The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-10-03
HE HAS MADE GOOD.

The Portland OreSOuldu LII ~
western copperhead paper says IN a
long editorial: 1.-THE Negro Must
Make Good" and the howl has been
taken up by the Southern press.
In the darkest hour of the slavehold-
ers' rebellion 100000 Afro Americans
came to- the assistance of Northern
arms ard after saving the Nation pro-
ceeded to make good
Ignorant, they took up the spelling
book and in 35 years the percentage
of illiteracy had dropped from % yer
cent. to 48 per cent. That's making
good! -
Without property of any KIND the
race began to accumulate and in one
generation the assessed value OF per-
sonal and real property as SHOWN Dy
statistics had mounted to $1,ooo'ooo''
900. Isn't that making good?
Cotton is still king and tWo-thlrds
of all the cotton raised in the World
is produced by the black labor OF the
South. That's making good!
One of the assistant librarians IN
the Library of Congress after years
of investigation finds that Afro-Amer~
jcans are the authors of more than
21OO books and if those written oy
men of "colored' blood in other coun-
tries we're included, the number Woula
reach at least $500. It is evident
that the Afro-American author has
| made good. "a
Before the war, there were not nan
| a dozen Afro-American surgeons anu
physicians even among the Tree Alro'
Americans of the North; now there
are thousands commanding incomes
of from $1,000 to $4,000 per annum.
One of these a surgeon who lives IN
chicago was the first to sew up the
! heart of a living man. The Afro
American surgeon and physician mas
! made good.
An Afro-American artist has paint.
ed pictures so well that several OF
his productions have been purchased
by the French government ana no"
hang in the Louvre. That's making
good.
When a message comes over the
telephone, it's transmission is taclll'
tated by an improvement on the orig
inal Bell receiver, invented by pure
Negro. Isn't that making good?
| The lightning express comes thun-
dering. by, drawn by powerful loco
motive whose working parts are lu-
bricated by an oil cup invented by a
black man. That's making good.
An Afro-American lawyer VINO
makes $4,000 per year is a rara avis
but he exists. There are no others
in his class but hundreds of the race
are practicing law making falr III
comes and making good.
Thirty thousand Afro Amerlcans are
teaching in the separate schools OF
the South and about a thousand IN
the mixed schools of the North. They
are all making good. - .s. :,
The Afro-Americans Of Richmond,
Virginia have more than 81, 100000 de-
nosited in the four banks in that city
owned and controlled by Afro Amerl-
cans, and there are banks controlled
by the race in other cities. The Afro
American banker is making good.
The 400 newspapers and periodicals
issued by Afro-Americans have com
bined circulation of more than 1,O0O,-
600 COPIES. The Afro-American pub
Usher is helping the race to make
good" W. @
s Cotton mills, factories and indus
tries owned by Afro-Americans and
operated by n.en of the race, are max
ing wealth for the proprietors and the
workers and making good. :
In every avocation business and
profession in the country the AIro-
American has his part and he is max
ing good. s
The Afro-American has already