Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-04-21

force, a native African, who was
brought to this country as babe
fifty years ago, and after being edu-
Gated was returned by the board to
his old tribe as a missionary. 1t is
charged by the board that after a
service of twenty five years as a mis-
sionary, the negro minister has been
lured back to heathenIsm, has be-
come chief of his old tribe of devil
worshippers and has con tracted plu-
raj marriages in the wilds of Africa.
He leaves two sons who are at col
lege in Indiana.
The better element of colored
people here is deeply concerned about
the idle and criminal classes of
negroes who seem to be holding
high carnival of crime just now, SAYS
the Richmond News Leader. Sunday
school and church workers among
their race have organized AN anti
vagrant league and will begin cru
SADIE against the shiftless class. A
colored Sunday-school superinten-
dent IN speaking of the matter, said
that tie criminal records of the
negroes in Richmond will never be
reduced as long as the city allows
law-breskers to lie idle comfortable
In the Jail. "You may not believe it"
said he, "but it is nevertheless a fact
that some of these idle shiftless
negroes would rather be in prison
during the hard winter months than
outside, where circumstances would
force them tc work. I think it is
shame the degree of comfort the city
provides for such worthless classes
of people whose energy is bent on
evil and all else that tends to dis
grade and endanger the community.
When strangers land in the CITY,"
added he, "the first thing that meets
their gaze is crowd of dirty shift
less women and men, who are allow
ed to paraue through the Streets"
"Eschew cheap jewels. Quit taking
So buggy rides on Sc week. DOME
put So hat on a five cent head"
was the advice of Booker T. Wash
lngton to his colored brethren who
gathered at the Peoples Forum in
New Rochelle, N. Y, recently to
listen to his lecture on "The Sue
cessful Training of the Negro" Two
thousand heard DR.. Washington's
pointed remarks. "Get bank ac-
count" continued DR.. Washington.
"Get home of your own. Get some
property. Get start in the world
in some way. What good is it to
you Northern negroes that you lived
in cities with paved streets, if you
don't own anything? Don't be sat
ished with the shadows Of civilization
get some of the substance for your
SELF Just as soon as you do you
will be recognized and encouraged
whether you are in the North or
South You are here to stay.
The appointment of a negro to
office in New York City is part only
of plan of the President to give the
negro the same political recognition
in.the North as he:has received in the
South, looking upon him simply as
a taxpayer and citizen. In speaking
of the proposal to appoint Charles
w. Anderson Collector of Internal
Revenue in New York City Senator
Depew saiG: "The President spoke
to me about the appointment of Mr..
Anderson. He told me of his in
tention to inaugurate the policy of
giving share of the Federal offices
to representative negroes without re-
gard to the section of the country in
which they lived. He would base
the selection of negroes on the pro-
portion they hold in various locali-
ties to the total population. New
Workers, however, are raising the
wind over the appointment, and the
President is likely to have trouble on
his hands similar to that over the
appointment of DR.. Crum at Charles
ton.