turn up and more who turn
up something themselves: he needs
less promulgatOrS of fake schemes who
worry and harrass Congressman and
senators, and endeavor to bleed them
| for money.
He needs less sundown lawyers and
doctors, and more who practice at
their callings; he needs more colored
men TO go into business in Washing
ton and take advantage of the splendid
l.