New-York tribune., 1905-08-18
NEGR0'S POWER AND NEED
assurance and Money Sense
Wanted, Say Contention Speakers.

Inc negro as a race is hampered by lack of con-
hdence, declared Mrs. J. w Page of Philadelphia.
IN paper asking for the support of working girls
at the session yesterday of the sixth annual con
Nenuon of the National Negro Business League.
Inc session was devoted to an exchange of testi-
Hohlas Of the past and present success of the
with prophecies of the future. Mrs. Page con-
tinued:
W We & lack patience; we lack We. do not
Put INTO practice as much of our physical be
Ins5cb ing IN our our business as we might We act TOO
Thirty Yn n oo Wo mas @ peea TO business no
have started with less than you. but he had a will
ofttimes so soon, it is because expect too much
Tor nothing We aim too high at first; we are not not
# We as of people are desrous Of com
the the young woman For although are weak yet
Is the hand that rules the world"
The Negro Business Interests of Greater New
York and Vicinity" described by D. Macon
Webster, of Brooklyn. He made comparative
statement showing the business occupations of ne
sroes in 1870 and 1905. There about six occu-
pations in which negroes were engaged here in
1870, and at the present time. Mr. Webster said
there fifty-one.
The Improvidence of the Negro. and How to
Meet It." was the subject of carefully prepared
paper by the Rev. DR.. Matthew Anderson, of Pha-
delphia. He said. in part:
No man is reformed or induced to change his
habits Dy being held in contempt and rdicule
neither nett VIII he become economical by simply telling
such gratuitous feachers
what the colored people of the United States
most need is not charity, but the assist
themselves They need the stimulus which capital
gives. Let capital be employed only TO
benefit the rich. but the poor as we'll and Conse-
quently the negro. and at the same time not take
away their sense of self-respect, in any way
lower them in the ewes of others and il would be
only comParattvely short time before there would
be produced radical change in the negros eco
people have not suficient income. as a general
rule, to enable them TO save a part of their daily
y. ,HSoAiS ed uIIiSS dUoNe tneLF dctudl expenses
or living, but the fact that they do not is because
they fail TO practise economy.
1t is fact though seldom admitted that the
Anglo-SaXon is, as a general rule, more ignorant
concerning the negro than the negro is of him,
and naturally So for, having the pride of his own
sumption that the negro, because of his previous
condition: possesses nothing worthy of mis- consid-
Grafton disdafns to read negro literature.
In conclusion let me say that while I believe
that the management of organizat ations for the
be composed Of the very best white and colored
men and women obtainable. for the reasons which
himself.
H. c. Haynes, of Chicago told the convention
how successful the negro has proved himself to
be in the manufacturing of strops. and
Charles T. Bass. of Sullivan. Ind. described
opera house management"
In his paper on Loan Associations" John ".
Armstrong. of Savannah. said that the negro as
mass does not understand the value of stored
money yet through the loan associations of the
0GTt" ne IS oeIhS soIcaLed IN this direction;
W. l. Graham OF Richmond, Va. and John W.
Wright OF Topeka, Kan. discussed Some Bene-
William f. Graham, of Richmond Va smoke on
the benefits of fraternal and industrial insurance
ana the negro publisher was discussed by c. ].
Booker T. Washington presided and brought the
session TO close in the time allotted Then the
maker Will speak at noon to-day.