The broad ax., 1908-11-14
STRONG PLEA FoR RACE JOUR-
MAILS.

STRONG PLEA FOR RACE JOUR
MAILS.
Every Nationality Loyalty Supports
Ia Paper Except the coIorsd RAGS
-Abuss and Curses Reward fou
GhampionIns Their cause-Reac
White Journals That Stir IN PreIu.
dice 20 the Exclusion AZ Their Own
-coIored Editor Has Hard ROW to
Hoe-tIs Must Fight the Prejudice
a. the white Man, me Ignorance
and Superstition Of the Black Man.
CRichmOnd Reformer.)
Read the press AZ It Is printed and
CcEnred by most OF the prejdiced
white presses, make him fun, but full
o. the wrong misconceptions Of the
tue character Of the Negro. and yet
ina thoughtless. nonFace loving, ego
uatic, priceless, knoWnothing and do
mining Negro wiz abuse. vfllify and
CHA the Negro press. whilst he win
nzd. absorb, pay for and digest al
a. the Islander vituperation and venom
Of white journals.
We heartily endorse the reading of
white journals, but the Negro whr
reads them to the exclusion OF the
Negro journals Is whetting the knife
Tor racial suicide. Breathes there
Negro with a soul so dead that he
cmOt feel the rythm Of Paul Dun
bars pen, OF with one so inharmoni
UH that he cannot feel the tender
ness of a Phyllis Wheatley, as wen
a he can that Of KpIing and wilcox
The most potent factor In civilizinr
and Christianizing the people Of las
century, was the press Of the coup
try, and II true in the later. doubly 81
thts the twentieth
There is but one side Of the Negro
question printed In most Of our white
journals, and that Is the dark sid
There can be no bright side, only
through the medium Of the Negro
press. and there can be no Negro
press unless supported, both infuen-
daily and pecuniariIy by the Negro. |
Whenever you hear 4 Negro stand on |,
6he street. rare back and exelaim
there is nothing in Negro paper. OF
that there Is nothing IN Negro any
NY, that is q pure sign that he has
swallowed a cartoon or disgraceful |
pen picture of the Negro from some ]
white yellow journal" Thinking It is
pleasant, but dying all the same tin
NInetenths Of the reading class O.
ow people subscribe for weekly pa
psrs and. they can get the same cur
rent news from a Negro weekly
they get from a white weekly, and be
sides they get from the Negro we
II al Of the important and interes' 4
ng news Of the race. We have pro
fessional men. business men and race
leaders (so-eaIled) that vfn not sub
scribe for, read and pay for Ne
newspaper. We may petition, wall
u1d cry aloud against the wrongs
Chat are being perpetratsd upon US
hut h vain
I'VE are the architects Of our own
fortune" II the Negro expects sue
czs. he must via It By bis own I'M
dannted EFFORTS. Cursed be he who
would rise 70 yonder heights and
Eests IethagicaIly in the vale OF know i
n0fhingness and do-nothinsneas Re (
member the automatic chanting Of the !
'EIgmies are pIgmies EtII. thought !
purchased upon the Alps, II
md Pyramids are pyramids IN the ]
n We make the race q success W q
unI stand eVsrlastsngIY prominent II
lhouzh We dwell IN the YaIes Of prejr {
E;ce. hEtred and malice on account i
previous condition Of servIude. A - G
1u professional man o. woman, be he 8
: rrsscher. lawyer w doctor u
nds no dme TO read . Negro journal 4
hiIst BE reds Others ~ the score
S q racial huisance. and dces not De 8
erss the support 81 ne race. The .
1oner Be e licked out n his gr~ :
ion and out Of creation tie let 3
Ter 4 vin Be for ths raea Is
"A home without q newspaper Il y
nndred years behind Every Nssro y
11ia take hls home paper and ID
sIbIe ether prominent lle1ro Jour o
rs,a A Netr6 r1o aellf ende, IA